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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 470 443
Rank change year-on-year -93 -27 +66
Contract jobs citing Kibana 122 88 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.01% 1.84% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 62 88
10th Percentile £399 £319 £459
25th Percentile £463 £400 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £617
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -19.00% +24.70%
75th Percentile £600 £657 £675
90th Percentile £626 £695 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £435 £624
% change year-on-year +23.56% -30.23% +24.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62.03 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £63.56 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £69.75 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% - -
75th Percentile £73.56 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £73.68 £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 6,059 4,773 4,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.12% 14.39% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,023 3,088 3,027
10th Percentile £315 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £682 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £494
% change year-on-year +3.63% -2.33% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 95 57
10th Percentile £17.95 £14.05 £20.61
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £25.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +152.54% -33.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £73.38 £62.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.38 £67.15 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £38.00
% change year-on-year +195.16% -43.71% -21.02%

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 9 October 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 13 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 9 October 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 -84 104 £560 +17.15% 71
London -69 61 £560 +6.46% 46
Work from Home -33 48 £550 +30.95% 27
UK excluding London -101 40 £538 +23.56% 28
West Midlands -44 19 £590 -1.67% 5
Midlands -45 19 £590 +54.70% 5
North of England -61 8 £425 +14.16% 6
North East -34 7 £425 +6.25% 3
South East -58 7 £525 +5.00% 4
Scotland -29 4 £450 -21.05% 3
Wales -11 1 £525 -12.50%
South West -37 1 - - 7
North West -53 1 £630 +78.47% 3

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 22 (18.03%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (9.84%) nginx
3 9 (7.38%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.46%) Apache
5 2 (1.64%) Confluence
5 2 (1.64%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.82%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.82%) CMS
6 1 (0.82%) SAS
6 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 100 (81.97%) AWS
2 16 (13.11%) Amazon S3
3 13 (10.66%) Azure
3 13 (10.66%) GitHub
4 12 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (8.20%) Amazon EMR
6 8 (6.56%) OpenShift
7 7 (5.74%) Serverless
8 6 (4.92%) GCP
8 6 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.10%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.28%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (3.28%) Sentry
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.92%) VPN
2 5 (4.10%) OpenVPN
3 4 (3.28%) HTTP
4 2 (1.64%) Network Security
5 1 (0.82%) DSL
5 1 (0.82%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (27.87%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (18.03%) MongoDB
3 18 (14.75%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (10.66%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (8.20%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (6.56%) Big Data
8 7 (5.74%) Apache Hudi
8 7 (5.74%) Presto
9 5 (4.10%) Redis
10 3 (2.46%) MySQL
11 2 (1.64%) Metadata
11 2 (1.64%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.82%) Power BI
12 1 (0.82%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 51 (41.80%) Jenkins
2 41 (33.61%) GitLab
3 18 (14.75%) JUnit
3 18 (14.75%) Mockito
4 16 (13.11%) Maven
5 10 (8.20%) JMeter
6 9 (7.38%) Gatling
7 6 (4.92%) Git
8 4 (3.28%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.46%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.46%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.46%) JIRA
9 3 (2.46%) LoadRunner
9 3 (2.46%) Selenium
10 2 (1.64%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.64%) Mocha
10 2 (1.64%) Sinon.JS
10 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.82%) Deequ
11 1 (0.82%) NeoLoad
General
1 28 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.67%) Public Sector
3 23 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.92%) Local Government
6 4 (3.28%) Finance
6 4 (3.28%) Law
6 4 (3.28%) Police
6 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.46%) Banking
7 3 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Publishing
9 1 (0.82%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (23.77%) Senior
2 25 (20.49%) Developer
3 20 (16.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (15.57%) Scala Engineer
5 13 (10.66%) Data Engineer
5 13 (10.66%) Lead
6 12 (9.84%) Java Developer
6 12 (9.84%) Java Engineer
7 10 (8.20%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.56%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Performance Test Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Test Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Performance Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Senior Performance Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.10%) Python Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) AWS Developer
12 4 (3.28%) Python Software Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (28.69%) Spring
2 34 (27.87%) Terraform
3 28 (22.95%) Spring Boot
4 23 (18.85%) REST
5 21 (17.21%) Play Framework
6 17 (13.93%) HTML
7 16 (13.11%) OpenAPI
8 15 (12.30%) .NET
8 15 (12.30%) JPA
8 15 (12.30%) React
9 14 (11.48%) Kafka
9 14 (11.48%) RESTful
10 12 (9.84%) CSS
11 10 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (6.56%) OAuth
12 8 (6.56%) OAuth2
12 8 (6.56%) Playwright
13 6 (4.92%) .NET Framework
13 6 (4.92%) Entity Framework
13 6 (4.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.74%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.92%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.92%) PKI
5 5 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.46%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.82%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.82%) PMI
8 1 (0.82%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.82%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.82%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (31.97%) Linux
2 16 (13.11%) Windows
3 11 (9.02%) Unix
4 3 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.64%) CentOS
6 1 (0.82%) Solaris
6 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (50.82%) Agile
2 61 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 43 (35.25%) DevOps
4 35 (28.69%) Containerisation
5 34 (27.87%) Observability
6 32 (26.23%) Microservices
6 32 (26.23%) Test Automation
7 31 (25.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (21.31%) Scrum
9 25 (20.49%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (14.75%) Software Engineering
11 17 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (13.93%) Mentoring
11 17 (13.93%) MVC
12 16 (13.11%) Clean Code
13 15 (12.30%) Data Protection
13 15 (12.30%) Front End Development
14 14 (11.48%) AI
14 14 (11.48%) API Design
14 14 (11.48%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.16%) Java
2 43 (35.25%) SQL
3 41 (33.61%) Python
4 28 (22.95%) JavaScript
5 23 (18.85%) Scala
6 16 (13.11%) Bash
7 14 (11.48%) C#
8 13 (10.66%) Shell Script
9 10 (8.20%) Groovy
10 9 (7.38%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.92%) PL/SQL
12 5 (4.10%) Ruby
13 2 (1.64%) Go
14 1 (0.82%) C
14 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (45.08%) Security Cleared
2 51 (41.80%) SC Cleared
3 27 (22.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.74%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.82%) Degree
6 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.28%) WCAG
3 2 (1.64%) QA
4 1 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (47.54%) Docker
2 4 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (52.46%) Grafana
2 38 (31.15%) Kubernetes
3 31 (25.41%) Prometheus
4 9 (7.38%) logstash
5 7 (5.74%) Ansible
6 3 (2.46%) Istio
7 2 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.64%) Argo
7 2 (1.64%) Nagios
7 2 (1.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 17 (13.93%) Splunk
2 11 (9.02%) Oracle
3 9 (7.38%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.92%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.46%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.46%) Google
5 3 (2.46%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.46%) Snow
5 3 (2.46%) VMware
6 2 (1.64%) Commvault
6 2 (1.64%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.64%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.82%) Databricks
7 1 (0.82%) IBM
7 1 (0.82%) Red Hat