Kibana Job Trends in the South West

Elastic Kibana
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Kibana skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 182 214
Rank change year-on-year +6 +32 +50
Permanent jobs citing Kibana 9 11 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.18% 0.25% 0.023%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.01% 2.57% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £66,875 - -
25th Percentile £69,688 £50,000 £65,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £60,000 £71,800
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -16.43% +2.57%
75th Percentile £87,813 £70,000 £77,700
90th Percentile £88,375 - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% +6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 299 428 849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.96% 9.92% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 246 274 647
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,313 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,188 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.07% +6.92% -3.70%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Kibana job vacancy trend in the South West

Kibana
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Kibana

Kibana
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Gloucestershire +21 8 £77,500 +29.17% 5
Bristol - 1 £80,000 - 2
Kibana
England

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (66.67%) Apache
2 5 (55.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (66.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) Big Data
4 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) GitLab
2 6 (66.67%) Git
3 5 (55.56%) Bitbucket
3 5 (55.56%) JIRA
3 5 (55.56%) JUnit
4 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
1 1 (11.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) React
2 6 (66.67%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (55.56%) Hibernate
3 5 (55.56%) JSF
4 4 (44.44%) PrimeFaces
5 2 (22.22%) Jest
5 2 (22.22%) Kafka
5 2 (22.22%) Redux
5 2 (22.22%) RESTful
5 2 (22.22%) Spring
5 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Coaching
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 7 (77.78%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) logstash
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle