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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 458 508
Rank change year-on-year -15 +50 +114
Contract jobs citing Kibana 111 103 114
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.90% 1.98% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 73 86
10th Percentile £338 £464 £396
25th Percentile £400 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £613 £493
Median % change year-on-year -20.16% +24.37% -14.35%
75th Percentile £600 £690 £589
90th Percentile £696 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £625 £505
% change year-on-year -20.00% +23.70% -3.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 5,827 5,211 6,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.17% 14.30% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 3,302 4,587
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.03% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 71 172
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £17.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.05 £24.00
Median hourly rate £32.32 £27.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +19.69% -44.21% +88.25%
75th Percentile £65.06 £55.88 £73.91
90th Percentile £79.88 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.86 £28.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +12.78% -38.83% +84.72%

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 November 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
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 29 November 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 -21 88 £478 -24.72% 22
UK excluding London -27 66 £500 -20.00% 23
Midlands -8 33 £540 -15.04% 10
London +14 32 £550 -10.20% 1
West Midlands -3 30 £542 -14.72% 10
Work from Home +2 25 £407 -18.56% 14
Scotland +6 13 £570 +14.00% 1
South East +5 9 £425 -17.57% 3
South West -11 6 £600 -13.04% 6
North of England -47 5 £373 -25.50% 3
Wales +1 3 £600 -
North West -25 3 £334 -6.32% 2
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
North East -7 2 £400 -27.27%
East of England -15 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 4 (3.60%) JBoss
2 2 (1.80%) Apache
2 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.80%) FileNet
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.90%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (36.04%) AWS
2 24 (21.62%) Azure
3 9 (8.11%) Serverless
4 8 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.31%) Azure AKS
5 7 (6.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (6.31%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.31%) GCP
5 7 (6.31%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (4.50%) GitHub
7 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.80%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.80%) Slack
9 2 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.41%) HTTP
2 5 (4.50%) Network Security
3 3 (2.70%) SSH
4 1 (0.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.90%) DSL
4 1 (0.90%) Firewall
4 1 (0.90%) MQTT
4 1 (0.90%) SMTP
4 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (61.26%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.31%) Big Data
3 6 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.50%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.70%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.70%) Impala
6 3 (2.70%) MySQL
7 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.80%) Power BI
8 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.90%) Flink
8 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.91%) Git
3 8 (7.21%) GitLab
4 7 (6.31%) Maven
5 6 (5.41%) JUnit
5 6 (5.41%) Mockito
5 6 (5.41%) Selenium
5 6 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.41%) TeamCity
6 5 (4.50%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.60%) JIRA
7 4 (3.60%) LoadRunner
7 4 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (2.70%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.80%) Gatling
9 2 (1.80%) Postman
9 2 (1.80%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.90%) Gradle
General
1 42 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.92%) Finance
3 16 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.41%) Banking
6 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.60%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Billing
7 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (14.41%) Developer
2 15 (13.51%) Senior
3 12 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (9.91%) Splunk Engineer
5 10 (9.01%) SIEM Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Site Engineer
7 7 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (52.25%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (13.51%) Spring Boot
3 14 (12.61%) JSON
3 14 (12.61%) React
3 14 (12.61%) REST
4 11 (9.91%) Spring
5 9 (8.11%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (7.21%) Next.js
7 7 (6.31%) Express.js
7 7 (6.31%) HTML
7 7 (6.31%) JPA
7 7 (6.31%) Node.js
7 7 (6.31%) OAuth
7 7 (6.31%) Playwright
7 7 (6.31%) XML
8 6 (5.41%) Kafka
8 6 (5.41%) OAuth2
8 6 (5.41%) Ultra Messaging
9 5 (4.50%) Gherkin
9 5 (4.50%) GraalVM
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.02%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.21%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.41%) Fixed Income
4 6 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.50%) Cyber Security Posture
5 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.60%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.60%) Replication
7 3 (2.70%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.80%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.90%) CUDA
9 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.90%) MISP
9 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (32.43%) Linux
2 12 (10.81%) Windows
3 8 (7.21%) Unix
4 5 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.80%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.90%) CentOS
7 1 (0.90%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (39.64%) DevOps
2 37 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 35 (31.53%) Observability
4 28 (25.23%) Data Ingestion
5 26 (23.42%) Migration
6 23 (20.72%) Agile
7 20 (18.02%) Containerisation
7 20 (18.02%) Incident Response
7 20 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.02%) Visualisation
8 15 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
8 15 (13.51%) High Availability
8 15 (13.51%) Microservices
8 15 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 14 (12.61%) Data Modelling
9 14 (12.61%) Machine Learning
10 13 (11.71%) Dashboard Development
10 13 (11.71%) Software Engineering
11 12 (10.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 55 (49.55%) Python
2 27 (24.32%) PowerShell
3 22 (19.82%) Bash
4 20 (18.02%) SQL
5 16 (14.41%) Java
6 11 (9.91%) Bicep
7 7 (6.31%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (3.60%) Perl
10 3 (2.70%) Scala
11 2 (1.80%) Go
11 2 (1.80%) PHP
11 2 (1.80%) Ruby
11 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (34.23%) Security Cleared
2 34 (30.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.31%) CEH
3 7 (6.31%) CISSP
3 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.31%) Degree
4 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) GIAC
5 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.50%) WCAG
2 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.80%) NIST
3 2 (1.80%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (41.44%) Docker
2 10 (9.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.80%) HDFS
4 1 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 55 (49.55%) Kubernetes
2 45 (40.54%) logstash
3 23 (20.72%) Ansible
4 20 (18.02%) Grafana
4 20 (18.02%) Terraform
5 10 (9.01%) ITRS Geneos
6 8 (7.21%) Prometheus
7 7 (6.31%) Puppet
8 6 (5.41%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.90%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.90%) Graphite
10 1 (0.90%) Nagios
10 1 (0.90%) Packer
10 1 (0.90%) QRadar
10 1 (0.90%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 28 (25.23%) Splunk
2 13 (11.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.01%) Solace
4 9 (8.11%) New Relic
5 8 (7.21%) AppDynamics
5 8 (7.21%) Dynatrace
6 7 (6.31%) Oracle
7 6 (5.41%) FireEye
7 6 (5.41%) Tanium
7 6 (5.41%) TIBCO
8 4 (3.60%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.70%) Cloudera
9 3 (2.70%) PagerDuty
9 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.80%) Genesys
10 2 (1.80%) KANA
11 1 (0.90%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.90%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.90%) Salesforce