Kibana Contract Job Trends

Elastic Kibana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Kibana skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 439 521
Rank change year-on-year -30 +82 +88
Contract jobs citing Kibana 93 118 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.78% 2.25% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 92 93
10th Percentile £311 £458 £413
25th Percentile £390 £496 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £636 £652 £550
90th Percentile £695 £700 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £624 £498
% change year-on-year -27.02% +25.33% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £55.70 - -
25th Percentile £59.75 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £74.75 - £80.63
90th Percentile £77.90 - £86.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £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 5,226 5,254 7,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.88% 13.64% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,430 3,543 5,214
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £688 £701 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £521
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.03% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 63 180
10th Percentile £13.75 £19.96 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.97% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £75.13
90th Percentile £67.20 £74.35 £78.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £47.83
% change year-on-year -45.50% -17.94% +122.47%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kibana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kibana 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 20 September 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 20 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 14 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 20 September 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 -6 81 £488 -15.22% 35
UK excluding London -21 49 £455 -27.02% 24
London +18 39 £550 +10.00% 21
Midlands 0 22 £475 -25.20% 4
West Midlands +7 18 £600 -5.51% 3
Work from Home +14 16 £460 -8.00% 23
Scotland -1 9 £548 +9.50% 5
North of England -36 8 £358 -42.44% 4
South West +5 7 £600 -13.04% 4
North West -7 7 £358 -15.67% 2
South East +2 5 £500 +0.70% 7
East Midlands - 4 £381 - 1
Wales - 2 £600 -
North East -3 1 £400 -27.27%

Kibana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (15.05%) Apache
2 6 (6.45%) JBoss
2 6 (6.45%) nginx
3 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.30%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.15%) FileNet
5 1 (1.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.48%) AWS
2 18 (19.35%) Azure
3 11 (11.83%) Serverless
4 9 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (9.68%) OpenShift
5 8 (8.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (8.60%) Azure AKS
5 8 (8.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (8.60%) Entra ID
6 7 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (7.53%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (7.53%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.45%) GCP
8 5 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.30%) AWS KMS
10 3 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.23%) Route 53
11 2 (2.15%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) HTTP
2 4 (4.30%) DNS
2 4 (4.30%) SSH
3 2 (2.15%) Network Security
4 1 (1.08%) DSL
4 1 (1.08%) Firewall
4 1 (1.08%) MQTT
4 1 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.08%) SMTP
4 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (67.74%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.60%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.53%) Big Data
4 7 (7.53%) RDBMS
4 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.30%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.23%) Flink
6 3 (3.23%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.15%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.15%) Impala
8 1 (1.08%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (34.41%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.75%) SonarQube
3 9 (9.68%) Git
4 8 (8.60%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (8.60%) TeamCity
5 6 (6.45%) JIRA
6 5 (5.38%) Bitbucket
6 5 (5.38%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (5.38%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (5.38%) JMeter
6 5 (5.38%) LoadRunner
7 3 (3.23%) Postman
8 2 (2.15%) GitLab
8 2 (2.15%) JUnit
8 2 (2.15%) Mockito
8 2 (2.15%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.15%) Selenium
9 1 (1.08%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.08%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.08%) TestNG
General
1 28 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.13%) Finance
3 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.45%) Banking
4 6 (6.45%) Law
4 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.38%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (15.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (13.98%) Developer
3 10 (10.75%) Senior
4 9 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (8.60%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (8.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Splunk Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) SIEM Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Site Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (52.69%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (11.83%) REST
3 10 (10.75%) Spring Boot
4 9 (9.68%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (9.68%) React
5 8 (8.60%) Express.js
5 8 (8.60%) Next.js
5 8 (8.60%) Node.js
5 8 (8.60%) OAuth
6 7 (7.53%) .NET
6 7 (7.53%) Apache NiFi
6 7 (7.53%) JSON
6 7 (7.53%) Kafka
7 6 (6.45%) HTML
7 6 (6.45%) XML
8 5 (5.38%) RESTful
9 4 (4.30%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.30%) JWT
9 4 (4.30%) Spring
9 4 (4.30%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.28%) Cloud Native
2 15 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.45%) Private Cloud
3 6 (6.45%) Replication
4 5 (5.38%) Fixed Income
4 5 (5.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.38%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.15%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.08%) MISP
7 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.08%) Wiki
7 1 (1.08%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 34 (36.56%) Linux
2 12 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (10.75%) Windows
4 5 (5.38%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.30%) Unix
6 2 (2.15%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (2.15%) CentOS
7 1 (1.08%) Debian
7 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.76%) DevOps
2 35 (37.63%) CI/CD
3 28 (30.11%) Observability
4 21 (22.58%) Agile
4 21 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (21.51%) Data Ingestion
6 17 (18.28%) Analytics
7 16 (17.20%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (17.20%) Machine Learning
7 16 (17.20%) Migration
8 13 (13.98%) Event-Driven
8 13 (13.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 13 (13.98%) Visualisation
9 12 (12.90%) Containerisation
9 12 (12.90%) Data Modelling
10 11 (11.83%) High Availability
10 11 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (10.75%) Dashboard Development
11 10 (10.75%) Microservices
12 9 (9.68%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 47 (50.54%) Python
2 20 (21.51%) SQL
3 16 (17.20%) PowerShell
4 15 (16.13%) Bash
5 14 (15.05%) Java
6 12 (12.90%) Bicep
7 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.68%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.45%) Perl
9 5 (5.38%) Go
10 4 (4.30%) C#
11 2 (2.15%) PHP
11 2 (2.15%) Scala
11 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.08%) Groovy
12 1 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 24 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.60%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.38%) Degree
5 3 (3.23%) CEH
5 3 (3.23%) CISSP
6 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.08%) GIAC
7 1 (1.08%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.08%) OCP
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.15%) GDPR
2 2 (2.15%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (45.16%) Docker
2 15 (16.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.15%) HDFS
3 2 (2.15%) vCloud
3 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.15%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (2.15%) vSphere
4 1 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 47 (50.54%) Kubernetes
2 37 (39.78%) logstash
3 20 (21.51%) Terraform
4 15 (16.13%) Ansible
5 13 (13.98%) Grafana
6 10 (10.75%) Prometheus
7 9 (9.68%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (8.60%) Progress Chef
9 4 (4.30%) Puppet
10 3 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (2.15%) FortiGate
11 2 (2.15%) Packer
11 2 (2.15%) QRadar
12 1 (1.08%) Fluentd
12 1 (1.08%) Graphite
12 1 (1.08%) Perfmon
12 1 (1.08%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 23 (24.73%) Splunk
2 18 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 14 (15.05%) AppDynamics
4 9 (9.68%) Solace
5 6 (6.45%) Dynatrace
5 6 (6.45%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.30%) Cloudera
6 4 (4.30%) New Relic
6 4 (4.30%) TIBCO
7 3 (3.23%) Oracle
8 2 (2.15%) Genesys
8 2 (2.15%) KANA
8 2 (2.15%) VMware
9 1 (1.08%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.08%) FireEye
9 1 (1.08%) IBM
9 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.08%) Tanium