Kibana Contract Job Trends in Central London

Elastic Kibana
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Kibana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 108 133
Rank change year-on-year -23 +25 +54
Contract jobs citing Kibana 2 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.098% 0.62% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% 3.65% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 12
10th Percentile £444 £665 £453
25th Percentile £473 £665 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £681 £788
Median % change year-on-year -20.28% -13.59% +31.25%
75th Percentile £608 £710 £925
90th Percentile £635 £711 -
London median daily rate £563 £680 £495
% change year-on-year -17.28% +37.37% -7.65%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

Kibana falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 264 356 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.92% 17.01% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 237 250
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £667
90th Percentile £726 £717 £738
London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £19.65 - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +729.63% -38.64%
75th Percentile - - £32.25
90th Percentile £39.17 - £43.05
London median hourly rate £53.25 £49.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +7.58% +57.14% +22.52%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kibana relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Kibana job vacancy trend in Central London

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Kibana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Kibana

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana in Central London over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in Central London

Kibana
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 February 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
City of London -23 2 £543 -20.28%
Kibana
London

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (50.00%) logstash
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Solace
2 1 (50.00%) TIBCO