Kibana Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Elastic Kibana
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Kibana skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 125 146
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +48
Contract jobs citing Kibana 7 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.19% 0.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.93% 1.19% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £368 £487 £515
25th Percentile £524 £497 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -22.22% +15.38%
75th Percentile £681 £594 £747
90th Percentile £688 £628 £764
Central London median daily rate £645 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +22.86% -22.22% +15.38%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 239 337 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.56% 16.21% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 229 343
10th Percentile £281 £375 £400
25th Percentile £430 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £585
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -3.42% -0.43%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £30.26 - £23.88
25th Percentile £35.53 - £27.81
Median hourly rate £46.11 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +70.77% -25.52% +81.25%
75th Percentile £56.74 - £45.31
90th Percentile £62.04 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £27.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +1.76% -25.52% +81.25%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Kibana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Kibana in the City of London

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kibana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kibana

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the City of London

Kibana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Impala
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Investment Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (85.71%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (71.43%) Fixed Income
2 5 (71.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (14.29%) Market Risk
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Observability
2 6 (85.71%) Electronic Trading
2 6 (85.71%) Low Latency
2 6 (85.71%) Machine Learning
3 5 (71.43%) Algorithmic Trading
3 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (71.43%) Data Science
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) High-Frequency Trading
3 5 (71.43%) Project Management
3 5 (71.43%) RBAC
3 5 (71.43%) Time Management
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Key Management
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) ITRS Geneos
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (85.71%) logstash
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Solace
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) TIBCO