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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 464 495
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +138
Contract jobs citing Kibana 124 100 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.10% 1.97% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 70 85
10th Percentile £340 £459 £367
25th Percentile £400 £500 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £490
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +18.37% -14.78%
75th Percentile £613 £670 £588
90th Percentile £695 £726 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £55.60 - -
25th Percentile £59.50 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £74.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00

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 5,896 5,072 6,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.18% 14.67% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 3,229 4,324
10th Percentile £312 £313 £303
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £690 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.53% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 69 171
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.81 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.13 £22.50 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -41.53% +62.04%
75th Percentile £64.88 £50.00 £72.20
90th Percentile £80.80 £74.09 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.47% -44.78% +77.62%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 16 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 14 December 2025. 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 -19 101 £500 -20.00% 81
UK excluding London -23 79 £500 -9.09% 86
Midlands -9 38 £538 -15.35% 18
West Midlands -10 35 £542 -14.72% 13
London -8 33 £605 -3.20% 3
Work from Home +14 27 £415 -17.08% 40
South East +12 14 £429 -13.94% 19
Scotland +4 13 £570 +12.59% 6
South West -19 7 £600 -7.69% 15
North of England -41 7 £386 -22.75% 16
North West -18 4 £353 -0.84% 9
Wales -1 3 £600 - 3
East Midlands - 3 £360 - 4
North East -13 2 £400 -27.27% 1
Yorkshire -47 1 - - 6
East of England - 1 - - 10

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 4 (3.23%) JBoss
2 3 (2.42%) Apache
3 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.61%) FileNet
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.81%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.87%) AWS
2 28 (22.58%) Azure
3 11 (8.87%) GCP
3 11 (8.87%) Serverless
4 9 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (7.26%) GitHub
5 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.65%) Azure AKS
6 7 (5.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (5.65%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.65%) OpenShift
7 6 (4.84%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) Network Security
2 7 (5.65%) HTTP
3 5 (4.03%) DNS
4 2 (1.61%) Firewall
4 2 (1.61%) SSH
4 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.61%) VPN
5 1 (0.81%) DSL
5 1 (0.81%) MQTT
5 1 (0.81%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (60.48%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.65%) Big Data
3 5 (4.03%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.23%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.42%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.42%) Impala
5 3 (2.42%) MySQL
6 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.61%) Power BI
7 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.68%) Git
2 12 (9.68%) GitLab
3 7 (5.65%) Maven
4 6 (4.84%) JUnit
4 6 (4.84%) Mockito
4 6 (4.84%) Selenium
4 6 (4.84%) SonarQube
4 6 (4.84%) TeamCity
5 5 (4.03%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.03%) JIRA
6 4 (3.23%) LoadRunner
6 4 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.42%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (2.42%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (2.42%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.61%) Gatling
8 2 (1.61%) Postman
8 2 (1.61%) SoapUI
General
1 49 (39.52%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.94%) Finance
4 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.84%) Banking
6 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.23%) Law
7 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.81%) Billing
7 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (14.52%) SIEM Engineer
2 15 (12.10%) Developer
2 15 (12.10%) Senior
3 14 (11.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Splunk Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Site Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Security Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Architect
10 5 (4.03%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (54.84%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (12.10%) JSON
2 15 (12.10%) Spring Boot
3 14 (11.29%) React
3 14 (11.29%) REST
4 11 (8.87%) Spring
5 9 (7.26%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (6.45%) Next.js
6 8 (6.45%) XML
7 7 (5.65%) Express.js
7 7 (5.65%) HTML
7 7 (5.65%) JPA
7 7 (5.65%) Kafka
7 7 (5.65%) Node.js
7 7 (5.65%) Playwright
8 6 (4.84%) OAuth
8 6 (4.84%) OAuth2
8 6 (4.84%) Ultra Messaging
9 5 (4.03%) Gherkin
9 5 (4.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.06%) Management Information System
4 9 (7.26%) Cyber Security Posture
5 6 (4.84%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.84%) Replication
6 5 (4.03%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.42%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.61%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.81%) CUDA
10 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.81%) MISP
10 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.84%) Linux
2 12 (9.68%) Windows
3 10 (8.06%) Unix
4 5 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.81%) CentOS
7 1 (0.81%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.29%) DevOps
2 41 (33.06%) CI/CD
3 39 (31.45%) Observability
4 32 (25.81%) Data Ingestion
5 28 (22.58%) Migration
6 27 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (20.16%) Visualisation
8 24 (19.35%) Agile
8 24 (19.35%) Containerisation
9 23 (18.55%) Incident Response
10 19 (15.32%) SIEM
11 18 (14.52%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (14.52%) Data Modelling
12 17 (13.71%) Dashboard Development
12 17 (13.71%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (13.71%) High Availability
12 17 (13.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (12.10%) Microservices
13 15 (12.10%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 62 (50.00%) Python
2 33 (26.61%) PowerShell
3 25 (20.16%) Bash
4 20 (16.13%) SQL
5 15 (12.10%) Java
6 11 (8.87%) Bicep
7 10 (8.06%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (5.65%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.03%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.23%) Perl
11 3 (2.42%) Scala
12 2 (1.61%) PHP
12 2 (1.61%) Ruby
12 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.81%) Go
13 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 37 (29.84%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.68%) CEH
3 12 (9.68%) CISSP
4 11 (8.87%) GIAC
5 10 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (8.06%) Degree
6 7 (5.65%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.03%) WCAG
2 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.42%) QA
3 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.61%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (42.74%) Docker
2 10 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.61%) HDFS
4 1 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 62 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 50 (40.32%) logstash
3 31 (25.00%) Ansible
4 25 (20.16%) Terraform
5 21 (16.94%) Grafana
6 10 (8.06%) ITRS Geneos
6 10 (8.06%) Puppet
7 9 (7.26%) Prometheus
8 7 (5.65%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.61%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.81%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.81%) Graphite
11 1 (0.81%) Nagios
11 1 (0.81%) QRadar
11 1 (0.81%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 31 (25.00%) Splunk
2 15 (12.10%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.06%) FireEye
3 10 (8.06%) Solace
3 10 (8.06%) Tanium
4 9 (7.26%) New Relic
5 8 (6.45%) AppDynamics
5 8 (6.45%) Dynatrace
6 7 (5.65%) Oracle
7 6 (4.84%) TIBCO
8 4 (3.23%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.42%) Cloudera
9 3 (2.42%) PagerDuty
9 3 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.61%) Genesys
10 2 (1.61%) KANA
11 1 (0.81%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.81%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.81%) Salesforce