Kibana Job Trends

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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 626 670
Rank change year-on-year +21 +44 +155
Permanent jobs citing Kibana 46 86 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.12% 1.47% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 22 19 58
10th Percentile £61,375 £42,500 £57,603
25th Percentile £65,938 £53,125 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £88,438 £70,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £120,000 £75,000 £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £61,250 £70,576
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.21% +17.63%

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 4,089 5,853 7,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.85% 10.97% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,904 3,560 6,184
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,680 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,404 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +6.78% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,875 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,283 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.20% +9.09% -4.35%

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 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 11 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 13 January 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 +26 41 £81,250 +30.00% 18
UK excluding London +25 29 £67,500 +10.20% 15
London +56 27 £82,500 +22.22% 1
South East +22 13 £58,000 -10.77% 4
Work from Home +64 9 £77,500 +24.00% 12
South West +8 9 £78,750 +31.25% 5
Scotland - 4 - -
North of England -15 2 £63,750 +6.25% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £63,750 -
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 5
Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 5

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 9 (19.57%) Apache
2 5 (10.87%) Confluence
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 25 (54.35%) AWS
2 21 (45.65%) Amazon EKS
2 21 (45.65%) Serverless
3 16 (34.78%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (28.26%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (15.22%) Azure
6 6 (13.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (10.87%) Amazon MSK
7 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (10.87%) Azure Event Grid
7 5 (10.87%) Azure Functions
7 5 (10.87%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (10.87%) Azure Storage
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) WAN
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) Intranet
2 1 (2.17%) LAN
2 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (36.96%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (32.61%) Relational Database
4 11 (23.91%) RDBMS
5 6 (13.04%) MongoDB
6 5 (10.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.17%) Big Data
8 1 (2.17%) Couchbase
8 1 (2.17%) Metadata
8 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 18 (39.13%) JUnit
3 15 (32.61%) JMeter
4 13 (28.26%) Mockito
5 8 (17.39%) GitLab
6 6 (13.04%) Git
7 5 (10.87%) Bitbucket
7 5 (10.87%) Cypress.io
7 5 (10.87%) JIRA
8 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.17%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (2.17%) LoadRunner
9 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Developer
2 14 (30.43%) Software Engineer
3 13 (28.26%) Java Developer
4 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 11 (23.91%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 7 (15.22%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Applications Support
6 6 (13.04%) Applications Support Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Support Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (41.30%) Spring
1 19 (41.30%) Spring Boot
2 18 (39.13%) Hibernate
3 14 (30.43%) REST
4 13 (28.26%) ActiveMQ
4 13 (28.26%) Apache Camel
4 13 (28.26%) HTML
4 13 (28.26%) jQuery
4 13 (28.26%) JSON
4 13 (28.26%) WireMock
4 13 (28.26%) XML
5 11 (23.91%) React
5 11 (23.91%) Web Services
6 10 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (19.57%) RESTful
8 8 (17.39%) Kafka
9 6 (13.04%) .NET
9 6 (13.04%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (10.87%) JSF
10 5 (10.87%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 6 (13.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (76.09%) CI/CD
2 28 (60.87%) Microservices
3 27 (58.70%) Agile
4 17 (36.96%) DevOps
5 16 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
7 14 (30.43%) BDD
8 13 (28.26%) SDLC
8 13 (28.26%) TDD
8 13 (28.26%) Workflow
9 12 (26.09%) Observability
10 11 (23.91%) Process Management
11 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (15.22%) Scrum
13 6 (13.04%) High Availability
13 6 (13.04%) Migration
13 6 (13.04%) Problem Management
14 5 (10.87%) Analytics
14 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
14 5 (10.87%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Java
2 26 (56.52%) Python
3 21 (45.65%) JavaScript
4 13 (28.26%) Shell Script
5 12 (26.09%) TypeScript
6 11 (23.91%) SQL
7 6 (13.04%) C#
8 2 (4.35%) Bash
8 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (10.87%) Degree
2 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) CCNP
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.17%) GDPR
1 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.17%) Squid
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (30.43%) Grafana
3 10 (21.74%) logstash
4 5 (10.87%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.35%) Ansible
5 2 (4.35%) Terraform
6 1 (2.17%) Control-M
6 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Splunk
2 15 (32.61%) Dynatrace
3 7 (15.22%) Oracle
4 6 (13.04%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.35%) New Relic
6 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.17%) Arista
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco
6 1 (2.17%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) VMware