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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 153 274
Rank change year-on-year -41 +121 -19
Permanent jobs citing Kibana 14 6 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.18% 0.22% 0.090%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.77% 2.16% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £56,625 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £59,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +20.45% -38.89%
75th Percentile £58,750 £71,563 £57,500
90th Percentile - £72,875 £63,560
England median annual salary £81,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +35.42% -4.00% -16.67%

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 371 278 899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.89% 10.35% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 260 201 726
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -9.19%
75th Percentile £69,063 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -6.47% +14.88% -10.37%

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 4 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
Gloucestershire -20 11 - - 5
Dorset - 2 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £57,500 -
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 7 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 2 (14.29%) BlazeMeter
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (28.57%) InfluxDB
3 3 (21.43%) Big Data
4 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 11 (78.57%) GitLab
3 8 (57.14%) Cucumber
3 8 (57.14%) Git
4 6 (42.86%) Cypress.io
4 6 (42.86%) Selenium
4 6 (42.86%) SonarQube
5 4 (28.57%) Robot Framework
5 4 (28.57%) TestRail
6 3 (21.43%) Maven
7 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
7 2 (14.29%) Gradle
7 2 (14.29%) JIRA
7 2 (14.29%) JMeter
8 1 (7.14%) JUnit
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 2 (14.29%) Functional Tester
4 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Tester
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (42.86%) Vue
4 4 (28.57%) Playwright
4 4 (28.57%) pytest
5 2 (14.29%) React
6 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
6 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
6 1 (7.14%) jQuery
6 1 (7.14%) JSF
6 1 (7.14%) PrimeFaces
6 1 (7.14%) REST
6 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) CentOS
2 4 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) Collaborative Culture
3 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (50.00%) DevOps
4 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (42.86%) Software Testing
5 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
6 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
7 4 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Test Management
8 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (21.43%) Scrum
8 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
9 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
9 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 11 (78.57%) Python
3 10 (71.43%) Bash
3 10 (71.43%) Java
4 8 (57.14%) TypeScript
5 4 (28.57%) C++
5 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
5 4 (28.57%) Rust
6 3 (21.43%) Go
7 2 (14.29%) Groovy
7 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 4 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) logstash
2 11 (78.57%) Grafana
3 10 (71.43%) Ansible
3 10 (71.43%) Terraform
4 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
5 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
6 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Atlassian
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle