Hybrid/Remote Kibana Job Trends

Elastic Kibana
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Kibana skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 415 497
Rank change year-on-year +42 +82 +136
Permanent jobs citing Kibana 11 12 33
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.067% 0.079% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.72% 0.53% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 29
10th Percentile £53,500 £41,250 £50,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £56,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% -22.41% +17.04%
75th Percentile £88,438 £69,688 £91,934
90th Percentile £92,625 £79,375 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.64% +17.61%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Kibana falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,529 2,248 3,495
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.30% 14.88% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,049 1,379 2,982
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

Kibana
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kibana and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Kibana job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Kibana
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kibana.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kibana

Kibana
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kibana over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Kibana salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Kibana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon MSK
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (9.09%) Couchbase
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (45.45%) Cypress.io
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) JMeter
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
4 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Publishing
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Principal Software Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Junior
2 1 (9.09%) Junior DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Junior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) React
1 7 (63.64%) Spring
2 6 (54.55%) Kafka
2 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
3 5 (45.45%) Jest
3 5 (45.45%) Redux
3 5 (45.45%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) jQuery
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) Memcached
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) RSS
4 1 (9.09%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
1 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 7 (63.64%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (45.45%) Coaching
3 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) BDD
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
5 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
1 7 (63.64%) TypeScript
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Grafana
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Nagios
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) New Relic
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Apple
2 1 (9.09%) Commvault
2 1 (9.09%) LogRhythm
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle