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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 296 392
Rank change year-on-year +8 +96 +77
Contract jobs citing Kibana 18 43 59
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.10% 2.49% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 37 51
10th Percentile £400 £337 £450
25th Percentile £475 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £506 £495
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% +2.22% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £524
90th Percentile £705 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £495
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -13.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 - £90.00
% change year-on-year - - +35.85%

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 1,634 1,727 3,768
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.01% 12.09% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,119 1,263 2,765
10th Percentile £374 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £603 £633 £675
90th Percentile £711 £710 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -5.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 74
10th Percentile £27.63 £44.25 £23.19
25th Percentile £45.75 £46.25 £39.60
Median hourly rate £62.95 £48.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -25.00% +21.90%
75th Percentile £67.00 £50.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £55.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £37.75 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +16.15% -43.48% +143.95%

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 16 July 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 4 (22.22%) JBoss
2 2 (11.11%) nginx
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (5.56%) DataSynapse
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 5 (27.78%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (11.11%) Route 53
6 2 (11.11%) Serverless
7 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (22.22%) RDBMS
2 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Big Data
4 1 (5.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (33.33%) Git
3 5 (27.78%) JIRA
4 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (22.22%) CA Release Automation
4 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
4 4 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (22.22%) TeamCity
5 3 (16.67%) JMeter
6 2 (11.11%) LoadRunner
6 2 (11.11%) Postman
6 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
7 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (5.56%) GitLab
7 1 (5.56%) Selenium
7 1 (5.56%) TestNG
7 1 (5.56%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Python Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Senior
1 3 (16.67%) Tester
2 2 (11.11%) Backend Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Grid Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Performance Tester
2 2 (11.11%) Ruby Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) TIBCO Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
3 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 3 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.11%) JWT
4 2 (11.11%) Kafka
4 2 (11.11%) OAuth
5 1 (5.56%) Spring
5 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Grid Computing
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Equities
4 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (5.56%) Debian
5 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (27.78%) Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Build Automation
4 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 3 (16.67%) API Integration
5 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) Log Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Observability
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) Perl
4 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 3 (16.67%) Bash
5 3 (16.67%) C++
5 3 (16.67%) Go
5 3 (16.67%) Ruby
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) CEH
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (38.89%) Grafana
3 4 (22.22%) Progress Chef
3 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 4 (22.22%) Terraform
4 3 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (11.11%) Ansible
5 2 (11.11%) FortiGate
5 2 (11.11%) logstash
5 2 (11.11%) Packer
5 2 (11.11%) Perfmon
6 1 (5.56%) Graphite
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) AppDynamics
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
1 4 (22.22%) Splunk
2 3 (16.67%) TIBCO
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft