Kibana Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Elastic Kibana
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Kibana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 105 112
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +65
Contract jobs citing Kibana 30 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.40% 0.49% 0.053%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.18% 4.15% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 1
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £503 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £635 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.72% -2.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 - £675
90th Percentile £625 - -
England median daily rate £478 £630 £495
% change year-on-year -24.13% +27.27% -17.50%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 418 217 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.51% 11.86% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 140 186
10th Percentile £290 £257 £269
25th Percentile £424 £385 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +14.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £567
90th Percentile £670 £672 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £39.98 - -
25th Percentile £45.94 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £12.18 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +361.82% -77.85% +221.45%
75th Percentile £66.94 £14.67 -
90th Percentile £73.13 £16.16 -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year +2.62% -24.03% +67.41%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kibana relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Kibana job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Kibana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Kibana

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the West Midlands

Kibana
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Birmingham +6 17 £360 - 6
Shropshire - 9 £540 - 2
Worcestershire - 2 £600 -
Warwickshire - 1 £700 - 1
Kibana
England

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) GitHub
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (73.33%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) GitLab
2 6 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (20.00%) JUnit
2 6 (20.00%) Maven
2 6 (20.00%) Mockito
3 5 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 5 (16.67%) Selenium
4 2 (6.67%) Gatling
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (3.33%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.33%) JIRA
5 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 11 (36.67%) Splunk Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 7 (23.33%) Site Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes Specialist
4 3 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Splunk Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) QA Leader
5 2 (6.67%) Search Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) SOC Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (73.33%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 8 (26.67%) Spring
4 7 (23.33%) Playwright
5 6 (20.00%) JPA
5 6 (20.00%) JSON
6 5 (16.67%) Gherkin
6 5 (16.67%) GraalVM
6 5 (16.67%) HTML
6 5 (16.67%) JDBC
6 5 (16.67%) OAuth
6 5 (16.67%) OAuth2
6 5 (16.67%) OpenID
6 5 (16.67%) React
7 2 (6.67%) Kafka
7 2 (6.67%) Spring Batch
7 2 (6.67%) WireMock
8 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (3.33%) REST
8 1 (3.33%) Spring.NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 7 (23.33%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Migration
2 16 (53.33%) Observability
3 15 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 13 (43.33%) Data Modelling
5 12 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 12 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (36.67%) Incident Response
7 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 8 (26.67%) DevOps
7 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (23.33%) Change Management
8 7 (23.33%) Coaching
8 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
8 7 (23.33%) Dashboard Development
8 7 (23.33%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (23.33%) Microservices
8 7 (23.33%) Performance Metrics
8 7 (23.33%) Proactive Monitoring
8 7 (23.33%) Validation
9 6 (20.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Python
2 13 (43.33%) Bash
3 8 (26.67%) Java
4 3 (10.00%) Bicep
4 3 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) Perl
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (23.33%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) CEH
4 1 (3.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) WCAG
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (76.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (43.33%) logstash
3 10 (33.33%) Ansible
4 7 (23.33%) Grafana
4 7 (23.33%) Puppet
5 3 (10.00%) Terraform
6 1 (3.33%) Fluentd
6 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.33%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Splunk
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.67%) PagerDuty
4 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat