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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 473 450
Rank change year-on-year -111 -23 +103
Contract jobs citing Kibana 76 80 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.07% 1.58% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 60 107
10th Percentile £313 £337 £449
25th Percentile £425 £400 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year - +0.57% +4.98%
75th Percentile £582 £668 £645
90th Percentile £653 £711 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £402 £550
% change year-on-year +15.92% -26.91% +10.89%
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 7,109 5,058 5,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.51% 15.63% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,864 3,356 3,861
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £421 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £515
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -1.46% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 70 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.36
25th Percentile £22.11 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.50 £35.14 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.96% +8.11% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £73.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.75 £57.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.21% +42.50% -13.38%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -115 69 £534 +1.67% 21
UK excluding London -123 34 £466 +15.92% 13
London -72 32 £560 -13.18% 9
Work from Home -47 21 £430 -19.93% 7
Midlands -51 14 £550 +2.42% 2
West Midlands -60 14 £550 - 1
South East -56 9 £430 -14.00% 5
North of England -90 5 £400 +4.78% 1
North East - 4 £363 -
South West -34 2 - - 5
Wales - 2 £513 -
East of England - 2 £300 -
North West -54 1 £500 +34.23% 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 (11.84%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (11.84%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.26%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.95%) Apache
4 2 (2.63%) Confluence
5 1 (1.32%) CMS
5 1 (1.32%) nginx
5 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 47 (61.84%) AWS
2 13 (17.11%) GitHub
3 9 (11.84%) Amazon S3
4 8 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (10.53%) Amazon EMR
5 7 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (6.58%) Azure
6 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.58%) OpenShift
6 5 (6.58%) Sentry
7 4 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (5.26%) GCP
8 3 (3.95%) Datadog
9 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.63%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (2.63%) Serverless
9 2 (2.63%) TestFlight
10 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.32%) Figma
10 1 (1.32%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) HTTP
2 3 (3.95%) Network Security
3 2 (2.63%) Firewall
4 1 (1.32%) DSL
4 1 (1.32%) LAN
4 1 (1.32%) NAS
4 1 (1.32%) SAN
4 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (31.58%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.16%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (10.53%) Big Data
4 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 7 (9.21%) Presto
6 5 (6.58%) Apache Hudi
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.26%) MySQL
8 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.63%) Power BI
10 1 (1.32%) Flink
10 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.32%) Metadata
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (1.32%) Redis
10 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.16%) JMeter
3 9 (11.84%) Gatling
4 7 (9.21%) GitLab
5 5 (6.58%) CircleCI
6 4 (5.26%) JUnit
6 4 (5.26%) Maven
6 4 (5.26%) Mockito
6 4 (5.26%) Postman
7 3 (3.95%) JIRA
7 3 (3.95%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.63%) Android Studio
8 2 (2.63%) Appium
8 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.63%) Git
8 2 (2.63%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.63%) Selenium
8 2 (2.63%) Sourcetree
8 2 (2.63%) Xcode
9 1 (1.32%) NeoLoad
General
1 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (19.74%) Public Sector
3 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.95%) Finance
6 2 (2.63%) Banking
6 2 (2.63%) Local Government
7 1 (1.32%) Front Office
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (22.37%) Senior
2 16 (21.05%) Lead
3 9 (11.84%) Data Engineer
3 9 (11.84%) Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Scala Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Performance Test Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) SIEM Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Test Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Performance Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Security Specialist
8 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.95%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.68%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (18.42%) Spring
3 12 (15.79%) HTML
3 12 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 11 (14.47%) Kafka
5 9 (11.84%) Play Framework
6 8 (10.53%) CSS
7 7 (9.21%) RESTful
8 6 (7.89%) .NET
8 6 (7.89%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (7.89%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (6.58%) OpenAPI
10 4 (5.26%) Apache Camel
10 4 (5.26%) Django
10 4 (5.26%) FastAPI
10 4 (5.26%) JPA
11 3 (3.95%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (3.95%) pytest
11 3 (3.95%) REST
12 2 (2.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.89%) AI Agents
3 6 (7.89%) PKI
4 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.32%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (27.63%) Linux
2 8 (10.53%) Unix
3 3 (3.95%) Windows
4 2 (2.63%) Android
4 2 (2.63%) Debian
4 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.32%) Solaris
5 1 (1.32%) VMS
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.79%) CI/CD
2 23 (30.26%) Agile
3 21 (27.63%) DevOps
4 20 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 18 (23.68%) Observability
6 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (17.11%) Test Automation
8 12 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (15.79%) Microservices
8 12 (15.79%) SIEM
8 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
8 12 (15.79%) Visualisation
9 11 (14.47%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (13.16%) Mentoring
11 9 (11.84%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (11.84%) Scrum
11 9 (11.84%) Threat Detection
12 8 (10.53%) AI
12 8 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (10.53%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.11%) Java
2 31 (40.79%) Python
3 23 (30.26%) SQL
4 14 (18.42%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.16%) Scala
6 8 (10.53%) Ruby
7 6 (7.89%) Bash
7 6 (7.89%) C#
7 6 (7.89%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.95%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 28 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 24 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.26%) Degree
5 3 (3.95%) CEH
5 3 (3.95%) CISSP
5 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.95%) GIAC
6 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) Accessibility
1 6 (7.89%) QA
2 5 (6.58%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (34.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (50.00%) Grafana
2 29 (38.16%) Kubernetes
3 23 (30.26%) Terraform
4 21 (27.63%) Prometheus
5 15 (19.74%) logstash
6 11 (14.47%) Ansible
7 2 (2.63%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.32%) Consul
8 1 (1.32%) Istio
8 1 (1.32%) Podman
8 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Splunk
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle
3 5 (6.58%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.95%) FireEye
5 3 (3.95%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.95%) Tanium
6 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.63%) VMware
7 1 (1.32%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.32%) Cisco
7 1 (1.32%) Databricks
7 1 (1.32%) EMC
7 1 (1.32%) IBM
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.32%) Reuters