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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 99 122
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 +52
Contract jobs citing Grafana 18 31 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.88% 1.45% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.25% 8.93% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 15
10th Percentile £350 £526 £517
25th Percentile £400 £647 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £681 £655
Median % change year-on-year -30.20% +3.89% +9.17%
75th Percentile £669 £710 £704
90th Percentile £925 £730 £728
London median daily rate £506 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -17.35% +6.52% -4.17%

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 288 347 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.01% 16.18% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 230 258
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +7.48% -10.83%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £675
90th Percentile £724 £711 £738
London median daily rate £525 £566 £550
% change year-on-year -7.28% +2.95% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £19.52 - -
25th Percentile £20.34 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £23.87 £112.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.69% +729.63% -34.15%
75th Percentile £25.47 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £50.00 £43.25 £35.42
% change year-on-year +15.61% +22.11% +37.77%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -24 14 £575 -15.50% 21
City of Westminster - 4 £350 -
West End of London - 3 £350 -
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 (5.56%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (5.56%) Mattermost
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (5.56%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) GCP
3 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) GitHub
4 5 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 2 (11.11%) Apigee
7 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
7 2 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.56%) Datadog
8 1 (5.56%) Google Gemini
8 1 (5.56%) Route 53
8 1 (5.56%) Stackdriver
8 1 (5.56%) Vertex AI
8 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) BGP
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (5.56%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 4 (22.22%) Redis
2 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Hazelcast
4 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.56%) MySQL
4 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) GitLab
2 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.11%) Gatling
3 2 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.56%) Jaeger
4 1 (5.56%) Mocha
4 1 (5.56%) Vite
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
3 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Front Office
4 1 (5.56%) Games
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
1 5 (27.78%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (22.22%) Loki
2 4 (22.22%) Node.js
3 3 (16.67%) OAuth
3 3 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 3 (16.67%) OpenID
3 3 (16.67%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) Apache Avro
4 2 (11.11%) JSON
4 2 (11.11%) Micronaut
4 2 (11.11%) Quarkus
4 2 (11.11%) React
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
5 1 (5.56%) Faiss
5 1 (5.56%) Fastify
5 1 (5.56%) LangChain
5 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
5 1 (5.56%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Equities
4 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Media Streaming
4 1 (5.56%) Online Games
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
3 7 (38.89%) Observability
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) Microservices
5 4 (22.22%) Secrets Management
5 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) High Availability
6 3 (16.67%) Low Latency
6 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Agile
7 2 (11.11%) Clean Code
7 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
7 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven Programming
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Resilience Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
5 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCNP
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) ISO 20022
2 2 (11.11%) ISO 8583
2 2 (11.11%) PSD2
2 2 (11.11%) SEPA
3 1 (5.56%) EU AI Act
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Prometheus
2 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 9 (50.00%) Terraform
4 6 (33.33%) Argo
5 4 (22.22%) Ansible
6 2 (11.11%) Istio
6 2 (11.11%) Kustomize
6 2 (11.11%) Puppet
7 1 (5.56%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Confluent
3 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.56%) Bloomberg
4 1 (5.56%) Charles River
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Snow
4 1 (5.56%) Tenable