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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 100 121
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 +59
Contract jobs citing Kibana 3 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.16% 0.70% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.23% 4.01% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 11
10th Percentile £311 £665 £475
25th Percentile £354 £665 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £681 £850
Median % change year-on-year -33.87% -19.94% +41.67%
75th Percentile £564 £710 £925
90th Percentile £617 £711 -
Central London median daily rate £450 £681 £788
% change year-on-year -33.87% -13.59% +31.25%

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 244 324 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.91% 17.54% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 216 238
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +11.43% -12.57%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £674
90th Percentile £738 £725 £749
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £20.24 - -
25th Percentile £20.34 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% +729.63% -34.80%
75th Percentile £22.91 - £32.25
90th Percentile £23.39 - £43.05
Central London median hourly rate £23.87 £112.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year -78.69% +729.63% -36.78%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Kibana job vacancy trend 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 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the City of London

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Impala
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (33.33%) Workload Management
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (33.33%) logstash
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Solace
2 1 (33.33%) TIBCO