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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 469 456
Rank change year-on-year -119 -13 +64
Contract jobs citing Kibana 93 90 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.54% 1.95% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 68 91
10th Percentile £401 £311 £458
25th Percentile £453 £398 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £636 £650
90th Percentile £628 £695 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £455 £622
% change year-on-year +15.38% -26.85% +25.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £38.38 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £50.19 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% - -
75th Percentile £73.19 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £73.53 £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 6,042 4,610 4,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.06% 14.00% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,999 2,987 3,089
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £424 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £688 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.25% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 88 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.99
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £24.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.45 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +145.75% -30.85% -30.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.29 £60.63
90th Percentile £87.58 £68.83 £74.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £21.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +203.88% -44.44% -16.63%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -127 78 £560 +14.87% 91
London -82 50 £560 +1.82% 47
Work from Home -32 39 £500 +8.70% 45
UK excluding London -130 28 £525 +15.38% 49
West Midlands -53 13 £575 -4.17% 10
Midlands -53 13 £575 +6.98% 11
North East -37 5 £400 - 5
North of England -83 5 £400 +11.73% 10
Scotland -28 4 £450 -17.81% 4
South East -71 4 £588 +17.50% 8
Wales -14 1 £525 -12.50%
South West -49 1 - - 11

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 12 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (9.68%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.23%) Apache
3 3 (3.23%) nginx
4 2 (2.15%) CMS
4 2 (2.15%) Confluence
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 68 (73.12%) AWS
2 16 (17.20%) Amazon S3
3 13 (13.98%) GitHub
4 12 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (10.75%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (9.68%) Azure
7 8 (8.60%) Amazon EMR
7 8 (8.60%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.53%) Serverless
9 6 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (5.38%) GCP
11 4 (4.30%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (4.30%) Sentry
12 3 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (1.08%) Datadog
13 1 (1.08%) Figma
13 1 (1.08%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Network Security
1 2 (2.15%) VPN
2 1 (1.08%) DSL
2 1 (1.08%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) HTTP
2 1 (1.08%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (22.58%) MongoDB
3 17 (18.28%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (10.75%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (9.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (9.68%) NoSQL
6 8 (8.60%) Big Data
7 7 (7.53%) Presto
8 5 (5.38%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (4.30%) MySQL
9 4 (4.30%) Redis
10 2 (2.15%) Metadata
10 2 (2.15%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (1.08%) Flink
11 1 (1.08%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.08%) Power BI
11 1 (1.08%) QlikView
11 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 20 (21.51%) GitLab
3 13 (13.98%) JUnit
3 13 (13.98%) Mockito
4 11 (11.83%) Maven
5 7 (7.53%) Git
5 7 (7.53%) JMeter
6 6 (6.45%) Gatling
7 4 (4.30%) CircleCI
8 3 (3.23%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.23%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.23%) JIRA
8 3 (3.23%) Selenium
9 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.15%) Mocha
9 2 (2.15%) Sinon.JS
9 2 (2.15%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.08%) Deequ
10 1 (1.08%) NeoLoad
General
1 23 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.43%) Public Sector
3 17 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.23%) Finance
5 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Local Government
5 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.15%) Banking
6 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.15%) Law
6 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Police
7 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (22.58%) Developer
2 20 (21.51%) Senior
3 14 (15.05%) Lead
4 11 (11.83%) Data Engineer
4 11 (11.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (11.83%) Java Developer
4 11 (11.83%) Scala Engineer
5 8 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (8.60%) Java Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Performance Test Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Test Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Performance Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Python Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Technical Leader
9 4 (4.30%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Scala Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (33.33%) Spring
2 26 (27.96%) Terraform
3 24 (25.81%) Spring Boot
4 18 (19.35%) HTML
5 14 (15.05%) Kafka
6 13 (13.98%) Play Framework
6 13 (13.98%) RESTful
7 12 (12.90%) CSS
7 12 (12.90%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (11.83%) OpenAPI
9 10 (10.75%) JPA
9 10 (10.75%) REST
10 9 (9.68%) .NET
10 9 (9.68%) React
11 8 (8.60%) OAuth
11 8 (8.60%) OAuth2
11 8 (8.60%) Playwright
12 6 (6.45%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (5.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.60%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.53%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.45%) AI Agents
4 6 (6.45%) PKI
5 5 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.08%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.08%) PMI
8 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.08%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (1.08%) Video on Demand
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (33.33%) Linux
2 11 (11.83%) Unix
3 6 (6.45%) Windows
4 3 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.15%) Debian
5 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.08%) CentOS
6 1 (1.08%) Solaris
6 1 (1.08%) VMS
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (45.16%) CI/CD
2 39 (41.94%) Agile
3 29 (31.18%) DevOps
4 25 (26.88%) Microservices
5 23 (24.73%) Observability
6 21 (22.58%) Containerisation
6 21 (22.58%) Scrum
7 20 (21.51%) Test Automation
8 18 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (17.20%) Software Engineering
10 15 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (15.05%) Mentoring
12 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (12.90%) Front End Development
13 12 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (11.83%) Code Quality
14 11 (11.83%) Data Pipeline
15 10 (10.75%) Event-Driven
15 10 (10.75%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 45 (48.39%) Java
2 33 (35.48%) Python
3 29 (31.18%) SQL
4 22 (23.66%) JavaScript
5 16 (17.20%) Scala
6 12 (12.90%) Bash
7 11 (11.83%) Shell Script
8 9 (9.68%) TypeScript
9 8 (8.60%) C#
10 7 (7.53%) Ruby
11 6 (6.45%) PL/SQL
12 4 (4.30%) Go
13 2 (2.15%) Groovy
14 1 (1.08%) C
14 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 33 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 20 (21.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.08%) Degree
6 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.30%) WCAG
4 2 (2.15%) QA
5 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (39.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (54.84%) Grafana
2 33 (35.48%) Kubernetes
3 31 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.75%) logstash
5 8 (8.60%) Ansible
6 2 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.15%) Istio
6 2 (2.15%) Nagios
6 2 (2.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.08%) Consul
Vendors
1 17 (18.28%) Splunk
2 10 (10.75%) Oracle
3 5 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.23%) VMware
5 2 (2.15%) Commvault
5 2 (2.15%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.15%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.08%) Databricks
6 1 (1.08%) Google
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) Red Hat