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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 448 472
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 +154
Contract jobs citing Kibana 121 93 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.06% 1.88% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 68 88
10th Percentile £350 £444 £380
25th Percentile £403 £500 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £483
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +13.99% -13.45%
75th Percentile £625 £695 £588
90th Percentile £695 £719 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -4.55% +9.89% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £55.60 - £64.25
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 5,888 4,952 5,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.90% 14.83% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,024 3,192 4,101
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.55% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 65 162
10th Percentile £16.48 £15.33 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.05 £22.19
Median hourly rate £48.36 £24.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -47.64% +31.94%
75th Percentile £65.06 £50.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +123.33% -47.64% +19.95%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -18 98 £513 -18.00% 25
UK excluding London -15 77 £525 -4.55% 17
Midlands -2 40 £538 -15.35% 3
West Midlands -1 37 £542 -14.72% 3
London -19 31 £605 -3.97% 7
Work from Home -10 27 £412 -17.66% 10
Scotland +10 12 £570 +12.59% 2
South East -7 12 £420 -18.45% 3
South West -6 7 £600 -16.96% 5
North of England -55 6 £400 -20.00% 4
Wales -3 3 £600 -
North East -10 3 £400 -27.27% 1
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
North West -19 2 £417 +17.06% 2
Yorkshire -50 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -

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 3 (2.48%) Apache
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.65%) FileNet
2 2 (1.65%) JBoss
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.88%) AWS
2 27 (22.31%) Azure
3 12 (9.92%) GCP
3 12 (9.92%) Serverless
4 10 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (8.26%) GitHub
5 8 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.79%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.79%) Azure AKS
6 7 (5.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (5.79%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.48%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.26%) Network Security
2 7 (5.79%) HTTP
3 6 (4.96%) DNS
4 2 (1.65%) Firewall
4 2 (1.65%) SSH
4 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.65%) VPN
5 1 (0.83%) DSL
5 1 (0.83%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (58.68%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.79%) Big Data
3 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.31%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.48%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.48%) Impala
5 3 (2.48%) MySQL
6 2 (1.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.65%) Power BI
6 2 (1.65%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (17.36%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.74%) GitLab
3 10 (8.26%) Git
4 7 (5.79%) Maven
5 6 (4.96%) JUnit
5 6 (4.96%) Mockito
5 6 (4.96%) Selenium
6 5 (4.13%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.31%) LoadRunner
7 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.31%) TeamCity
7 4 (3.31%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.48%) JIRA
9 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.65%) Gatling
9 2 (1.65%) Postman
9 2 (1.65%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.83%) Travis CI
General
1 51 (42.15%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (14.88%) Finance
4 11 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.31%) Banking
5 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.31%) Law
6 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.83%) Billing
8 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (14.88%) SIEM Engineer
2 17 (14.05%) Developer
2 17 (14.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 16 (13.22%) Splunk Engineer
4 15 (12.40%) Senior
5 13 (10.74%) Site Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Architect
8 6 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Java Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (53.72%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (12.40%) JSON
3 14 (11.57%) React
3 14 (11.57%) REST
4 13 (10.74%) Spring Boot
5 11 (9.09%) Spring
6 8 (6.61%) Next.js
6 8 (6.61%) XML
7 7 (5.79%) Express.js
7 7 (5.79%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (5.79%) HTML
7 7 (5.79%) JPA
7 7 (5.79%) Node.js
7 7 (5.79%) Playwright
8 6 (4.96%) OAuth
8 6 (4.96%) OAuth2
8 6 (4.96%) Ultra Messaging
9 5 (4.13%) Gherkin
9 5 (4.13%) Kafka
9 5 (4.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.74%) Management Information System
3 11 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (7.44%) Cyber Security Posture
5 6 (4.96%) Replication
6 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.31%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.65%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.83%) MISP
9 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (29.75%) Linux
2 13 (10.74%) Unix
3 10 (8.26%) Windows
4 3 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.65%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
6 1 (0.83%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (36.36%) DevOps
2 40 (33.06%) CI/CD
3 39 (32.23%) Observability
4 33 (27.27%) Data Ingestion
5 32 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (22.31%) Containerisation
6 27 (22.31%) Migration
7 26 (21.49%) Agile
7 26 (21.49%) Incident Response
7 26 (21.49%) Visualisation
8 24 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (16.53%) Data Modelling
9 20 (16.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (15.70%) Dashboard Development
10 19 (15.70%) SIEM
11 18 (14.88%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (12.40%) High Availability
12 15 (12.40%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (11.57%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (10.74%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 58 (47.93%) Python
2 29 (23.97%) PowerShell
3 28 (23.14%) Bash
4 19 (15.70%) SQL
5 13 (10.74%) Java
6 11 (9.09%) Bicep
7 10 (8.26%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (5.79%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.13%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.13%) Scala
10 2 (1.65%) Perl
10 2 (1.65%) PHP
10 2 (1.65%) Ruby
10 2 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.83%) Go
11 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (33.06%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.93%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (10.74%) Degree
4 12 (9.92%) CEH
4 12 (9.92%) CISSP
5 11 (9.09%) GIAC
6 7 (5.79%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.13%) WCAG
2 3 (2.48%) QA
3 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.65%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (43.80%) Docker
2 8 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.65%) HDFS
4 1 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 60 (49.59%) Kubernetes
2 45 (37.19%) logstash
3 33 (27.27%) Ansible
4 24 (19.83%) Terraform
5 18 (14.88%) Grafana
6 13 (10.74%) Puppet
7 8 (6.61%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (5.79%) Prometheus
9 5 (4.13%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.48%) Karpenter
10 3 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.83%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.83%) Graphite
11 1 (0.83%) Nagios
11 1 (0.83%) QRadar
11 1 (0.83%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 32 (26.45%) Splunk
2 14 (11.57%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.26%) FireEye
3 10 (8.26%) Tanium
4 9 (7.44%) New Relic
5 8 (6.61%) Dynatrace
5 8 (6.61%) Solace
6 7 (5.79%) Oracle
7 6 (4.96%) AppDynamics
7 6 (4.96%) TIBCO
8 3 (2.48%) PagerDuty
8 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.65%) Genesys
9 2 (1.65%) KANA
9 2 (1.65%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.83%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.83%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.83%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.83%) Salesforce