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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 158 217
Rank change year-on-year -68 +59 -
Permanent jobs citing Kibana 17 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.16% 0.31% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.04% 4.04% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £58,125 -
25th Percentile - £62,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £73,750 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year - +25.53% -
75th Percentile - £86,563 £70,000
90th Percentile - £88,125 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% -12.50%

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 560 272 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.33% 7.60% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 379 214 337
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.83% -14.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £79,938 £68,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,650 £82,275 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 10 October 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 -56 16 - - 8
Dorset - 1 - -
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 10 (58.82%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) OpenShift
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (35.29%) InfluxDB
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.76%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 17 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (94.12%) GitLab
3 11 (64.71%) Cucumber
4 10 (58.82%) SonarQube
5 7 (41.18%) Cypress.io
5 7 (41.18%) Git
5 7 (41.18%) Selenium
6 6 (35.29%) Robot Framework
6 6 (35.29%) TestRail
7 1 (5.88%) Gradle
7 1 (5.88%) JMeter
7 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Software Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Functional Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (94.12%) Elastic Stack
1 16 (94.12%) Terraform
2 10 (58.82%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (47.06%) pytest
3 8 (47.06%) Vue
4 6 (35.29%) Playwright
5 2 (11.76%) Django
5 2 (11.76%) FastAPI
5 2 (11.76%) Flask
5 2 (11.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) CentOS
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (94.12%) Collaborative Culture
3 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (58.82%) DevOps
5 9 (52.94%) Agile
5 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
6 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
7 7 (41.18%) Software Testing
8 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
8 6 (35.29%) Dashboard Development
8 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (35.29%) Service Delivery
8 6 (35.29%) Test Management
9 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
9 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
9 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (11.76%) Microservices
10 1 (5.88%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Bash
1 16 (94.12%) Python
2 14 (82.35%) JavaScript
3 9 (52.94%) Java
4 8 (47.06%) C++
4 8 (47.06%) Rust
4 8 (47.06%) TypeScript
5 6 (35.29%) Go
5 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) Groovy
6 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
1 6 (35.29%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) logstash
2 16 (94.12%) Ansible
2 16 (94.12%) Grafana
3 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 6 (35.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Atlassian
1 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
1 6 (35.29%) Splunk
1 6 (35.29%) VMware