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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 433 465
Rank change year-on-year -100 +32 +121
Contract jobs citing Kibana 92 86 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.43% 1.83% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 65 103
10th Percentile £346 £393 £356
25th Percentile £402 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -0.49%
75th Percentile £573 £696 £574
90th Percentile £656 £712 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £516
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.69% +0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £35.75 - -
25th Percentile £43.63 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £78.70 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +31.17% -
75th Percentile £69.63 - £61.25
90th Percentile £75.25 - -
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 6,442 4,699 5,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.42% 16.18% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,435 3,183 3,800
10th Percentile £316 £313 £262
25th Percentile £413 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.76% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 50 136
10th Percentile £20.09 £17.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.30 £22.77 £19.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +107.74% -13.90% -46.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £70.75 £68.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -34.93%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -102 78 £500 -13.98% 23
UK excluding London -67 68 £500 -4.76% 16
West Midlands -35 32 £542 -1.55%
Midlands -50 32 £542 +0.84%
Work from Home -44 24 £420 -21.79% 14
South East -36 18 £420 -10.54% 4
London -90 13 £638 -6.32% 4
North of England -82 6 £500 +25.00% 8
Scotland +10 5 £569 +4.84%
North East -14 3 £400 -27.27% 7
East of England - 3 £300 -
Wales -11 2 £513 -
South West -27 2 - - 4
North West -49 2 £500 +27.23%
Yorkshire -57 1 - - 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 (5.43%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 2 (2.17%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.04%) AWS
2 14 (15.22%) Azure
3 11 (11.96%) GitHub
4 8 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (7.61%) Amazon S3
5 7 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (7.61%) GCP
5 7 (7.61%) Serverless
6 6 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.17%) Datadog
10 2 (2.17%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (2.17%) Slack
10 2 (2.17%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.04%) Network Security
2 5 (5.43%) DNS
2 5 (5.43%) HTTP
3 2 (2.17%) Firewall
4 1 (1.09%) DSL
4 1 (1.09%) LAN
4 1 (1.09%) NAS
4 1 (1.09%) SAN
4 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.09%) VPN
4 1 (1.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (46.74%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.26%) Big Data
3 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.17%) MySQL
4 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.17%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.17%) Power BI
4 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (17.39%) GitLab
2 12 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.70%) Git
3 8 (8.70%) JUnit
3 8 (8.70%) Maven
3 8 (8.70%) Mockito
4 7 (7.61%) Selenium
5 5 (5.43%) Cucumber
5 5 (5.43%) Postman
6 4 (4.35%) Gatling
6 4 (4.35%) JIRA
6 4 (4.35%) Terragrunt
7 3 (3.26%) JMeter
7 3 (3.26%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.17%) Android Studio
8 2 (2.17%) Appium
8 2 (2.17%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.17%) Sourcetree
8 2 (2.17%) Xcode
General
1 40 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.87%) Finance
5 6 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.26%) Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.09%) Billing
7 1 (1.09%) Front Office
7 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) SIEM Engineer
2 17 (18.48%) Senior
3 15 (16.30%) Developer
4 13 (14.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 12 (13.04%) Splunk Engineer
6 11 (11.96%) Site Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Architect
7 6 (6.52%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.52%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Lead
8 4 (4.35%) Scala Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Cloud Specialist
9 3 (3.26%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Elasticsearch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (45.65%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (10.87%) Spring
2 10 (10.87%) Spring Boot
3 9 (9.78%) JSON
4 8 (8.70%) JPA
5 7 (7.61%) Playwright
6 6 (6.52%) Kafka
6 6 (6.52%) OAuth
6 6 (6.52%) OAuth2
6 6 (6.52%) React
7 5 (5.43%) Gherkin
7 5 (5.43%) GraalVM
7 5 (5.43%) HTML
7 5 (5.43%) JDBC
7 5 (5.43%) OpenID
8 4 (4.35%) Akka
9 3 (3.26%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (3.26%) pytest
9 3 (3.26%) REST
9 3 (3.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.96%) Cyber Security Posture
3 10 (10.87%) Management Information System
4 8 (8.70%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.17%) Replication
8 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.09%) CUDA
8 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.91%) Linux
2 11 (11.96%) Unix
3 6 (6.52%) Windows
4 3 (3.26%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.26%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.17%) Android
5 2 (2.17%) Debian
6 1 (1.09%) CentOS
6 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (33.70%) CI/CD
3 26 (28.26%) Observability
3 26 (28.26%) SIEM
3 26 (28.26%) Visualisation
4 25 (27.17%) DevOps
4 25 (27.17%) Incident Response
5 23 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 23 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (22.83%) Data Ingestion
7 20 (21.74%) Agile
7 20 (21.74%) Threat Detection
8 18 (19.57%) Migration
8 18 (19.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 15 (16.30%) Dashboard Development
9 15 (16.30%) Data Modelling
10 14 (15.22%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (13.04%) Analytical Thinking
11 12 (13.04%) Computer Science
11 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (41.30%) Python
2 19 (20.65%) Bash
2 19 (20.65%) PowerShell
3 15 (16.30%) Java
4 12 (13.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 9 (9.78%) SQL
6 5 (5.43%) Scala
7 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.35%) Ruby
7 4 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.13%) CEH
3 13 (14.13%) CISSP
3 13 (14.13%) Degree
3 13 (14.13%) GIAC
4 12 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) QA
2 5 (5.43%) WCAG
3 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.09%) NIST
5 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (32.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 31 (33.70%) Ansible
3 28 (30.43%) logstash
4 25 (27.17%) Grafana
5 20 (21.74%) Terraform
6 11 (11.96%) Puppet
7 10 (10.87%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.26%) Karpenter
9 2 (2.17%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.09%) Consul
10 1 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.09%) Nagios
10 1 (1.09%) Podman
10 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (18.48%) Splunk
2 12 (13.04%) FireEye
2 12 (13.04%) Tanium
3 6 (6.52%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.43%) New Relic
5 4 (4.35%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.35%) Oracle
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.26%) PagerDuty
6 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.17%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.09%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.09%) Cisco
8 1 (1.09%) EMC
8 1 (1.09%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.09%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.09%) Reuters
8 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.09%) VMware