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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 387 523
Rank change year-on-year +14 +136 +121
Permanent jobs citing Kibana 9 6 39
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.053% 0.047% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.59% 0.32% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 35
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,188 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -22.41% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,813 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,875 £81,250 £91,934
UK median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -17.24% +9.43%

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 1,526 1,904 3,684
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.06% 14.82% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 1,376 3,054
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.11% -9.28%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,247 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.65% +16.67% -11.11%

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 2 April 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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (11.11%) Couchbase
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (11.11%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) Maven
4 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
4 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Junior
1 2 (22.22%) Junior DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) Junior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Principal Software Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) React
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
2 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
3 3 (33.33%) Kafka
4 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (22.22%) Jest
4 2 (22.22%) Redux
4 2 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) CSS
5 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) Java EE
5 1 (11.11%) JMS
5 1 (11.11%) JPA
5 1 (11.11%) jQuery
5 1 (11.11%) JSON
5 1 (11.11%) RSS
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (33.33%) BDD
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Coaching
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Go
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) PHP
5 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 2 (22.22%) Nagios
3 2 (22.22%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Commvault
2 2 (22.22%) New Relic
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) LogRhythm