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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 452 452
Rank change year-on-year -78 0 +133
Contract jobs citing Kibana 99 83 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.54% 1.78% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 64 107
10th Percentile £363 £392 £356
25th Percentile £414 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +5.34% -
75th Percentile £579 £696 £555
90th Percentile £653 £712 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £516
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.69% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £38.38 - -
25th Percentile £50.19 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.75 £78.70 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +31.17% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.50 - £61.25
90th Percentile £77.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.38% +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 6,428 4,652 5,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.00% 15.88% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,435 3,186 3,713
10th Percentile £320 £313 £257
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -0.50% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 49 130
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.69 £22.50 £17.73
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £52.88
90th Percentile £77.80 £73.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +103.70% -10.00% -34.93%

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 16 April 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 16 April 2026.

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 16 April 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 -84 81 £513 -6.82% 28
UK excluding London -71 62 £500 -4.76% 16
Work from Home -29 32 £430 -19.02% 10
West Midlands -38 28 £542 -1.55% 2
Midlands -49 28 £542 +0.84% 2
London -65 21 £582 -14.51% 11
South East -38 17 £425 -9.58% 6
North of England -85 6 £500 +25.00% 5
Scotland +7 5 £569 +4.84%
North East -19 3 £400 -27.27% 5
Wales -13 2 £513 -
South West -29 2 - - 3
North West -44 2 £500 +27.23%
East of England - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire -58 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 9 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 8 (8.08%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.05%) OpenStack
4 3 (3.03%) Apache
4 3 (3.03%) Confluence
5 1 (1.01%) CMS
5 1 (1.01%) nginx
5 1 (1.01%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 44 (44.44%) AWS
2 15 (15.15%) Amazon S3
2 15 (15.15%) Azure
3 14 (14.14%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (10.10%) GitHub
5 9 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (9.09%) Serverless
6 8 (8.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (8.08%) Amazon EMR
6 8 (8.08%) GCP
7 6 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (2.02%) Datadog
11 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.02%) Slack
11 2 (2.02%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.12%) Network Security
2 5 (5.05%) DNS
2 5 (5.05%) HTTP
3 2 (2.02%) Firewall
4 1 (1.01%) DSL
4 1 (1.01%) LAN
4 1 (1.01%) NAS
4 1 (1.01%) SAN
4 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.01%) VPN
4 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (11.11%) Big Data
3 11 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 9 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 8 (8.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (7.07%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (7.07%) Presto
7 5 (5.05%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (4.04%) MySQL
9 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.02%) Power BI
11 1 (1.01%) Flink
11 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.13%) GitLab
3 5 (5.05%) Git
3 5 (5.05%) JUnit
3 5 (5.05%) Maven
3 5 (5.05%) Mockito
4 4 (4.04%) Gatling
4 4 (4.04%) Postman
4 4 (4.04%) Selenium
4 4 (4.04%) Terragrunt
5 3 (3.03%) JIRA
5 3 (3.03%) JMeter
5 3 (3.03%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.02%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.02%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.02%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.02%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.02%) Sourcetree
6 2 (2.02%) Xcode
General
1 34 (34.34%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.09%) Finance
5 6 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.03%) Banking
7 2 (2.02%) Local Government
7 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.01%) Front Office
8 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) SIEM Engineer
2 15 (15.15%) Senior
3 12 (12.12%) Developer
4 11 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Site Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Splunk Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Scala Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Architect
8 6 (6.06%) Lead
8 6 (6.06%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Elasticsearch Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) AWS Architect
10 4 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.04%) Scala Developer
10 4 (4.04%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (43.43%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (12.12%) HTML
3 10 (10.10%) Kafka
3 10 (10.10%) Spring
4 9 (9.09%) Play Framework
4 9 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 8 (8.08%) CSS
6 6 (6.06%) JSON
6 6 (6.06%) RESTful
7 5 (5.05%) JPA
8 4 (4.04%) Akka
8 4 (4.04%) Playwright
9 3 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (3.03%) OAuth
9 3 (3.03%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.03%) OpenAPI
9 3 (3.03%) pytest
9 3 (3.03%) React
9 3 (3.03%) WireMock
10 2 (2.02%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
1 11 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.08%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.08%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.07%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.03%) Replication
5 3 (3.03%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.30%) Linux
2 16 (16.16%) Unix
3 7 (7.07%) Windows
4 3 (3.03%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.02%) Android
5 2 (2.02%) Debian
5 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.01%) Solaris
6 1 (1.01%) VMS
6 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 30 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (26.26%) SIEM
4 25 (25.25%) Agile
4 25 (25.25%) Visualisation
5 24 (24.24%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (24.24%) DevOps
5 24 (24.24%) Observability
6 23 (23.23%) Containerisation
7 22 (22.22%) Incident Response
8 20 (20.20%) Threat Detection
9 19 (19.19%) Data Ingestion
10 18 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (15.15%) Migration
11 15 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (14.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (14.14%) Test Automation
13 13 (13.13%) Dashboard Development
13 13 (13.13%) Data Modelling
14 12 (12.12%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 45 (45.45%) Python
2 24 (24.24%) Java
3 19 (19.19%) PowerShell
4 18 (18.18%) Bash
5 16 (16.16%) SQL
6 13 (13.13%) Scala
7 12 (12.12%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (11.11%) JavaScript
9 6 (6.06%) Shell Script
10 4 (4.04%) Ruby
11 2 (2.02%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (31.31%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.13%) CEH
3 13 (13.13%) CISSP
3 13 (13.13%) GIAC
4 11 (11.11%) Degree
5 10 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) QA
2 5 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) WCAG
4 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.01%) NIST
4 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (37.37%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (41.41%) Kubernetes
2 31 (31.31%) Grafana
2 31 (31.31%) Terraform
3 30 (30.30%) logstash
4 29 (29.29%) Ansible
5 12 (12.12%) Prometheus
6 9 (9.09%) Puppet
7 3 (3.03%) Karpenter
8 2 (2.02%) Rundeck
9 1 (1.01%) Consul
9 1 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.01%) Nagios
9 1 (1.01%) Podman
9 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (19.19%) Splunk
2 12 (12.12%) FireEye
2 12 (12.12%) Tanium
3 6 (6.06%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.05%) New Relic
5 4 (4.04%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.03%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.03%) Oracle
6 3 (3.03%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.02%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.02%) VMware
8 1 (1.01%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.01%) Cisco
8 1 (1.01%) EMC
8 1 (1.01%) IBM
8 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.01%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.01%) Reuters