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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 443 446
Rank change year-on-year -100 +3 +127
Contract jobs citing Kibana 85 79 134
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.30% 1.74% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 61 107
10th Percentile £363 £391 £403
25th Percentile £425 £402 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +5.29% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £695 £597
90th Percentile £622 £713 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -6.19% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £38.38 £78.83 -
25th Percentile £50.19 £79.03 £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.75 £79.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.92% +32.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.50 £79.68 £61.25
90th Percentile £77.20 £79.87 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £79.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -0.44% +32.25% -

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 6,544 4,543 5,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 15.90% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,472 3,098 3,711
10th Percentile £320 £312 £266
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -7.66%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £491 £490
% change year-on-year -0.25% +0.26% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 46 103
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.16 £20.33 £18.89
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.36 £50.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.35 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 27 May 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 27 May 2026.

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 27 May 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 76 £525 -2.33% 20
UK excluding London -104 47 £493 -6.19% 14
London -73 28 £560 -17.65% 6
Work from Home -42 24 £500 -4.76% 9
West Midlands -47 21 £538 -2.27%
Midlands -58 21 £538 +0.09% 2
South East -50 12 £425 -9.48% 10
North of England -81 7 £463 +15.69% 1
North East -22 4 £413 -24.95%
South West -34 2 - - 1
North West -49 2 £500 +27.23% 1
Wales - 2 £513 -
East of England - 2 £300 -
Scotland -2 1 - -
Yorkshire -56 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 (10.59%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (10.59%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.88%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.53%) Apache
3 3 (3.53%) Confluence
4 1 (1.18%) CMS
4 1 (1.18%) nginx
4 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.06%) AWS
2 14 (16.47%) GitHub
3 12 (14.12%) Amazon S3
4 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (11.76%) Azure
6 9 (10.59%) GCP
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon EMR
7 8 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.06%) Serverless
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.71%) Sentry
10 4 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.53%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (3.53%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (3.53%) Datadog
12 2 (2.35%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) Network Security
2 5 (5.88%) DNS
2 5 (5.88%) HTTP
3 2 (2.35%) Firewall
4 1 (1.18%) DSL
4 1 (1.18%) LAN
4 1 (1.18%) NAS
4 1 (1.18%) SAN
4 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.18%) VPN
4 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (41.18%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (12.94%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
5 8 (9.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (9.41%) Big Data
6 7 (8.24%) Presto
7 5 (5.88%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.53%) MySQL
9 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.18%) Flink
10 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.18%) Metadata
10 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.18%) Power BI
10 1 (1.18%) Redis
10 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (22.35%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.76%) GitLab
3 6 (7.06%) Gatling
3 6 (7.06%) JMeter
4 5 (5.88%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.71%) JIRA
5 4 (4.71%) Postman
5 4 (4.71%) Terragrunt
6 3 (3.53%) Git
6 3 (3.53%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.35%) Android Studio
7 2 (2.35%) Appium
7 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.35%) JUnit
7 2 (2.35%) Maven
7 2 (2.35%) Mockito
7 2 (2.35%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.35%) Selenium
7 2 (2.35%) Sourcetree
7 2 (2.35%) Xcode
General
1 30 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (27.06%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.53%) Finance
6 2 (2.35%) Banking
6 2 (2.35%) Local Government
7 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.18%) Front Office
7 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (17.65%) SIEM Engineer
2 12 (14.12%) Senior
3 11 (12.94%) Developer
4 10 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Lead
5 8 (9.41%) Scala Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Site Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Splunk Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Architect
8 5 (5.88%) Security Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) AWS Architect
9 4 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Scala Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Security Specialist
10 3 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (12.94%) HTML
2 11 (12.94%) Kafka
2 11 (12.94%) Spring
3 9 (10.59%) Play Framework
3 9 (10.59%) Spring Boot
4 8 (9.41%) CSS
5 7 (8.24%) RESTful
6 4 (4.71%) Akka
6 4 (4.71%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (4.71%) REST
7 3 (3.53%) .NET
7 3 (3.53%) Apache Camel
7 3 (3.53%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (3.53%) Django
7 3 (3.53%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.53%) JSON
7 3 (3.53%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (3.53%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.53%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.29%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.24%) Cyber Security Posture
2 7 (8.24%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.06%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.53%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.53%) Replication
6 3 (3.53%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.18%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (30.59%) Linux
2 14 (16.47%) Unix
3 3 (3.53%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.53%) Windows
4 2 (2.35%) Android
4 2 (2.35%) Debian
4 2 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.18%) Solaris
5 1 (1.18%) VMS
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 27 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (30.59%) Agile
4 24 (28.24%) Observability
5 23 (27.06%) DevOps
6 21 (24.71%) SIEM
7 19 (22.35%) Containerisation
7 19 (22.35%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (21.18%) Visualisation
9 16 (18.82%) Incident Response
9 16 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (17.65%) Threat Detection
11 14 (16.47%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (15.29%) Test Automation
13 12 (14.12%) Microservices
14 11 (12.94%) Dashboard Development
14 11 (12.94%) Data Ingestion
14 11 (12.94%) Data Visualisation
14 11 (12.94%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 10 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.35%) Python
2 29 (34.12%) Java
3 19 (22.35%) SQL
4 14 (16.47%) JavaScript
5 13 (15.29%) Scala
6 12 (14.12%) Bash
7 10 (11.76%) PowerShell
8 8 (9.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (8.24%) Ruby
10 4 (4.71%) Shell Script
11 3 (3.53%) C#
11 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.53%) TypeScript
12 2 (2.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 20 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.94%) Degree
4 10 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (9.41%) CEH
6 8 (9.41%) CISSP
6 8 (9.41%) GIAC
7 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.88%) QA
3 4 (4.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.18%) GDPR
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) NIST
4 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (37.65%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (40.00%) Grafana
2 32 (37.65%) Kubernetes
3 26 (30.59%) Terraform
4 22 (25.88%) Ansible
5 21 (24.71%) logstash
6 18 (21.18%) Prometheus
7 8 (9.41%) Puppet
8 3 (3.53%) Karpenter
9 2 (2.35%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.18%) Consul
10 1 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.18%) Istio
10 1 (1.18%) Podman
10 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (21.18%) Splunk
2 7 (8.24%) FireEye
2 7 (8.24%) Tanium
3 6 (7.06%) Oracle
4 5 (5.88%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.71%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.53%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.53%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.35%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.35%) VMware
8 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.18%) Cisco
8 1 (1.18%) EMC
8 1 (1.18%) IBM
8 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.18%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.18%) Reuters