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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 96 111
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 +63
Contract jobs citing Grafana 20 29 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.90% 1.39% 0.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.94% 7.75% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 16
10th Percentile £350 £488 £450
25th Percentile £430 £575 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £681 £655
Median % change year-on-year -13.67% +3.89% +0.77%
75th Percentile £717 £710 £699
90th Percentile £738 £711 £713
London median daily rate £525 £606 £570
% change year-on-year -13.40% +6.36% -5.00%

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 288 374 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.96% 17.89% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 252 225
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £452 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £706 £725 £753
London median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £20.50 - -
25th Percentile £21.98 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +729.63% -42.55%
75th Percentile - - £32.25
90th Percentile £42.60 - £43.05
London median hourly rate £52.50 £36.75 £25.71
% change year-on-year +42.86% +42.94% -5.15%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 17 £681 - 20
West End of London - 3 £350 -
City of Westminster - 3 £350 - 6
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 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (15.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.00%) Apigee
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.00%) Datadog
6 1 (5.00%) Figma
6 1 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) BGP
1 3 (15.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (10.00%) Hazelcast
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) GitLab
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Gatling
4 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.00%) Jaeger
4 1 (5.00%) Vite
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Front Office
5 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.00%) Games
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Developer
1 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) Electronics Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Network Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Senior
3 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Kafka
2 7 (35.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (20.00%) Spring
4 3 (15.00%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (15.00%) JMS
4 3 (15.00%) Middleware
4 3 (15.00%) Node.js
4 3 (15.00%) OAuth
4 3 (15.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (15.00%) OpenID
4 3 (15.00%) React
5 2 (10.00%) Apache Avro
5 2 (10.00%) JSON
5 2 (10.00%) Micronaut
5 2 (10.00%) Quarkus
5 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (10.00%) WireMock
6 1 (5.00%) Playwright
6 1 (5.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Equities
2 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Media Streaming
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Observability
2 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (40.00%) Microservices
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Secrets Management
6 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Algorithmic Trading
7 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
7 3 (15.00%) Electronic Trading
7 3 (15.00%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
7 3 (15.00%) Order Management
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) Runbook
7 3 (15.00%) Smart Order Routing
7 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Java
2 8 (40.00%) Python
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (10.00%) Go
7 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CCNP
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (10.00%) ISO 8583
1 2 (10.00%) PSD2
1 2 (10.00%) QA
1 2 (10.00%) SEPA
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Prometheus
2 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (40.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Argo
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Istio
5 1 (5.00%) Karpenter
5 1 (5.00%) Kustomize
5 1 (5.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Splunk
2 4 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (15.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (15.00%) Bloomberg
3 3 (15.00%) Charles River
4 2 (10.00%) Confluent
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.00%) Snow
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle