Kibana Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Elastic Kibana
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 98 84 91
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 +30
Contract jobs citing Kibana 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.16% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.03% 1.69% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - - £451
25th Percentile £475 £638 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £463
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +45.95% -11.90%
75th Percentile £525 £713 £478
90th Percentile - - £484
North West median daily rate £500 £533 £463
% change year-on-year -6.19% +15.24% -9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £60.00

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 194 177 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.20% 16.95% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 113 169
10th Percentile £343 £313 £304
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.91% -0.10% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 10
10th Percentile - - £19.78
25th Percentile £52.50 - £43.59
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £81.56
90th Percentile £68.25 - £84.25
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £33.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +63.74% -27.26% +8.66%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Kibana job vacancy trend in Manchester

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kibana

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) logstash