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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 442 448
Rank change year-on-year -116 +6 +100
Contract jobs citing Kibana 83 81 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.26% 1.78% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 63 109
10th Percentile £363 £391 £404
25th Percentile £425 £402 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +5.29% +2.00%
75th Percentile £570 £695 £600
90th Percentile £605 £713 £692
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -7.62% +0.96% +4.00%
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 6,581 4,558 5,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 15.85% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,501 3,103 3,765
10th Percentile £325 £313 £272
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +0.19% -6.79%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £490 £494
% change year-on-year +0.20% -0.81% -5.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 48 101
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.89 £19.70 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.29 £50.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.09 £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 29 May 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 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 14 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 29 May 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 -121 75 £525 -2.33% 13
UK excluding London -97 45 £485 -7.62% 10
London -80 28 £560 -17.65% 4
Work from Home -32 24 £500 -5.84% 3
Midlands -47 20 £525 -2.23% 1
West Midlands -47 20 £525 -4.55%
South East -43 12 £425 -9.48% 7
North of England -84 7 £463 +15.69% 1
North East -25 4 £413 -24.95%
South West -34 2 - - 1
North West -43 2 £500 +27.23% 1
Wales - 2 £513 -
East of England - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire -57 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 (10.84%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (10.84%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.02%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.61%) Apache
3 3 (3.61%) Confluence
4 1 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (1.20%) nginx
4 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.78%) AWS
2 14 (16.87%) GitHub
3 12 (14.46%) Amazon S3
4 11 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.84%) Azure
6 8 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (9.64%) Amazon EMR
6 8 (9.64%) GCP
6 8 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (7.23%) Serverless
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.82%) Sentry
8 4 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (3.61%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (3.61%) Datadog
10 2 (2.41%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) Network Security
2 5 (6.02%) DNS
2 5 (6.02%) HTTP
3 2 (2.41%) Firewall
4 1 (1.20%) DSL
4 1 (1.20%) LAN
4 1 (1.20%) NAS
4 1 (1.20%) SAN
4 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.20%) VPN
4 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (39.76%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (14.46%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.05%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (9.64%) Big Data
4 8 (9.64%) NoSQL
5 7 (8.43%) Presto
6 5 (6.02%) Apache Hudi
7 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.61%) MySQL
8 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.20%) Flink
9 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.20%) Metadata
9 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.20%) Power BI
9 1 (1.20%) Redis
9 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.05%) GitLab
3 6 (7.23%) Gatling
3 6 (7.23%) JMeter
4 5 (6.02%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.82%) JIRA
5 4 (4.82%) Postman
5 4 (4.82%) Terragrunt
6 3 (3.61%) Git
6 3 (3.61%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.41%) Android Studio
7 2 (2.41%) Appium
7 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.41%) JUnit
7 2 (2.41%) Maven
7 2 (2.41%) Mockito
7 2 (2.41%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.41%) Selenium
7 2 (2.41%) Sourcetree
7 2 (2.41%) Xcode
General
1 30 (36.14%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.46%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.61%) Finance
6 2 (2.41%) Banking
6 2 (2.41%) Local Government
7 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.20%) Front Office
7 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.07%) SIEM Engineer
2 12 (14.46%) Senior
3 10 (12.05%) Data Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) Developer
4 8 (9.64%) Lead
4 8 (9.64%) Scala Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Site Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Splunk Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Architect
8 4 (4.82%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Scala Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Security Specialist
9 3 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (39.76%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (13.25%) HTML
2 11 (13.25%) Kafka
3 10 (12.05%) Spring
4 9 (10.84%) Play Framework
5 8 (9.64%) CSS
5 8 (9.64%) Spring Boot
6 7 (8.43%) RESTful
7 4 (4.82%) Akka
8 3 (3.61%) .NET
8 3 (3.61%) Apache Camel
8 3 (3.61%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (3.61%) Django
8 3 (3.61%) FastAPI
8 3 (3.61%) JSON
8 3 (3.61%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (3.61%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (3.61%) pytest
8 3 (3.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.43%) Cyber Security Posture
2 7 (8.43%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.61%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.61%) Replication
4 3 (3.61%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (31.33%) Linux
2 14 (16.87%) Unix
3 3 (3.61%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.61%) Windows
4 2 (2.41%) Android
4 2 (2.41%) Debian
4 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.20%) Solaris
5 1 (1.20%) VMS
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) CI/CD
2 27 (32.53%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (30.12%) Agile
4 23 (27.71%) Observability
5 22 (26.51%) DevOps
6 20 (24.10%) SIEM
7 19 (22.89%) Containerisation
7 19 (22.89%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (21.69%) Visualisation
9 15 (18.07%) Incident Response
9 15 (18.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (16.87%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (16.87%) Threat Detection
11 13 (15.66%) Test Automation
12 11 (13.25%) Dashboard Development
12 11 (13.25%) Data Ingestion
12 11 (13.25%) Data Visualisation
12 11 (13.25%) Microservices
13 10 (12.05%) Decision-Making
13 10 (12.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.37%) Python
2 28 (33.73%) Java
3 19 (22.89%) SQL
4 13 (15.66%) JavaScript
4 13 (15.66%) Scala
5 12 (14.46%) Bash
6 10 (12.05%) PowerShell
7 8 (9.64%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (8.43%) Ruby
9 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.61%) C#
10 3 (3.61%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.25%) Degree
4 10 (12.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (9.64%) CEH
6 8 (9.64%) CISSP
6 8 (9.64%) GIAC
7 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.02%) QA
3 4 (4.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (37.35%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (39.76%) Grafana
2 32 (38.55%) Kubernetes
3 26 (31.33%) Terraform
4 22 (26.51%) Ansible
5 20 (24.10%) logstash
6 18 (21.69%) Prometheus
7 8 (9.64%) Puppet
8 3 (3.61%) Karpenter
9 2 (2.41%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.20%) Consul
10 1 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.20%) Istio
10 1 (1.20%) Podman
10 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (21.69%) Splunk
2 7 (8.43%) FireEye
2 7 (8.43%) Tanium
3 6 (7.23%) Oracle
4 5 (6.02%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.82%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.61%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.41%) VMware
8 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.20%) Cisco
8 1 (1.20%) EMC
8 1 (1.20%) IBM
8 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.20%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.20%) Reuters