Kibana Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 542 570
Rank change year-on-year +109 +28 -21
Contract jobs citing Kibana 142 140 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.72% 1.59% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 103 208
10th Percentile £406 £450 £440
25th Percentile £463 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £584
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -14.35% +16.75%
75th Percentile £645 £559 £700
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £53.88
25th Percentile £58.75 - £57.81
Median hourly rate £60.00 £90.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +35.85% -
75th Percentile £61.25 - £75.31
90th Percentile - - £79.63
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 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

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 1 June 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 15 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 1 June 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 +102 114 £510 -0.49% 25
UK excluding London +68 80 £525 +5.00% 16
London +71 44 £500 - 8
Work from Home +99 43 £510 +3.03% 14
Midlands +39 25 £538 -23.21% 1
West Midlands +26 19 £550 -21.43% 1
South East +22 18 £485 -5.37% 6
Scotland +19 14 £510 +4.62% 1
North of England +28 13 £624 -10.93% 1
South West +16 11 £690 +12.65% 7
Yorkshire +20 9 £625 -10.71%
East Midlands +8 5 £356 -49.14%
North West - 3 £463 - 1
North East +12 1 £550 -
East of England -1 1 £700 -

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 23 (16.20%) Confluence
2 14 (9.86%) OpenStack
3 6 (4.23%) JBoss
4 3 (2.11%) Apache
5 2 (1.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.70%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 37 (26.06%) AWS
2 30 (21.13%) OpenShift
3 27 (19.01%) Azure
4 21 (14.79%) GitHub
5 16 (11.27%) GCP
6 13 (9.15%) Slack
7 12 (8.45%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.45%) Serverless
8 11 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (6.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (6.34%) Kong
11 6 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (4.23%) Apigee
12 5 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.52%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.08%) TCP/IP
2 17 (11.97%) Firewall
3 16 (11.27%) DNS
4 15 (10.56%) HTTP
5 9 (6.34%) VPN
6 7 (4.93%) Wireshark
7 6 (4.23%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (2.82%) DHCP
8 4 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (2.82%) Network Security
8 4 (2.82%) tcpdump
9 3 (2.11%) BGP
9 3 (2.11%) FTP
9 3 (2.11%) MPLS
9 3 (2.11%) OSPF
9 3 (2.11%) POP3
9 3 (2.11%) SMTP
9 3 (2.11%) SNMP
9 3 (2.11%) SSL
9 3 (2.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (69.01%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (20.42%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.93%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.23%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.23%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.52%) Apache Hive
5 5 (3.52%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.52%) MySQL
5 5 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.82%) Big Data
6 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.82%) Tableau
7 3 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.11%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.11%) Power BI
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.41%) Redis
9 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 51 (35.92%) Jenkins
2 31 (21.83%) JIRA
3 26 (18.31%) Git
4 19 (13.38%) GitLab
5 10 (7.04%) CircleCI
5 10 (7.04%) Travis CI
6 9 (6.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (6.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (4.93%) JMeter
8 6 (4.23%) Artifactory
8 6 (4.23%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.52%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.52%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (3.52%) IntelliJ
9 5 (3.52%) NeoLoad
9 5 (3.52%) Postman
9 5 (3.52%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.82%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.82%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (2.82%) JUnit
General
1 32 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.15%) Finance
5 10 (7.04%) Banking
6 5 (3.52%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.11%) Retail
9 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Military
10 1 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Police
10 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (11.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (10.56%) SIEM Engineer
3 12 (8.45%) Architect
3 12 (8.45%) Lead
3 12 (8.45%) Senior
3 12 (8.45%) Site Engineer
