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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 120 139
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 +54
Contract jobs citing Kibana 7 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.42% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.93% 2.32% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 5
10th Percentile £368 £500 £522
25th Percentile £524 £547 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £681 £685 £738
90th Percentile £688 £696 £760
Central London median daily rate £645 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -0.77% - +11.11%

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 239 345 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.18% 16.32% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 222 310
10th Percentile £282 £364 £399
25th Percentile £413 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.95%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £738 £800
Central London median daily rate £533 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.30% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £21.49 £44.00 £23.88
25th Percentile £23.46 £69.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +208.97% +85.90%
75th Percentile £47.91 - £45.31
90th Percentile £58.51 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +85.90%

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 23 October 2025.

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:

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