Kibana Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Elastic Kibana
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Kibana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 150 181
Rank change year-on-year -55 +31 +47
Contract jobs citing Kibana 7 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.33% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.75% 2.06% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 2
10th Percentile £284 £360 -
25th Percentile £322 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -26.43% +10.53% -7.68%
75th Percentile £405 £550 £488
90th Percentile £466 £640 -
England median daily rate £500 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +31.58% -20.83%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 931 582 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.86% 16.20% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 341 487
10th Percentile £302 £250 £270
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £584 £584
90th Percentile £632 £656 £650
England median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.32% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 12 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.36 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.25 £44.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.69% -3.44% +73.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.68 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.13 £76.57 £78.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Kibana job vacancy trend in the North of England

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Kibana

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the North of England

Kibana
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Kibana

Kibana
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
North West -17 4 £353 -0.84% 2
North East -9 2 £400 -27.27% 1
Yorkshire -43 1 - - 1
Kibana
England

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (42.86%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Apigee
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
2 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
2 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (42.86%) TeamCity
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (28.57%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
4 1 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (14.29%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Scala Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 2 (28.57%) Akka
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) Play Framework
4 1 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Change Management
4 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Runbook
4 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
5 2 (28.57%) API Development
5 2 (28.57%) API Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
6 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Scala
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Progress Chef
2 2 (28.57%) logstash
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) AppDynamics
2 3 (42.86%) Cloudera
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft