Kibana Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Kibana skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kibana over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Elasticsearch Kibana UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	436	551	600
Rank change year-on-year	+115	+49
Contract jobs citing Kibana	166	93	46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.36%	0.17%	0.082%
As % of the Systems Management category	3.31%	1.52%	0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	98	74	34
Median daily rate	£520	£463	£465
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+12.43%	-0.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£413	£368	£343
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£605	£527	£584
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£450	£400
% change year-on-year	+5.55%	+12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	1	0
Median hourly rate	£47.00	£47.25	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-0.52%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	-

Kibana is in the systems management skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Systems Management Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills	5008	6105	4800
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	10.83%	11.35%	8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	3283	3927	2955
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£285	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£588	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£400	£377
% change year-on-year	+12.50%	+5.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted	114	138	163
Median hourly rate	£21.00	£32.50	£20.19
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-35.38%	+61.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£17.45	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£46.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£35.00	£20.19
% change year-on-year	-50.00%	+73.39%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Kibana as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Systems Management category.

Kibana
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Kibana.

Contractor daily rate trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Kibana over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 30 Contract 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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+122	163	£520	+12.43%	32
London	+55	110	£550	+18.91%	16
South East	+46	20	£438	-2.72%	5
Croydon	+9	15	£525	+9.37%
City of London	+9	14	£625	+40.84%	5
Surrey	+10	11	£413	-17.50%	2
East Midlands	-	9	£488	-	1
South West	-	7	£365	-	2
West Midlands	+25	6	£494	+12.30%	2
West Sussex	-	6	£488	-	1
Northamptonshire	-	6	£475	-
Yorkshire	+24	5	£513	+28.12%
Worthing	-	5	£488	-
Sheffield	-	5	£513	-
Northampton	-	5	£475	-
South Yorkshire	-	5	£513	-
Devon	-	4	-	-	2
Shropshire	+14	3	£488	+10.96%
East of England	-6	3	£550	+8.64%	1
North West	+21	2	£650	+38.29%	4
Manchester	+12	2	£650	+38.29%	3
Cardiff	-	2	£513	-
Midlands	-	2	-	-	3
Bristol	-	2	£345	-
South Wales	-	2	£513	-
Birmingham	-	2	£513	-
Wales	-	2	£513	-
Essex	-	2	£550	-
Berkshire	+23	1	£451	+16.25%
Reading	+15	1	£451	+16.25%

Kibana
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Kibana also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Kibana.

1	178 (64.49%)	Elastic Stack
2	175 (63.41%)	Linux
3	174 (63.04%)	logstash
4	172 (62.32%)	Elasticsearch
5	158 (57.25%)	DevOps
6	130 (47.10%)	Agile Software Development
7	128 (46.38%)	Java
8	126 (45.65%)	Python
8	126 (45.65%)	Docker
9	116 (42.03%)	Amazon AWS
10	113 (40.94%)	Git (software)
11	99 (35.87%)	Ansible
12	98 (35.51%)	Jenkins
12	98 (35.51%)	Puppet
13	95 (34.42%)	Ruby

14	85 (30.80%)	Continuous Integration
15	80 (28.99%)	Grafana
16	75 (27.17%)	MongoDB
17	74 (26.81%)	Windows
18	72 (26.09%)	Microservices
19	71 (25.72%)	Configuration Management
20	70 (25.36%)	NoSQL
21	67 (24.28%)	Kubernetes
22	64 (23.19%)	JavaScript
23	63 (22.83%)	Open Source
24	62 (22.46%)	nginx
25	61 (22.10%)	Scrum
26	60 (21.74%)	Unix
27	59 (21.38%)	Apache
27	59 (21.38%)	Bash Shell

Kibana
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	172 (62.32%)	Elasticsearch
2	62 (22.46%)	nginx
3	59 (21.38%)	Apache
4	57 (20.65%)	Tomcat
5	25 (9.06%)	Confluence
6	17 (6.16%)	Apache Spark
7	16 (5.80%)	JBoss
8	11 (3.99%)	OpenStack
9	10 (3.62%)	Apache Solr
10	9 (3.26%)	WebLogic
10	9 (3.26%)	WebSphere
11	6 (2.17%)	Apache Pig
11	6 (2.17%)	Mule
12	4 (1.45%)	Adobe Experience Manager
13	3 (1.09%)	CMS
13	3 (1.09%)	Jetty
14	2 (0.72%)	Documentum
14	2 (0.72%)	Drupal
14	2 (0.72%)	Mule ESB
14	2 (0.72%)	WildFly

