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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 465 441
Rank change year-on-year -96 -24 +112
Contract jobs citing Kibana 76 72 140
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.12% 1.53% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 55 114
10th Percentile £333 £377 £450
25th Percentile £425 £401 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £645
90th Percentile £606 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £402 £550
% change year-on-year +15.92% -26.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £35.75 £78.83 -
25th Percentile £43.63 £79.03 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £79.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% - -
75th Percentile £66.63 £79.68 -
90th Percentile £70.45 £79.87 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £79.35 -

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 6,757 4,720 5,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.31% 15.75% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,623 3,154 3,826
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £420 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -0.49% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 52 102
10th Percentile £18.64 £13.75 £15.69
25th Percentile £22.26 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.33% +17.19% -44.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.69
90th Percentile £76.05 £78.58 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -10.86%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -118 68 £525 - 16
UK excluding London -101 36 £466 +15.92% 13
London -74 30 £560 -9.49% 3
Work from Home -39 22 £465 -13.41% 2
Midlands -45 15 £550 +2.42% 3
West Midlands -49 15 £550 - 2
South East -55 9 £430 -8.41% 4
North of England -82 6 £413 +5.03% 2
North East - 5 £400 - 1
South West -35 2 - - 3
Wales - 2 £513 -
East of England - 2 £300 - 1
North West -51 1 £500 +27.23% 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 (11.84%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.26%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.63%) Confluence
5 1 (1.32%) Apache
5 1 (1.32%) CMS
5 1 (1.32%) nginx
5 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 44 (57.89%) AWS
2 13 (17.11%) GitHub
3 9 (11.84%) Amazon S3
4 8 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (10.53%) Amazon EMR
5 7 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (6.58%) Azure
6 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.58%) Sentry
7 4 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (5.26%) GCP
7 4 (5.26%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.95%) Datadog
9 2 (2.63%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (2.63%) Serverless
9 2 (2.63%) TestFlight
10 1 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.32%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) HTTP
2 3 (3.95%) Network Security
3 1 (1.32%) DSL
3 1 (1.32%) Firewall
3 1 (1.32%) LAN
3 1 (1.32%) NAS
3 1 (1.32%) SAN
3 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (32.89%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.16%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (10.53%) Big Data
4 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 7 (9.21%) Presto
6 5 (6.58%) Apache Hudi
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.95%) MySQL
8 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.32%) Flink
9 1 (1.32%) Metadata
9 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.32%) Power BI
9 1 (1.32%) Redis
9 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.16%) JMeter
3 9 (11.84%) Gatling
4 6 (7.89%) GitLab
5 5 (6.58%) CircleCI
6 4 (5.26%) Postman
7 3 (3.95%) JIRA
7 3 (3.95%) JUnit
7 3 (3.95%) LoadRunner
7 3 (3.95%) Maven
7 3 (3.95%) Mockito
8 2 (2.63%) Android Studio
8 2 (2.63%) Appium
8 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.63%) Git
8 2 (2.63%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.63%) Selenium
8 2 (2.63%) Sourcetree
8 2 (2.63%) Xcode
9 1 (1.32%) Deequ
General
1 21 (27.63%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.95%) Finance
6 2 (2.63%) Banking
6 2 (2.63%) Local Government
7 1 (1.32%) Front Office
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (19.74%) Senior
2 13 (17.11%) Lead
3 11 (14.47%) Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Scala Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Performance Test Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) SIEM Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Test Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Performance Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Security Specialist
8 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.32%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (15.79%) Spring
3 11 (14.47%) HTML
4 10 (13.16%) Kafka
4 10 (13.16%) Spring Boot
5 9 (11.84%) Play Framework
6 8 (10.53%) CSS
7 7 (9.21%) RESTful
8 6 (7.89%) .NET
8 6 (7.89%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (7.89%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (5.26%) Akka
9 4 (5.26%) Django
9 4 (5.26%) FastAPI
9 4 (5.26%) OpenAPI
10 3 (3.95%) Apache Camel
10 3 (3.95%) JPA
10 3 (3.95%) pytest
10 3 (3.95%) REST
11 2 (2.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.89%) AI Agents
4 5 (6.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.26%) PKI
6 3 (3.95%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.32%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.32%) Replication
8 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.95%) Linux
2 11 (14.47%) Unix
3 3 (3.95%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.95%) Windows
4 2 (2.63%) Android
4 2 (2.63%) Debian
4 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.32%) Solaris
5 1 (1.32%) VMS
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (43.42%) CI/CD
2 26 (34.21%) Agile
3 22 (28.95%) DevOps
4 21 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (26.32%) Observability
6 19 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 13 (17.11%) Test Automation
7 13 (17.11%) Visualisation
8 12 (15.79%) Microservices
8 12 (15.79%) SIEM
9 11 (14.47%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (14.47%) Incident Response
9 11 (14.47%) Software Engineering
10 10 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (11.84%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (11.84%) Threat Detection
12 8 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
12 8 (10.53%) Mentoring
12 8 (10.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 33 (43.42%) Python
2 30 (39.47%) Java
3 22 (28.95%) SQL
4 14 (18.42%) JavaScript
5 13 (17.11%) Scala
6 8 (10.53%) Bash
6 8 (10.53%) Ruby
7 6 (7.89%) C#
8 5 (6.58%) Shell Script
9 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
9 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.95%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (2.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 20 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (9.21%) Degree
5 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.95%) CEH
6 3 (3.95%) CISSP
6 3 (3.95%) GIAC
7 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) Accessibility
1 5 (6.58%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (35.53%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (48.68%) Grafana
2 28 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 20 (26.32%) Prometheus
3 20 (26.32%) Terraform
4 14 (18.42%) logstash
5 12 (15.79%) Ansible
6 4 (5.26%) Puppet
7 2 (2.63%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.32%) Consul
8 1 (1.32%) Istio
8 1 (1.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (23.68%) Splunk
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle
3 5 (6.58%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.95%) FireEye
5 3 (3.95%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.95%) Tanium
6 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.63%) VMware
7 1 (1.32%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.32%) Cisco
7 1 (1.32%) Databricks
7 1 (1.32%) EMC
7 1 (1.32%) IBM
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.32%) Reuters