Kibana Job Trends in the South East

Elastic Kibana
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Kibana skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 268 379
Rank change year-on-year -8 +111 +10
Permanent jobs citing Kibana 22 13 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.17% 0.067%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.68% 2.16% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile £32,300 - £54,750
25th Percentile £41,750 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.05%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £58,750
90th Percentile £84,500 - £63,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £49,125 £70,000
% change year-on-year +62.85% -29.82% -6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

Kibana falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 598 602 1,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.13% 7.65% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 477 390 1,251
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,175 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £71,625
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kibana relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Kibana job vacancy trend in the South East

Kibana
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kibana.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kibana

Kibana
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kibana in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Kibana in the South East

Kibana
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +14 16 £71,250 - 2
Thames Valley +9 16 £71,250 - 2
Hampshire - 4 £26,000 - 3
Surrey - 2 - -
Kibana
England

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
2 11 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 11 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 11 (50.00%) Serverless
3 7 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (22.73%) Azure
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
7 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) DNS
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
1 4 (18.18%) HTTP
1 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 4 (18.18%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Relational Database
2 7 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (22.73%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (31.82%) JMeter
2 7 (31.82%) JUnit
2 7 (31.82%) Mockito
3 4 (18.18%) Git
3 4 (18.18%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 11 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Analyst
2 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Applications Support
4 3 (13.64%) Applications Support Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Backend Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Service Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Service Desk Support
4 3 (13.64%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Support Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Customer Executive
6 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) REST
2 11 (50.00%) Spring
2 11 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 9 (40.91%) Web Services
4 7 (31.82%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (31.82%) Apache Camel
4 7 (31.82%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (31.82%) Hibernate
4 7 (31.82%) HTML
4 7 (31.82%) jQuery
4 7 (31.82%) WireMock
5 6 (27.27%) JPA
6 5 (22.73%) JSON
6 5 (22.73%) XML
7 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
7 4 (18.18%) Java EE
7 4 (18.18%) JMS
7 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (18.18%) React
7 4 (18.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (22.73%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (18.18%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (13.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
6 2 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (4.55%) CSOC
7 1 (4.55%) PKI
7 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile
2 11 (50.00%) BDD
2 11 (50.00%) Microservices
2 11 (50.00%) TDD
3 10 (45.45%) Workflow
4 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
5 7 (31.82%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) Incident Response
6 6 (27.27%) Kanban
6 6 (27.27%) Scrum
7 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (22.73%) Process Management
7 5 (22.73%) SDLC
7 5 (22.73%) SIEM
7 5 (22.73%) Threat Detection
8 4 (18.18%) Biometrics
8 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (18.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 4 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
8 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 7 (31.82%) Shell Script
3 7 (31.82%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
5 3 (13.64%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) GIAC
3 4 (18.18%) CREST Certified
3 4 (18.18%) GCIA
3 4 (18.18%) GCIH
3 4 (18.18%) SANS
4 3 (13.64%) GCED
4 3 (13.64%) OSCP
5 1 (4.55%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Splunk
2 7 (31.82%) Dynatrace
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
4 4 (18.18%) AppDynamics
4 4 (18.18%) Carbon Black
4 4 (18.18%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (18.18%) IBM
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce