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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 461 454
Rank change year-on-year -117 -7 +52
Contract jobs citing Kibana 115 90 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.91% 1.96% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 64 89
10th Percentile £400 £311 £458
25th Percentile £459 £360 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £610 £636 £665
90th Percentile £626 £695 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £419 £625
% change year-on-year +31.30% -32.98% +25.38%
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 6,017 4,592 4,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.02% 14.09% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,977 2,968 3,028
10th Percentile £313 £273 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £685 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 92 58
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.85
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +154.90% -32.45% -29.77%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.29 £64.00
90th Percentile £88.37 £67.23 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.24 £21.39 £39.00
% change year-on-year +200.33% -45.15% -17.03%

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 29 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 29 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

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 29 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 -115 96 £560 +21.08% 57
London -68 56 £560 +2.75% 33
Work from Home -29 47 £550 +19.57% 27
UK excluding London -111 39 £550 +31.30% 28
West Midlands -42 19 £590 -1.67% 7
Midlands -43 19 £590 +46.49% 8
North of England -74 8 £425 +18.78% 5
North East -34 7 £425 +6.25% 3
South East -67 6 £525 +5.00% 3
Scotland -31 4 £450 -17.81% 4
Wales -14 1 £525 -12.50%
South West -46 1 - - 5
North West -56 1 £630 +75.98% 2

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 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.83%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.48%) Apache
3 4 (3.48%) nginx
4 2 (1.74%) CMS
4 2 (1.74%) Confluence
4 2 (1.74%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 90 (78.26%) AWS
2 16 (13.91%) Amazon S3
3 13 (11.30%) Azure
3 13 (11.30%) GitHub
4 12 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
6 8 (6.96%) OpenShift
7 7 (6.09%) Serverless
8 6 (5.22%) GCP
8 6 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.48%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (3.48%) Sentry
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.74%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.87%) Datadog
12 1 (0.87%) Figma
12 1 (0.87%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) HTTP
1 3 (2.61%) VPN
2 2 (1.74%) Network Security
2 2 (1.74%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.87%) DSL
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (26.96%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (19.13%) MongoDB
3 20 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 9 (7.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (6.96%) Big Data
7 7 (6.09%) Apache Hudi
7 7 (6.09%) Presto
8 5 (4.35%) Redis
9 4 (3.48%) MySQL
10 2 (1.74%) Metadata
10 2 (1.74%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.87%) Flink
11 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.87%) Power BI
11 1 (0.87%) QlikView
11 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (35.65%) Jenkins
2 32 (27.83%) GitLab
3 18 (15.65%) JUnit
3 18 (15.65%) Mockito
4 16 (13.91%) Maven
5 9 (7.83%) JMeter
6 8 (6.96%) Gatling
7 7 (6.09%) Git
8 4 (3.48%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.61%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.61%) JIRA
9 3 (2.61%) Selenium
10 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.74%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.74%) Mocha
10 2 (1.74%) Sinon.JS
10 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.87%) Deequ
11 1 (0.87%) NeoLoad
General
1 25 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.13%) Public Sector
3 19 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.22%) Local Government
5 4 (3.48%) Finance
5 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.61%) Banking
6 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Law
7 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Publishing
8 1 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (25.22%) Senior
2 25 (21.74%) Developer
3 17 (14.78%) Scala Engineer
4 14 (12.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.17%) Lead
5 13 (11.30%) Data Engineer
6 12 (10.43%) Java Developer
6 12 (10.43%) Java Engineer
7 9 (7.83%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Performance Test Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Test Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Performance Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Senior Performance Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Technical Leader
12 4 (3.48%) Python Software Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (31.30%) Spring
2 30 (26.09%) Terraform
3 29 (25.22%) Spring Boot
4 19 (16.52%) Play Framework
4 19 (16.52%) REST
5 18 (15.65%) HTML
6 16 (13.91%) Kafka
6 16 (13.91%) OpenAPI
7 15 (13.04%) JPA
8 14 (12.17%) RESTful
9 13 (11.30%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (10.43%) .NET
10 12 (10.43%) CSS
10 12 (10.43%) React
11 8 (6.96%) OAuth
11 8 (6.96%) OAuth2
11 8 (6.96%) Playwright
12 6 (5.22%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (5.22%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.78%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.57%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.22%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.22%) PKI
5 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.87%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.87%) PMI
7 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.87%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.87%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.57%) Linux
2 11 (9.57%) Unix
3 8 (6.96%) Windows
4 3 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.74%) CentOS
5 2 (1.74%) Debian
5 2 (1.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.87%) Solaris
6 1 (0.87%) VMS
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (48.70%) Agile
2 52 (45.22%) CI/CD
3 35 (30.43%) DevOps
4 32 (27.83%) Containerisation
5 30 (26.09%) Microservices
5 30 (26.09%) Test Automation
6 29 (25.22%) Observability
7 26 (22.61%) Scrum
8 25 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (15.65%) Software Engineering
11 16 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (13.91%) Mentoring
12 15 (13.04%) Front End Development
12 15 (13.04%) MVC
13 14 (12.17%) Clean Code
13 14 (12.17%) Code Quality
13 14 (12.17%) Data Protection
14 13 (11.30%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.48%) Java
2 41 (35.65%) SQL
3 40 (34.78%) Python
4 25 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 22 (19.13%) Scala
6 16 (13.91%) Bash
7 14 (12.17%) Shell Script
8 11 (9.57%) C#
9 9 (7.83%) TypeScript
10 7 (6.09%) Ruby
11 6 (5.22%) PL/SQL
12 4 (3.48%) Go
13 2 (1.74%) Groovy
14 1 (0.87%) C
14 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 47 (40.87%) Security Cleared
2 43 (37.39%) SC Cleared
3 25 (21.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.87%) Degree
6 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.09%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.48%) WCAG
4 2 (1.74%) QA
5 1 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.87%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (42.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (55.65%) Grafana
2 38 (33.04%) Kubernetes
3 34 (29.57%) Prometheus
4 11 (9.57%) logstash
5 9 (7.83%) Ansible
6 3 (2.61%) Istio
7 2 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.74%) Nagios
7 2 (1.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.87%) Argo
8 1 (0.87%) Consul
Vendors
1 17 (14.78%) Splunk
2 11 (9.57%) Oracle
3 6 (5.22%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.61%) VMware
6 2 (1.74%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.74%) Commvault
6 2 (1.74%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.74%) Google
6 2 (1.74%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.87%) Databricks
7 1 (0.87%) IBM
7 1 (0.87%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.87%) Snow