Elastic Kibana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Kibana skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 601 772
Rank change year-on-year -68 +171 +74
Permanent jobs citing Kibana 47 46 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.11% 0.098%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.04% 0.94% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 21 17 57
10th Percentile £49,750 £41,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,000 £45,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £71,500 £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.30%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,503 4,903 9,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.18% 11.74% 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,127 3,353 7,329
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,200 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -6.09%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kibana job vacancy trend in the UK

Kibana
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kibana.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kibana

Kibana
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kibana over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
England -66 44 £82,500 +37.50% 30
UK excluding London -68 28 £62,500 +4.17% 19
London -10 20 £82,500 +32.00% 11
South West -45 13 £57,500 -20.69% 6
South East -57 12 £82,500 +32.00% 7
Work from Home -3 8 £62,500 +38.89% 13
Yorkshire -48 3 £62,500 +23.15%
North of England -70 3 £62,500 +23.15% 3
Scotland - 2 - -

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (17.02%) Apache
2 3 (6.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 34 (72.34%) AWS
2 18 (38.30%) Serverless
3 14 (29.79%) Azure
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (17.02%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (14.89%) Azure Event Grid
7 7 (14.89%) Azure Functions
7 7 (14.89%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (14.89%) Azure Storage
8 6 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (8.51%) OpenShift
10 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (4.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
11 2 (4.26%) GitHub
12 1 (2.13%) Amazon MSK
12 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Intranet
2 1 (2.13%) VPN
2 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (14.89%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.51%) InfluxDB
3 4 (8.51%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.38%) Big Data
5 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.13%) Couchbase
6 1 (2.13%) Metadata
6 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (55.32%) Jenkins
2 14 (29.79%) GitLab
3 12 (25.53%) Git
4 11 (23.40%) JMeter
5 10 (21.28%) Cucumber
6 8 (17.02%) SonarQube
7 6 (12.77%) Cypress.io
7 6 (12.77%) JIRA
7 6 (12.77%) JUnit
7 6 (12.77%) Selenium
8 5 (10.64%) LoadRunner
9 4 (8.51%) Gatling
9 4 (8.51%) Mockito
9 4 (8.51%) Robot Framework
9 4 (8.51%) TestRail
10 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket
10 3 (6.38%) Maven
11 2 (4.26%) Browser DevTools
12 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
12 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
General
1 13 (27.66%) Public Sector
2 10 (21.28%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Developer
2 10 (21.28%) Applications Support
3 9 (19.15%) Support Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Applications Support Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Test Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) Java Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Senior
5 7 (14.89%) Software Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Performance Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Performance Test Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Backend Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Tester
9 2 (4.26%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (42.55%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (25.53%) REST
3 11 (23.40%) Spring
4 10 (21.28%) Spring Boot
5 8 (17.02%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (17.02%) React
5 8 (17.02%) Web Services
6 7 (14.89%) .NET
6 7 (14.89%) Kafka
6 7 (14.89%) Vue
6 7 (14.89%) WPF
7 6 (12.77%) AngularJS
8 5 (10.64%) Hibernate
8 5 (10.64%) HTML
8 5 (10.64%) jQuery
8 5 (10.64%) JSON
8 5 (10.64%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (10.64%) WireMock
9 4 (8.51%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (8.51%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.38%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Windows
2 7 (14.89%) Linux
3 4 (8.51%) CentOS
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (80.85%) CI/CD
2 24 (51.06%) Agile
2 24 (51.06%) DevOps
3 21 (44.68%) Microservices
4 18 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (25.53%) Collaborative Culture
6 11 (23.40%) Observability
6 11 (23.40%) Runbook
7 10 (21.28%) BDD
7 10 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
9 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
9 8 (17.02%) Migration
9 8 (17.02%) Problem Management
9 8 (17.02%) TDD
10 7 (14.89%) Analytics
10 7 (14.89%) API Management
10 7 (14.89%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (14.89%) Log Analytics
10 7 (14.89%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) Java
2 21 (44.68%) Python
3 19 (40.43%) JavaScript
4 16 (34.04%) SQL
5 14 (29.79%) Bash
6 10 (21.28%) TypeScript
7 7 (14.89%) C#
8 5 (10.64%) C++
8 5 (10.64%) Go
8 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
8 5 (10.64%) Rust
9 4 (8.51%) PL/SQL
9 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
10 1 (2.13%) Groovy
10 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (44.68%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) Degree
6 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 18 (38.30%) Docker
2 5 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (57.45%) Grafana
2 19 (40.43%) Kubernetes
3 16 (34.04%) Terraform
4 15 (31.91%) Ansible
4 15 (31.91%) logstash
5 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.51%) vCenter Server
6 2 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (4.26%) Nagios
7 1 (2.13%) Control-M
7 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Splunk
2 11 (23.40%) Dynatrace
3 9 (19.15%) AppDynamics
4 7 (14.89%) VMware
5 6 (12.77%) Oracle
6 5 (10.64%) Atlassian
7 4 (8.51%) IBM
7 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
8 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
9 2 (4.26%) Commvault
9 2 (4.26%) New Relic
10 1 (2.13%) Apple
10 1 (2.13%) LogRhythm