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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 442 462
Rank change year-on-year -86 +20 +96
Contract jobs citing Kibana 90 81 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.39% 1.76% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 64 107
10th Percentile £354 £392 £383
25th Percentile £421 £402 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £537 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +5.29% +2.00%
75th Percentile £581 £697 £589
90th Percentile £651 £712 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £38.38 - -
25th Percentile £50.19 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.75 £78.70 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +31.17% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.50 - £61.25
90th Percentile £77.20 - -
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 6,467 4,603 5,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.67% 15.69% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,452 3,148 3,670
10th Percentile £325 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.57% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 51 127
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £34.61 £19.05 £17.77
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.61% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £76.95 £70.00 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £38.50
% change year-on-year +117.05% -34.18% -9.41%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -96 77 £525 -4.55% 23
UK excluding London -88 54 £500 -4.76% 14
Work from Home -35 28 £465 -11.43% 11
West Midlands -42 26 £550 - 2
Midlands -52 26 £550 +2.42% 3
London -77 23 £581 -17.00% 7
South East -45 14 £420 -10.54% 6
North of England -73 6 £500 +25.00%
North East -20 3 £400 -27.27%
Scotland 0 2 £701 +29.22%
South West -34 2 - - 5
North West -47 2 £500 +27.23%
Wales - 2 £513 -
East of England - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire -51 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 9 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.56%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
3 3 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.11%) CMS
4 1 (1.11%) nginx
4 1 (1.11%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 40 (44.44%) AWS
2 14 (15.56%) Azure
3 12 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 12 (13.33%) GitHub
4 11 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (11.11%) GCP
6 8 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (8.89%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (6.67%) Serverless
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.33%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (3.33%) Datadog
10 3 (3.33%) Sentry
11 2 (2.22%) Sauce Labs
11 2 (2.22%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.00%) Network Security
2 5 (5.56%) DNS
2 5 (5.56%) HTTP
3 2 (2.22%) Firewall
4 1 (1.11%) DSL
4 1 (1.11%) LAN
4 1 (1.11%) NAS
4 1 (1.11%) SAN
4 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.11%) VPN
4 1 (1.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (45.56%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (12.22%) MongoDB
2 11 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (8.89%) Big Data
5 7 (7.78%) Presto
6 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (5.56%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (3.33%) MySQL
7 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.11%) Flink
8 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.11%) Metadata
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.11%) Power BI
8 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (21.11%) Jenkins
2 11 (12.22%) GitLab
3 4 (4.44%) CircleCI
3 4 (4.44%) Gatling
3 4 (4.44%) Postman
3 4 (4.44%) Terragrunt
4 3 (3.33%) Git
4 3 (3.33%) JIRA
4 3 (3.33%) JMeter
4 3 (3.33%) JUnit
4 3 (3.33%) LoadRunner
4 3 (3.33%) Maven
4 3 (3.33%) Mockito
5 2 (2.22%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.22%) Appium
5 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.22%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.22%) Selenium
5 2 (2.22%) Sourcetree
5 2 (2.22%) Xcode
General
1 33 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (32.22%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.67%) Finance
6 3 (3.33%) Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Local Government
7 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.11%) Front Office
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 11 (12.22%) Developer
3 10 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 10 (11.11%) Senior
3 10 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Lead
4 9 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Splunk Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Scala Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Architect
6 6 (6.67%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Scala Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Security Specialist
9 3 (3.33%) Performance Tester
9 3 (3.33%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (44.44%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (12.22%) HTML
2 11 (12.22%) Spring
3 10 (11.11%) Kafka
3 10 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 9 (10.00%) Play Framework
5 8 (8.89%) CSS
6 7 (7.78%) RESTful
7 4 (4.44%) Akka
7 4 (4.44%) JSON
8 3 (3.33%) Apache Camel
8 3 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (3.33%) JPA
8 3 (3.33%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.33%) pytest
8 3 (3.33%) REST
8 3 (3.33%) WireMock
9 2 (2.22%) FastAPI
9 2 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.89%) Cyber Security Posture
2 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.78%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.44%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.33%) Replication
7 2 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (32.22%) Linux
2 16 (17.78%) Unix
3 5 (5.56%) Windows
4 3 (3.33%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.22%) Android
5 2 (2.22%) Debian
5 2 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.11%) Solaris
6 1 (1.11%) VMS
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.78%) CI/CD
2 27 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (27.78%) Agile
4 24 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 24 (26.67%) Observability
4 24 (26.67%) SIEM
5 23 (25.56%) DevOps
6 21 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (21.11%) Visualisation
8 18 (20.00%) Incident Response
9 17 (18.89%) Threat Detection
10 16 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
11 15 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (15.56%) Test Automation
13 12 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
14 11 (12.22%) Data Modelling
14 11 (12.22%) Data Visualisation
14 11 (12.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.67%) Python
2 26 (28.89%) Java
3 19 (21.11%) SQL
4 16 (17.78%) Bash
5 14 (15.56%) PowerShell
6 13 (14.44%) JavaScript
6 13 (14.44%) Scala
7 9 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (6.67%) Ruby
8 6 (6.67%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.22%) Go
9 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 22 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.22%) Degree
4 10 (11.11%) CEH
4 10 (11.11%) CISSP
4 10 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (11.11%) GIAC
5 9 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (42.22%) Kubernetes
2 32 (35.56%) Grafana
3 27 (30.00%) Terraform
4 26 (28.89%) logstash
5 24 (26.67%) Ansible
6 15 (16.67%) Prometheus
7 9 (10.00%) Puppet
8 3 (3.33%) Karpenter
9 2 (2.22%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.11%) Consul
10 1 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.11%) Nagios
10 1 (1.11%) Podman
10 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (21.11%) Splunk
2 9 (10.00%) FireEye
2 9 (10.00%) Tanium
3 5 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.56%) Oracle
4 4 (4.44%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.33%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.22%) New Relic
6 2 (2.22%) VMware
7 1 (1.11%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco
7 1 (1.11%) EMC
7 1 (1.11%) IBM
7 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.11%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.11%) Reuters