Kibana Contract Job Trends in England

Elastic Kibana
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Kibana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 432 428
Rank change year-on-year -94 -4 +84
Contract jobs citing Kibana 104 80 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.04% 1.99% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 56 73
10th Percentile £368 £339 £458
25th Percentile £463 £402 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £610 £636 £675
90th Percentile £629 £695 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £622
% change year-on-year +10.00% -19.61% +25.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62.03 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £63.56 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £69.75 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% - -
75th Percentile £73.56 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £73.68 £77.90 -
UK median hourly rate £69.75 £68.00 -
% change year-on-year +2.57% - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,109 4,017 3,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.05% 14.31% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,404 2,636 2,603
10th Percentile £313 £277 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £630
90th Percentile £705 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 76 51
10th Percentile £20.60 £17.58 £21.05
25th Percentile £31.25 £19.75 £23.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £34.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.18% -10.53% -27.62%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.49 £63.50
90th Percentile £89.75 £78.13 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +147.59% -32.00% -31.82%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Kibana job vacancy trend in England

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kibana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kibana

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana in England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in England

Kibana
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kibana.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kibana

Kibana
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana within the England region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
London -61 61 £560 +3.70% 45
Midlands -51 19 £590 +27.19% 5
West Midlands -53 19 £590 +9.77% 5
North of England -71 8 £425 +14.16% 4
North East -33 7 £425 +6.25% 2
South East -63 7 £525 +5.00% 4
South West -35 1 - - 3
North West -52 1 £630 +78.47% 2
Kibana
UK

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 17 (16.35%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.62%) nginx
3 7 (6.73%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.88%) Apache
5 2 (1.92%) Confluence
6 1 (0.96%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.96%) CMS
6 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.96%) SAS
6 1 (0.96%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 87 (83.65%) AWS
2 11 (10.58%) Azure
2 11 (10.58%) GitHub
3 10 (9.62%) Amazon S3
4 9 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.73%) Amazon EMR
6 6 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.81%) GCP
7 5 (4.81%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.81%) Serverless
8 4 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.85%) Sentry
9 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.96%) Figma
10 1 (0.96%) Miro
10 1 (0.96%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.96%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) VPN
2 4 (3.85%) HTTP
2 4 (3.85%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.92%) Network Security
4 1 (0.96%) DSL
4 1 (0.96%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (13.46%) MongoDB
4 10 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (6.73%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.77%) Big Data
7 5 (4.81%) Apache Hudi
7 5 (4.81%) Presto
8 3 (2.88%) MySQL
8 3 (2.88%) Redis
9 2 (1.92%) Metadata
9 2 (1.92%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.96%) Power BI
10 1 (0.96%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 39 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 35 (33.65%) GitLab
3 16 (15.38%) JUnit
3 16 (15.38%) Maven
3 16 (15.38%) Mockito
4 10 (9.62%) JMeter
5 9 (8.65%) Gatling
6 5 (4.81%) Git
7 4 (3.85%) CircleCI
8 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.88%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.88%) JIRA
8 3 (2.88%) LoadRunner
8 3 (2.88%) Selenium
9 1 (0.96%) Deequ
9 1 (0.96%) Mocha
9 1 (0.96%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.96%) Sinon.JS
General
1 26 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Public Sector
3 19 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.85%) Law
5 4 (3.85%) Local Government
5 4 (3.85%) Police
5 4 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.88%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Finance
7 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Advertising
8 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (25.00%) Senior
2 18 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (15.38%) Developer
4 15 (14.42%) Scala Engineer
5 13 (12.50%) Lead
6 12 (11.54%) Java Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Data Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Java Developer
8 9 (8.65%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Performance Test Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Test Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Performance Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Senior Performance Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Python Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) Consultant
12 4 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.85%) Spring
2 27 (25.96%) Terraform
3 23 (22.12%) Spring Boot
4 16 (15.38%) OpenAPI
4 16 (15.38%) Play Framework
4 16 (15.38%) REST
5 15 (14.42%) JPA
6 14 (13.46%) .NET
7 13 (12.50%) Kafka
8 12 (11.54%) HTML
9 11 (10.58%) RESTful
10 9 (8.65%) React
11 8 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (6.73%) CSS
13 6 (5.77%) Model Context Protocol
13 6 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (4.81%) .NET Framework
14 5 (4.81%) Swagger
14 5 (4.81%) Vue
14 5 (4.81%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.77%) AI Agents
2 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.77%) PKI
3 5 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.96%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.96%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.96%) PMI
7 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.96%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (31.73%) Linux
2 13 (12.50%) Windows
3 10 (9.62%) Unix
4 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.96%) CentOS
6 1 (0.96%) Solaris
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (49.04%) CI/CD
2 49 (47.12%) Agile
3 38 (36.54%) DevOps
4 32 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 27 (25.96%) Observability
6 25 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (24.04%) Test Automation
7 23 (22.12%) Microservices
8 22 (21.15%) Scrum
9 19 (18.27%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (15.38%) Software Engineering
11 15 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (13.46%) Mentoring
12 14 (13.46%) MVC
13 13 (12.50%) AI
13 13 (12.50%) Clean Code
14 12 (11.54%) Data Protection
14 12 (11.54%) Front End Development
14 12 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.46%) Java
2 38 (36.54%) SQL
3 32 (30.77%) Python
4 22 (21.15%) JavaScript
5 18 (17.31%) Scala
6 14 (13.46%) Bash
7 13 (12.50%) C#
7 13 (12.50%) Shell Script
8 9 (8.65%) Groovy
9 6 (5.77%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.85%) Ruby
10 4 (3.85%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.92%) Go
Qualifications
1 48 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 44 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 22 (21.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.96%) Degree
6 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.92%) QA
3 2 (1.92%) WCAG
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (50.00%) Grafana
2 37 (35.58%) Kubernetes
3 30 (28.85%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.69%) logstash
5 6 (5.77%) Ansible
6 2 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.92%) Argo
6 2 (1.92%) Istio
6 2 (1.92%) Nagios
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) Splunk
2 10 (9.62%) Oracle
3 7 (6.73%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.77%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.88%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.88%) Google
5 3 (2.88%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.88%) VMware
6 2 (1.92%) Commvault
6 2 (1.92%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.92%) Snow
7 1 (0.96%) Databricks
7 1 (0.96%) IBM
7 1 (0.96%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.96%) Red Hat