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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 117 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 +37
Contract jobs citing Grafana 31 18 29
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.20% 0.88% 1.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.45% 5.79% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 25
10th Percentile £405 £456 £447
25th Percentile £409 £472 £645
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £710
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -24.30% +5.19%
75th Percentile £581 £647 £775
90th Percentile £687 £715 £870
London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -17.97%

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 328 311 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.64% 15.19% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 214 232
10th Percentile £318 £281 £350
25th Percentile £455 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £762 £775
London median daily rate £530 £525 £548
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.11% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £39.16 £26.51 £15.60
25th Percentile £45.40 £26.60 £19.88
Median hourly rate £57.77 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.68% +5.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67.36 £47.91 -
90th Percentile £71.94 £58.51 -
London median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +60.00% -60.32%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 0 26 £550 -2.22% 16
West End of London -3 4 £410 -13.68%
City of Westminster -7 4 £410 -13.68% 3
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 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (6.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) GitHub
3 5 (16.13%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (12.90%) Serverless
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (9.68%) Datadog
5 3 (9.68%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
5 3 (9.68%) Power Automate
5 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.68%) PowerApps
6 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) BGP
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
1 4 (12.90%) Firewall
1 4 (12.90%) VPN
1 4 (12.90%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) IPFIX
2 1 (3.23%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (3.23%) SNMP
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) DynamoDB
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.68%) Power BI
3 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.23%) ClickHouse
4 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.23%) Metadata
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) Git
3 5 (16.13%) JMeter
4 4 (12.90%) GitLab
4 4 (12.90%) Postman
5 3 (9.68%) Gradle
5 3 (9.68%) Maven
6 2 (6.45%) Artifactory
6 2 (6.45%) JIRA
7 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.23%) Gatling
7 1 (3.23%) git-flow
7 1 (3.23%) JUnit
7 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.23%) Mockito
7 1 (3.23%) NeoLoad
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Banking
3 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
3 2 (6.45%) Front Office
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Military
4 1 (3.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Senior
2 6 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Tester
4 4 (12.90%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Electronics Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.23%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Performance Tester
6 1 (3.23%) Release Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Kafka
2 6 (19.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (19.35%) Spring
3 5 (16.13%) REST
3 5 (16.13%) Spring Boot
4 4 (12.90%) RESTful
4 4 (12.90%) Swagger
5 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.45%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (6.45%) JMS
5 2 (6.45%) Middleware
5 2 (6.45%) Node.js
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
5 2 (6.45%) React
6 1 (3.23%) Express.js
6 1 (3.23%) Jest
6 1 (3.23%) JWT
6 1 (3.23%) NestJS
6 1 (3.23%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.45%) Equities
4 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) Observability
2 20 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 20 (64.52%) DevOps
3 18 (58.06%) Containerisation
4 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (32.26%) Microservices
5 10 (32.26%) Test Automation
6 6 (19.35%) Agile
6 6 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) AIOps
7 5 (16.13%) Performance Testing
7 5 (16.13%) Test Strategy
7 5 (16.13%) Validation
8 4 (12.90%) API Design
8 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.90%) Manual Testing
8 4 (12.90%) Performance Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Proactive Monitoring
8 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) Bash
4 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) SQL
5 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) Korn
6 1 (3.23%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) CCNP
2 4 (12.90%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (80.65%) Prometheus
2 17 (54.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (29.03%) Terraform
4 6 (19.35%) Ansible
5 2 (6.45%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (3.23%) Istio
6 1 (3.23%) Kustomize
6 1 (3.23%) linkerd
6 1 (3.23%) Puppet
6 1 (3.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Splunk
2 6 (19.35%) AppDynamics
2 6 (19.35%) Dynatrace
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.45%) Bloomberg
4 2 (6.45%) Charles River
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco
5 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) ION Trading
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) SevOne