Kibana Contracts

Elastic Kibana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Kibana skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kibana over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 444 553
Rank change year-on-year +1 +109 +16
Contract jobs citing Kibana 80 135 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.73% 2.64% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 106 108
10th Percentile £391 £403 £450
25th Percentile £404 £456 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% +2.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £695 £599 £563
90th Percentile £712 £648 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £516 £500
% change year-on-year +1.69% +3.25% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £78.70 £60.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.17% -33.33% +35.85%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +31.17% - -

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 4,617 5,116 9,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.68% 12.01% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,148 3,690 6,505
10th Percentile £311 £263 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -8.48% -0.88%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £675
90th Percentile £711 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +1.79% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 112 203
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.39 £17.72 £22.58
Median hourly rate £26.50 £25.77 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -53.15% +150.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.46 £71.25 £82.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% -32.35% +112.50%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kibana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kibana.

Daily rate trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kibana.

Hourly rate trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 14 Contract 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 18 May 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 +17 69 £537 +6.33% 67
UK excluding London +17 38 £525 +1.69% 40
London +30 34 £680 +36.00% 42
Work from Home +20 25 £512 +2.40% 59
North of England +26 17 £400 -35.85% 7
North West +20 11 £393 -15.03% 4
Midlands +1 9 £537 -0.09% 8
West Midlands -7 7 £550 - 7
South West +42 5 £600 -14.74% 6
South East +32 4 £470 -2.59% 18
Yorkshire +12 4 £400 -36.00% 2
Scotland -5 3 £543 +6.11% 1
East Midlands +9 2 £506 +42.13% 1
North East -4 2 £550 - 1

Kibana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (17.50%) Apache
2 12 (15.00%) JBoss
3 4 (5.00%) nginx
3 4 (5.00%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.75%) Confluence
5 1 (1.25%) DataSynapse
Cloud Services
1 48 (60.00%) AWS
2 17 (21.25%) OpenShift
3 14 (17.50%) Azure
4 11 (13.75%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (13.75%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon S3
5 9 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.75%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (8.75%) Serverless
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (7.50%) GCP
8 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (5.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 4 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.00%) AWS KMS
9 4 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) DNS
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) DSL
3 1 (1.25%) Network Security
3 1 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (56.25%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 12 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 11 (13.75%) RDBMS
4 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (10.00%) Big Data
6 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
7 4 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 4 (5.00%) MySQL
7 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.75%) InfluxDB
9 2 (2.50%) Flink
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 38 (47.50%) Jenkins
2 19 (23.75%) Git
3 14 (17.50%) SonarQube
4 13 (16.25%) JIRA
4 13 (16.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (12.50%) TeamCity
6 7 (8.75%) JMeter
7 5 (6.25%) Artifactory
7 5 (6.25%) GitLab
7 5 (6.25%) JUnit
8 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
8 4 (5.00%) Postman
8 4 (5.00%) REST Assured
9 3 (3.75%) Gradle
9 3 (3.75%) Maven
9 3 (3.75%) Selenium
9 3 (3.75%) TestNG
9 3 (3.75%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.75%) Finance
3 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Law
6 3 (3.75%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Front Office
8 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Developer
2 13 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Senior
4 11 (13.75%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (10.00%) Architect
7 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Scala Developer
8 5 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Tester
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Consultant
9 4 (5.00%) Data Architect
9 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Grid Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.75%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (33.75%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (21.25%) Spring Boot
3 11 (13.75%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (12.50%) HTML
5 8 (10.00%) .NET
5 8 (10.00%) Spring
6 7 (8.75%) OAuth
7 6 (7.50%) Akka
7 6 (7.50%) Kafka
7 6 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.25%) Apache Camel
8 5 (6.25%) Play Framework
9 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET
9 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (5.00%) AWS CDK
9 4 (5.00%) RESTful
10 3 (3.75%) CSS
10 3 (3.75%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.75%) JWT
10 3 (3.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Social Media
3 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.25%) Grid Computing
3 5 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.00%) Replication
5 3 (3.75%) PKI
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) Equities
7 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 34 (42.50%) Linux
2 21 (26.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (22.50%) Windows
4 10 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.75%) CentOS
6 3 (3.75%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (61.25%) CI/CD
2 34 (42.50%) DevOps
3 24 (30.00%) Microservices
4 21 (26.25%) Agile
5 17 (21.25%) Analytics
6 16 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 15 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (18.75%) Visualisation
8 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.25%) API Integration
9 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (12.50%) Build Automation
11 10 (12.50%) Migration
11 10 (12.50%) Observability
11 10 (12.50%) TDD
12 9 (11.25%) Decision-Making
12 9 (11.25%) High Availability
13 8 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
13 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 43 (53.75%) Python
2 21 (26.25%) Java
3 13 (16.25%) Bash
3 13 (16.25%) SQL
4 11 (13.75%) C#
5 10 (12.50%) Perl
6 7 (8.75%) Go
6 7 (8.75%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.50%) Scala
8 5 (6.25%) C++
9 4 (5.00%) Groovy
10 2 (2.50%) Ruby
10 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) CEH
4 3 (3.75%) CISSP
4 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.25%) OCP
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 34 (42.50%) Docker
2 13 (16.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.00%) Platform Symphony
4 3 (3.75%) vCloud
4 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.75%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (3.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (55.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.00%) Grafana
3 17 (21.25%) logstash
4 15 (18.75%) Terraform
5 10 (12.50%) Progress Chef
6 7 (8.75%) Ansible
6 7 (8.75%) Prometheus
7 6 (7.50%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.50%) Perfmon
10 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.25%) Argo
10 1 (1.25%) Nagios
10 1 (1.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Splunk
2 15 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 14 (17.50%) AppDynamics
4 11 (13.75%) Red Hat
5 6 (7.50%) Cloudera
6 5 (6.25%) IBM
6 5 (6.25%) TIBCO
7 4 (5.00%) VMware
8 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.50%) Imperva
9 1 (1.25%) Commvault
9 1 (1.25%) Solace