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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 436 519
Rank change year-on-year -29 +83 +102
Contract jobs citing Kibana 92 121 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.68% 2.31% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 89 83
10th Percentile £328 £459 £413
25th Percentile £401 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £622 £495
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% +25.66% -10.00%
75th Percentile £657 £675 £548
90th Percentile £695 £705 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £624 £500
% change year-on-year -25.02% +24.70% -3.85%
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 - £77.50
90th Percentile £77.90 - -
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 5,466 5,234 7,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.34% 14.13% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 3,412 4,970
10th Percentile £300 £313 £323
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £680 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.63% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 57 174
10th Percentile £15.47 £19.82 £19.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £32.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £34.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -36.74% +124.80%
75th Percentile £62.38 £58.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.30 £74.66 £78.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £34.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -37.09% -26.38% +112.03%

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 21 October 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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 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 -18 81 £500 -20.00% 34
UK excluding London -38 49 £468 -25.02% 32
London +12 37 £550 - 11
Midlands -4 25 £464 -26.95% 2
West Midlands -4 22 £538 -15.35% 2
Work from Home +2 17 £506 -0.05% 44
Scotland +1 8 £570 +14.00% 5
South West -11 8 £600 -13.04% 11
North of England -39 5 £373 -32.27% 5
South East -6 4 £440 -11.38% 8
North West -17 4 £353 -0.84% 4
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
Wales +1 2 £600 -
East of England -1 1 - -
North East -5 1 £400 -27.27% 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 6 (6.52%) Apache
2 5 (5.43%) JBoss
3 4 (4.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.17%) FileNet
4 2 (2.17%) nginx
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.09%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (33.70%) AWS
2 17 (18.48%) Azure
3 10 (10.87%) Serverless
4 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (8.70%) Azure AKS
5 8 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 7 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.61%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.43%) GCP
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.26%) GitHub
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.17%) Slack
10 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) HTTP
2 4 (4.35%) SSH
3 1 (1.09%) DNS
3 1 (1.09%) DSL
3 1 (1.09%) Firewall
3 1 (1.09%) MQTT
3 1 (1.09%) Network Security
3 1 (1.09%) SMTP
3 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (67.39%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.52%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.43%) Big Data
4 5 (5.43%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.26%) Apache Hive
5 3 (3.26%) Flink
5 3 (3.26%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.26%) Impala
5 3 (3.26%) MySQL
6 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.17%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.09%) Power BI
7 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.87%) Git
3 7 (7.61%) SonarQube
3 7 (7.61%) TeamCity
4 5 (5.43%) JIRA
4 5 (5.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
5 4 (4.35%) GitLab
5 4 (4.35%) LoadRunner
5 4 (4.35%) Maven
5 4 (4.35%) Selenium
6 3 (3.26%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.26%) JUnit
6 3 (3.26%) Mockito
7 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.17%) Postman
7 2 (2.17%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.09%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.09%) NeoLoad
General
1 34 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.39%) Finance
3 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.52%) Banking
5 5 (5.43%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Law
7 1 (1.09%) Billing
7 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (16.30%) Developer
2 12 (13.04%) Senior
3 11 (11.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Splunk Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Site Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.35%) SIEM Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (56.52%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (13.04%) React
2 12 (13.04%) REST
3 11 (11.96%) JSON
3 11 (11.96%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.87%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (8.70%) Express.js
5 8 (8.70%) Next.js
5 8 (8.70%) Node.js
6 7 (7.61%) OAuth
6 7 (7.61%) XML
7 6 (6.52%) Kafka
7 6 (6.52%) Spring
7 6 (6.52%) Ultra Messaging
8 5 (5.43%) HTML
9 4 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (4.35%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.35%) JPA
9 4 (4.35%) Playwright
9 4 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 16 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.61%) Fixed Income
3 7 (7.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (7.61%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.52%) Replication
5 4 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.26%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.26%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.17%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.09%) CUDA
8 1 (1.09%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.09%) MISP
8 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 33 (35.87%) Linux
2 8 (8.70%) Windows
3 6 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.52%) Unix
4 3 (3.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.09%) CentOS
6 1 (1.09%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (51.09%) DevOps
2 35 (38.04%) Observability
3 29 (31.52%) CI/CD
4 22 (23.91%) Data Ingestion
5 21 (22.83%) Migration
6 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (20.65%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (20.65%) Machine Learning
8 18 (19.57%) Agile
9 17 (18.48%) Analytics
10 15 (16.30%) Event-Driven
10 15 (16.30%) Visualisation
11 14 (15.22%) Containerisation
11 14 (15.22%) High Availability
11 14 (15.22%) Incident Response
12 13 (14.13%) Dashboard Development
12 13 (14.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (14.13%) RBAC
13 12 (13.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (47.83%) Python
2 18 (19.57%) PowerShell
2 18 (19.57%) SQL
3 14 (15.22%) Bash
3 14 (15.22%) Java
4 12 (13.04%) Bicep
5 8 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.43%) Go
6 5 (5.43%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.43%) Perl
7 2 (2.17%) PHP
7 2 (2.17%) Scala
8 1 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (33.70%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.61%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.52%) Degree
5 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.17%) CEH
5 2 (2.17%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.09%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) GDPR
1 3 (3.26%) WCAG
2 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.09%) NIST
3 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 40 (43.48%) Docker
2 12 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.17%) HDFS
4 1 (1.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 49 (53.26%) Kubernetes
2 39 (42.39%) logstash
3 18 (19.57%) Ansible
4 17 (18.48%) Grafana
4 17 (18.48%) Terraform
5 11 (11.96%) ITRS Geneos
6 9 (9.78%) Prometheus
7 7 (7.61%) Progress Chef
8 6 (6.52%) Puppet
9 3 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.17%) FortiGate
10 2 (2.17%) Packer
11 1 (1.09%) Fluentd
11 1 (1.09%) Graphite
11 1 (1.09%) QRadar
11 1 (1.09%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 25 (27.17%) Splunk
2 14 (15.22%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.96%) Solace
4 9 (9.78%) AppDynamics
5 7 (7.61%) Dynatrace
6 6 (6.52%) Oracle
6 6 (6.52%) TIBCO
7 5 (5.43%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.35%) Cloudera
8 4 (4.35%) New Relic
9 2 (2.17%) Genesys
9 2 (2.17%) KANA
9 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.09%) ArcSight
10 1 (1.09%) FireEye
10 1 (1.09%) NVIDIA
10 1 (1.09%) PagerDuty
10 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.09%) Tanium