Elastic Kibana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Kibana skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kibana over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 795 855
Rank change year-on-year +151 +60 -100
Permanent jobs citing Kibana 40 90 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.092% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.80% 0.90% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 15 53 64
10th Percentile £41,000 £33,750 £44,033
25th Percentile £46,813 £52,500 £52,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -22.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66,250 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £71,750 £101,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -20.00%

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 4,972 9,994 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 10.16% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 7,234 9,375
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,842 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,525 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kibana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kibana.

Salary trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kibana over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 10 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 30 April 2025. 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 +166 38 £60,000 -0.70% 45
UK excluding London +181 33 £60,000 +9.09% 22
London +98 24 £62,500 -24.91% 24
South East +118 18 £62,500 +8.70% 5
North of England +81 8 £48,625 +29.67% 6
North West +34 7 £46,500 +24.00% 2
Work from Home +152 5 £45,000 -18.18% 36
South West +112 5 £72,500 +31.82% 6
Northern Ireland +37 2 £55,000 -4.35%
Yorkshire +67 1 £50,750 -36.56% 2

Kibana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 29 (72.50%) AWS
2 19 (47.50%) Amazon EC2
2 19 (47.50%) Amazon EKS
2 19 (47.50%) Serverless
3 18 (45.00%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (12.50%) Azure
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare Workers
8 1 (2.50%) Datadog
8 1 (2.50%) GCP
8 1 (2.50%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (62.50%) Relational Database
2 20 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (45.00%) RDBMS
4 15 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.00%) Tableau
8 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
8 1 (2.50%) DB2
8 1 (2.50%) InfluxDB
8 1 (2.50%) MySQL
8 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (57.50%) Jenkins
2 18 (45.00%) JMeter
2 18 (45.00%) JUnit
2 18 (45.00%) Mockito
3 10 (25.00%) GitLab
4 7 (17.50%) Git
5 3 (7.50%) JIRA
6 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.00%) Maven
7 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (2.50%) TestRail
General
1 17 (42.50%) Public Sector
2 8 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.00%) Advertising
5 2 (5.00%) Games
5 2 (5.00%) iGaming
5 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Publishing
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Developer
2 20 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Junior
5 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (5.00%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.50%) Consultant
7 1 (2.50%) Junior Applications Support
7 1 (2.50%) Junior Support Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior
7 1 (2.50%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (55.00%) Hibernate
1 22 (55.00%) Spring
2 20 (50.00%) REST
2 20 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 19 (47.50%) HTML
4 18 (45.00%) ActiveMQ
4 18 (45.00%) Apache Camel
4 18 (45.00%) jQuery
4 18 (45.00%) Web Services
4 18 (45.00%) WireMock
5 8 (20.00%) React
6 7 (17.50%) JSON
7 6 (15.00%) XML
8 5 (12.50%) .NET
9 4 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (10.00%) JSF
9 4 (10.00%) RESTful
10 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
10 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
10 3 (7.50%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 18 (45.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile Games
2 2 (5.00%) Online Games
2 2 (5.00%) Sports Betting
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) CI/CD
2 30 (75.00%) Agile
3 25 (62.50%) Microservices
4 19 (47.50%) Scrum
5 18 (45.00%) BDD
5 18 (45.00%) Process Management
5 18 (45.00%) TDD
5 18 (45.00%) Workflow
6 17 (42.50%) Kanban
7 13 (32.50%) Collaborative Working
8 12 (30.00%) Architectural Design
9 10 (25.00%) DevOps
10 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (17.50%) SDLC
12 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
12 6 (15.00%) User Experience
13 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
13 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 5 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (77.50%) Java
2 30 (75.00%) Python
3 27 (67.50%) JavaScript
4 19 (47.50%) Shell Script
5 6 (15.00%) Bash
5 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (12.50%) C#
7 4 (10.00%) SQL
8 2 (5.00%) MATLAB
8 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.00%) R
9 1 (2.50%) Go
9 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (67.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (67.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (25.00%) Grafana
3 6 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (10.00%) logstash
5 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (5.00%) Ansible
5 2 (5.00%) Control-M
5 2 (5.00%) Nagios
6 1 (2.50%) Argo
6 1 (2.50%) Check_MK
6 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.50%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.50%) Opsgenie
6 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Splunk
2 18 (45.00%) Dynatrace
3 7 (17.50%) Oracle
4 6 (15.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.00%) AppDynamics
5 2 (5.00%) Commvault
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.50%) BMC
6 1 (2.50%) Imperva
6 1 (2.50%) New Relic
6 1 (2.50%) Okta
6 1 (2.50%) Optimizely
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow