Elastic Stack Contracts in the West Midlands

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Elastic Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 97 136
Rank change year-on-year +7 +39 +16
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 7 14 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.72% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.07% 5.43% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 1
10th Percentile £533 £528 -
25th Percentile £544 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +20.17%
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - £645 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

Elastic Stack falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 258 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.95% 13.25% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 189 247
10th Percentile £384 £310 £360
25th Percentile £422 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - -
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the West Midlands

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the West Midlands

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham - 4 £600 - 2
Worcestershire - 2 £575 - 1
Shropshire - 1 - -
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DSL
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (42.86%) High Availability
1 3 (42.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kibana
1 4 (57.14%) logstash
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ArcSight
1 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk