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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 107 108
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +48
Contract jobs citing Grafana 32 20 26
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.22% 1.03% 1.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.06% 6.37% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 24
10th Percentile £353 £461 £440
25th Percentile £405 £503 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £703
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% -16.37% -1.06%
75th Percentile £584 £702 £710
90th Percentile £707 £717 £866
London median daily rate £550 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% -16.00%

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 318 314 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.11% 16.12% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 214 234
10th Percentile £328 £275 £350
25th Percentile £450 £414 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £684 £751 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £56.73 £26.51 -
25th Percentile £58.11 £26.60 £12.75
Median hourly rate £63.88 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.15% +5.56% -59.73%
75th Percentile £71.18 £47.91 -
90th Percentile £73.47 £58.51 £40.95
London median hourly rate £58.72 £42.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +38.98% +69.00% -60.94%

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 30 June 2026.

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 30 June 2026. 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 -13 25 £550 -6.38% 8
West End of London - 7 £410 -
City of Westminster - 7 £410 -
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 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (9.38%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) AWS
2 10 (31.25%) GitHub
3 8 (25.00%) Azure
4 6 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (12.50%) Serverless
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
6 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
6 3 (9.38%) PowerApps
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) BGP
1 7 (21.88%) WAN
2 4 (12.50%) Firewall
3 3 (9.38%) DNS
3 3 (9.38%) VPN
4 1 (3.13%) IPFIX
4 1 (3.13%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (3.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 3 (9.38%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.38%) Power BI
4 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.13%) ClickHouse
5 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.13%) Hazelcast
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) Git
3 4 (12.50%) JMeter
3 4 (12.50%) Postman
4 3 (9.38%) GitLab
4 3 (9.38%) Gradle
4 3 (9.38%) Maven
5 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.13%) Gatling
5 1 (3.13%) git-flow
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) JUnit
5 1 (3.13%) Mockito
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Front Office
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Military
5 1 (3.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Operations Engineer
1 7 (21.88%) Senior
2 5 (15.63%) Developer
2 5 (15.63%) Java Developer
3 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Tester
4 3 (9.38%) Electronics Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Release Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) Kafka
2 7 (21.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (18.75%) REST
3 6 (18.75%) Spring
4 5 (15.63%) Spring Boot
5 4 (12.50%) RESTful
5 4 (12.50%) Swagger
6 3 (9.38%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (9.38%) JMS
6 3 (9.38%) Middleware
6 3 (9.38%) OAuth
6 3 (9.38%) OAuth2
7 2 (6.25%) Node.js
7 2 (6.25%) OpenID
7 2 (6.25%) React
8 1 (3.13%) Jest
8 1 (3.13%) Loki
8 1 (3.13%) Micronaut
8 1 (3.13%) NestJS
8 1 (3.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 7 (21.88%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.38%) Equities
3 3 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Containerisation
1 20 (62.50%) Observability
2 17 (53.13%) CI/CD
3 15 (46.88%) DevOps
4 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (31.25%) Microservices
5 10 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Event-Driven
7 5 (15.63%) Performance Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Validation
8 4 (12.50%) Agile
8 4 (12.50%) AIOps
8 4 (12.50%) ITIL
8 4 (12.50%) Manual Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Performance Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.50%) Runbook
8 4 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) Java
3 5 (15.63%) Bash
4 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) CCNP
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 8583
2 1 (3.13%) PSD2
2 1 (3.13%) SEPA
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (78.13%) Prometheus
2 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (28.13%) Terraform
4 7 (21.88%) Ansible
5 1 (3.13%) Argo
5 1 (3.13%) Istio
5 1 (3.13%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (3.13%) Kustomize
5 1 (3.13%) linkerd
5 1 (3.13%) Puppet
5 1 (3.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Splunk
2 6 (18.75%) AppDynamics
3 5 (15.63%) Dynatrace
4 3 (9.38%) Bloomberg
4 3 (9.38%) Charles River
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco
6 1 (3.13%) Confluent
6 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.13%) SevOne
6 1 (3.13%) Snow