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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 463 444
Rank change year-on-year -84 -19 +77
Contract jobs citing Kibana 124 89 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.03% 1.89% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 62 86
10th Percentile £387 £319 £459
25th Percentile £463 £400 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £606
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -17.53% +22.47%
75th Percentile £600 £657 £666
90th Percentile £625 £695 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £435 £624
% change year-on-year +23.56% -30.23% +24.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62.03 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £63.56 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £69.75 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% - -
75th Percentile £73.56 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £73.68 £77.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.38% - -

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 6,095 4,718 4,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.10% 14.29% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,040 3,048 2,983
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £680 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £493
% change year-on-year +4.44% -2.89% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 95 57
10th Percentile £18.25 £14.05 £20.61
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £25.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.92% -33.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £74.00 £62.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.20 £67.15 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £38.00
% change year-on-year +195.16% -43.71% -21.02%

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 7 October 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
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 7 October 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 -89 105 £560 +17.15% 72
London -57 62 £560 +6.46% 42
Work from Home -35 50 £550 +30.95% 29
UK excluding London -113 40 £538 +23.56% 34
West Midlands -48 19 £590 -1.67% 9
Midlands -48 19 £590 +54.70% 9
North of England -65 8 £425 +14.16% 6
North East -33 7 £425 +6.25% 3
South East -62 7 £525 +5.00% 6
Scotland -26 4 £450 -21.05% 3
Wales -12 1 £525 -12.50%
North West -42 1 £630 +78.47% 3
South West -49 1 - - 7

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 22 (17.74%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (9.68%) nginx
3 9 (7.26%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.23%) Apache
5 2 (1.61%) CMS
5 2 (1.61%) Confluence
5 2 (1.61%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.81%) SAS
6 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (82.26%) AWS
2 16 (12.90%) Amazon S3
3 14 (11.29%) Azure
4 13 (10.48%) GitHub
5 12 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (8.06%) Amazon EMR
7 8 (6.45%) OpenShift
8 7 (5.65%) GCP
8 7 (5.65%) Serverless
9 6 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.03%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (3.23%) Sentry
12 3 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.81%) Figma
13 1 (0.81%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) VPN
2 5 (4.03%) OpenVPN
3 4 (3.23%) HTTP
4 2 (1.61%) Network Security
5 1 (0.81%) DSL
5 1 (0.81%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (28.23%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (17.74%) MongoDB
3 19 (15.32%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (10.48%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (8.06%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (6.45%) Big Data
8 7 (5.65%) Apache Hudi
8 7 (5.65%) Presto
9 5 (4.03%) Redis
10 3 (2.42%) MySQL
11 2 (1.61%) Metadata
11 2 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.81%) Flink
12 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.81%) Power BI
12 1 (0.81%) QlikView
12 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (41.94%) Jenkins
2 41 (33.06%) GitLab
3 18 (14.52%) JUnit
3 18 (14.52%) Mockito
4 16 (12.90%) Maven
5 10 (8.06%) JMeter
6 9 (7.26%) Gatling
7 7 (5.65%) Git
8 4 (3.23%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.42%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.42%) JIRA
9 3 (2.42%) LoadRunner
9 3 (2.42%) Selenium
10 2 (1.61%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.61%) Mocha
10 2 (1.61%) Sinon.JS
10 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.81%) Deequ
11 1 (0.81%) NeoLoad
General
1 28 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.84%) Local Government
5 5 (4.03%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.23%) Finance
6 4 (3.23%) Law
6 4 (3.23%) Police
7 3 (2.42%) Banking
7 3 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Publishing
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (23.39%) Senior
2 26 (20.97%) Developer
3 20 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (15.32%) Scala Engineer
5 14 (11.29%) Data Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) Java Developer
6 13 (10.48%) Lead
7 12 (9.68%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Performance Test Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Test Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Performance Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Senior Performance Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (4.03%) AWS Developer
12 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (4.03%) Python Engineer
13 4 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
13 4 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (29.03%) Spring
2 35 (28.23%) Terraform
3 28 (22.58%) Spring Boot
4 23 (18.55%) REST
5 21 (16.94%) Play Framework
6 17 (13.71%) HTML
7 16 (12.90%) Kafka
7 16 (12.90%) OpenAPI
8 15 (12.10%) .NET
8 15 (12.10%) JPA
8 15 (12.10%) React
8 15 (12.10%) RESTful
9 12 (9.68%) CSS
10 11 (8.87%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (6.45%) OAuth
11 8 (6.45%) OAuth2
11 8 (6.45%) Playwright
12 6 (4.84%) .NET Framework
12 6 (4.84%) Entity Framework
12 6 (4.84%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.32%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.87%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.84%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.84%) PKI
5 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.42%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.81%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) PMI
7 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.81%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.81%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (33.06%) Linux
2 16 (12.90%) Windows
3 12 (9.68%) Unix
4 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.61%) CentOS
6 1 (0.81%) Solaris
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (50.00%) Agile
1 62 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 43 (34.68%) DevOps
3 35 (28.23%) Containerisation
3 35 (28.23%) Observability
4 33 (26.61%) Microservices
4 33 (26.61%) Test Automation
5 32 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (20.97%) Scrum
7 25 (20.16%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (14.52%) Software Engineering
9 17 (13.71%) Mentoring
9 17 (13.71%) MVC
10 16 (12.90%) Clean Code
11 15 (12.10%) Data Protection
11 15 (12.10%) Front End Development
12 14 (11.29%) AI
12 14 (11.29%) Analytics
12 14 (11.29%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.32%) Java
2 43 (34.68%) SQL
3 42 (33.87%) Python
4 28 (22.58%) JavaScript
5 23 (18.55%) Scala
6 17 (13.71%) Bash
7 14 (11.29%) C#
7 14 (11.29%) Shell Script
8 10 (8.06%) Groovy
9 9 (7.26%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.84%) PL/SQL
11 5 (4.03%) Ruby
12 2 (1.61%) Go
13 1 (0.81%) C
13 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (44.35%) Security Cleared
2 51 (41.13%) SC Cleared
3 27 (21.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.65%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.81%) Degree
6 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.23%) WCAG
3 2 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 60 (48.39%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (53.23%) Grafana
2 40 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 33 (26.61%) Prometheus
4 9 (7.26%) logstash
5 8 (6.45%) Ansible
6 3 (2.42%) Istio
7 2 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.61%) Argo
7 2 (1.61%) Nagios
7 2 (1.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 17 (13.71%) Splunk
2 11 (8.87%) Oracle
3 9 (7.26%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.84%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.42%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.42%) Google
5 3 (2.42%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.42%) Snow
5 3 (2.42%) VMware
6 2 (1.61%) Commvault
6 2 (1.61%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.61%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.81%) Databricks
7 1 (0.81%) IBM
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat