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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 435 450
Rank change year-on-year -102 +15 +106
Contract jobs citing Kibana 94 84 141
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.46% 1.80% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 64 111
10th Percentile £363 £392 £356
25th Percentile £420 £402 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +5.34% -0.24%
75th Percentile £569 £697 £589
90th Percentile £640 £712 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% - +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £38.38 - -
25th Percentile £50.19 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.75 £78.70 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +31.17% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.50 - £61.25
90th Percentile £77.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.38% +31.17% -

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 6,426 4,665 5,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.83% 15.79% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,422 3,212 3,696
10th Percentile £325 £313 £254
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -9.65%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 51 129
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.31 £20.65 £17.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £69.38 £51.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £70.00 £70.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £30.00
% change year-on-year +117.05% -15.53% -31.43%

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 24 April 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 24 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 15 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 24 April 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 -93 78 £500 -9.09% 23
UK excluding London -70 57 £485 -7.62% 14
Work from Home -24 30 £430 -18.10% 10
West Midlands -39 26 £550 - 2
Midlands -41 26 £550 +2.42% 3
London -81 21 £569 -17.60% 9
South East -42 17 £425 -9.58% 5
North of England -81 5 £500 +25.00% 1
Scotland +9 3 £561 +3.32%
Wales -11 2 £513 -
North East -17 2 - - 1
South West -35 2 - - 5
North West -46 2 £500 +27.23%
East of England - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire -54 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 (9.57%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (9.57%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.32%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.19%) Apache
3 3 (3.19%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) CMS
4 1 (1.06%) nginx
4 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.62%) AWS
2 16 (17.02%) Azure
3 13 (13.83%) Amazon S3
4 12 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (10.64%) GCP
5 10 (10.64%) GitHub
6 9 (9.57%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (8.51%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (7.45%) Serverless
9 6 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.19%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (3.19%) Datadog
13 2 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (2.13%) Sauce Labs
13 2 (2.13%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.77%) Network Security
2 5 (5.32%) DNS
2 5 (5.32%) HTTP
3 2 (2.13%) Firewall
4 1 (1.06%) DSL
4 1 (1.06%) LAN
4 1 (1.06%) NAS
4 1 (1.06%) SAN
4 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.06%) VPN
4 1 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (44.68%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.64%) MongoDB
4 9 (9.57%) Big Data
4 9 (9.57%) NoSQL
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (7.45%) Presto
7 5 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.32%) Apache Hudi
8 3 (3.19%) MySQL
8 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.13%) Power BI
10 1 (1.06%) Flink
10 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.06%) Metadata
10 1 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (20.21%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.70%) GitLab
3 4 (4.26%) Gatling
3 4 (4.26%) Postman
3 4 (4.26%) Terragrunt
4 3 (3.19%) Git
4 3 (3.19%) JIRA
4 3 (3.19%) JMeter
4 3 (3.19%) JUnit
4 3 (3.19%) LoadRunner
4 3 (3.19%) Maven
4 3 (3.19%) Mockito
5 2 (2.13%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.13%) Appium
5 2 (2.13%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.13%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.13%) Selenium
5 2 (2.13%) Sourcetree
5 2 (2.13%) Xcode
General
1 36 (38.30%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (32.98%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.83%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.51%) Finance
5 6 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.19%) Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Local Government
7 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.06%) Front Office
8 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (22.34%) SIEM Engineer
2 11 (11.70%) Developer
3 10 (10.64%) Data Engineer
3 10 (10.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 9 (9.57%) Senior
4 9 (9.57%) Site Engineer
4 9 (9.57%) Splunk Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Lead
5 8 (8.51%) Scala Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Architect
6 6 (6.38%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Security Specialist
8 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Tester
9 3 (3.19%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (43.62%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (11.70%) HTML
3 10 (10.64%) Kafka
4 9 (9.57%) Spring
5 8 (8.51%) CSS
5 8 (8.51%) Play Framework
5 8 (8.51%) Spring Boot
6 7 (7.45%) RESTful
7 4 (4.26%) JSON
8 3 (3.19%) Akka
8 3 (3.19%) Apache Camel
8 3 (3.19%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (3.19%) JPA
8 3 (3.19%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.19%) pytest
8 3 (3.19%) REST
8 3 (3.19%) WireMock
9 2 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.13%) Playwright
9 2 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.70%) Cyber Security Posture
3 8 (8.51%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.45%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.38%) Cloud Native
6 5 (5.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (4.26%) Security Posture
8 3 (3.19%) Replication
9 2 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.06%) Reference Data
10 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (32.98%) Linux
2 16 (17.02%) Unix
3 7 (7.45%) Windows
4 3 (3.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.13%) Android
5 2 (2.13%) Debian
5 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.06%) Solaris
6 1 (1.06%) VMS
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.11%) CI/CD
2 29 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (28.72%) SIEM
4 24 (25.53%) Containerisation
4 24 (25.53%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (24.47%) DevOps
5 23 (24.47%) Observability
6 22 (23.40%) Agile
7 20 (21.28%) Incident Response
7 20 (21.28%) Threat Detection
7 20 (21.28%) Visualisation
8 16 (17.02%) Data Ingestion
8 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (15.96%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (14.89%) Test Automation
11 13 (13.83%) Dashboard Development
12 12 (12.77%) Analytical Thinking
13 11 (11.70%) Data Modelling
13 11 (11.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.94%) Python
2 24 (25.53%) Java
3 19 (20.21%) PowerShell
4 18 (19.15%) Bash
5 17 (18.09%) SQL
6 12 (12.77%) Kusto Query Language
6 12 (12.77%) Scala
7 11 (11.70%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.38%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.26%) Ruby
10 2 (2.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.83%) CEH
3 13 (13.83%) CISSP
3 13 (13.83%) GIAC
4 11 (11.70%) Degree
5 10 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (9.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) Data Quality
1 6 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) NIST
3 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (38.30%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (40.43%) Kubernetes
2 30 (31.91%) Grafana
3 29 (30.85%) Terraform
4 27 (28.72%) logstash
5 26 (27.66%) Ansible
6 13 (13.83%) Prometheus
7 9 (9.57%) Puppet
8 3 (3.19%) Karpenter
9 2 (2.13%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.06%) Consul
10 1 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.06%) Nagios
10 1 (1.06%) Podman
10 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (20.21%) Splunk
2 12 (12.77%) FireEye
2 12 (12.77%) Tanium
3 5 (5.32%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.26%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.26%) New Relic
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.19%) Oracle
5 3 (3.19%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.13%) VMware
7 1 (1.06%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco
7 1 (1.06%) EMC
7 1 (1.06%) IBM
7 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.06%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.06%) Reuters