Kibana Contract Job Trends in the South East

Elastic Kibana
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Kibana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 167 198
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +40
Contract jobs citing Kibana 14 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.32% 0.081% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.25% 0.61% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £340 - £395
25th Percentile £379 £498 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.70% -10.43% -25.71%
75th Percentile £478 £533 £781
90th Percentile £525 - £793
England median daily rate £500 £628 £475
% change year-on-year -20.32% +32.11% -20.83%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 623 494 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.25% 13.27% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 366 468
10th Percentile £255 £260 £205
25th Percentile £383 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -5.24% -
75th Percentile £567 £608 £615
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 33
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.19 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £19.97 £30.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -29.75% +14.87%
75th Percentile £80.00 £36.75 £68.63
90th Percentile £86.00 £37.50 £76.53
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.31% -40.99% +31.94%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Kibana job vacancy trend in the South East

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kibana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kibana

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana in the South East over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the South East

Kibana
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Berkshire +5 11 £425 -17.57% 1
Thames Valley -2 11 £425 -17.57% 1
Hampshire - 2 £500 -
Surrey - 1 £350 -
Kibana
England

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Postman
1 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Support
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (78.57%) SIEM
2 10 (71.43%) Analytical Thinking
2 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (71.43%) Threat Detection
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (7.14%) CRM
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
4 1 (7.14%) Information Management
4 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) PowerShell
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) CEH
2 11 (78.57%) CISSP
2 11 (78.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) FireEye
1 10 (71.43%) Tanium
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) ArcSight
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow