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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 476 437
Rank change year-on-year -117 -39 +109
Contract jobs citing Kibana 81 80 134
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.38% 1.76% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 61 98
10th Percentile £361 £311 £449
25th Percentile £435 £360 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £463 £539
Median % change year-on-year +15.68% -14.15% +9.95%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £643
90th Percentile £642 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +31.25% -33.33% +22.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £38.38 £58.14 -
25th Percentile £50.19 £65.85 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% - -
75th Percentile £73.19 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £73.53 £79.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £79.35 -
% change year-on-year -8.63% - -

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 5,883 4,545 4,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.96% 13.88% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,918 2,955 3,175
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 80 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% -17.05% -35.71%
75th Percentile £71.43 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £84.17 £78.83 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.31 £55.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +15.10% +42.86% -16.63%

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 27 August 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 27 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 12 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 27 August 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 -108 69 £560 +21.08% 26
London -63 44 £560 +1.82% 12
Work from Home -43 31 £500 +10.77% 14
UK excluding London -112 25 £525 +31.25% 18
West Midlands -49 10 £593 -1.25% 2
Midlands -57 10 £593 +15.61% 4
South East -56 6 £525 +16.41% 6
North East -38 4 £363 -9.38% 2
North of England -76 4 £363 -2.68% 2
Scotland -16 3 £450 +552.17% 2
Wales -14 1 £525 -12.50%
South West -47 1 - - 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 9 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.70%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) CMS
3 2 (2.47%) nginx
4 1 (1.23%) Confluence
4 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (71.60%) AWS
2 16 (19.75%) Amazon S3
3 12 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (14.81%) GitHub
4 10 (12.35%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (9.88%) Amazon EMR
5 8 (9.88%) OpenShift
6 7 (8.64%) Azure
6 7 (8.64%) Serverless
7 6 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.94%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (4.94%) GCP
8 4 (4.94%) Sentry
9 3 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.23%) Datadog
10 1 (1.23%) Figma
10 1 (1.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) HTTP
2 2 (2.47%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) DSL
3 1 (1.23%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 17 (20.99%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (9.88%) Big Data
5 8 (9.88%) NoSQL
6 7 (8.64%) Presto
7 5 (6.17%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (4.94%) MySQL
9 3 (3.70%) Redis
10 2 (2.47%) Metadata
11 1 (1.23%) Flink
11 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.23%) Power BI
11 1 (1.23%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (32.10%) Jenkins
2 14 (17.28%) GitLab
3 9 (11.11%) JMeter
3 9 (11.11%) JUnit
3 9 (11.11%) Mockito
4 8 (9.88%) Gatling
5 7 (8.64%) Maven
6 4 (4.94%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.94%) Git
7 3 (3.70%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.47%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.47%) JIRA
8 2 (2.47%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.47%) Mocha
8 2 (2.47%) Sinon.JS
8 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.23%) Deequ
9 1 (1.23%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.23%) Selenium
General
1 20 (24.69%) Public Sector
2 17 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.47%) Banking
6 2 (2.47%) Finance
6 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.47%) Law
6 2 (2.47%) Local Government
6 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Developer
2 17 (20.99%) Senior
3 14 (17.28%) Lead
4 10 (12.35%) Data Engineer
4 10 (12.35%) Java Developer
5 9 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) Scala Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Performance Test Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Test Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Performance Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Python Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.10%) Spring
2 24 (29.63%) Terraform
3 20 (24.69%) Spring Boot
4 16 (19.75%) HTML
5 13 (16.05%) RESTful
6 12 (14.81%) CSS
6 12 (14.81%) Kafka
7 11 (13.58%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (13.58%) Play Framework
8 8 (9.88%) OpenAPI
8 8 (9.88%) REST
9 7 (8.64%) .NET
10 6 (7.41%) JPA
10 6 (7.41%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (7.41%) OAuth
10 6 (7.41%) OAuth2
10 6 (7.41%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (7.41%) Playwright
10 6 (7.41%) React
11 5 (6.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.41%) AI Agents
2 6 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.41%) PKI
2 6 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.23%) PMI
5 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.23%) Replication
5 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.23%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (1.23%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (34.57%) Linux
2 11 (13.58%) Unix
3 5 (6.17%) Windows
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.47%) Debian
5 2 (2.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.23%) Solaris
6 1 (1.23%) VMS
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 31 (38.27%) Agile
3 25 (30.86%) DevOps
4 20 (24.69%) Microservices
4 20 (24.69%) Observability
5 17 (20.99%) Scrum
6 16 (19.75%) Containerisation
6 16 (19.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (18.52%) Test Automation
8 13 (16.05%) Mentoring
9 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (14.81%) Software Engineering
10 10 (12.35%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (12.35%) Front End Development
10 10 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (11.11%) Code Quality
11 9 (11.11%) Event-Driven
11 9 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (49.38%) Java
2 30 (37.04%) Python
3 22 (27.16%) SQL
4 19 (23.46%) JavaScript
5 12 (14.81%) Scala
6 11 (13.58%) Bash
7 10 (12.35%) Shell Script
8 9 (11.11%) TypeScript
9 7 (8.64%) C#
9 7 (8.64%) Ruby
10 6 (7.41%) PL/SQL
11 4 (4.94%) Go
12 1 (1.23%) C
12 1 (1.23%) Groovy
12 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (39.51%) Security Cleared
2 29 (35.80%) SC Cleared
3 16 (19.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.23%) Degree
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.47%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) WCAG
4 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (38.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (55.56%) Grafana
2 29 (35.80%) Prometheus
3 28 (34.57%) Kubernetes
4 9 (11.11%) logstash
5 7 (8.64%) Ansible
6 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.47%) Nagios
6 2 (2.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.23%) Consul
7 1 (1.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (19.75%) Splunk
2 8 (9.88%) Oracle
3 5 (6.17%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.70%) VMware
5 2 (2.47%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.47%) Commvault
5 2 (2.47%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.47%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.23%) Databricks
6 1 (1.23%) IBM
6 1 (1.23%) Red Hat