Kibana Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Elastic Kibana
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 302 412
Rank change year-on-year +22 +110 +67
Contract jobs citing Kibana 24 43 65
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.56% 2.61% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 38 47
10th Percentile £400 £341 £460
25th Percentile £410 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £495
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -3.54% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £530 £524
90th Percentile £650 £623 £592
UK median daily rate £537 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +5.29% +2.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £60.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year +31.17% -33.33% +12.50%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Kibana falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Kibana
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Kibana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kibana trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Kibana
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kibana.

Kibana daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Kibana over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Kibana daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kibana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) DataSynapse
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 7 (29.17%) OpenShift
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 4 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (16.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (12.50%) Route 53
6 3 (12.50%) Serverless
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.33%) InfluxDB
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 4 (16.67%) JIRA
3 4 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (12.50%) GitLab
4 3 (12.50%) JMeter
4 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (12.50%) TeamCity
5 2 (8.33%) LoadRunner
5 2 (8.33%) Postman
5 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.17%) Selenium
6 1 (4.17%) Spinnaker
6 1 (4.17%) TestNG
6 1 (4.17%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Scala Developer
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Tester
6 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Grid Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) React Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Ruby Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (16.67%) Akka
2 4 (16.67%) Play Framework
3 3 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.17%) Kafka
5 1 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) RESTful
5 1 (4.17%) SOAP
5 1 (4.17%) Spring
5 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (12.50%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Equities
3 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Windows
3 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (58.33%) Agile
3 11 (45.83%) Microservices
4 9 (37.50%) API Integration
4 9 (37.50%) DevOps
5 8 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (29.17%) Code Quality
6 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 5 (20.83%) API Development
8 5 (20.83%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (20.83%) Scrum
9 4 (16.67%) BDD
9 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 4 (16.67%) Migration
9 4 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (16.67%) TDD
9 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 4 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) Bash
2 8 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) C#
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) Scala
5 3 (12.50%) C++
5 3 (12.50%) Groovy
5 3 (12.50%) Perl
6 2 (8.33%) Ruby
7 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CEH
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.33%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Kubernetes
2 8 (33.33%) Grafana
3 4 (16.67%) Ansible
3 4 (16.67%) logstash
3 4 (16.67%) Terraform
4 3 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.33%) Perfmon
5 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.17%) Argo
6 1 (4.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Splunk
2 3 (12.50%) AppDynamics
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.50%) TIBCO
3 2 (8.33%) IBM
3 2 (8.33%) Imperva
4 1 (4.17%) Commvault
4 1 (4.17%) VMware