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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 447 447
Rank change year-on-year -128 0 +79
Contract jobs citing Kibana 107 93 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.78% 2.04% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 68 89
10th Percentile £401 £311 £458
25th Percentile £463 £390 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £609 £636 £656
90th Percentile £628 £695 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £455 £625
% change year-on-year +20.88% -27.20% +25.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £38.38 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £50.19 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% - -
75th Percentile £73.19 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £73.53 £77.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.38% - -

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 6,023 4,550 4,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.04% 14.01% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,983 2,938 3,080
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £625
90th Percentile £693 £688 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.30% -4.13% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 89 62
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.95
25th Percentile £30.56 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.45 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +145.75% -32.61% -28.64%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.25 £69.56
90th Percentile £87.48 £68.30 £74.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £21.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +203.88% -44.44% -19.51%

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 22 September 2026.

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 22 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 13 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 22 September 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
England -129 90 £560 +14.87% 66
London -64 53 £560 +1.82% 35
Work from Home -28 45 £537 +16.74% 30
UK excluding London -115 36 £550 +20.88% 36
West Midlands -48 18 £600 - 10
Midlands -54 18 £600 +26.32% 11
North of England -70 7 £425 +18.72% 8
North East -30 6 £413 +3.13% 5
South East -63 5 £525 +5.00% 3
Scotland -29 4 £450 -17.81% 4
Wales -10 1 £525 -12.50%
South West -43 1 - - 7
North West -57 1 £630 +75.98% 3

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 19 (17.76%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.41%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.74%) Apache
4 3 (2.80%) nginx
5 2 (1.87%) CMS
5 2 (1.87%) Confluence
5 2 (1.87%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.93%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 82 (76.64%) AWS
2 16 (14.95%) Amazon S3
3 13 (12.15%) GitHub
4 12 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (10.28%) Azure
6 10 (9.35%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (9.35%) Amazon EMR
7 8 (7.48%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.54%) Serverless
9 6 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.67%) GCP
11 4 (3.74%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (3.74%) Sentry
12 3 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.93%) Datadog
13 1 (0.93%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.87%) HTTP
1 2 (1.87%) Network Security
1 2 (1.87%) VPN
2 1 (0.93%) DSL
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (25.23%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (19.63%) MongoDB
3 18 (16.82%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (9.35%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (8.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (8.41%) NoSQL
6 8 (7.48%) Big Data
7 7 (6.54%) Apache Hudi
7 7 (6.54%) Presto
8 4 (3.74%) MySQL
8 4 (3.74%) Redis
9 2 (1.87%) Metadata
9 2 (1.87%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.93%) Flink
10 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.93%) Power BI
10 1 (0.93%) QlikView
10 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (34.58%) Jenkins
2 26 (24.30%) GitLab
3 17 (15.89%) JUnit
3 17 (15.89%) Mockito
4 15 (14.02%) Maven
5 8 (7.48%) JMeter
6 7 (6.54%) Gatling
6 7 (6.54%) Git
7 4 (3.74%) CircleCI
8 3 (2.80%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.80%) JIRA
8 3 (2.80%) Selenium
9 2 (1.87%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.87%) Mocha
9 2 (1.87%) Sinon.JS
9 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.93%) Deequ
10 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.93%) NeoLoad
General
1 24 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.69%) Public Sector
3 17 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.67%) Local Government
5 3 (2.80%) Finance
5 3 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Law
6 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Publishing
7 1 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Senior
2 21 (19.63%) Developer
3 16 (14.95%) Scala Engineer
4 14 (13.08%) Lead
5 13 (12.15%) Data Engineer
5 13 (12.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (11.21%) Java Engineer
7 11 (10.28%) Java Developer
8 9 (8.41%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Performance Test Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Test Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Performance Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Senior Performance Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Technical Leader
12 4 (3.74%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Scala Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (32.71%) Spring
2 28 (26.17%) Spring Boot
2 28 (26.17%) Terraform
3 18 (16.82%) HTML
3 18 (16.82%) Play Framework
4 15 (14.02%) OpenAPI
5 14 (13.08%) JPA
5 14 (13.08%) Kafka
5 14 (13.08%) REST
6 13 (12.15%) RESTful
7 12 (11.21%) CSS
7 12 (11.21%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (8.41%) .NET
8 9 (8.41%) React
9 8 (7.48%) OAuth
9 8 (7.48%) OAuth2
9 8 (7.48%) Playwright
10 6 (5.61%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (5.61%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (4.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.41%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.54%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.61%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.61%) PKI
5 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.80%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.93%) PMI
7 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
7 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.93%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (28.97%) Linux
2 11 (10.28%) Unix
3 6 (5.61%) Windows
4 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.87%) Debian
5 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.87%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.93%) CentOS
6 1 (0.93%) Solaris
6 1 (0.93%) VMS
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (46.73%) Agile
2 46 (42.99%) CI/CD
3 31 (28.97%) DevOps
4 28 (26.17%) Containerisation
4 28 (26.17%) Test Automation
5 25 (23.36%) Microservices
5 25 (23.36%) Observability
5 25 (23.36%) Scrum
6 22 (20.56%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (18.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (16.82%) Software Engineering
9 16 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (13.08%) Front End Development
10 14 (13.08%) Mentoring
10 14 (13.08%) MVC
11 13 (12.15%) Clean Code
11 13 (12.15%) Data Protection
11 13 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (45.79%) Java
2 38 (35.51%) SQL
3 37 (34.58%) Python
4 22 (20.56%) JavaScript
5 21 (19.63%) Scala
6 14 (13.08%) Bash
7 13 (12.15%) Shell Script
8 9 (8.41%) TypeScript
9 8 (7.48%) C#
10 7 (6.54%) Ruby
11 6 (5.61%) PL/SQL
12 4 (3.74%) Go
13 2 (1.87%) Groovy
14 1 (0.93%) C
14 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (40.19%) Security Cleared
2 40 (37.38%) SC Cleared
3 24 (22.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.93%) Degree
6 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.48%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.74%) WCAG
4 2 (1.87%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (41.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (57.01%) Grafana
2 35 (32.71%) Kubernetes
3 33 (30.84%) Prometheus
4 10 (9.35%) logstash
5 8 (7.48%) Ansible
6 2 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.87%) Istio
6 2 (1.87%) Nagios
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.93%) Consul
Vendors
1 17 (15.89%) Splunk
2 10 (9.35%) Oracle
3 5 (4.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.74%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.80%) VMware
6 2 (1.87%) Commvault
6 2 (1.87%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.87%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.93%) Databricks
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) Red Hat