Kibana Contracts

Elastic Kibana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 463 559
Rank change year-on-year +24 +96 +7
Contract jobs citing Kibana 80 137 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.74% 2.66% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 107 112
10th Percentile £391 £383 £450
25th Percentile £401 £456 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% +2.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £698 £589 £577
90th Percentile £712 £645 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.29% -8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £78.70 £60.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.17% -33.33% +12.50%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +31.17% - -

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kibana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kibana.

Daily rate trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kibana.

Hourly rate trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 14 Contract 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 30 April 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 +27 69 £550 +7.84% 45
UK excluding London +28 40 £525 - 22
London +14 33 £700 +40.00% 24
Work from Home +31 24 £525 +9.95% 36
North of England +37 19 £400 -35.85% 6
North West +19 11 £393 -15.03% 2
Midlands +9 9 £537 -1.24% 5
West Midlands +4 7 £550 - 5
South West +48 5 £600 -14.74% 6
South East +37 4 £470 -3.20% 5
Yorkshire +13 4 £400 -37.98% 2
North East +3 4 £550 - 2
Scotland -8 3 £543 +4.13%
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13%

Kibana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (15.00%) Apache
1 12 (15.00%) JBoss
2 5 (6.25%) nginx
3 4 (5.00%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.75%) Confluence
5 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.25%) DataSynapse
Cloud Services
1 46 (57.50%) AWS
2 17 (21.25%) OpenShift
3 15 (18.75%) Azure
4 11 (13.75%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (13.75%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon S3
5 9 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (8.75%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (8.75%) Serverless
7 6 (7.50%) GCP
8 5 (6.25%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) DNS
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) DSL
3 1 (1.25%) Network Security
3 1 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (56.25%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 12 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 11 (13.75%) RDBMS
4 7 (8.75%) Big Data
4 7 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
5 6 (7.50%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.00%) MySQL
7 3 (3.75%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 38 (47.50%) Jenkins
2 19 (23.75%) Git
3 14 (17.50%) SonarQube
4 13 (16.25%) JIRA
4 13 (16.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (12.50%) TeamCity
6 7 (8.75%) JMeter
7 6 (7.50%) GitLab
8 5 (6.25%) Artifactory
8 5 (6.25%) JUnit
9 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
9 4 (5.00%) Postman
9 4 (5.00%) REST Assured
10 3 (3.75%) Gradle
10 3 (3.75%) Maven
10 3 (3.75%) Selenium
10 3 (3.75%) TestNG
10 3 (3.75%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (7.50%) Finance
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.75%) Law
5 3 (3.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.25%) Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Front Office
6 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Developer
2 14 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (13.75%) Senior
5 10 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (10.00%) Architect
7 7 (8.75%) Scala Developer
8 6 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Tester
10 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Data Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Grid Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.75%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (33.75%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (21.25%) Spring Boot
3 11 (13.75%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (12.50%) HTML
5 8 (10.00%) .NET
5 8 (10.00%) Spring
6 7 (8.75%) Akka
6 7 (8.75%) Kafka
7 6 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.25%) Apache Camel
8 5 (6.25%) Play Framework
9 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET
9 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (5.00%) AWS CDK
9 4 (5.00%) OAuth
9 4 (5.00%) REST
10 3 (3.75%) CSS
10 3 (3.75%) Hibernate
10 3 (3.75%) Web Services
11 2 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Social Media
2 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.25%) Grid Computing
2 5 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 4 (5.00%) Replication
4 3 (3.75%) PKI
5 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Equities
6 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 34 (42.50%) Linux
2 21 (26.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (22.50%) Windows
4 10 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.75%) CentOS
6 3 (3.75%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (61.25%) CI/CD
2 31 (38.75%) DevOps
3 25 (31.25%) Microservices
4 23 (28.75%) Agile
5 17 (21.25%) Code Quality
6 16 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 15 (18.75%) Containerisation
8 14 (17.50%) Analytics
8 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (16.25%) API Integration
10 11 (13.75%) Migration
11 10 (12.50%) Build Automation
11 10 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (12.50%) TDD
12 9 (11.25%) Data Ingestion
12 9 (11.25%) Decision-Making
12 9 (11.25%) High Availability
12 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (55.00%) Python
2 20 (25.00%) Java
3 13 (16.25%) Bash
3 13 (16.25%) SQL
4 11 (13.75%) C#
5 10 (12.50%) Perl
6 7 (8.75%) Scala
7 6 (7.50%) Go
7 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.25%) C++
9 4 (5.00%) Groovy
10 2 (2.50%) Ruby
10 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) CEH
4 3 (3.75%) CISSP
4 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.25%) OCP
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 34 (42.50%) Docker
2 13 (16.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.00%) Platform Symphony
4 3 (3.75%) vCloud
4 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.75%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (3.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (51.25%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.00%) Grafana
3 17 (21.25%) logstash
4 16 (20.00%) Terraform
5 10 (12.50%) Progress Chef
6 7 (8.75%) Ansible
7 5 (6.25%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (6.25%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.50%) Perfmon
10 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.25%) Argo
10 1 (1.25%) Nagios
10 1 (1.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Splunk
2 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
3 14 (17.50%) AppDynamics
4 11 (13.75%) Red Hat
5 6 (7.50%) Cloudera
6 5 (6.25%) IBM
6 5 (6.25%) TIBCO
7 4 (5.00%) VMware
8 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.50%) Imperva
9 1 (1.25%) Commvault