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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 469 446
Rank change year-on-year -122 -23 +87
Contract jobs citing Kibana 87 88 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.45% 1.94% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 66 90
10th Percentile £400 £311 £458
25th Percentile £450 £395 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £657 £650
90th Percentile £634 £695 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £455 £622
% change year-on-year +15.38% -26.85% +25.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £38.38 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £50.19 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% - -
75th Percentile £73.19 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £73.53 £77.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.38% - -

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 5,989 4,526 4,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.01% 13.94% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,971 2,931 3,099
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 84 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.99
25th Percentile £30.69 £18.87 £24.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.25 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +130.09% -26.14% -30.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.40 £60.63
90th Percentile £89.39 £70.93 £74.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £24.70 £38.50
% change year-on-year +163.21% -35.86% -16.63%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -128 72 £560 +14.87% 83
London -77 46 £560 +1.82% 42
Work from Home -44 34 £475 +3.26% 46
UK excluding London -129 27 £525 +15.38% 46
Midlands -49 13 £575 +6.98% 8
West Midlands -52 13 £575 -4.17% 7
Scotland -22 4 £450 -17.81% 4
North East -35 4 £363 -9.38% 5
South East -65 4 £588 +17.50% 8
North of England -75 4 £363 +1.26% 10
Wales -13 1 £525 -12.50%
South West -55 1 - - 11

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 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.45%) Apache
3 2 (2.30%) CMS
3 2 (2.30%) Confluence
3 2 (2.30%) nginx
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Superset
4 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 62 (71.26%) AWS
2 16 (18.39%) Amazon S3
3 13 (14.94%) GitHub
4 12 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (11.49%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (10.34%) Azure
7 8 (9.20%) Amazon EMR
7 8 (9.20%) OpenShift
8 7 (8.05%) Serverless
9 6 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (5.75%) GCP
11 4 (4.60%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (4.60%) Sentry
12 3 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (1.15%) Figma
13 1 (1.15%) Miro
13 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
13 1 (1.15%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) Network Security
2 1 (1.15%) DSL
2 1 (1.15%) Firewall
2 1 (1.15%) HTTP
2 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (29.89%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (24.14%) MongoDB
3 16 (18.39%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 8 (9.20%) Big Data
6 7 (8.05%) Presto
7 5 (5.75%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (4.60%) MySQL
8 4 (4.60%) Redis
9 2 (2.30%) Metadata
10 1 (1.15%) Flink
10 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.15%) Power BI
10 1 (1.15%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (29.89%) Jenkins
2 18 (20.69%) GitLab
3 12 (13.79%) JUnit
3 12 (13.79%) Mockito
4 10 (11.49%) Maven
5 7 (8.05%) JMeter
6 6 (6.90%) Gatling
6 6 (6.90%) Git
7 4 (4.60%) CircleCI
8 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.45%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.45%) JIRA
8 3 (3.45%) Selenium
9 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.30%) Mocha
9 2 (2.30%) Sinon.JS
9 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.15%) Deequ
10 1 (1.15%) NeoLoad
General
1 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 16 (18.39%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.45%) Finance
5 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.30%) Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Law
6 2 (2.30%) Local Government
6 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Police
7 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Developer
2 17 (19.54%) Senior
3 14 (16.09%) Lead
4 11 (12.64%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.49%) Data Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Scala Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Java Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Performance Test Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Performance Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Performance Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.60%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Scala Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (34.48%) Spring
2 25 (28.74%) Terraform
3 23 (26.44%) Spring Boot
4 18 (20.69%) HTML
5 14 (16.09%) Kafka
6 13 (14.94%) RESTful
7 12 (13.79%) CSS
7 12 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (13.79%) Play Framework
8 10 (11.49%) OpenAPI
9 9 (10.34%) JPA
9 9 (10.34%) REST
10 8 (9.20%) .NET
10 8 (9.20%) OAuth
10 8 (9.20%) OAuth2
10 8 (9.20%) Playwright
10 8 (9.20%) React
11 6 (6.90%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (5.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.90%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.90%) PKI
4 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.15%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.15%) PMI
7 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.15%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.48%) Linux
2 11 (12.64%) Unix
3 5 (5.75%) Windows
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.30%) Debian
5 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.15%) CentOS
6 1 (1.15%) Solaris
6 1 (1.15%) VMS
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.83%) CI/CD
2 34 (39.08%) Agile
3 27 (31.03%) DevOps
4 24 (27.59%) Microservices
5 22 (25.29%) Observability
6 20 (22.99%) Scrum
7 17 (19.54%) Containerisation
7 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (18.39%) Test Automation
9 15 (17.24%) Software Engineering
10 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
11 13 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (13.79%) Front End Development
13 11 (12.64%) Code Quality
13 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
14 10 (11.49%) Event-Driven
14 10 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.57%) Java
2 32 (36.78%) Python
3 24 (27.59%) SQL
4 21 (24.14%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.94%) Scala
6 12 (13.79%) Bash
7 10 (11.49%) Shell Script
8 9 (10.34%) TypeScript
9 7 (8.05%) C#
9 7 (8.05%) Ruby
10 6 (6.90%) PL/SQL
11 4 (4.60%) Go
12 1 (1.15%) C
12 1 (1.15%) Groovy
12 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (36.78%) Security Cleared
2 29 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 19 (21.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.15%) Degree
6 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) WCAG
3 2 (2.30%) QA
4 1 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (37.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (55.17%) Grafana
2 32 (36.78%) Kubernetes
3 31 (35.63%) Prometheus
4 10 (11.49%) logstash
5 8 (9.20%) Ansible
6 2 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.30%) Istio
6 2 (2.30%) Nagios
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Splunk
2 10 (11.49%) Oracle
3 5 (5.75%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.45%) VMware
5 2 (2.30%) Commvault
5 2 (2.30%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.30%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.15%) Databricks
6 1 (1.15%) Google
6 1 (1.15%) IBM
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat