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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 544 584
Rank change year-on-year +101 +40 -45
Contract jobs citing Kibana 137 150 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.69% 1.64% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 109 216
10th Percentile £404 £450 £433
25th Percentile £456 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £700
90th Percentile £665 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £536
% change year-on-year +2.50% -6.72% +19.11%
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 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +114 108 £501 -2.34% 31
UK excluding London +68 67 £513 +2.50% 20
London +76 49 £500 - 14
Work from Home +93 43 £500 +1.01% 16
Midlands +34 25 £538 -23.21% 2
West Midlands +33 19 £550 -21.43% 1
South East +29 14 £482 -8.19% 10
North of England +33 13 £624 -10.93% 1
Scotland +22 13 £511 +4.87% 1
Yorkshire +21 9 £625 -10.71%
East Midlands +13 5 £356 -49.14% 1
North West +17 3 £463 -9.76% 1
South West +10 2 £704 +14.90% 6
North East +13 1 £550 -

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 20 (14.60%) Confluence
2 16 (11.68%) OpenStack
3 6 (4.38%) JBoss
4 3 (2.19%) Apache
5 2 (1.46%) IIS
6 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.73%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.73%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 41 (29.93%) AWS
2 29 (21.17%) Azure
3 27 (19.71%) OpenShift
4 21 (15.33%) GitHub
5 15 (10.95%) GCP
6 13 (9.49%) Slack
7 12 (8.76%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.76%) Serverless
8 11 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.30%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (6.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (6.57%) Kong
11 6 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (4.38%) Apigee
12 5 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.65%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.33%) TCP/IP
2 17 (12.41%) Firewall
3 16 (11.68%) DNS
3 16 (11.68%) HTTP
4 9 (6.57%) VPN
5 7 (5.11%) Wireshark
6 6 (4.38%) Reverse Proxy
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%) SSH
7 4 (2.92%) tcpdump
8 3 (2.19%) BGP
8 3 (2.19%) BIG-IP
8 3 (2.19%) MPLS
8 3 (2.19%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (70.07%) Elasticsearch
2 31 (22.63%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.11%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.38%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.38%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.65%) Apache Hive
5 5 (3.65%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.65%) MySQL
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.92%) Redis
6 4 (2.92%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.92%) Tableau
7 3 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.19%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.19%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.19%) Power BI
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.73%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 55 (40.15%) Jenkins
2 28 (20.44%) JIRA
3 24 (17.52%) Git
4 21 (15.33%) GitLab
5 10 (7.30%) CircleCI
5 10 (7.30%) Travis CI
6 9 (6.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (6.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (5.11%) JMeter
8 6 (4.38%) Artifactory
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%) IntelliJ
9 5 (3.65%) NeoLoad
9 5 (3.65%) Postman
9 5 (3.65%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.92%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (2.92%) JUnit
General
1 24 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (16.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.22%) Finance
3 14 (10.22%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.03%) Banking
5 5 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Retail
7 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.46%) Military
9 1 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (11.68%) DevOps Engineer
1 16 (11.68%) SIEM Engineer
2 14 (10.22%) Architect
2 14 (10.22%) Site Engineer
2 14 (10.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 13 (9.49%) Developer
4 12 (8.76%) Lead
4 12 (8.76%) Senior
5 10 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (7.30%) Java Developer
6 9 (6.57%) Analyst
6 9 (6.57%) SOC Analyst
7 8 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.11%) VMware Architect
9 6 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (4.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (49.64%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (16.79%) Spring Boot
3 20 (14.60%) Spring
4 17 (12.41%) Kafka
5 15 (10.95%) JSON
6 13 (9.49%) REST
6 13 (9.49%) XML
7 11 (8.03%) HTML
8 10 (7.30%) AWS CDK
8 10 (7.30%) CSS
9 9 (6.57%) YAML
10 8 (5.84%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (5.11%) Node.js
11 7 (5.11%) React
12 6 (4.38%) RESTful
12 6 (4.38%) Web Services
13 5 (3.65%) OLE
13 5 (3.65%) Sass
13 5 (3.65%) Spring Security
14 4 (2.92%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.68%) Onboarding
2 13 (9.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 12 (8.76%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (8.03%) Cloud Native
5 9 (6.57%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (6.57%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (6.57%) Data Structures
5 9 (6.57%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.92%) YARA
7 3 (2.19%) Clustering
7 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.46%) CBDC
8 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.46%) PKI
9 1 (0.73%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.73%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 47 (34.31%) Linux
2 27 (19.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (16.06%) Windows
4 18 (13.14%) Ubuntu
5 16 (11.68%) CentOS
6 6 (4.38%) Unix
7 5 (3.65%) Windows Server
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 59 (43.07%) CI/CD
2 58 (42.34%) Agile
3 50 (36.50%) DevOps
4 37 (27.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (21.90%) SIEM
6 29 (21.17%) Microservices
7 28 (20.44%) Observability
8 27 (19.71%) Containerisation
9 23 (16.79%) Incident Response
10 21 (15.33%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (14.60%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (14.60%) Task Automation
12 18 (13.14%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (13.14%) Scrum
13 16 (11.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 16 (11.68%) TDD
14 15 (10.95%) Software Engineering
15 14 (10.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 13 (9.49%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.04%) Python
2 27 (19.71%) Java
3 20 (14.60%) Bash
4 18 (13.14%) Shell Script
5 15 (10.95%) JavaScript
5 15 (10.95%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.30%) SQL
7 9 (6.57%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.84%) R
9 6 (4.38%) C
9 6 (4.38%) Groovy
10 5 (3.65%) Perl
11 4 (2.92%) C++
12 3 (2.19%) ActionScript
13 2 (1.46%) C#
14 1 (0.73%) Go
14 1 (0.73%) PHP
14 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.73%) Ruby
14 1 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.82%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.87%) 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 13 (9.49%) 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 31 (22.63%) Docker
2 18 (13.14%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.57%) iptables
3 9 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.92%) Snort
Systems Management
1 68 (49.64%) Grafana
2 63 (45.99%) logstash
3 44 (32.12%) Kubernetes
4 43 (31.39%) Prometheus
5 40 (29.20%) Ansible
6 21 (15.33%) Terraform
7 16 (11.68%) Progress Chef
8 13 (9.49%) Argo
8 13 (9.49%) Istio
9 11 (8.03%) Puppet
10 10 (7.30%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (3.65%) QRadar
12 3 (2.19%) Packer
13 2 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (1.46%) Nagios
14 1 (0.73%) Anchore
Vendors
1 37 (27.01%) Splunk
2 19 (13.87%) Red Hat
3 18 (13.14%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.49%) Amdocs
5 10 (7.30%) AppDynamics
5 10 (7.30%) VMware
6 8 (5.84%) Oracle
7 7 (5.11%) Google
8 5 (3.65%) ArcSight
8 5 (3.65%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.92%) New Relic
10 3 (2.19%) Arista
10 3 (2.19%) Aruba
10 3 (2.19%) Cisco
10 3 (2.19%) F5
10 3 (2.19%) IBM
10 3 (2.19%) Infoblox
10 3 (2.19%) Meraki
10 3 (2.19%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.19%) Zscaler