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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 472 447
Rank change year-on-year -91 -25 +72
Contract jobs citing Kibana 119 88 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.96% 1.88% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 61 86
10th Percentile £380 £317 £459
25th Percentile £461 £401 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £606
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -17.53% +22.47%
75th Percentile £602 £668 £666
90th Percentile £626 £695 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £468 £624
% change year-on-year +14.97% -25.02% +24.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62.03 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £63.56 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £69.75 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% - -
75th Percentile £73.56 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £73.68 £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 6,061 4,681 4,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.09% 14.26% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,011 3,028 2,985
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £682 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £493
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.59% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 95 58
10th Percentile £18.25 £14.05 £19.85
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £25.00 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +153.92% -32.13% -33.03%
75th Percentile £74.00 £62.75 £61.88
90th Percentile £88.12 £67.15 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £37.08
% change year-on-year +195.16% -42.32% -23.38%

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 6 October 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 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 6 October 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 -99 100 £560 +14.52% 68
London -72 59 £560 +6.46% 42
Work from Home -38 48 £550 +30.95% 29
UK excluding London -109 40 £538 +14.97% 31
Midlands -43 19 £590 +46.49% 9
West Midlands -45 19 £590 -1.67% 9
North of England -69 8 £425 +14.16% 6
North East -31 7 £425 +6.25% 3
South East -54 7 £525 +5.00% 5
Scotland -27 4 £450 -21.05% 3
Wales -15 1 £525 -12.50%
South West -42 1 - - 5
North West -50 1 £630 +78.47% 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 22 (18.49%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.56%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.88%) nginx
4 4 (3.36%) Apache
5 2 (1.68%) CMS
5 2 (1.68%) Confluence
5 2 (1.68%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.84%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (81.51%) AWS
2 16 (13.45%) Amazon S3
3 14 (11.76%) Azure
4 13 (10.92%) GitHub
5 12 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.40%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (8.40%) Amazon EMR
7 8 (6.72%) OpenShift
8 7 (5.88%) GCP
8 7 (5.88%) Serverless
9 6 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.36%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (3.36%) Sentry
11 3 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.68%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (0.84%) Figma
13 1 (0.84%) Miro
13 1 (0.84%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) HTTP
2 3 (2.52%) VPN
3 2 (1.68%) Network Security
3 2 (1.68%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.84%) DSL
4 1 (0.84%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.89%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (18.49%) MongoDB
3 19 (15.97%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (8.40%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (8.40%) NoSQL
5 9 (7.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (6.72%) Big Data
7 7 (5.88%) Apache Hudi
7 7 (5.88%) Presto
8 5 (4.20%) Redis
9 3 (2.52%) MySQL
10 2 (1.68%) Metadata
10 2 (1.68%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.84%) Flink
11 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.84%) Power BI
11 1 (0.84%) QlikView
11 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (39.50%) Jenkins
2 36 (30.25%) GitLab
3 18 (15.13%) JUnit
3 18 (15.13%) Mockito
4 16 (13.45%) Maven
5 10 (8.40%) JMeter
6 9 (7.56%) Gatling
7 7 (5.88%) Git
8 4 (3.36%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.52%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.52%) JIRA
9 3 (2.52%) LoadRunner
9 3 (2.52%) Selenium
10 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.68%) Mocha
10 2 (1.68%) Sinon.JS
10 2 (1.68%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.84%) Deequ
11 1 (0.84%) NeoLoad
General
1 26 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.33%) Public Sector
3 21 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.04%) Local Government
6 5 (4.20%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.36%) Finance
8 3 (2.52%) Banking
8 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.68%) Law
9 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.84%) Advertising
10 1 (0.84%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (24.37%) Senior
2 26 (21.85%) Developer
3 19 (15.97%) Scala Engineer
4 17 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.76%) Data Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Java Developer
6 13 (10.92%) Lead
7 12 (10.08%) Java Engineer
8 9 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Performance Test Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Test Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Performance Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Senior Performance Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (4.20%) AWS Developer
12 5 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (4.20%) Python Engineer
13 4 (3.36%) Python Software Engineer
13 4 (3.36%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (30.25%) Spring
2 30 (25.21%) Terraform
3 28 (23.53%) Spring Boot
4 21 (17.65%) Play Framework
5 20 (16.81%) REST
6 17 (14.29%) HTML
7 16 (13.45%) Kafka
7 16 (13.45%) OpenAPI
8 15 (12.61%) JPA
8 15 (12.61%) RESTful
9 12 (10.08%) .NET
9 12 (10.08%) CSS
9 12 (10.08%) React
10 11 (9.24%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (6.72%) OAuth
11 8 (6.72%) OAuth2
11 8 (6.72%) Playwright
12 6 (5.04%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (5.04%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (4.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.97%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.24%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.04%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.04%) PKI
5 3 (2.52%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.84%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.84%) PMI
7 1 (0.84%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.84%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.84%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (30.25%) Linux
2 12 (10.08%) Unix
3 11 (9.24%) Windows
4 3 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.84%) Solaris
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (49.58%) Agile
2 57 (47.90%) CI/CD
3 38 (31.93%) DevOps
4 34 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 33 (27.73%) Test Automation
6 30 (25.21%) Microservices
6 30 (25.21%) Observability
7 27 (22.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (21.85%) Scrum
9 25 (21.01%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (14.29%) MVC
10 17 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 16 (13.45%) Clean Code
11 16 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (13.45%) Mentoring
12 15 (12.61%) Data Protection
12 15 (12.61%) Front End Development
13 14 (11.76%) API Design
13 14 (11.76%) Code Quality
14 13 (10.92%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 50 (42.02%) Java
2 43 (36.13%) SQL
3 39 (32.77%) Python
4 25 (21.01%) JavaScript
5 23 (19.33%) Scala
6 17 (14.29%) Bash
7 14 (11.76%) Shell Script
8 11 (9.24%) C#
9 9 (7.56%) TypeScript
10 6 (5.04%) PL/SQL
11 5 (4.20%) Groovy
11 5 (4.20%) Ruby
12 2 (1.68%) Go
13 1 (0.84%) C
13 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 50 (42.02%) Security Cleared
2 46 (38.66%) SC Cleared
3 26 (21.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.84%) Degree
6 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.36%) WCAG
3 2 (1.68%) QA
4 1 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (46.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (55.46%) Grafana
2 40 (33.61%) Kubernetes
3 33 (27.73%) Prometheus
4 9 (7.56%) logstash
5 8 (6.72%) Ansible
6 3 (2.52%) Istio
7 2 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.68%) Argo
7 2 (1.68%) Nagios
7 2 (1.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 17 (14.29%) Splunk
2 11 (9.24%) Oracle
3 6 (5.04%) Dynatrace
3 6 (5.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.52%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.52%) Google
4 3 (2.52%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.52%) VMware
5 2 (1.68%) Commvault
5 2 (1.68%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.68%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.84%) Databricks
6 1 (0.84%) IBM
6 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.84%) Snow