Kibana Contract Job Trends

Elastic Kibana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Kibana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 440 522
Rank change year-on-year -24 +82 +82
Contract jobs citing Kibana 106 111 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.84% 2.11% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 79 83
10th Percentile £340 £477 £394
25th Percentile £400 £500 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £490
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +27.55% -16.24%
75th Percentile £600 £690 £581
90th Percentile £697 £724 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £613 £500
% change year-on-year -23.67% +22.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £55.70 - -
25th Percentile £59.75 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £74.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile £77.90 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £75.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,763 5,250 6,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.23% 14.33% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,848 3,369 4,751
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 60 172
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.59 £30.94
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -36.59% +102.13%
75th Percentile £63.36 £60.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.50 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -26.47% -26.38% +100.78%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kibana job vacancy trend in the UK

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Kibana
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kibana over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 November 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
England -36 88 £489 -22.99% 36
UK excluding London -43 62 £468 -23.67% 19
London +1 34 £550 -10.20% 16
Midlands -8 30 £538 -15.35% 4
West Midlands -9 27 £542 -14.72% 4
Work from Home -1 22 £420 -16.00% 22
Scotland -2 12 £570 +14.00% 1
South East -2 8 £429 -15.47% 5
South West -21 7 £600 -13.04% 7
North of England -43 6 £386 -22.75% 2
North West -18 4 £353 -0.84%
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
Wales +1 2 £600 -
North East -11 2 £400 -27.27% 1
East of England -20 1 - -

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (4.72%) JBoss
2 3 (2.83%) Apache
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.89%) FileNet
3 2 (1.89%) nginx
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.94%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.91%) AWS
2 22 (20.75%) Azure
3 11 (10.38%) Serverless
4 9 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (7.55%) Azure AKS
5 8 (7.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (7.55%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.60%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.72%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.72%) GCP
7 5 (4.72%) GitHub
8 4 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.89%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) HTTP
2 5 (4.72%) Network Security
3 4 (3.77%) SSH
4 1 (0.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.94%) DSL
4 1 (0.94%) Firewall
4 1 (0.94%) MQTT
4 1 (0.94%) SMTP
4 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (63.21%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.60%) Big Data
3 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.72%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.83%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.83%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.83%) Impala
6 3 (2.83%) MySQL
7 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.89%) Power BI
8 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.94%) Flink
8 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (20.75%) Jenkins
2 12 (11.32%) Git
3 7 (6.60%) GitLab
3 7 (6.60%) SonarQube
3 7 (6.60%) TeamCity
4 6 (5.66%) Maven
4 6 (5.66%) Selenium
5 5 (4.72%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.72%) JIRA
5 5 (4.72%) JUnit
5 5 (4.72%) Mockito
5 5 (4.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.77%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (3.77%) CA Release Automation
6 4 (3.77%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.89%) Gatling
7 2 (1.89%) Postman
7 2 (1.89%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.94%) Gradle
General
1 39 (36.79%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Finance
3 14 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.72%) Banking
6 4 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.77%) Law
7 1 (0.94%) Billing
7 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (14.15%) Senior
2 14 (13.21%) Developer
3 12 (11.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (10.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) Splunk Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) SIEM Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Site Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.77%) Cloud Specialist
10 4 (3.77%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (53.77%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (13.21%) React
2 14 (13.21%) Spring Boot
3 13 (12.26%) JSON
4 12 (11.32%) REST
5 9 (8.49%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (8.49%) Spring
6 8 (7.55%) Express.js
6 8 (7.55%) Next.js
6 8 (7.55%) Node.js
7 7 (6.60%) HTML
7 7 (6.60%) Playwright
7 7 (6.60%) XML
8 6 (5.66%) JPA
8 6 (5.66%) Kafka
8 6 (5.66%) OAuth
8 6 (5.66%) Ultra Messaging
9 5 (4.72%) Gherkin
9 5 (4.72%) GraalVM
9 5 (4.72%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.32%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.60%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.66%) Fixed Income
4 6 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.72%) Cyber Security Posture
5 5 (4.72%) Replication
6 4 (3.77%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.83%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.89%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.94%) CUDA
9 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.94%) MISP
9 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 34 (32.08%) Linux
2 11 (10.38%) Windows
3 6 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.66%) Unix
4 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.89%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.89%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.94%) CentOS
6 1 (0.94%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.45%) DevOps
2 35 (33.02%) CI/CD
3 33 (31.13%) Observability
4 28 (26.42%) Data Ingestion
5 26 (24.53%) Migration
6 21 (19.81%) Agile
6 21 (19.81%) Visualisation
7 20 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (16.98%) Containerisation
10 17 (16.04%) Incident Response
11 16 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (15.09%) High Availability
12 15 (14.15%) Analytics
12 15 (14.15%) Machine Learning
13 13 (12.26%) Dashboard Development
13 13 (12.26%) Data Modelling
13 13 (12.26%) Microservices
13 13 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (12.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (49.06%) Python
2 24 (22.64%) PowerShell
3 19 (17.92%) SQL
4 18 (16.98%) Bash
5 16 (15.09%) Java
6 12 (11.32%) Bicep
7 8 (7.55%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.72%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (4.72%) Perl
9 3 (2.83%) Scala
10 2 (1.89%) Go
10 2 (1.89%) PHP
11 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 33 (31.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.60%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.66%) CEH
4 6 (5.66%) CISSP
4 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.66%) Degree
5 5 (4.72%) GIAC
6 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) WCAG
2 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.89%) QA
4 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (42.45%) Docker
2 12 (11.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.89%) HDFS
4 1 (0.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 54 (50.94%) Kubernetes
2 44 (41.51%) logstash
3 21 (19.81%) Ansible
4 20 (18.87%) Terraform
5 18 (16.98%) Grafana
6 10 (9.43%) ITRS Geneos
7 7 (6.60%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.60%) Prometheus
8 6 (5.66%) Puppet
9 3 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.89%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.89%) Packer
11 1 (0.94%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.94%) Graphite
11 1 (0.94%) QRadar
11 1 (0.94%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 28 (26.42%) Splunk
2 14 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.43%) Solace
4 9 (8.49%) AppDynamics
5 8 (7.55%) Dynatrace
6 7 (6.60%) New Relic
6 7 (6.60%) Oracle
7 6 (5.66%) TIBCO
8 5 (4.72%) FireEye
8 5 (4.72%) Red Hat
8 5 (4.72%) Tanium
9 4 (3.77%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.89%) Genesys
10 2 (1.89%) KANA
10 2 (1.89%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.94%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.94%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.94%) Salesforce