Kibana Contracts

Elastic Kibana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Kibana skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kibana over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 444 553
Rank change year-on-year -23 +109 +43
Contract jobs citing Kibana 81 142 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.62% 2.61% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 112 100
10th Percentile £339 £450 £450
25th Percentile £400 £479 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £497
Median % change year-on-year - +5.58% -13.52%
75th Percentile £668 £645 £550
90th Percentile £713 £700 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £550 £496
% change year-on-year -26.91% +10.89% -5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £58.14 - -
25th Percentile £65.85 - -
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £90.00
75th Percentile £79.35 - -
90th Percentile £79.74 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.35 - -

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 4,999 5,441 8,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 12.56% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,316 3,864 6,189
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 102 187
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.30 £19.60
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.25 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £84.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.50% -13.38% +130.90%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kibana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kibana.

Daily rate trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kibana.

Hourly rate trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kibana over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 13 Contract 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 6 July 2025. 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 +6 74 £519 -3.08% 149
UK excluding London -1 39 £402 -26.91% 59
London +32 36 £645 +29.00% 91
Work from Home +9 19 £537 +6.13% 72
North of England +8 17 £393 -36.97% 15
North West +20 14 £382 -19.03% 12
Midlands +1 10 £537 -2.36% 6
West Midlands -1 8 £550 - 3
South East +25 6 £500 +2.25% 13
South West +20 4 £575 -12.88% 17
Yorkshire -1 3 £400 -36.00% 1
East Midlands -2 2 £506 +42.13% 3
Scotland -2 2 £525 +3.35% 3

Kibana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (19.75%) Apache
1 16 (19.75%) JBoss
2 6 (7.41%) nginx
3 4 (4.94%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.94%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.70%) Confluence
5 1 (1.23%) DataSynapse
Cloud Services
1 46 (56.79%) AWS
2 20 (24.69%) OpenShift
3 15 (18.52%) Azure
4 8 (9.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (9.88%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (8.64%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.64%) Serverless
6 5 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (6.17%) GCP
7 4 (4.94%) AWS KMS
7 4 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.70%) Route 53
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.23%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (1.23%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 1 (1.23%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.23%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) DNS
2 2 (2.47%) SSH
3 1 (1.23%) DSL
3 1 (1.23%) MQTT
3 1 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (62.96%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (20.99%) Relational Database
3 15 (18.52%) RDBMS
4 10 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (11.11%) MongoDB
6 7 (8.64%) Big Data
6 7 (8.64%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.94%) MySQL
8 3 (3.70%) Flink
8 3 (3.70%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.23%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 42 (51.85%) Jenkins
2 20 (24.69%) Git
3 17 (20.99%) SonarQube
3 17 (20.99%) Sonatype Nexus
4 16 (19.75%) JIRA
5 14 (17.28%) TeamCity
6 13 (16.05%) Bitbucket Server
6 13 (16.05%) CA Release Automation
7 7 (8.64%) JMeter
8 5 (6.17%) Bitbucket
8 5 (6.17%) JUnit
9 4 (4.94%) GitLab
9 4 (4.94%) Postman
9 4 (4.94%) REST Assured
10 3 (3.70%) Gradle
10 3 (3.70%) Maven
10 3 (3.70%) Selenium
10 3 (3.70%) TestNG
10 3 (3.70%) Travis CI
11 2 (2.47%) LoadRunner
General
1 20 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.35%) Finance
3 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.17%) Banking
4 4 (4.94%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.70%) Law
5 3 (3.70%) Legal
5 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.23%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Developer
2 15 (18.52%) Senior
3 12 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Architect
6 6 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Tester
8 4 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Grid Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.70%) DevOps Specialist
9 3 (3.70%) Lead
9 3 (3.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (44.44%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (25.93%) Spring Boot
3 11 (13.58%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (12.35%) HTML
5 8 (9.88%) .NET
5 8 (9.88%) Kafka
5 8 (9.88%) OAuth
5 8 (9.88%) Spring
6 5 (6.17%) Apache Camel
6 5 (6.17%) RESTful
7 4 (4.94%) ASP.NET
7 4 (4.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (4.94%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.94%) JWT
7 4 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.70%) CSS
8 3 (3.70%) Hibernate
8 3 (3.70%) REST
8 3 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (9.88%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.41%) Private Cloud
4 5 (6.17%) Fixed Income
4 5 (6.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (6.17%) Grid Computing
4 5 (6.17%) Public Cloud
4 5 (6.17%) Replication
5 3 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.70%) PKI
6 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) Social Media
6 2 (2.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.23%) Equities
7 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.23%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 36 (44.44%) Linux
2 21 (25.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 21 (25.93%) Windows
3 8 (9.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.70%) CentOS
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.23%) Debian
7 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (54.32%) CI/CD
1 44 (54.32%) DevOps
2 25 (30.86%) Analytics
3 23 (28.40%) Microservices
4 17 (20.99%) Code Quality
4 17 (20.99%) Observability
5 15 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
5 15 (18.52%) Migration
6 14 (17.28%) Agile
6 14 (17.28%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (16.05%) Build Automation
7 13 (16.05%) Visualisation
8 12 (14.81%) High Availability
9 11 (13.58%) Containerisation
9 11 (13.58%) Data Ingestion
9 11 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (12.35%) API Integration
10 10 (12.35%) Machine Learning
10 10 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 45 (55.56%) Python
2 25 (30.86%) Java
3 14 (17.28%) Perl
3 14 (17.28%) SQL
4 11 (13.58%) C#
4 11 (13.58%) PowerShell
5 8 (9.88%) Bash
6 7 (8.64%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.17%) C++
7 5 (6.17%) Go
8 4 (4.94%) Scala
9 3 (3.70%) Ruby
10 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.23%) Bicep
11 1 (1.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) CEH
4 3 (3.70%) CISSP
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.70%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.23%) OCP
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) Data Quality
1 5 (6.17%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 41 (50.62%) Docker
2 18 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.94%) Platform Symphony
4 3 (3.70%) vCloud
4 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.70%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (59.26%) Kubernetes
2 22 (27.16%) logstash
3 18 (22.22%) Grafana
3 18 (22.22%) Terraform
4 14 (17.28%) Progress Chef
5 10 (12.35%) Prometheus
6 9 (11.11%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (7.41%) Ansible
8 2 (2.47%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.47%) Packer
8 2 (2.47%) Perfmon
8 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.23%) Graphite
9 1 (1.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (23.46%) Splunk
2 18 (22.22%) AppDynamics
3 15 (18.52%) Red Hat
4 12 (14.81%) Microsoft
5 9 (11.11%) Cloudera
6 5 (6.17%) IBM
6 5 (6.17%) TIBCO
7 4 (4.94%) Solace
8 3 (3.70%) VMware
9 2 (2.47%) Dynatrace