Kibana Contract Job Trends in the North West

Elastic Kibana
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Kibana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 117 132
Rank change year-on-year -25 +15 +39
Contract jobs citing Kibana 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.99% 1.07% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £271 - -
25th Percentile £300 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £356 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -25.05% -7.32%
75th Percentile £436 £534 £488
90th Percentile £489 £641 -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 403 281 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.99% 13.16% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 148 279
10th Percentile £300 £250 £300
25th Percentile £358 £362 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £582
90th Percentile £650 £656 £664
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 46
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.74
25th Percentile £18.12 £24.18 £24.39
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -3.44% -11.41%
75th Percentile £64.25 £62.68 £56.56
90th Percentile £73.41 £78.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £48.00 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +77.78% -41.53% +31.94%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Kibana job vacancy trend in the North West

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana in the North West over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the North West

Kibana
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Kibana
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Cheshire -15 3 £334 -6.32% 1
Manchester -15 1 £500 -25.93% 4
Kibana
England

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (75.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Runbook
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Perl
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (75.00%) Cloudera
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft