Kibana Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Elastic Kibana
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kibana skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 477 675
Rank change year-on-year -67 +198 0
Permanent jobs citing Kibana 29 35 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.12% 0.084%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.17% 1.17% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 29
10th Percentile £46,100 £46,175 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,625 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £84,063 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £84,625 £68,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £60,000 £58,350
% change year-on-year +37.50% +2.83% -22.20%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,474 2,999 6,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.78% 10.41% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,844 1,670 4,373
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £43,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.86%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £84,964
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kibana relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Kibana job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kibana
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kibana.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kibana

Kibana
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kibana in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Kibana in the UK excluding London

Kibana
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East -22 16 £82,500 +32.00% 9
South West -42 13 £57,500 -13.21% 6
Yorkshire -48 2 - -
North of England -55 2 - -
Kibana
UK

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (20.69%) Apache
2 3 (10.34%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (86.21%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Serverless
3 9 (31.03%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (27.59%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (17.24%) Azure
6 4 (13.79%) OpenShift
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.90%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
9 1 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) DNS
1 4 (13.79%) Firewall
1 4 (13.79%) HTTP
1 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
1 4 (13.79%) VPN
2 2 (6.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (24.14%) Relational Database
2 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.79%) InfluxDB
3 4 (13.79%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (65.52%) Jenkins
2 12 (41.38%) Git
3 11 (37.93%) GitLab
4 7 (24.14%) Cucumber
5 6 (20.69%) Cypress.io
5 6 (20.69%) JMeter
5 6 (20.69%) Selenium
6 5 (17.24%) JIRA
6 5 (17.24%) JUnit
6 5 (17.24%) SonarQube
7 4 (13.79%) Mockito
7 4 (13.79%) Robot Framework
7 4 (13.79%) TestRail
8 3 (10.34%) Maven
9 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
9 2 (6.90%) Gradle
General
1 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Applications Support
5 3 (10.34%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Backend Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Java Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Service Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Service Desk Support
5 3 (10.34%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Support Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Functional Tester
6 2 (6.90%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (55.17%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (41.38%) REST
3 9 (31.03%) Spring
4 8 (27.59%) Spring Boot
4 8 (27.59%) Web Services
5 6 (20.69%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (20.69%) React
6 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
6 5 (17.24%) Hibernate
6 5 (17.24%) jQuery
6 5 (17.24%) Vue
7 4 (13.79%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (13.79%) Apache Camel
7 4 (13.79%) HTML
7 4 (13.79%) Java EE
7 4 (13.79%) JMS
7 4 (13.79%) JPA
7 4 (13.79%) JSON
7 4 (13.79%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (13.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
3 4 (13.79%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (13.79%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) Windows
3 4 (13.79%) CentOS
4 2 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 17 (58.62%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) DevOps
3 10 (34.48%) Microservices
4 9 (31.03%) BDD
4 9 (31.03%) Collaborative Culture
5 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (27.59%) TDD
6 7 (24.14%) Scrum
6 7 (24.14%) Workflow
7 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.69%) SDLC
7 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
7 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
8 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
9 4 (13.79%) Design Patterns
9 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (13.79%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Java
2 15 (51.72%) JavaScript
2 15 (51.72%) Python
3 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
4 7 (24.14%) TypeScript
5 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
6 4 (13.79%) C++
6 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
6 4 (13.79%) Rust
6 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
7 3 (10.34%) Go
7 3 (10.34%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (6.90%) Groovy
9 1 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (13.79%) CREST Certified
3 4 (13.79%) GCIA
3 4 (13.79%) GCIH
3 4 (13.79%) GIAC
4 3 (10.34%) GCED
4 3 (10.34%) OSCP
4 3 (10.34%) SANS
5 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (44.83%) Ansible
1 13 (44.83%) Kubernetes
1 13 (44.83%) Terraform
2 11 (37.93%) Grafana
2 11 (37.93%) logstash
3 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Splunk
2 6 (20.69%) Atlassian
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle
4 4 (13.79%) AppDynamics
4 4 (13.79%) Carbon Black
4 4 (13.79%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
4 4 (13.79%) IBM
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
4 4 (13.79%) VMware