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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 467 434
Rank change year-on-year -123 -33 +109
Contract jobs citing Kibana 70 88 134
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.99% 1.71% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 65 100
10th Percentile £346 £308 £443
25th Percentile £428 £367 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -7.41% +9.09%
75th Percentile £586 £625 £645
90th Percentile £658 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £397 £600
% change year-on-year +13.49% -33.92% +20.18%
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 7,063 5,143 5,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.24% 15.62% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,783 3,391 3,654
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £425 £408 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £625
90th Percentile £699 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £491 £500
% change year-on-year +1.83% -1.80% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 80 73
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.50
25th Percentile £28.13 £19.91 £24.18
Median hourly rate £63.14 £34.39 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +83.61% -4.92% -35.71%
75th Percentile £70.36 £63.49 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.55 £78.83 £74.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.79% +19.10% -

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -116 59 £551 +10.25% 27
London -80 38 £560 -7.25% 18
Work from Home -51 21 £475 -9.44% 20
UK excluding London -125 21 £450 +13.49% 11
West Midlands -46 6 £575 +4.55% 2
Midlands -61 6 £575 +31.02% 3
South East -62 6 £419 -16.25% 2
North East -39 4 £363 -9.38% 1
North of England -70 4 £363 -1.96% 1
Scotland -10 3 £450 +552.17% 2
South West -42 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 £525 -

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 (12.86%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (12.86%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.29%) Apache
3 2 (2.86%) CMS
4 1 (1.43%) nginx
4 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 50 (71.43%) AWS
2 16 (22.86%) Amazon S3
3 12 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (17.14%) GitHub
4 10 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (11.43%) Amazon EMR
5 8 (11.43%) OpenShift
6 7 (10.00%) Serverless
7 6 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.71%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (5.71%) Azure
8 4 (5.71%) GCP
8 4 (5.71%) Sentry
9 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.43%) Datadog
11 1 (1.43%) Figma
11 1 (1.43%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) HTTP
2 1 (1.43%) DSL
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (24.29%) MongoDB
3 16 (22.86%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (12.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (12.86%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (11.43%) Big Data
5 8 (11.43%) NoSQL
6 7 (10.00%) Presto
7 5 (7.14%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (5.71%) MySQL
9 2 (2.86%) Metadata
9 2 (2.86%) Power BI
10 1 (1.43%) Flink
10 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (1.43%) Redis
10 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (31.43%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.29%) JMeter
3 9 (12.86%) Gatling
4 7 (10.00%) GitLab
5 5 (7.14%) JUnit
5 5 (7.14%) Mockito
6 4 (5.71%) CircleCI
7 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.29%) LoadRunner
7 3 (4.29%) Maven
8 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.43%) Deequ
9 1 (1.43%) Git
9 1 (1.43%) JIRA
9 1 (1.43%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.43%) Postman
General
1 18 (25.71%) Public Sector
2 16 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.86%) Finance
6 2 (2.86%) Local Government
7 1 (1.43%) Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Front Office
7 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (27.14%) Senior
2 16 (22.86%) Developer
3 13 (18.57%) Lead
4 9 (12.86%) Data Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Scala Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Performance Test Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Test Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Performance Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Technical Leader
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Tester
10 3 (4.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (31.43%) Spring
2 16 (22.86%) Spring Boot
3 14 (20.00%) HTML
4 13 (18.57%) RESTful
5 12 (17.14%) Kafka
6 11 (15.71%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (15.71%) Play Framework
7 10 (14.29%) CSS
8 6 (8.57%) .NET
8 6 (8.57%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (8.57%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (8.57%) REST
9 5 (7.14%) OAuth
9 5 (7.14%) OAuth2
9 5 (7.14%) Playwright
9 5 (7.14%) React
10 4 (5.71%) Apache Camel
10 4 (5.71%) Django
10 4 (5.71%) FastAPI
10 4 (5.71%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.57%) AI Agents
3 6 (8.57%) PKI
4 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.43%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.43%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.43%) Replication
6 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.43%) Video on Demand
6 1 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 25 (35.71%) Linux
2 11 (15.71%) Unix
3 2 (2.86%) Debian
3 2 (2.86%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.86%) Windows
4 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.43%) Solaris
4 1 (1.43%) VMS
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (35.71%) Agile
3 20 (28.57%) DevOps
4 17 (24.29%) Microservices
4 17 (24.29%) Observability
5 15 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 15 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
8 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 10 (14.29%) Scrum
10 9 (12.86%) Code Quality
10 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (12.86%) Event-Driven
11 8 (11.43%) AI
11 8 (11.43%) Functional Programming
11 8 (11.43%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) Java
2 25 (35.71%) Python
3 19 (27.14%) SQL
4 16 (22.86%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.14%) Scala
6 9 (12.86%) Bash
6 9 (12.86%) TypeScript
7 7 (10.00%) Ruby
8 6 (8.57%) C#
8 6 (8.57%) Shell Script
9 5 (7.14%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.86%) Go
11 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.86%) Degree
4 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.86%) QA
3 2 (2.86%) WCAG
4 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (62.86%) Grafana
2 25 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 25 (35.71%) Prometheus
3 23 (32.86%) Terraform
4 8 (11.43%) logstash
5 6 (8.57%) Ansible
6 1 (1.43%) Consul
6 1 (1.43%) Istio
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Splunk
2 7 (10.00%) Oracle
3 5 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.29%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.86%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.43%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.43%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.43%) Databricks
7 1 (1.43%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.43%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.43%) Reuters
7 1 (1.43%) VMware