Kibana Contracts in the UK excluding London

Elastic Kibana
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kibana skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kibana over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 334 403
Rank change year-on-year +38 +69 +58
Contract jobs citing Kibana 40 65 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.12% 2.76% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 45 54
10th Percentile £359 £374 £463
25th Percentile £393 £465 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.29% -8.76%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £672
90th Percentile £648 £645 £700
UK median daily rate £537 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +5.29% +2.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.17% - -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £60.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year +31.17% -33.33% +12.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kibana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kibana in the UK excluding London

Kibana
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kibana in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kibana in the UK excluding London

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the UK excluding London

Kibana
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kibana in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Kibana in the UK excluding London

Kibana
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 of England +28 19 £400 -35.85% 5
North West +25 11 £393 -15.03% 2
Midlands +7 9 £537 -1.24% 5
West Midlands +2 7 £550 - 5
South West +49 5 £600 -14.74% 6
South East +41 4 £470 -3.20% 14
Yorkshire +6 4 £400 -37.98% 2
North East +3 4 £550 - 1
Scotland -4 3 £543 +4.13%
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13%
Kibana
UK

Kibana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (22.50%) JBoss
2 7 (17.50%) Apache
3 4 (10.00%) nginx
4 3 (7.50%) Confluence
4 3 (7.50%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) OpenShift
3 8 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (12.50%) Serverless
6 4 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (7.50%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (7.50%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (7.50%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (7.50%) AWS KMS
7 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.50%) Azure
7 3 (7.50%) Route 53
8 2 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) DSL
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (70.00%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 10 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (7.50%) Big Data
5 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 21 (52.50%) Jenkins
2 14 (35.00%) Git
3 12 (30.00%) JIRA
4 9 (22.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 9 (22.50%) CA Release Automation
4 9 (22.50%) SonarQube
4 9 (22.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (22.50%) TeamCity
5 5 (12.50%) GitLab
5 5 (12.50%) JMeter
6 3 (7.50%) Artifactory
6 3 (7.50%) Postman
6 3 (7.50%) REST Assured
6 3 (7.50%) Selenium
6 3 (7.50%) TestNG
6 3 (7.50%) Travis CI
7 2 (5.00%) JUnit
7 2 (5.00%) Mockito
8 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Scala Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (47.50%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (27.50%) Spring Boot
3 7 (17.50%) Akka
3 7 (17.50%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (12.50%) Kafka
4 5 (12.50%) Play Framework
5 3 (7.50%) .NET
5 3 (7.50%) AWS CDK
5 3 (7.50%) OAuth
5 3 (7.50%) REST
5 3 (7.50%) Spring
6 2 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (5.00%) Apache Camel
6 2 (5.00%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.00%) HTML
6 2 (5.00%) jQuery
6 2 (5.00%) JSON
6 2 (5.00%) Web Services
6 2 (5.00%) WireMock
6 2 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (10.00%) Replication
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Linux
1 14 (35.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (82.50%) CI/CD
2 17 (42.50%) DevOps
2 17 (42.50%) Microservices
3 16 (40.00%) Agile
3 16 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 15 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (35.00%) Visualisation
6 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (25.00%) Migration
8 9 (22.50%) Build Automation
8 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
8 9 (22.50%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (20.00%) Analytics
9 8 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
10 7 (17.50%) BDD
10 7 (17.50%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (17.50%) TDD
11 5 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
11 5 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
11 5 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) Perl
3 8 (20.00%) Bash
4 7 (17.50%) Scala
5 5 (12.50%) Java
6 3 (7.50%) Groovy
6 3 (7.50%) SQL
7 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.50%) Ruby
8 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) CEH
3 3 (7.50%) CISSP
3 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) ISTQB
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) OCP
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (40.00%) Docker
2 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (57.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (25.00%) logstash
3 9 (22.50%) Progress Chef
4 6 (15.00%) Terraform
5 5 (12.50%) Ansible
5 5 (12.50%) Grafana
6 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Splunk
2 12 (30.00%) AppDynamics
3 9 (22.50%) Red Hat
4 6 (15.00%) Cloudera
5 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.50%) IBM
6 1 (2.50%) Imperva