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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 476 442
Rank change year-on-year -128 -34 +93
Contract jobs citing Kibana 71 79 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.24% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.00% 1.54% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 61 100
10th Percentile £355 £311 £443
25th Percentile £425 £393 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.19% +9.95%
75th Percentile £583 £625 £645
90th Percentile £653 £695 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £401 £600
% change year-on-year +12.22% -33.17% +21.21%
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 7,110 5,124 5,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.27% 15.61% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,831 3,372 3,639
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -1.30% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 81 76
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.25
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.25 £24.09
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -36.21%
75th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.70 £74.22
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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -130 60 £540 +7.95% 34
London -72 38 £560 -7.25% 19
Work from Home -61 22 £450 -12.11% 16
UK excluding London -100 22 £450 +12.22% 17
South East -70 7 £525 +5.00% 5
Midlands -47 6 £575 +21.05% 5
West Midlands -57 6 £575 - 3
North East -35 4 £363 -9.38%
North of England -85 4 £363 -2.68%
Scotland -14 3 £450 +552.17% 1
South West -47 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 (12.68%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (12.68%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) CMS
4 1 (1.41%) nginx
4 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (71.83%) AWS
2 16 (22.54%) Amazon S3
3 12 (16.90%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (16.90%) GitHub
4 10 (14.08%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (11.27%) Amazon EMR
5 8 (11.27%) OpenShift
6 7 (9.86%) Serverless
7 6 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.04%) Azure
9 4 (5.63%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (5.63%) GCP
9 4 (5.63%) Sentry
10 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.41%) Datadog
12 1 (1.41%) Figma
12 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) HTTP
2 1 (1.41%) DSL
2 1 (1.41%) Firewall
2 1 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (29.58%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (25.35%) MongoDB
3 16 (22.54%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (12.68%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (12.68%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (11.27%) Big Data
5 8 (11.27%) NoSQL
6 7 (9.86%) Presto
7 5 (7.04%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (5.63%) MySQL
9 2 (2.82%) Metadata
10 1 (1.41%) Flink
10 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.41%) Power BI
10 1 (1.41%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (1.41%) Redis
10 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (33.80%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.08%) JMeter
3 9 (12.68%) Gatling
4 8 (11.27%) GitLab
5 5 (7.04%) JUnit
5 5 (7.04%) Mockito
6 4 (5.63%) CircleCI
7 3 (4.23%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.23%) LoadRunner
7 3 (4.23%) Maven
8 2 (2.82%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.41%) Deequ
9 1 (1.41%) Git
9 1 (1.41%) JIRA
9 1 (1.41%) NeoLoad
General
1 18 (25.35%) Public Sector
2 16 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.82%) Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Finance
6 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Local Government
7 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (25.35%) Senior
2 16 (22.54%) Developer
3 13 (18.31%) Lead
4 9 (12.68%) Data Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Scala Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Performance Test Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Test Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Performance Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Technical Leader
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Manager
10 3 (4.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.99%) Spring
2 16 (22.54%) Spring Boot
3 14 (19.72%) HTML
4 13 (18.31%) RESTful
5 12 (16.90%) Kafka
6 11 (15.49%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (15.49%) Play Framework
7 10 (14.08%) CSS
8 6 (8.45%) .NET
8 6 (8.45%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (8.45%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (8.45%) REST
9 5 (7.04%) OAuth
9 5 (7.04%) OAuth2
9 5 (7.04%) Playwright
9 5 (7.04%) React
10 4 (5.63%) Apache Camel
10 4 (5.63%) Django
10 4 (5.63%) FastAPI
10 4 (5.63%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.86%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.45%) AI Agents
3 6 (8.45%) PKI
4 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.82%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.41%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.41%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.41%) Replication
6 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.41%) Video on Demand
6 1 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (36.62%) Linux
2 11 (15.49%) Unix
3 3 (4.23%) Windows
4 2 (2.82%) Debian
4 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.41%) Solaris
5 1 (1.41%) VMS
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.70%) CI/CD
2 25 (35.21%) Agile
3 21 (29.58%) DevOps
4 18 (25.35%) Observability
5 17 (23.94%) Microservices
6 15 (21.13%) Containerisation
6 15 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (19.72%) Test Automation
8 12 (16.90%) Software Engineering
9 11 (15.49%) Mentoring
9 11 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (14.08%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (14.08%) Scrum
11 9 (12.68%) Code Quality
11 9 (12.68%) Event-Driven
12 8 (11.27%) AI
12 8 (11.27%) Functional Programming
12 8 (11.27%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) Java
2 26 (36.62%) Python
3 19 (26.76%) SQL
4 17 (23.94%) JavaScript
5 12 (16.90%) Scala
6 10 (14.08%) Bash
7 9 (12.68%) TypeScript
8 7 (9.86%) Ruby
8 7 (9.86%) Shell Script
9 6 (8.45%) C#
9 6 (8.45%) PL/SQL
10 3 (4.23%) Go
11 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.99%) SC Cleared
3 14 (19.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.82%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) WCAG
4 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (40.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (60.56%) Grafana
2 26 (36.62%) Kubernetes
2 26 (36.62%) Prometheus
3 23 (32.39%) Terraform
4 9 (12.68%) logstash
5 7 (9.86%) Ansible
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.41%) Consul
7 1 (1.41%) Istio
7 1 (1.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (21.13%) Splunk
2 8 (11.27%) Oracle
3 5 (7.04%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.23%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.82%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.82%) PagerDuty
5 2 (2.82%) VMware
6 1 (1.41%) Commvault
6 1 (1.41%) Databricks
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) Red Hat