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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 449 486
Rank change year-on-year -32 +37 +129
Contract jobs citing Kibana 113 99 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.92% 1.90% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 70 88
10th Percentile £338 £459 £398
25th Percentile £400 £500 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £493
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +21.83% -15.09%
75th Percentile £600 £686 £590
90th Percentile £696 £726 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.97% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00

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 5,875 5,202 6,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.12% 14.46% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,982 3,308 4,459
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £692 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 71 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.05 £22.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%
75th Percentile £63.94 £55.88 £72.50
90th Percentile £79.13 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.77 £28.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -38.83% +75.36%

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 December 2025.

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 16 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 December 2025. 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 -9 90 £500 -20.00% 92
UK excluding London -34 71 £500 -9.09% 94
Midlands -8 36 £531 -16.34% 22
West Midlands -1 33 £542 -14.72% 15
London -10 30 £550 -12.00% 3
Work from Home -5 25 £407 -18.56% 18
Scotland +6 13 £570 +14.00% 4
South East -1 9 £425 -15.77% 18
North of England -50 7 £386 -22.75% 20
South West -16 6 £600 -13.04% 16
North West -23 4 £353 -0.84% 9
Wales -1 3 £600 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £360 - 6
North East -4 2 £400 -27.27% 3
Yorkshire -38 1 - - 8
East of England - 1 - - 12

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 4 (3.54%) JBoss
2 2 (1.77%) FileNet
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (34.51%) AWS
2 25 (22.12%) Azure
3 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.08%) GCP
3 8 (7.08%) Serverless
4 7 (6.19%) Azure AKS
4 7 (6.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (6.19%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.19%) OpenShift
5 6 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (5.31%) GitHub
6 4 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) HTTP
2 5 (4.42%) Network Security
3 2 (1.77%) DNS
3 2 (1.77%) Firewall
3 2 (1.77%) SSH
3 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.77%) VPN
4 1 (0.88%) DSL
4 1 (0.88%) MQTT
4 1 (0.88%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (63.72%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.19%) Big Data
3 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.65%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.65%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.65%) Impala
5 3 (2.65%) MySQL
6 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.77%) Power BI
7 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (18.58%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.62%) Git
3 9 (7.96%) GitLab
4 7 (6.19%) Maven
5 6 (5.31%) JUnit
5 6 (5.31%) Mockito
5 6 (5.31%) Selenium
5 6 (5.31%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.31%) TeamCity
6 5 (4.42%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.42%) JIRA
7 4 (3.54%) LoadRunner
7 4 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.65%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (2.65%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.77%) Gatling
9 2 (1.77%) Postman
9 2 (1.77%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.88%) Gradle
General
1 43 (38.05%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.58%) Finance
3 18 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.31%) Banking
6 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.54%) Law
7 1 (0.88%) Billing
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (13.27%) Developer
2 14 (12.39%) Senior
3 13 (11.50%) SIEM Engineer
3 13 (11.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) Splunk Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Site Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.54%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (54.87%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (13.27%) JSON
2 15 (13.27%) Spring Boot
3 14 (12.39%) React
3 14 (12.39%) REST
4 11 (9.73%) Spring
5 9 (7.96%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (7.08%) Next.js
6 8 (7.08%) XML
7 7 (6.19%) Express.js
7 7 (6.19%) HTML
7 7 (6.19%) JPA
7 7 (6.19%) Node.js
7 7 (6.19%) Playwright
8 6 (5.31%) Kafka
8 6 (5.31%) OAuth
8 6 (5.31%) OAuth2
8 6 (5.31%) Ultra Messaging
9 5 (4.42%) Gherkin
9 5 (4.42%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.96%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.31%) Fixed Income
4 6 (5.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.42%) Cyber Security Posture
6 4 (3.54%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.54%) Replication
7 3 (2.65%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.77%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.88%) CUDA
9 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.88%) MISP
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (30.97%) Linux
2 12 (10.62%) Windows
3 9 (7.96%) Unix
4 5 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.77%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.88%) CentOS
7 1 (0.88%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.94%) DevOps
2 38 (33.63%) CI/CD
3 35 (30.97%) Observability
4 29 (25.66%) Data Ingestion
5 27 (23.89%) Migration
6 24 (21.24%) Agile
7 23 (20.35%) Visualisation
8 22 (19.47%) Containerisation
8 22 (19.47%) Incident Response
8 22 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (18.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (14.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 15 (13.27%) Data Modelling
11 15 (13.27%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (13.27%) High Availability
11 15 (13.27%) Microservices
12 14 (12.39%) Dashboard Development
12 14 (12.39%) RBAC
12 14 (12.39%) SIEM
13 13 (11.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 56 (49.56%) Python
2 28 (24.78%) PowerShell
3 24 (21.24%) Bash
4 20 (17.70%) SQL
5 15 (13.27%) Java
6 11 (9.73%) Bicep
7 7 (6.19%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.42%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (3.54%) Perl
10 3 (2.65%) Scala
11 2 (1.77%) PHP
11 2 (1.77%) Ruby
11 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.88%) Go
12 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (32.74%) Security Cleared
2 33 (29.20%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.96%) Degree
4 7 (6.19%) CEH
4 7 (6.19%) CISSP
5 6 (5.31%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.31%) GIAC
6 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) WCAG
2 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.65%) QA
3 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.77%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (42.48%) Docker
2 10 (8.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.77%) HDFS
4 1 (0.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 57 (50.44%) Kubernetes
2 48 (42.48%) logstash
3 26 (23.01%) Ansible
4 21 (18.58%) Terraform
5 20 (17.70%) Grafana
6 10 (8.85%) ITRS Geneos
7 9 (7.96%) Puppet
8 8 (7.08%) Prometheus
9 7 (6.19%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.88%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.88%) Graphite
11 1 (0.88%) Nagios
11 1 (0.88%) QRadar
11 1 (0.88%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 30 (26.55%) Splunk
2 13 (11.50%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.85%) Solace
4 9 (7.96%) New Relic
5 8 (7.08%) AppDynamics
5 8 (7.08%) Dynatrace
6 7 (6.19%) Oracle
7 6 (5.31%) FireEye
7 6 (5.31%) Tanium
7 6 (5.31%) TIBCO
8 4 (3.54%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.65%) Cloudera
9 3 (2.65%) PagerDuty
9 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.77%) Genesys
10 2 (1.77%) KANA
11 1 (0.88%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.88%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.88%) Salesforce