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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 466 435
Rank change year-on-year -137 -31 +95
Contract jobs citing Kibana 67 85 137
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.26% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.96% 1.64% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 62 102
10th Percentile £333 £340 £448
25th Percentile £443 £395 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £539
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -6.08% +8.84%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +12.50% -27.27% +10.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £38.38 £58.14 -
25th Percentile £50.19 £65.85 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% - -
75th Percentile £73.19 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £73.53 £79.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £79.35 -
% change year-on-year -8.63% - -

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 6,977 5,169 5,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.20% 15.71% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,740 3,411 3,703
10th Percentile £326 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 75 75
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.20
25th Percentile £30.63 £19.56 £23.99
Median hourly rate £63.14 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.36% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.22 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +14.79% +40.13% -15.01%

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 4 August 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 4 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 12 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 4 August 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 -128 56 £560 +12.00% 35
London -66 33 £560 -7.25% 17
UK excluding London -115 22 £450 +12.50% 19
Work from Home -51 21 £450 -16.20% 17
South East -65 7 £485 -3.00% 6
Midlands -58 6 £575 +21.05% 3
West Midlands -59 6 £575 +4.55% 3
North East -37 4 £363 -9.38%
North of England -66 4 £363 -1.96% 2
Scotland -12 3 £450 -14.29% 3
South West -47 1 - - 5
Wales - 1 £525 -

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 (13.43%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (13.43%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.48%) Apache
3 2 (2.99%) CMS
4 1 (1.49%) nginx
4 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (68.66%) AWS
2 13 (19.40%) Amazon S3
3 12 (17.91%) GitHub
4 10 (14.93%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (11.94%) Amazon EMR
6 8 (11.94%) OpenShift
7 6 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.97%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (5.97%) Azure
8 4 (5.97%) GCP
8 4 (5.97%) Sentry
8 4 (5.97%) Serverless
9 3 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.99%) Datadog
10 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.49%) Figma
11 1 (1.49%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) HTTP
2 1 (1.49%) DSL
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.87%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (25.37%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (25.37%) MongoDB
3 9 (13.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (11.94%) Big Data
4 8 (11.94%) NoSQL
5 7 (10.45%) Presto
6 6 (8.96%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (7.46%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (5.97%) MySQL
9 2 (2.99%) Metadata
9 2 (2.99%) Power BI
9 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.49%) Flink
10 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (1.49%) Redis
10 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.93%) JMeter
3 9 (13.43%) Gatling
4 8 (11.94%) GitLab
5 5 (7.46%) JUnit
5 5 (7.46%) Mockito
6 4 (5.97%) CircleCI
7 3 (4.48%) LoadRunner
7 3 (4.48%) Maven
8 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.49%) Deequ
9 1 (1.49%) Git
9 1 (1.49%) JIRA
9 1 (1.49%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.49%) Postman
9 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
General
1 16 (23.88%) Public Sector
2 13 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.48%) Finance
5 2 (2.99%) Local Government
6 1 (1.49%) Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Front Office
6 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Senior
2 14 (20.90%) Developer
2 14 (20.90%) Lead
3 9 (13.43%) Data Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Scala Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Java Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Performance Test Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Test Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Performance Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Technical Leader
9 3 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.48%) Scala Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Performance Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.36%) Spring
2 16 (23.88%) Spring Boot
3 14 (20.90%) HTML
4 11 (16.42%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (16.42%) Kafka
4 11 (16.42%) Play Framework
5 10 (14.93%) CSS
5 10 (14.93%) RESTful
6 6 (8.96%) .NET
6 6 (8.96%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (8.96%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (8.96%) REST
7 5 (7.46%) OAuth
7 5 (7.46%) OAuth2
7 5 (7.46%) Playwright
7 5 (7.46%) React
8 4 (5.97%) Apache Camel
8 4 (5.97%) Django
8 4 (5.97%) FastAPI
8 4 (5.97%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (10.45%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.96%) AI Agents
3 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.96%) PKI
3 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.49%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.49%) Replication
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (29.85%) Linux
2 8 (11.94%) Unix
3 2 (2.99%) Debian
3 2 (2.99%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.99%) Windows
4 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Solaris
4 1 (1.49%) VMS
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.75%) CI/CD
2 25 (37.31%) Agile
3 19 (28.36%) Observability
4 18 (26.87%) DevOps
4 18 (26.87%) Microservices
5 16 (23.88%) Containerisation
6 13 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
7 12 (17.91%) Test Automation
8 10 (14.93%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (14.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (14.93%) Mentoring
8 10 (14.93%) Scrum
9 9 (13.43%) Code Quality
10 8 (11.94%) AI
10 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.94%) End-to-End Testing
10 8 (11.94%) Functional Programming
10 8 (11.94%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 33 (49.25%) Java
2 26 (38.81%) Python
3 20 (29.85%) SQL
4 16 (23.88%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.91%) Scala
6 9 (13.43%) TypeScript
7 7 (10.45%) Ruby
8 6 (8.96%) Bash
8 6 (8.96%) C#
8 6 (8.96%) Shell Script
9 5 (7.46%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.99%) Go
11 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (32.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.48%) QA
4 2 (2.99%) WCAG
5 1 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (35.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (59.70%) Grafana
2 21 (31.34%) Terraform
3 20 (29.85%) Kubernetes
3 20 (29.85%) Prometheus
4 8 (11.94%) logstash
5 7 (10.45%) Ansible
6 1 (1.49%) Consul
6 1 (1.49%) Istio
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.49%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Splunk
2 7 (10.45%) Oracle
3 5 (7.46%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.97%) AppDynamics
4 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.99%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.49%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.49%) Databricks
6 1 (1.49%) IBM
6 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.49%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.49%) Reuters
6 1 (1.49%) VMware