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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 458 471
Rank change year-on-year -29 +13 +129
Contract jobs citing Kibana 113 90 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.79% 1.88% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 68 93
10th Percentile £363 £400 £359
25th Percentile £420 £476 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -0.97%
75th Percentile £591 £703 £600
90th Percentile £700 £728 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £544 £519
% change year-on-year -3.49% +4.82% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £64.25
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00

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 6,321 4,787 5,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 15.63% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,382 3,119 3,865
10th Percentile £313 £313 £262
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 54 151
10th Percentile £18.38 £16.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -21.57%
75th Percentile £65.25 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £73.11 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +125.00% -48.03% +0.16%

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 27 February 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 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 27 February 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 -57 94 £500 -16.67% 20
UK excluding London -36 84 £525 -3.49% 13
West Midlands -10 43 £542 +185.00% 2
Midlands -16 43 £542 +48.97% 3
Work from Home -20 26 £420 -16.00% 13
London -63 19 £635 -6.65% 5
South East -17 16 £429 -20.11%
Scotland +17 10 £600 +20.00% 1
North of England -76 6 £500 -2.44% 2
South West -26 5 £640 -11.42% 7
Wales -3 3 £525 -
North East -18 3 £400 -27.27% 1
East of England - 3 £300 -
North West -33 2 £500 +27.88% 1
Yorkshire -70 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 5 (4.42%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.65%) Confluence
3 2 (1.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (35.40%) AWS
2 19 (16.81%) Azure
3 12 (10.62%) GitHub
4 9 (7.96%) GCP
5 8 (7.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (6.19%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.19%) Serverless
7 6 (5.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.65%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.65%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.62%) Network Security
2 5 (4.42%) DNS
3 3 (2.65%) HTTP
4 2 (1.77%) Firewall
4 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.88%) DSL
5 1 (0.88%) LAN
5 1 (0.88%) NAS
5 1 (0.88%) SAN
5 1 (0.88%) VPN
5 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (54.87%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (5.31%) Big Data
3 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.65%) MySQL
5 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.65%) Power BI
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.77%) Tableau
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.88%) Impala
Development Applications
1 17 (15.04%) GitLab
2 15 (13.27%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.08%) Git
3 8 (7.08%) JUnit
3 8 (7.08%) Maven
3 8 (7.08%) Mockito
4 7 (6.19%) Selenium
5 5 (4.42%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.42%) Postman
6 4 (3.54%) JIRA
6 4 (3.54%) Terragrunt
7 3 (2.65%) Gatling
8 2 (1.77%) Android Studio
8 2 (1.77%) Appium
8 2 (1.77%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.77%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.77%) Sourcetree
8 2 (1.77%) Xcode
9 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
General
1 51 (45.13%) Social Skills
2 32 (28.32%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.50%) Finance
3 13 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.65%) Banking
5 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Law
7 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.88%) Billing
7 1 (0.88%) Front Office
7 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (19.47%) SIEM Engineer
2 18 (15.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 18 (15.93%) Splunk Engineer
3 17 (15.04%) Developer
4 16 (14.16%) Senior
5 14 (12.39%) Site Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Java Developer
6 7 (6.19%) Security Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Architect
8 5 (4.42%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Lead
9 4 (3.54%) AWS Architect
9 4 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.54%) Cloud Specialist
9 4 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Scala Developer
9 4 (3.54%) Support Engineer
10 3 (2.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (53.10%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (10.62%) JSON
2 12 (10.62%) Spring
2 12 (10.62%) Spring Boot
3 9 (7.96%) React
4 8 (7.08%) JPA
4 8 (7.08%) Playwright
5 6 (5.31%) HTML
5 6 (5.31%) OAuth
5 6 (5.31%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.31%) REST
6 5 (4.42%) Gherkin
6 5 (4.42%) GraalVM
6 5 (4.42%) JDBC
6 5 (4.42%) OpenID
6 5 (4.42%) XML
7 4 (3.54%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (3.54%) Next.js
7 4 (3.54%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (3.54%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.39%) Management Information System
3 11 (9.73%) Cyber Security Posture
4 10 (8.85%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (3.54%) Replication
7 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.65%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.88%) CUDA
9 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (27.43%) Linux
2 15 (13.27%) Unix
3 6 (5.31%) Windows
4 3 (2.65%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.77%) Android
6 1 (0.88%) CentOS
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.74%) Observability
1 37 (32.74%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (30.09%) CI/CD
2 34 (30.09%) DevOps
3 32 (28.32%) Data Ingestion
3 32 (28.32%) Visualisation
4 30 (26.55%) Containerisation
4 30 (26.55%) Incident Response
5 28 (24.78%) Migration
6 27 (23.89%) SIEM
7 24 (21.24%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (19.47%) Data Modelling
8 22 (19.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (18.58%) Agile
10 20 (17.70%) Dashboard Development
10 20 (17.70%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (17.70%) Threat Detection
11 16 (14.16%) Computer Science
11 16 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (13.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 48 (42.48%) Python
2 26 (23.01%) Bash
3 23 (20.35%) PowerShell
4 17 (15.04%) Java
5 14 (12.39%) SQL
6 12 (10.62%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (5.31%) Bicep
8 4 (3.54%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.54%) Scala
8 4 (3.54%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.77%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (30.09%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 17 (15.04%) Degree
4 16 (14.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (11.50%) CEH
5 13 (11.50%) CISSP
5 13 (11.50%) GIAC
6 4 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) WCAG
3 4 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) NIST
5 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (36.28%) Docker
2 4 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (52.21%) Kubernetes
2 40 (35.40%) logstash
3 36 (31.86%) Ansible
4 22 (19.47%) Grafana
4 22 (19.47%) Terraform
5 15 (13.27%) Puppet
6 8 (7.08%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.54%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (2.65%) Karpenter
9 2 (1.77%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.88%) Nagios
10 1 (0.88%) Podman
10 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (23.89%) Splunk
2 12 (10.62%) FireEye
2 12 (10.62%) Tanium
3 7 (6.19%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.42%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.42%) New Relic
4 5 (4.42%) Oracle
5 4 (3.54%) PagerDuty
5 4 (3.54%) Solace
5 4 (3.54%) TIBCO
6 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.77%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco
8 1 (0.88%) EMC
8 1 (0.88%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.88%) Reuters
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) VMware