Kibana Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Elastic Kibana
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kibana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 291 330
Rank change year-on-year -28 +39 +92
Contract jobs citing Kibana 77 49 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.83% 2.44% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 37 40
10th Percentile £352 £400 £400
25th Percentile £401 £488 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £505
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +7.67% -8.14%
75th Percentile £598 £635 £588
90th Percentile £695 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -6.82% +11.11% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £64.25
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00

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 2,725 2,008 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.13% 14.46% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,919 1,293 1,763
10th Percentile £263 £230 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £600
90th Percentile £661 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 41 119
10th Percentile £16.72 £12.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.09 £19.64 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £24.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% -47.64% +23.15%
75th Percentile £65.75 £44.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +111.35% -46.21% +31.94%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Kibana job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kibana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kibana

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 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the UK excluding London

Kibana
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kibana.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kibana

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 11 January 2026. 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
Midlands -5 41 £538 -15.35% 7
West Midlands +2 38 £542 -14.72% 7
South East +3 12 £420 -18.45% 1
Scotland +2 12 £570 +12.59%
South West -18 6 £640 -11.42% 7
North of England -49 6 £400 -20.00% 1
North East -9 4 £400 -27.27%
Wales +1 3 £600 -
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
North West -28 1 £500 -3.01% 1
Yorkshire -52 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -
Kibana
UK

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (2.60%) Apache
1 2 (2.60%) FileNet
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) JBoss
2 1 (1.30%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) Azure
3 5 (6.49%) GitHub
4 4 (5.19%) GCP
5 3 (3.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.60%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.30%) Apigee
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.30%) Kong
7 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.99%) Network Security
2 5 (6.49%) HTTP
3 2 (2.60%) Firewall
3 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.30%) DNS
4 1 (1.30%) DSL
4 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (63.64%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (6.49%) Big Data
2 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.30%) Impala
4 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Power BI
4 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) GitLab
2 8 (10.39%) Git
3 6 (7.79%) JUnit
3 6 (7.79%) Maven
3 6 (7.79%) Mockito
4 5 (6.49%) Cucumber
4 5 (6.49%) Selenium
5 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.90%) JIRA
5 3 (3.90%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.60%) Gatling
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.30%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.30%) Postman
7 1 (1.30%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.30%) Travis CI
General
1 44 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 27 (35.06%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.90%) Finance
4 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.60%) Banking
5 2 (2.60%) Law
6 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) SIEM Engineer
1 17 (22.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 17 (22.08%) Splunk Engineer
2 13 (16.88%) Site Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Senior
4 11 (14.29%) Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Security Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Scala Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Cloud Specialist
9 3 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Splunk Specialist
9 3 (3.90%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (58.44%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (12.99%) Spring Boot
3 9 (11.69%) Spring
4 8 (10.39%) JSON
4 8 (10.39%) React
5 7 (9.09%) Playwright
6 6 (7.79%) JPA
6 6 (7.79%) OAuth
6 6 (7.79%) OAuth2
6 6 (7.79%) REST
7 5 (6.49%) Gherkin
7 5 (6.49%) GraalVM
7 5 (6.49%) HTML
7 5 (6.49%) JDBC
7 5 (6.49%) OpenID
8 4 (5.19%) Akka
9 3 (3.90%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (3.90%) Next.js
10 2 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.60%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 9 (11.69%) Cyber Security Posture
3 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Replication
4 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.30%) MISP
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.68%) Linux
2 13 (16.88%) Unix
3 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.56%) Data Ingestion
2 31 (40.26%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (33.77%) Migration
4 22 (28.57%) Observability
5 21 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 21 (27.27%) Visualisation
6 20 (25.97%) Containerisation
7 19 (24.68%) DevOps
7 19 (24.68%) Incident Response
8 18 (23.38%) SIEM
8 18 (23.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 17 (22.08%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (19.48%) Dashboard Development
11 14 (18.18%) Agile
11 14 (18.18%) CI/CD
11 14 (18.18%) Computer Science
12 13 (16.88%) Change Management
12 13 (16.88%) Knowledge Transfer
12 13 (16.88%) Performance Metrics
12 13 (16.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.56%) Python
2 20 (25.97%) Bash
3 12 (15.58%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.99%) Kusto Query Language
5 9 (11.69%) Java
6 8 (10.39%) SQL
7 5 (6.49%) Bicep
8 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.19%) Scala
9 2 (2.60%) PHP
9 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.30%) Perl
10 1 (1.30%) Ruby
10 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (18.18%) Degree
4 12 (15.58%) CEH
4 12 (15.58%) CISSP
5 11 (14.29%) GIAC
6 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) WCAG
2 3 (3.90%) QA
3 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.60%) NIST
4 1 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (29.87%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (44.16%) Kubernetes
2 30 (38.96%) logstash
3 19 (24.68%) Ansible
4 14 (18.18%) Puppet
5 12 (15.58%) Grafana
6 6 (7.79%) Terraform
7 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.30%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.30%) QRadar
8 1 (1.30%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 30 (38.96%) Splunk
2 10 (12.99%) FireEye
2 10 (12.99%) Tanium
3 6 (7.79%) Oracle
4 5 (6.49%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.19%) AppDynamics
5 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.90%) New Relic
6 3 (3.90%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.60%) Genesys
7 2 (2.60%) KANA
7 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.30%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.30%) Salesforce