Applications
1	2 (0.72%)	HipChat

Business Applications
1	3 (1.09%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.36%)	Sage CRM

Cloud Services
1	116 (42.03%)	Amazon AWS
2	38 (13.77%)	Microsoft Azure
3	34 (12.32%)	GitHub
4	30 (10.87%)	Amazon EC2
5	28 (10.14%)	Amazon S3
6	22 (7.97%)	Amazon ELB
6	22 (7.97%)	Virtual Private Cloud
7	21 (7.61%)	Amazon CloudWatch
8	20 (7.25%)	Google Analytics
9	16 (5.80%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	13 (4.71%)	Cloud Computing
11	10 (3.62%)	OpenShift
11	10 (3.62%)	Quay.io
12	9 (3.26%)	AWS Lambda
13	7 (2.54%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14	6 (2.17%)	Amazon ElastiCache
15	5 (1.81%)	OpenDNS
16	4 (1.45%)	PaaS
17	3 (1.09%)	Google Cloud Platform
17	3 (1.09%)	Route 53

Communications & Networking
1	58 (21.01%)	TCP/IP
2	57 (20.65%)	HTTP
3	45 (16.30%)	SSL
4	37 (13.41%)	DNS
5	28 (10.14%)	Firewall
6	14 (5.07%)	OpenLDAP
6	14 (5.07%)	SSH
7	13 (4.71%)	LAN
7	13 (4.71%)	Network Security
7	13 (4.71%)	WAN
8	11 (3.99%)	OpenVPN
8	11 (3.99%)	VPN
9	9 (3.26%)	Internet
9	9 (3.26%)	SNMP
9	9 (3.26%)	VoIP
10	8 (2.90%)	Multicast
11	7 (2.54%)	LDAP
12	5 (1.81%)	HTTPS
13	4 (1.45%)	Intrusion Detection
13	4 (1.45%)	Kerberos

Database & Business Intelligence
1	75 (27.17%)	MongoDB
2	70 (25.36%)	NoSQL
3	47 (17.03%)	PostgreSQL
4	24 (8.70%)	Big Data
5	23 (8.33%)	Hadoop
5	23 (8.33%)	MySQL
6	22 (7.97%)	Amazon RDS
7	20 (7.25%)	Redis
8	18 (6.52%)	Apache Cassandra
9	12 (4.35%)	Apache Hive
9	12 (4.35%)	HBase
10	8 (2.90%)	Amazon DynamoDB
11	7 (2.54%)	DataStax
11	7 (2.54%)	Impala
12	6 (2.17%)	SQL Server
12	6 (2.17%)	Sqoop
13	5 (1.81%)	InfluxDB
13	5 (1.81%)	Maltego
14	4 (1.45%)	Flink
15	3 (1.09%)	RethinkDB

Development Applications
1	113 (40.94%)	Git (software)
2	98 (35.51%)	Jenkins
3	38 (13.77%)	Cucumber
4	35 (12.68%)	JUnit
5	31 (11.23%)	Ant
5	31 (11.23%)	Artifactory
6	30 (10.87%)	Sonatype Nexus
7	26 (9.42%)	JIRA
8	25 (9.06%)	Selenium
9	20 (7.25%)	Gatling
10	19 (6.88%)	Bitbucket
10	19 (6.88%)	Grunt
11	18 (6.52%)	gulp
11	18 (6.52%)	IntelliJ
11	18 (6.52%)	Karma Test Runner
11	18 (6.52%)	Sublime Text
12	17 (6.16%)	GitLab
13	16 (5.80%)	Maven
14	13 (4.71%)	SonarQube
15	12 (4.35%)	Mockito

General
1	32 (11.59%)	Finance
2	22 (7.97%)	Banking
3	6 (2.17%)	Games
3	6 (2.17%)	Telecoms
4	4 (1.45%)	Legal
5	3 (1.09%)	Electronics
5	3 (1.09%)	Manufacturing
5	3 (1.09%)	Marketing
6	2 (0.72%)	Billing
6	2 (0.72%)	Multimedia
7	1 (0.36%)	Investment Banking
7	1 (0.36%)	Retail

Job Titles
1	84 (30.43%)	DevOps Engineer
2	78 (28.26%)	Developer
3	28 (10.14%)	AWS Engineer
4	24 (8.70%)	Scala Developer
5	23 (8.33%)	AWS DevOps
5	23 (8.33%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
6	22 (7.97%)	Linux Engineer
7	21 (7.61%)	Senior Developer
8	18 (6.52%)	Software Engineer
9	16 (5.80%)	Java Developer
10	15 (5.43%)	Analyst
10	15 (5.43%)	Architect
10	15 (5.43%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
10	15 (5.43%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
11	14 (5.07%)	WebOps Engineer
12	13 (4.71%)	.NET Developer
13	12 (4.35%)	C# .NET Developer
13	12 (4.35%)	C# Developer
14	11 (3.99%)	Consultant
14	11 (3.99%)	Senior Software Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	178 (64.49%)	Elastic Stack
2	52 (18.84%)	Node.js
3	40 (14.49%)	Kafka
4	38 (13.77%)	AngularJS
4	38 (13.77%)	Web Services
5	33 (11.96%)	REST
6	28 (10.14%)	RESTful
7	24 (8.70%)	jQuery
7	24 (8.70%)	Servlets
8	23 (8.33%)	.NET
9	22 (7.97%)	HTML
9	22 (7.97%)	RabbitMQ
10	20 (7.25%)	CSS
10	20 (7.25%)	LAPP Stack
10	20 (7.25%)	Sensu
11	19 (6.88%)	HTML5
11	19 (6.88%)	Spring
12	18 (6.52%)	Gherkin
13	16 (5.80%)	LEMP Stack
14	15 (5.43%)	SOAP

Miscellaneous
1	18 (6.52%)	Linux Command Line
2	15 (5.43%)	Cyber Attack
3	11 (3.99%)	Analytical Skills
4	9 (3.26%)	Cloud Native
4	9 (3.26%)	User Experience
5	8 (2.90%)	Cyberthreat
6	7 (2.54%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
7	5 (1.81%)	Computer Science
7	5 (1.81%)	Private Cloud
8	4 (1.45%)	Data Centre
8	4 (1.45%)	Management Information System
9	3 (1.09%)	Public Cloud
10	2 (0.72%)	Digital TV
10	2 (0.72%)	Fintech
10	2 (0.72%)	Greenfield Project
11	1 (0.36%)	Data Structures
11	1 (0.36%)	Fixed Income
11	1 (0.36%)	Grid Computing
11	1 (0.36%)	Hybrid Cloud
11	1 (0.36%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	175 (63.41%)	Linux
2	74 (26.81%)	Windows
3	60 (21.74%)	Unix
4	34 (12.32%)	CentOS
5	25 (9.06%)	Ubuntu
6	22 (7.97%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	14 (5.07%)	CoreOS
8	9 (3.26%)	Fedora
8	9 (3.26%)	Windows Server
9	8 (2.90%)	FreeBSD
10	7 (2.54%)	Solaris
11	6 (2.17%)	Amazon Linux
12	2 (0.72%)	Apple iOS
12	2 (0.72%)	Debian
12	2 (0.72%)	Windows Server 2008
13	1 (0.36%)	Mac OS X
13	1 (0.36%)	SUSE

Processes & Methodologies
1	158 (57.25%)	DevOps
2	130 (47.10%)	Agile Software Development
3	85 (30.80%)	Continuous Integration
4	72 (26.09%)	Microservices
5	71 (25.72%)	Configuration Management
6	63 (22.83%)	Open Source
7	61 (22.10%)	Scrum
8	46 (16.67%)	Test Automation
9	45 (16.30%)	Software Engineering
10	36 (13.04%)	Load Balancing
11	35 (12.68%)	TDD
12	32 (11.59%)	Analytics
13	28 (10.14%)	Pair Programming
14	26 (9.42%)	Continuous Delivery
15	23 (8.33%)	Kanban
16	22 (7.97%)	BDD
16	22 (7.97%)	Cybersecurity
16	22 (7.97%)	E-Commerce
17	21 (7.61%)	Visualisation
18	19 (6.88%)	MVC

