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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 470 430
Rank change year-on-year -124 -40 +99
Contract jobs citing Kibana 76 80 134
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.24% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.30% 1.76% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 61 98
10th Percentile £361 £311 £449
25th Percentile £433 £393 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £463 £539
Median % change year-on-year +15.68% -14.15% +9.95%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £643
90th Percentile £644 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £402 £600
% change year-on-year +30.60% -33.00% +22.14%
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 5,863 4,558 4,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.93% 13.92% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 2,958 3,174
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -2.82% -6.36%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 80 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £28.13 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.45% -20.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.83 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.79% +37.50% -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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -120 65 £560 +19.47% 26
London -67 40 £560 +1.82% 12
Work from Home -51 26 £475 -5.00% 15
UK excluding London -112 25 £525 +30.60% 17
West Midlands -45 10 £593 -1.25% 2
Midlands -67 10 £593 +10.34% 4
South East -65 6 £525 +5.00% 5
North East -36 4 £363 -9.38% 2
North of England -72 4 £363 -2.68% 2
Scotland -13 3 £450 +552.17% 2
Wales -14 1 £525 -12.50%
South West -47 1 - - 3

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 3 (3.95%) Apache
3 2 (2.63%) CMS
3 2 (2.63%) nginx
4 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 55 (72.37%) AWS
2 16 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 12 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (15.79%) GitHub
4 10 (13.16%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (10.53%) Amazon EMR
5 8 (10.53%) OpenShift
6 7 (9.21%) Serverless
7 6 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.58%) Azure
9 4 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (5.26%) GCP
9 4 (5.26%) Sentry
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.32%) Datadog
11 1 (1.32%) Figma
11 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) HTTP
2 1 (1.32%) DSL
2 1 (1.32%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) Network Security
2 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.95%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (23.68%) MongoDB
3 15 (19.74%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (11.84%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (11.84%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (10.53%) Big Data
5 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 7 (9.21%) Presto
7 5 (6.58%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (5.26%) MySQL
9 2 (2.63%) Metadata
10 1 (1.32%) Flink
10 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.32%) Power BI
10 1 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (1.32%) Redis
10 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (32.89%) Jenkins
2 13 (17.11%) GitLab
3 9 (11.84%) JMeter
3 9 (11.84%) JUnit
3 9 (11.84%) Mockito
4 8 (10.53%) Gatling
5 7 (9.21%) Maven
6 4 (5.26%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.63%) Git
8 2 (2.63%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.32%) Deequ
9 1 (1.32%) JIRA
9 1 (1.32%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 18 (23.68%) Public Sector
2 16 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.63%) Banking
6 2 (2.63%) Finance
6 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.63%) Local Government
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (22.37%) Developer
1 17 (22.37%) Senior
2 13 (17.11%) Lead
3 10 (13.16%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Data Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Scala Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Performance Test Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Test Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Java Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Performance Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.95%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (34.21%) Spring
2 24 (31.58%) Terraform
3 20 (26.32%) Spring Boot
4 14 (18.42%) HTML
5 13 (17.11%) RESTful
6 12 (15.79%) Kafka
7 11 (14.47%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (14.47%) Play Framework
8 10 (13.16%) CSS
9 8 (10.53%) OpenAPI
10 7 (9.21%) .NET
11 6 (7.89%) JPA
11 6 (7.89%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (7.89%) OAuth
11 6 (7.89%) OAuth2
11 6 (7.89%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (7.89%) Playwright
11 6 (7.89%) React
11 6 (7.89%) REST
12 4 (5.26%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.89%) AI Agents
2 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.89%) PKI
3 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.32%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.32%) Replication
5 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (35.53%) Linux
2 11 (14.47%) Unix
3 4 (5.26%) Windows
4 2 (2.63%) Debian
4 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.32%) Solaris
5 1 (1.32%) VMS
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 28 (36.84%) Agile
3 23 (30.26%) DevOps
4 19 (25.00%) Observability
5 18 (23.68%) Microservices
6 16 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 16 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (19.74%) Test Automation
8 14 (18.42%) Scrum
9 12 (15.79%) Mentoring
9 12 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 11 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (11.84%) Code Quality
12 9 (11.84%) Event-Driven
13 8 (10.53%) Front End Development
13 8 (10.53%) Functional Programming
13 8 (10.53%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 39 (51.32%) Java
2 27 (35.53%) Python
3 22 (28.95%) SQL
4 18 (23.68%) JavaScript
5 12 (15.79%) Scala
6 10 (13.16%) Bash
6 10 (13.16%) Shell Script
7 9 (11.84%) TypeScript
8 7 (9.21%) C#
8 7 (9.21%) Ruby
9 6 (7.89%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.95%) Go
11 1 (1.32%) Groovy
11 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (35.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 16 (21.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.63%) QA
3 2 (2.63%) WCAG
4 1 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (39.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (56.58%) Grafana
2 27 (35.53%) Kubernetes
2 27 (35.53%) Prometheus
3 9 (11.84%) logstash
4 7 (9.21%) Ansible
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.32%) Consul
6 1 (1.32%) Istio
6 1 (1.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Splunk
2 8 (10.53%) Oracle
3 5 (6.58%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.58%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.63%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.63%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.63%) PagerDuty
4 2 (2.63%) VMware
5 1 (1.32%) Commvault
5 1 (1.32%) Databricks
5 1 (1.32%) IBM
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat