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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 434 446
Rank change year-on-year -103 +12 +101
Contract jobs citing Kibana 88 82 139
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.38% 1.79% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 65 108
10th Percentile £352 £392 £404
25th Percentile £425 £402 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +5.29% +2.00%
75th Percentile £569 £695 £596
90th Percentile £622 £712 £647
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.19% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £38.38 - -
25th Percentile £50.19 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.75 £78.70 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +31.17% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.50 - £61.25
90th Percentile £77.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.38% +31.17% -

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 6,358 4,577 5,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.47% 15.79% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,372 3,122 3,637
10th Percentile £325 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -8.21%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £497 £490
% change year-on-year -0.23% +1.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 53 113
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £34.87 £21.39 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +111.32% +2.85% -53.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.55 £72.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +103.70% -6.09% -32.35%

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 13 May 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 13 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 15 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 13 May 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 -109 75 £513 -4.61% 23
UK excluding London -83 51 £493 -6.19% 15
Work from Home -39 27 £430 -16.02% 14
London -75 24 £569 -16.36% 5
Midlands -40 23 £538 +0.09% 1
West Midlands -41 23 £538 -2.27%
South East -44 13 £420 -10.54% 8
North of England -85 7 £463 +15.69%
North East -18 4 £413 -24.95%
Wales - 3 £525 -
South West -34 2 - - 6
North West -44 2 £500 +27.23%
East of England - 2 £300 -
Scotland +3 1 - -
Yorkshire -55 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 9 (10.23%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (10.23%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.68%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.41%) Apache
3 3 (3.41%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) CMS
4 1 (1.14%) nginx
4 1 (1.14%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 40 (45.45%) AWS
2 12 (13.64%) Amazon S3
2 12 (13.64%) Azure
3 11 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (12.50%) GitHub
4 10 (11.36%) GCP
5 8 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
6 7 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (6.82%) Serverless
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (3.41%) Datadog
9 3 (3.41%) Sentry
10 2 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (2.27%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.09%) Network Security
2 5 (5.68%) DNS
2 5 (5.68%) HTTP
3 2 (2.27%) Firewall
4 1 (1.14%) DSL
4 1 (1.14%) LAN
4 1 (1.14%) NAS
4 1 (1.14%) SAN
4 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.14%) VPN
4 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (42.05%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.23%) NoSQL
5 8 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (9.09%) Big Data
6 7 (7.95%) Presto
7 5 (5.68%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.41%) MySQL
9 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.14%) Flink
10 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.14%) Metadata
10 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.14%) Power BI
10 1 (1.14%) Redis
10 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (21.59%) Jenkins
2 11 (12.50%) GitLab
3 4 (4.55%) CircleCI
3 4 (4.55%) Gatling
3 4 (4.55%) JIRA
3 4 (4.55%) JMeter
3 4 (4.55%) Postman
3 4 (4.55%) Terragrunt
4 3 (3.41%) Git
4 3 (3.41%) JUnit
4 3 (3.41%) LoadRunner
4 3 (3.41%) Maven
4 3 (3.41%) Mockito
5 2 (2.27%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.27%) Appium
5 2 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.27%) Selenium
5 2 (2.27%) Sourcetree
5 2 (2.27%) Xcode
General
1 31 (35.23%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.82%) Finance
6 3 (3.41%) Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Local Government
7 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.14%) Front Office
8 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (19.32%) SIEM Engineer
2 13 (14.77%) Developer
3 10 (11.36%) Data Engineer
3 10 (11.36%) Senior
4 9 (10.23%) Site Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Lead
5 8 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Splunk Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Architect
7 5 (5.68%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Scala Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Security Specialist
9 3 (3.41%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 3 (3.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (40.91%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (12.50%) HTML
2 11 (12.50%) Kafka
2 11 (12.50%) Spring
3 9 (10.23%) Play Framework
3 9 (10.23%) Spring Boot
4 8 (9.09%) CSS
5 7 (7.95%) RESTful
6 4 (4.55%) Akka
6 4 (4.55%) JSON
6 4 (4.55%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.55%) REST
7 3 (3.41%) Apache Camel
7 3 (3.41%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (3.41%) JPA
7 3 (3.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (3.41%) pytest
7 3 (3.41%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (2.27%) Django
8 2 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.95%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.95%) Cyber Security Posture
3 7 (7.95%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.55%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.41%) Replication
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.09%) Linux
2 16 (18.18%) Unix
3 5 (5.68%) Windows
4 3 (3.41%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.27%) Android
5 2 (2.27%) Debian
5 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.14%) Solaris
6 1 (1.14%) VMS
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (29.55%) Agile
4 24 (27.27%) Observability
5 23 (26.14%) DevOps
5 23 (26.14%) SIEM
6 22 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 20 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (20.45%) Incident Response
8 18 (20.45%) Visualisation
9 16 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (18.18%) Threat Detection
10 14 (15.91%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (14.77%) Test Automation
12 12 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
12 12 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
12 12 (13.64%) Microservices
12 12 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
13 11 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 40 (45.45%) Python
2 28 (31.82%) Java
3 19 (21.59%) SQL
4 16 (18.18%) Bash
5 13 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.77%) PowerShell
5 13 (14.77%) Scala
6 8 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (7.95%) Ruby
8 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.27%) Go
9 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 25 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.64%) Degree
4 10 (11.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (10.23%) CEH
5 9 (10.23%) CISSP
5 9 (10.23%) GIAC
6 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.68%) QA
3 3 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (38.64%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (39.77%) Kubernetes
2 33 (37.50%) Grafana
3 27 (30.68%) Terraform
4 24 (27.27%) Ansible
5 22 (25.00%) logstash
6 17 (19.32%) Prometheus
7 9 (10.23%) Puppet
8 3 (3.41%) Karpenter
9 2 (2.27%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.14%) Consul
10 1 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.14%) Istio
10 1 (1.14%) Nagios
10 1 (1.14%) Podman
10 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Splunk
2 8 (9.09%) FireEye
2 8 (9.09%) Tanium
3 5 (5.68%) Oracle
4 4 (4.55%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.55%) PagerDuty
4 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.27%) New Relic
6 2 (2.27%) VMware
7 1 (1.14%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco
7 1 (1.14%) EMC
7 1 (1.14%) IBM
7 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.14%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.14%) Reuters