Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 72 66
Rank change year-on-year -21 -6 -
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.15% 0.14% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 0.65% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £542
25th Percentile - - £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £569
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -12.09% -
75th Percentile - - £586
90th Percentile - - £591
Yorkshire median daily rate £892 £435 £622
% change year-on-year +105.06% -30.06% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 263 154 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.92% 21.24% 24.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 94 145
10th Percentile £400 £366 £400
25th Percentile £444 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £555 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 £84.83 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £91.69 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year -73.82% +561.07% -
75th Percentile £25.00 £98.56 £15.52
90th Percentile - - £16.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £16.19
% change year-on-year -26.38% +466.34% -

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Elastic Stack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. 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
Leeds -27 2 £400 -20.00% 2
Elastic Stack
Yorkshire

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Mustache
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk