Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 91 107
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +35
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 41 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.26% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.67% 0.79% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 1 2
10th Percentile £407 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +36.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £537 - -
90th Percentile £892 - -
England median daily rate £525 £613 £563
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.89% -13.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 424 254 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.35% 19.92% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 158 290
10th Percentile £363 £424 £374
25th Percentile £413 £457 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £504
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.22% -8.41%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £600
90th Percentile £675 £729 £650
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £35.91 -
25th Percentile - £66.95 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £96.21 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year - +290.45% -64.80%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £35.59
90th Percentile - - £51.43
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in Yorkshire

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
South Yorkshire -2 39 £476 -26.77% 2
West Yorkshire -13 2 £550 - 2
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (2.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (82.93%) AWS
1 34 (82.93%) Serverless
2 33 (80.49%) GCP
3 6 (14.63%) AWS KMS
3 6 (14.63%) OpenShift
4 4 (9.76%) GitHub
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.88%) Azure
6 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.44%) Apigee
7 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.44%) Kong
7 1 (2.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (75.61%) NoSQL
2 15 (36.59%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 34 (82.93%) Jenkins
2 33 (80.49%) GitLab
3 23 (56.10%) Liquibase
4 3 (7.32%) Git
5 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.44%) JIRA
5 1 (2.44%) Mocha
5 1 (2.44%) Travis CI
General
1 31 (75.61%) Finance
2 30 (73.17%) Social Skills
3 26 (63.41%) Banking
4 25 (60.98%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (36.59%) Software Engineer
3 14 (34.15%) GCP Engineer
4 13 (31.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (29.27%) Senior
6 11 (26.83%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (24.39%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (19.51%) AWS Software Engineer
9 7 (17.07%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 5 (12.20%) GCP Software Engineer
10 5 (12.20%) Python Engineer
11 4 (9.76%) Administrator
11 4 (9.76%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (9.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (9.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 2 (4.88%) GCP DevOps
12 2 (4.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 2 (4.88%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (75.61%) REST
1 31 (75.61%) RESTful
2 1 (2.44%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.44%) Jest
2 1 (2.44%) JSON
2 1 (2.44%) Node.js
2 1 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.44%) Spring
2 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.44%) XML
2 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (70.73%) Distributed Systems
1 29 (70.73%) Public Cloud
2 24 (58.54%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (87.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 40 (97.56%) DevOps
3 38 (92.68%) Containerisation
4 33 (80.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (78.05%) Agile
6 31 (75.61%) Microservices
6 31 (75.61%) Root Cause Analysis
7 28 (68.29%) Computer Science
7 28 (68.29%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (68.29%) Cryptography
8 27 (65.85%) Continuous Delivery
8 27 (65.85%) Non-Functional Testing
9 26 (63.41%) High Availability
10 23 (56.10%) Cost Optimisation
10 23 (56.10%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (56.10%) Data Security
10 23 (56.10%) Software Engineering
11 20 (48.78%) Change Management
12 19 (46.34%) Data Encryption
12 19 (46.34%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (90.24%) Python
2 30 (73.17%) Go
3 10 (24.39%) Java
4 7 (17.07%) Bash
5 4 (9.76%) SQL
6 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (68.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 28 (68.29%) Degree
1 28 (68.29%) Master's Degree
2 11 (26.83%) AWS Certification
3 8 (19.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 29 (70.73%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) KVM
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 40 (97.56%) Grafana
3 38 (92.68%) Prometheus
3 38 (92.68%) Terraform
4 37 (90.24%) Ansible
5 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.88%) Puppet
6 1 (2.44%) Argo
6 1 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.44%) Kibana
6 1 (2.44%) logstash
6 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (80.49%) Splunk
2 18 (43.90%) Google
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) Pure Storage
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.44%) VMware