Programming Languages
1	128 (46.38%)	Java
2	126 (45.65%)	Python
3	95 (34.42%)	Ruby
4	64 (23.19%)	JavaScript
5	59 (21.38%)	Bash Shell
6	53 (19.20%)	SQL
7	48 (17.39%)	Perl
8	43 (15.58%)	Scala
9	38 (13.77%)	Groovy
10	34 (12.32%)	C#
11	30 (10.87%)	Go
12	18 (6.52%)	Haskell
13	13 (4.71%)	PHP
14	11 (3.99%)	C
15	9 (3.26%)	C++
16	8 (2.90%)	Shell Script
16	8 (2.90%)	tcsh
17	5 (1.81%)	PowerShell
18	4 (1.45%)	Clojure
19	2 (0.72%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	58 (21.01%)	Security Cleared
2	51 (18.48%)	SC Cleared
3	16 (5.80%)	CISSP
4	13 (4.71%)	Degree
5	11 (3.99%)	DV Cleared
6	9 (3.26%)	SANS
6	9 (3.26%)	SSCP
7	7 (2.54%)	CISA
7	7 (2.54%)	CISM
8	2 (0.72%)	Computer Science Degree
8	2 (0.72%)	Master's Degree
9	1 (0.36%)	AWS Certification
9	1 (0.36%)	BPSS Clearance
9	1 (0.36%)	CCIE
9	1 (0.36%)	Cisco Certification
9	1 (0.36%)	CTC Cleared
9	1 (0.36%)	LPIC
9	1 (0.36%)	RHCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	6 (2.17%)	FedRAMP
1	6 (2.17%)	PCI DSS
1	6 (2.17%)	QA

System Software
1	126 (45.65%)	Docker
2	14 (5.07%)	Squid
2	14 (5.07%)	Virtual Machines
3	13 (4.71%)	Active Directory
3	13 (4.71%)	vCloud
4	11 (3.99%)	Apache Flume
4	11 (3.99%)	etcd
4	11 (3.99%)	flannel
4	11 (3.99%)	HDFS
4	11 (3.99%)	Postfix
5	10 (3.62%)	Apache ZooKeeper
6	8 (2.90%)	Samba
6	8 (2.90%)	Snort
7	7 (2.54%)	Ceph
7	7 (2.54%)	GlusterFS
7	7 (2.54%)	SkyDNS
7	7 (2.54%)	VMware Infrastructure
7	7 (2.54%)	vSphere
8	5 (1.81%)	LXC
9	3 (1.09%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	174 (63.04%)	logstash
2	99 (35.87%)	Ansible
3	98 (35.51%)	Puppet
4	80 (28.99%)	Grafana
5	67 (24.28%)	Kubernetes
6	34 (12.32%)	Prometheus
7	33 (11.96%)	Graphite
7	33 (11.96%)	Opscode Chef
7	33 (11.96%)	Terraform
8	32 (11.59%)	HAProxy
9	30 (10.87%)	Nagios
10	22 (7.97%)	ZABBIX
11	20 (7.25%)	Sysdig
12	17 (6.16%)	rkt
13	15 (5.43%)	Rsyslog
14	12 (4.35%)	Docker Swarm
15	11 (3.99%)	Host Intrusion Detection System
15	11 (3.99%)	Network Intrusion Detection System
15	11 (3.99%)	Rancher
16	10 (3.62%)	QRadar

Vendors
1	44 (15.94%)	Splunk
2	33 (11.96%)	VMware
3	31 (11.23%)	Red Hat
4	23 (8.33%)	Google
5	22 (7.97%)	AppDynamics
6	16 (5.80%)	IBM
6	16 (5.80%)	Oracle
7	14 (5.07%)	Cloudera
8	12 (4.35%)	Adobe
9	11 (3.99%)	Sonatype
9	11 (3.99%)	TIBCO
10	10 (3.62%)	LogRhythm
10	10 (3.62%)	New Relic
11	9 (3.26%)	Apple
12	8 (2.90%)	webMethods
13	7 (2.54%)	Atlassian
14	6 (2.17%)	Tableau
15	5 (1.81%)	LANDesk
15	5 (1.81%)	SAP
15	5 (1.81%)	SolarWinds