3 12 (8.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (7.75%) Analyst
4 11 (7.75%) Developer
5 10 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (6.34%) Java Developer
6 9 (6.34%) SOC Analyst
7 8 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.93%) VMware Architect
9 6 (4.23%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (55.63%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (15.49%) Spring Boot
3 18 (12.68%) Spring
4 16 (11.27%) Kafka
5 15 (10.56%) JSON
6 13 (9.15%) XML
7 11 (7.75%) REST
8 10 (7.04%) AWS CDK
8 10 (7.04%) HTML
8 10 (7.04%) React
9 9 (6.34%) CSS
9 9 (6.34%) Node.js
9 9 (6.34%) YAML
10 8 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (4.23%) RESTful
11 6 (4.23%) Web Services
12 5 (3.52%) OLE
12 5 (3.52%) Sass
12 5 (3.52%) Spring Security
13 4 (2.82%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 18 (12.68%) Cyber Defence
2 18 (12.68%) Management Information System
3 17 (11.97%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (11.27%) Onboarding
5 12 (8.45%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (7.75%) Cloud Native
7 9 (6.34%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.82%) YARA
9 3 (2.11%) Clustering
9 3 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.41%) CBDC
10 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.41%) PKI
10 2 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.70%) Digital Currency
11 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.70%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 47 (33.10%) Linux
2 25 (17.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (16.20%) Windows
4 18 (12.68%) Ubuntu
5 14 (9.86%) CentOS
6 5 (3.52%) Unix
7 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
8 3 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.41%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (42.25%) Agile
2 54 (38.03%) CI/CD
3 50 (35.21%) DevOps
4 38 (26.76%) SIEM
5 35 (24.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (22.54%) Incident Response
7 27 (19.01%) Microservices
8 26 (18.31%) Containerisation
9 25 (17.61%) Observability
10 24 (16.90%) Root Cause Analysis
11 23 (16.20%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 22 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (15.49%) Incident Management
12 22 (15.49%) Use Case
13 21 (14.79%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (14.79%) Information Security
14 20 (14.08%) Collaborative Working
14 20 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (14.08%) Task Automation
15 19 (13.38%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (33.80%) Python
2 25 (17.61%) Java
3 21 (14.79%) Bash
4 17 (11.97%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.97%) Shell Script
5 15 (10.56%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.45%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.34%) SQL
8 8 (5.63%) R
9 6 (4.23%) C
9 6 (4.23%) Groovy
10 5 (3.52%) Perl
11 4 (2.82%) C++
11 4 (2.82%) Ruby
12 3 (2.11%) ActionScript
13 2 (1.41%) C#
14 1 (0.70%) Go
14 1 (0.70%) PHP
14 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (33.10%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 28 (19.72%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.75%) Degree
5 10 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (6.34%) CEH
6 9 (6.34%) CISSP
7 4 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.11%) CCDP
8 3 (2.11%) CCNP
8 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.27%) NIST
2 13 (9.15%) QA
3 9 (6.34%) NIST 800
4 5 (3.52%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.82%) GDPR
5 4 (2.82%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 31 (21.83%) Docker
2 19 (13.38%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.34%) iptables
4 7 (4.93%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.82%) Snort
Systems Management
1 73 (51.41%) logstash
2 64 (45.07%) Grafana
3 44 (30.99%) Kubernetes
4 38 (26.76%) Ansible
4 38 (26.76%) Prometheus
5 21 (14.79%) Terraform
6 16 (11.27%) Progress Chef
7 13 (9.15%) Argo
8 12 (8.45%) Istio
8 12 (8.45%) Puppet
9 10 (7.04%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (2.82%) QRadar
11 3 (2.11%) Packer
11 3 (2.11%) Rancher
12 1 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.70%) Anchore
12 1 (0.70%) SCOM
12 1 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (23.94%) Splunk
2 25 (17.61%) Microsoft
3 19 (13.38%) Red Hat
4 13 (9.15%) Amdocs
5 10 (7.04%) AppDynamics
6 9 (6.34%) Tanium
7 8 (5.63%) VMware
8 7 (4.93%) Google
8 7 (4.93%) Oracle
9 4 (2.82%) ArcSight
9 4 (2.82%) New Relic
10 3 (2.11%) Arista
10 3 (2.11%) Aruba
10 3 (2.11%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.11%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.11%) F5
10 3 (2.11%) Infoblox
10 3 (2.11%) Meraki
10 3 (2.11%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.11%) Zscaler