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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 442 447
Rank change year-on-year -124 +5 +95
Contract jobs citing Kibana 79 81 140
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.20% 1.76% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 63 110
10th Percentile £363 £391 £405
25th Percentile £425 £402 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £656 £643
90th Percentile £607 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -12.30% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £38.38 £78.83 -
25th Percentile £50.19 £79.03 £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.75 £79.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.92% +32.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.50 £79.68 £61.25
90th Percentile £77.20 £79.87 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £79.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -0.44% +32.25% -

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 6,564 4,607 5,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 15.92% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,480 3,118 3,771
10th Percentile £325 £308 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -0.49% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £625
90th Percentile £681 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £496 £494
% change year-on-year -0.20% +0.40% -5.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 49 97
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.66
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.97 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.66% -3.33% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £76.85 £78.96 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -107 71 £525 -2.23% 22
UK excluding London -106 40 £439 -12.30% 18
London -72 29 £560 -9.49% 6
Work from Home -38 23 £465 -12.43% 11
Midlands -43 17 £550 +2.42% 1
West Midlands -45 17 £550 -
South East -57 12 £425 -9.48% 11
North of England -90 5 £426 +6.38% 2
North East -25 4 £413 -24.95%
South West -33 2 - - 3
Wales - 2 £513 -
East of England - 2 £300 -
North West -47 1 £500 +27.23% 2

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 (11.39%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (11.39%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.06%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.80%) Apache
4 2 (2.53%) Confluence
5 1 (1.27%) CMS
5 1 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.10%) AWS
2 14 (17.72%) GitHub
3 12 (15.19%) Amazon S3
4 11 (13.92%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (10.13%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (10.13%) Amazon EMR
5 8 (10.13%) Azure
5 8 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (8.86%) GCP
7 6 (7.59%) Serverless
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.06%) Sentry
8 4 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (3.80%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (3.80%) Datadog
10 2 (2.53%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.13%) Network Security
2 4 (5.06%) DNS
2 4 (5.06%) HTTP
3 1 (1.27%) DSL
3 1 (1.27%) Firewall
3 1 (1.27%) LAN
3 1 (1.27%) NAS
3 1 (1.27%) SAN
3 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (35.44%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (15.19%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.66%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (10.13%) Big Data
4 8 (10.13%) NoSQL
5 7 (8.86%) Presto
6 5 (6.33%) Apache Hudi
7 4 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.80%) MySQL
8 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.27%) Flink
9 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.27%) Metadata
9 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.27%) Power BI
9 1 (1.27%) Redis
9 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (21.52%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.39%) GitLab
3 7 (8.86%) Gatling
3 7 (8.86%) JMeter
4 4 (5.06%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.06%) Postman
4 4 (5.06%) Terragrunt
5 3 (3.80%) JIRA
5 3 (3.80%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.53%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.53%) Appium
6 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.53%) Git
6 2 (2.53%) JUnit
6 2 (2.53%) Maven
6 2 (2.53%) Mockito
6 2 (2.53%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.53%) Selenium
6 2 (2.53%) Sourcetree
6 2 (2.53%) Xcode
General
1 28 (35.44%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (26.58%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.19%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.80%) Finance
6 2 (2.53%) Banking
6 2 (2.53%) Local Government
7 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.27%) Front Office
7 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (16.46%) Senior
2 12 (15.19%) SIEM Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Data Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Developer
4 8 (10.13%) Lead
4 8 (10.13%) Scala Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Site Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Splunk Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) AWS Architect
7 4 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Performance Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Performance Test Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Scala Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Security Specialist
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (35.44%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (13.92%) HTML
2 11 (13.92%) Kafka
3 10 (12.66%) Spring
4 9 (11.39%) Play Framework
5 8 (10.13%) CSS
5 8 (10.13%) Spring Boot
6 7 (8.86%) RESTful
7 4 (5.06%) .NET
7 4 (5.06%) Akka
7 4 (5.06%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (5.06%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (3.80%) Apache Camel
8 3 (3.80%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (3.80%) Django
8 3 (3.80%) FastAPI
8 3 (3.80%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.80%) pytest
8 3 (3.80%) REST
9 2 (2.53%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.46%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.86%) Cyber Security Posture
2 7 (8.86%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.59%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (5.06%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.80%) Replication
7 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.27%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (31.65%) Linux
2 13 (16.46%) Unix
3 3 (3.80%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.80%) Windows
4 2 (2.53%) Android
4 2 (2.53%) Debian
4 2 (2.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.27%) Solaris
5 1 (1.27%) VMS
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.77%) CI/CD
2 25 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (30.38%) Agile
4 23 (29.11%) Observability
5 19 (24.05%) DevOps
6 17 (21.52%) Containerisation
6 17 (21.52%) SIEM
7 16 (20.25%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (18.99%) Visualisation
9 14 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (16.46%) Incident Response
10 13 (16.46%) Test Automation
10 13 (16.46%) Threat Detection
11 11 (13.92%) Microservices
11 11 (13.92%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (12.66%) Dashboard Development
12 10 (12.66%) Data Ingestion
12 10 (12.66%) Decision-Making
13 9 (11.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (11.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (43.04%) Python
2 28 (35.44%) Java
3 19 (24.05%) SQL
4 13 (16.46%) JavaScript
4 13 (16.46%) Scala
5 10 (12.66%) Bash
6 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
7 8 (10.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (8.86%) Ruby
9 4 (5.06%) C#
9 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.80%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.05%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (11.39%) Degree
5 8 (10.13%) CEH
5 8 (10.13%) CISSP
5 8 (10.13%) GIAC
6 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.06%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (36.71%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (41.77%) Grafana
2 29 (36.71%) Kubernetes
3 24 (30.38%) Terraform
4 19 (24.05%) Ansible
5 18 (22.78%) Prometheus
6 16 (20.25%) logstash
7 6 (7.59%) Puppet
8 3 (3.80%) Karpenter
9 2 (2.53%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.27%) Consul
10 1 (1.27%) Istio
10 1 (1.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 17 (21.52%) Splunk
2 7 (8.86%) FireEye
2 7 (8.86%) Tanium
3 6 (7.59%) Oracle
4 5 (6.33%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.06%) AppDynamics
5 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.80%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.80%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.53%) VMware
8 1 (1.27%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.27%) Cisco
8 1 (1.27%) EMC
8 1 (1.27%) IBM
8 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.27%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.27%) Reuters