Elastic Kibana
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Kibana skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kibana over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 559 567
Rank change year-on-year +96 +8 -52
Contract jobs citing Kibana 137 154 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.66% 1.60% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 112 210
10th Percentile £383 £450 £424
25th Percentile £456 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £589 £577 £712
90th Percentile £645 £734 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £563
% change year-on-year +2.29% -8.76% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £58.38
25th Percentile £58.75 - £69.06
Median hourly rate £60.00 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £61.25 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £52.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Kibana is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,146 9,616 14,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 16.11% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,676 6,945 10,277
10th Percentile £257 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £672
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 209 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.48 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.77 £22.75 £15.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +155.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £54.38 £71.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.50 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £43.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +118.75% -9.09%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kibana.

Daily rate trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kibana over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kibana.

Hourly rate trend for Kibana in the UK

Kibana
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kibana within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +98 105 £510 -2.86% 24
UK excluding London +73 66 £525 +2.29% 12
London +94 54 £500 -2.91% 12
Work from Home +97 43 £478 -3.88% 12
Midlands +43 24 £544 -22.32%
Scotland +22 20 £521 +6.87%
West Midlands +40 19 £550 -21.43%
North of England +29 10 £624 -10.93% 2
South East +16 10 £485 -37.34% 7
Yorkshire +22 6 £645 -7.86% 1
East Midlands +18 5 £356 -49.14%
North West +25 3 £463 -9.76%
South West +12 2 £704 +16.08% 3
North East +20 1 £550 - 1

