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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 465 437
Rank change year-on-year -103 -28 +82
Contract jobs citing Kibana 120 91 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.95% 1.92% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 63 87
10th Percentile £399 £321 £459
25th Percentile £463 £402 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £622
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -19.61% +25.66%
75th Percentile £605 £646 £675
90th Percentile £626 £695 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £624
% change year-on-year +7.50% -19.81% +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 6,143 4,747 4,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.12% 14.31% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,068 3,066 2,996
10th Percentile £316 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £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 £675 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £494
% change year-on-year +3.63% -2.33% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 95 57
10th Percentile £17.88 £14.70 £20.61
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £25.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +152.54% -30.87% -34.25%
75th Percentile £72.81 £61.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.48 £67.15 £74.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.07 £21.39 £37.08
% change year-on-year +194.85% -42.32% -21.11%

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 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 14 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 -99 103 £560 +12.00% 62
London -78 60 £560 +3.70% 39
Work from Home -35 46 £544 +18.15% 24
UK excluding London -115 40 £538 +7.50% 26
West Midlands -50 19 £590 +9.77% 4
Midlands -58 19 £590 +27.19% 4
North of England -68 8 £425 +14.16% 8
North East -35 7 £425 +6.25% 4
South East -60 7 £525 +5.00% 5
Scotland -27 4 £450 -21.05% 1
Wales -14 1 £525 -12.50%
South West -41 1 - - 2
North West -53 1 £630 +78.47% 4

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 20 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (10.83%) nginx
3 7 (5.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.50%) Apache
5 2 (1.67%) Confluence
5 2 (1.67%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.83%) CMS
6 1 (0.83%) SAS
6 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 98 (81.67%) AWS
2 14 (11.67%) Amazon S3
3 13 (10.83%) Azure
3 13 (10.83%) GitHub
4 10 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
5 8 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 7 (5.83%) Serverless
7 6 (5.00%) GCP
7 6 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (3.33%) Sentry
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.83%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) VPN
2 5 (4.17%) OpenVPN
3 4 (3.33%) HTTP
4 2 (1.67%) Network Security
5 1 (0.83%) DSL
5 1 (0.83%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 18 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (10.83%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (5.83%) Apache Hudi
7 6 (5.00%) Big Data
8 5 (4.17%) Presto
8 5 (4.17%) Redis
9 2 (1.67%) Metadata
9 2 (1.67%) MySQL
9 2 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.83%) Power BI
10 1 (0.83%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 50 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 42 (35.00%) GitLab
3 18 (15.00%) JUnit
3 18 (15.00%) Mockito
4 16 (13.33%) Maven
5 10 (8.33%) JMeter
6 9 (7.50%) Gatling
7 6 (5.00%) Git
8 4 (3.33%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.50%) JIRA
9 3 (2.50%) LoadRunner
9 3 (2.50%) Selenium
10 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.67%) Mocha
10 2 (1.67%) Sinon.JS
10 2 (1.67%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.83%) Deequ
11 1 (0.83%) NeoLoad
General
1 28 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 21 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.00%) Local Government
6 4 (3.33%) Finance
6 4 (3.33%) Law
6 4 (3.33%) Police
6 4 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.50%) Banking
7 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Publishing
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (24.17%) Senior
2 25 (20.83%) Developer
3 21 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (14.17%) Scala Engineer
5 12 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 12 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 12 (10.00%) Lead
6 11 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (9.17%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Senior Scala Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Performance Test Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Test Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Performance Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Senior Performance Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (28.33%) Spring
2 32 (26.67%) Terraform
3 27 (22.50%) Spring Boot
4 23 (19.17%) REST
5 19 (15.83%) Play Framework
6 16 (13.33%) OpenAPI
7 15 (12.50%) .NET
7 15 (12.50%) JPA
7 15 (12.50%) React
8 14 (11.67%) HTML
8 14 (11.67%) Kafka
8 14 (11.67%) RESTful
9 10 (8.33%) CSS
9 10 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (6.67%) OAuth
10 8 (6.67%) OAuth2
10 8 (6.67%) Playwright
11 6 (5.00%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.17%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.83%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.00%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.00%) PKI
5 5 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.50%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.83%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.83%) PMI
8 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.83%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (30.83%) Linux
2 17 (14.17%) Windows
3 9 (7.50%) Unix
4 3 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.67%) CentOS
6 1 (0.83%) Solaris
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (51.67%) CI/CD
2 60 (50.00%) Agile
3 44 (36.67%) DevOps
4 35 (29.17%) Containerisation
4 35 (29.17%) Observability
5 32 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (26.67%) Microservices
6 30 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 26 (21.67%) Scrum
8 23 (19.17%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (15.00%) Software Engineering
10 17 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (14.17%) Mentoring
11 16 (13.33%) Clean Code
12 15 (12.50%) Data Protection
12 15 (12.50%) Front End Development
12 15 (12.50%) MVC
13 14 (11.67%) AI
13 14 (11.67%) API Design
13 14 (11.67%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.33%) Java
2 41 (34.17%) SQL
3 39 (32.50%) Python
4 26 (21.67%) JavaScript
5 21 (17.50%) Scala
6 16 (13.33%) Bash
7 14 (11.67%) C#
8 13 (10.83%) Shell Script
9 11 (9.17%) Groovy
10 9 (7.50%) TypeScript
11 6 (5.00%) PL/SQL
12 5 (4.17%) Ruby
13 2 (1.67%) Go
14 1 (0.83%) C
14 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 51 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 26 (21.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.83%) Degree
6 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.33%) WCAG
3 2 (1.67%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 57 (47.50%) Docker
2 4 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (51.67%) Grafana
2 38 (31.67%) Kubernetes
3 31 (25.83%) Prometheus
4 9 (7.50%) logstash
5 7 (5.83%) Ansible
6 3 (2.50%) Istio
7 2 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.67%) Argo
7 2 (1.67%) Nagios
7 2 (1.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 15 (12.50%) Splunk
2 11 (9.17%) Oracle
3 9 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.50%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.50%) Google
5 3 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.50%) Snow
5 3 (2.50%) VMware
6 2 (1.67%) Commvault
6 2 (1.67%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.67%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.83%) Databricks
7 1 (0.83%) IBM
7 1 (0.83%) Red Hat