Grafana Contract Job Trends in Central London

Grafana
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Grafana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 93 122
Rank change year-on-year -19 +29 +75
Contract jobs citing Grafana 15 39 25
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.77% 1.63% 0.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.28% 9.85% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 22
10th Percentile £400 £506 £565
25th Percentile £463 £584 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £681 £671
Median % change year-on-year -19.18% +1.38% +11.88%
75th Percentile £638 £710 £713
90th Percentile £725 £756 £735
London median daily rate £500 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -18.37% +2.08% -5.10%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

Grafana falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 284 396 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.56% 16.53% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 261 328
10th Percentile £356 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £546
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -8.96%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £738 £808
London median daily rate £525 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% -2.61% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £19.52 £44.00 -
25th Percentile £21.50 £69.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +397.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile £45.52 - -
London median hourly rate £43.50 £27.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +61.11% -54.24% +136.00%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Grafana relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Grafana job vacancy trend in Central London

Grafana
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Grafana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Grafana

Grafana
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana in Central London over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in Central London

Grafana
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. 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
City of London -20 12 £600 -11.83% 13
City of Westminster - 3 £475 - 2
West End of London - 2 £475 - 1
Grafana
London

Grafana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (6.67%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (6.67%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) GitHub
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
6 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Run
7 1 (6.67%) Figma
7 1 (6.67%) Google Gemini
7 1 (6.67%) Pulumi
7 1 (6.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (6.67%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Redis
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) Jaeger
4 1 (6.67%) Mocha
4 1 (6.67%) Vite
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Games
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Loki
2 3 (20.00%) Node.js
2 3 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
4 1 (6.67%) OpenID
4 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) Sass
4 1 (6.67%) Swagger
4 1 (6.67%) WebRTC
4 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Media Streaming
3 1 (6.67%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (53.33%) Observability
4 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 7 (46.67%) DevOps
5 6 (40.00%) High Availability
5 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Microservices
7 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
8 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
8 2 (13.33%) Agile
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
8 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
8 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Bash
3 5 (33.33%) Go
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) Java
5 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (20.00%) PromQL
6 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (6.67%) C#
7 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) MCP
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) EU AI Act
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (73.33%) Terraform
3 10 (66.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (20.00%) Ansible
4 3 (20.00%) Argo
5 2 (13.33%) Istio
5 2 (13.33%) Kustomize
5 2 (13.33%) Puppet
6 1 (6.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Tenable