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 25 (18.25%) Confluence
2 21 (15.33%) OpenStack
3 5 (3.65%) JBoss
4 4 (2.92%) Apache
5 2 (1.46%) IIS
5 2 (1.46%) nginx
6 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.73%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (29.20%) AWS
2 25 (18.25%) Azure
3 22 (16.06%) OpenShift
4 17 (12.41%) Slack
5 16 (11.68%) GitHub
6 12 (8.76%) Amazon S3
6 12 (8.76%) Serverless
7 11 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.30%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (6.57%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (6.57%) GCP
10 6 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (4.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (4.38%) Apigee
10 6 (4.38%) Kong
11 5 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.65%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (2.92%) Datadog
13 3 (2.19%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.14%) TCP/IP
2 14 (10.22%) Firewall
3 13 (9.49%) DNS
3 13 (9.49%) HTTP
4 7 (5.11%) Wireshark
5 6 (4.38%) VPN
6 5 (3.65%) SSH
7 4 (2.92%) DHCP
7 4 (2.92%) FTP
7 4 (2.92%) ICMP
7 4 (2.92%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (2.92%) Network Security
7 4 (2.92%) POP3
7 4 (2.92%) SMTP
7 4 (2.92%) tcpdump
8 3 (2.19%) BGP
8 3 (2.19%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (2.19%) MPLS
8 3 (2.19%) OSPF
8 3 (2.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (64.96%) Elasticsearch
2 25 (18.25%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.11%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.38%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.65%) Apache Hive
5 5 (3.65%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.65%) MySQL
5 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.92%) Redis
6 4 (2.92%) Tableau
7 3 (2.19%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.19%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.19%) Power BI
7 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.73%) Flink
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 63 (45.99%) Jenkins
2 33 (24.09%) JIRA
3 26 (18.98%) Git
4 20 (14.60%) GitLab
5 11 (8.03%) IntelliJ
5 11 (8.03%) Postman
6 9 (6.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (5.11%) CircleCI
7 7 (5.11%) Travis CI
8 6 (4.38%) Artifactory
8 6 (4.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (4.38%) JMeter
8 6 (4.38%) JUnit
8 6 (4.38%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.65%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.65%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (3.65%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.65%) NeoLoad
9 5 (3.65%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.92%) Gradle
General
1 25 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.22%) Finance
3 14 (10.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.30%) Banking
5 6 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.92%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.19%) Retail
9 2 (1.46%) Military
10 1 (0.73%) Automotive
10 1 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Police
10 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (13.14%) Senior
2 17 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (11.68%) SIEM Engineer
4 15 (10.95%) Architect
4 15 (10.95%) Developer
5 13 (9.49%) Lead
6 11 (8.03%) Java Developer
7 10 (7.30%) Analyst
7 10 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Site Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (6.57%) Technical Leader
9 7 (5.11%) VMware Architect
10 6 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (4.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (49.64%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (17.52%) Spring Boot
3 21 (15.33%) Spring
4 15 (10.95%) REST
5 14 (10.22%) HTML
6 13 (9.49%) CSS
6 13 (9.49%) Kafka
7 12 (8.76%) JSON
8 10 (7.30%) AWS CDK
8 10 (7.30%) React
9 9 (6.57%) Node.js
9 9 (6.57%) XML
10 8 (5.84%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (4.38%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.38%) YAML
12 5 (3.65%) Apache Camel
12 5 (3.65%) Playwright
12 5 (3.65%) RESTful
12 5 (3.65%) Spring Security
12 5 (3.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.87%) Onboarding
2 13 (9.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 12 (8.76%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (6.57%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (6.57%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (6.57%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.38%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.38%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.65%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.92%) YARA
8 3 (2.19%) Clustering
8 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.46%) CBDC
9 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.46%) PKI
10 1 (0.73%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.73%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (0.73%) Replication
10 1 (0.73%) STB
Operating Systems
1 55 (40.15%) Linux
2 32 (23.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (16.06%) Windows
4 21 (15.33%) CentOS
5 18 (13.14%) Ubuntu
6 6 (4.38%) Windows Server
7 5 (3.65%) Unix
8 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.46%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.99%) CI/CD
2 60 (43.80%) Agile
3 43 (31.39%) DevOps
4 40 (29.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (23.36%) Observability
6 31 (22.63%) SIEM
7 22 (16.06%) Continuous Integration
7 22 (16.06%) Microservices
8 20 (14.60%) Incident Response
9 19 (13.87%) Containerisation
9 19 (13.87%) Root Cause Analysis
10 18 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (10.95%) Scrum
12 14 (10.22%) Code Quality
12 14 (10.22%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (10.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 14 (10.22%) TDD
12 14 (10.22%) Test Automation
13 13 (9.49%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (9.49%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (37.23%) Python
2 28 (20.44%) Java
3 23 (16.79%) Shell Script
4 18 (13.14%) Bash
4 18 (13.14%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.76%) PowerShell
5 12 (8.76%) SQL
6 8 (5.84%) R
7 6 (4.38%) C
7 6 (4.38%) Groovy
7 6 (4.38%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.65%) Perl
9 4 (2.92%) C++
10 3 (2.19%) Go
11 2 (1.46%) C#
11 2 (1.46%) PHP
12 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.73%) Ruby
12 1 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (25.55%) Security Cleared
2 29 (21.17%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.60%) DV Cleared
4 11 (8.03%) Degree
5 10 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (6.57%) CEH
6 9 (6.57%) CISSP
7 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.19%) CCDP
8 3 (2.19%) CCNP
8 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.73%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.30%) QA
2 7 (5.11%) NIST
3 5 (3.65%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.92%) GDPR
4 4 (2.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.73%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 32 (23.36%) Docker
2 18 (13.14%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.22%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (6.57%) iptables
5 4 (2.92%) Snort
6 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (46.72%) Grafana
1 64 (46.72%) logstash
2 44 (32.12%) Ansible
3 41 (29.93%) Prometheus
4 37 (27.01%) Kubernetes
5 20 (14.60%) Terraform
6 13 (9.49%) Progress Chef
7 8 (5.84%) Argo
7 8 (5.84%) Istio
7 8 (5.84%) Puppet
8 7 (5.11%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (3.65%) QRadar
10 3 (2.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.19%) Nagios
10 3 (2.19%) Packer
11 2 (1.46%) Rancher
12 1 (0.73%) Anchore
Vendors
1 34 (24.82%) Splunk
2 22 (16.06%) Red Hat
3 16 (11.68%) Amdocs
4 15 (10.95%) Microsoft
5 13 (9.49%) VMware
6 10 (7.30%) AppDynamics
7 8 (5.84%) Oracle
8 7 (5.11%) Google
9 5 (3.65%) ArcSight
10 4 (2.92%) Commvault
10 4 (2.92%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.92%) New Relic
11 3 (2.19%) Arista
11 3 (2.19%) Aruba
11 3 (2.19%) Cisco
11 3 (2.19%) IBM
11 3 (2.19%) Infoblox
11 3 (2.19%) Meraki
11 3 (2.19%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.19%) Zscaler