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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 448 468
Rank change year-on-year -23 +20 +148
Contract jobs citing Kibana 119 87 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.02% 1.83% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 63 94
10th Percentile £355 £402 £395
25th Percentile £402 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £499
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.28% -12.65%
75th Percentile £600 £695 £600
90th Percentile £698 £712 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £533 £501
% change year-on-year -1.50% +6.49% -12.96%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 - £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 5,884 4,757 5,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.82% 14.93% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,070 3,074 3,962
10th Percentile £313 £308 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% -0.94% -8.62%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +1.84% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 66 157
10th Percentile £17.71 £15.36 £15.65
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.10 £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £24.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +114.37% -46.21% +24.07%
75th Percentile £63.32 £49.05 £68.63
90th Percentile £83.20 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.46% -47.64% +19.95%

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 January 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
Top 16 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 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
England -18 96 £500 -18.37% 17
UK excluding London -20 80 £525 -1.50% 14
Midlands -6 44 £540 -15.04% 3
West Midlands -2 41 £542 -14.72% 3
London -20 26 £563 -16.67% 1
Work from Home -20 26 £412 -17.66% 11
Scotland +4 12 £570 +12.59%
South East -11 12 £420 -18.45% 2
South West -17 6 £640 -11.42% 8
North of England -57 6 £400 -20.00% 1
North East -14 4 £400 -27.27%
Wales +1 3 £600 -
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
North West -20 1 £500 -3.01% 1
Yorkshire -57 1 - -
East of England - 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 2 (1.68%) Apache
1 2 (1.68%) FileNet
1 2 (1.68%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.84%) Confluence
2 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.61%) AWS
2 24 (20.17%) Azure
3 11 (9.24%) GCP
3 11 (9.24%) Serverless
4 10 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (8.40%) GitHub
5 8 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.04%) Azure AKS
7 6 (5.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (5.04%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.40%) Network Security
2 7 (5.88%) HTTP
3 6 (5.04%) DNS
4 2 (1.68%) Firewall
4 2 (1.68%) SSH
4 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.68%) VPN
5 1 (0.84%) DSL
5 1 (0.84%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (56.30%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (5.04%) Big Data
3 5 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.52%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.52%) Impala
5 3 (2.52%) MySQL
6 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.68%) Power BI
7 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (13.45%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.61%) GitLab
3 8 (6.72%) JUnit
3 8 (6.72%) Maven
3 8 (6.72%) Mockito
4 7 (5.88%) Git
5 5 (4.20%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.20%) Selenium
6 4 (3.36%) LoadRunner
6 4 (3.36%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.68%) Gatling
7 2 (1.68%) JIRA
7 2 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.68%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.84%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.84%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.84%) Postman
8 1 (0.84%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.84%) Travis CI
General
1 50 (42.02%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.45%) Finance
4 11 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.36%) Law
6 2 (1.68%) Banking
7 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.84%) Billing
7 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (15.97%) Developer
1 19 (15.97%) SIEM Engineer
2 17 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 17 (14.29%) Splunk Engineer
3 14 (11.76%) Senior
4 13 (10.92%) Site Engineer
5 9 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.04%) Architect
7 6 (5.04%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Scala Developer
8 5 (4.20%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (51.26%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (11.76%) JSON
3 13 (10.92%) React
3 13 (10.92%) REST
4 12 (10.08%) Spring
4 12 (10.08%) Spring Boot
5 8 (6.72%) JPA
6 7 (5.88%) Next.js
6 7 (5.88%) Playwright
6 7 (5.88%) XML
7 6 (5.04%) Express.js
7 6 (5.04%) HTML
7 6 (5.04%) Node.js
7 6 (5.04%) OAuth
7 6 (5.04%) OAuth2
7 6 (5.04%) Ultra Messaging
8 5 (4.20%) Akka
8 5 (4.20%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (4.20%) Gherkin
8 5 (4.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.56%) Cyber Security Posture
4 8 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.04%) Replication
6 5 (4.20%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.68%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.68%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.84%) CUDA
10 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (26.89%) Linux
2 14 (11.76%) Unix
3 8 (6.72%) Windows
4 3 (2.52%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.84%) CentOS
5 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.77%) CI/CD
1 39 (32.77%) DevOps
2 37 (31.09%) Observability
3 33 (27.73%) Data Ingestion
3 33 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (24.37%) Containerisation
5 28 (23.53%) Incident Response
5 28 (23.53%) Visualisation
6 27 (22.69%) Agile
6 27 (22.69%) Migration
7 22 (18.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (17.65%) Data Modelling
8 21 (17.65%) SIEM
9 20 (16.81%) Dashboard Development
9 20 (16.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (15.97%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (12.61%) High Availability
13 14 (11.76%) Computer Science
13 14 (11.76%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 53 (44.54%) Python
2 27 (22.69%) Bash
2 27 (22.69%) PowerShell
3 20 (16.81%) SQL
4 14 (11.76%) Java
5 10 (8.40%) Bicep
5 10 (8.40%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.20%) Scala
8 4 (3.36%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.36%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.68%) PHP
10 1 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (33.61%) Security Cleared
2 36 (30.25%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (11.76%) Degree
4 12 (10.08%) CEH
4 12 (10.08%) CISSP
5 11 (9.24%) GIAC
6 6 (5.04%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) WCAG
2 4 (3.36%) QA
3 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (40.34%) Docker
2 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.68%) HDFS
4 1 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 58 (48.74%) Kubernetes
2 42 (35.29%) logstash
3 33 (27.73%) Ansible
4 23 (19.33%) Terraform
5 16 (13.45%) Grafana
6 14 (11.76%) Puppet
7 6 (5.04%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (4.20%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.52%) Karpenter
9 3 (2.52%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.84%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.84%) Nagios
10 1 (0.84%) QRadar
10 1 (0.84%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 31 (26.05%) Splunk
2 14 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.40%) FireEye
3 10 (8.40%) Tanium
4 9 (7.56%) New Relic
5 8 (6.72%) Dynatrace
6 6 (5.04%) Oracle
6 6 (5.04%) Solace
6 6 (5.04%) TIBCO
7 4 (3.36%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.52%) PagerDuty
8 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.68%) Genesys
9 2 (1.68%) KANA
10 1 (0.84%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.84%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.84%) Salesforce