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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 450 492
Rank change year-on-year -17 +42 +124
Contract jobs citing Kibana 121 87 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.05% 1.85% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 64 88
10th Percentile £357 £400 £380
25th Percentile £404 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.95% -7.36%
75th Percentile £600 £696 £609
90th Percentile £697 £713 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £490
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £64.25
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 5,908 4,703 5,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.66% 15.03% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,100 3,035 4,020
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £736 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 62 166
10th Percentile £18.28 £15.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.94 £21.10 £22.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +21.53%
75th Percentile £63.32 £56.56 £63.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £73.60 £77.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.46% -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 26 January 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
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 26 January 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 -38 100 £500 -17.53% 19
UK excluding London -14 86 £525 - 15
Midlands -4 46 £542 - 4
West Midlands 0 43 £546 - 4
Work from Home -14 26 £418 -16.50% 12
London -20 24 £563 -16.67% 3
South East -19 15 £425 - 2
Scotland +8 12 £570 +12.59%
South West -18 7 £640 -11.42% 7
North of England -62 6 £400 -20.00% 2
North East -15 4 £400 -27.27%
Wales -3 3 £600 -
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
North West -25 1 £500 -6.19% 2
Yorkshire -52 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%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.65%) Apache
2 2 (1.65%) FileNet
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.40%) AWS
2 24 (19.83%) Azure
3 11 (9.09%) GCP
4 10 (8.26%) GitHub
5 8 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (6.61%) Serverless
6 7 (5.79%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.13%) Azure AKS
8 5 (4.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (4.13%) Entra ID
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 Monitor
10 3 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.74%) Network Security
2 7 (5.79%) HTTP
3 6 (4.96%) DNS
4 3 (2.48%) Firewall
5 2 (1.65%) SSH
5 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.65%) VPN
6 1 (0.83%) DSL
6 1 (0.83%) LAN
6 1 (0.83%) NAS
6 1 (0.83%) SAN
6 1 (0.83%) SMTP
6 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (55.37%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (4.96%) Big Data
3 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.48%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.48%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.48%) Impala
5 3 (2.48%) MySQL
5 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.65%) Power BI
7 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (13.22%) GitLab
1 16 (13.22%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.61%) JUnit
2 8 (6.61%) Maven
2 8 (6.61%) Mockito
3 7 (5.79%) Git
4 5 (4.13%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.13%) Selenium
5 4 (3.31%) LoadRunner
5 4 (3.31%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.65%) Gatling
6 2 (1.65%) JIRA
6 2 (1.65%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.65%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.83%) Postman
7 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.83%) Travis CI
General
1 53 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.45%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.22%) Finance
4 12 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.31%) Law
6 2 (1.65%) Banking
7 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.83%) Billing
7 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (18.18%) SIEM Engineer
2 19 (15.70%) Developer
3 18 (14.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 18 (14.88%) Splunk Engineer
4 14 (11.57%) Senior
4 14 (11.57%) Site Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) Java Developer
5 7 (5.79%) Security Engineer
6 6 (4.96%) Architect
6 6 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Scala Developer
7 5 (4.13%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Cloud Specialist
8 4 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (52.07%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (11.57%) JSON
3 13 (10.74%) REST
4 12 (9.92%) Spring
4 12 (9.92%) Spring Boot
5 11 (9.09%) React
6 8 (6.61%) JPA
7 7 (5.79%) Playwright
7 7 (5.79%) XML
8 6 (4.96%) HTML
8 6 (4.96%) Next.js
8 6 (4.96%) OAuth
8 6 (4.96%) OAuth2
8 6 (4.96%) Ultra Messaging
9 5 (4.13%) Akka
9 5 (4.13%) Express.js
9 5 (4.13%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (4.13%) Gherkin
9 5 (4.13%) Node.js
9 5 (4.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.05%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.40%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.92%) Cyber Security Posture
4 8 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.96%) Replication
6 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.65%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.65%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.83%) CUDA
10 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.83%) MISP
10 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (28.10%) Linux
2 15 (12.40%) Unix
3 9 (7.44%) Windows
4 3 (2.48%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.83%) CentOS
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.40%) DevOps
1 38 (31.40%) Observability
2 37 (30.58%) CI/CD
2 37 (30.58%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (28.10%) Data Ingestion
4 31 (25.62%) Containerisation
5 30 (24.79%) Incident Response
6 29 (23.97%) Visualisation
7 28 (23.14%) Migration
8 25 (20.66%) SIEM
9 23 (19.01%) Agile
9 23 (19.01%) Cybersecurity
10 22 (18.18%) Data Modelling
11 21 (17.36%) Dashboard Development
11 21 (17.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (17.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (14.88%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (14.88%) Threat Detection
13 15 (12.40%) Computer Science
13 15 (12.40%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 55 (45.45%) Python
2 30 (24.79%) PowerShell
3 28 (23.14%) Bash
4 21 (17.36%) SQL
5 13 (10.74%) Java
5 13 (10.74%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (7.44%) Bicep
7 5 (4.13%) Scala
7 5 (4.13%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.31%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.31%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.65%) PHP
10 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.93%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.40%) CEH
3 15 (12.40%) CISSP
3 15 (12.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (12.40%) Degree
4 14 (11.57%) GIAC
5 6 (4.96%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.13%) WCAG
2 4 (3.31%) QA
3 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (38.02%) Docker
2 7 (5.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.65%) HDFS
4 1 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (48.76%) Kubernetes
2 44 (36.36%) logstash
3 35 (28.93%) Ansible
4 22 (18.18%) Terraform
5 17 (14.05%) Grafana
6 15 (12.40%) Puppet
7 6 (4.96%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (4.13%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.48%) Karpenter
9 3 (2.48%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.83%) Fluentd
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 13 (10.74%) FireEye
3 13 (10.74%) Tanium
4 9 (7.44%) New Relic
5 8 (6.61%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.96%) Oracle
6 6 (4.96%) Solace
6 6 (4.96%) TIBCO
7 4 (3.31%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.48%) PagerDuty
8 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.65%) Genesys
9 2 (1.65%) KANA
10 1 (0.83%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.83%) Cisco
10 1 (0.83%) EMC
10 1 (0.83%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.83%) VMware