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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 101 117
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 +49
Contract jobs citing Grafana 27 24 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.11% 1.19% 0.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.41% 6.56% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 18
10th Percentile £350 £471 £460
25th Percentile £499 £517 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £680 £655
Median % change year-on-year -16.54% +3.82% -6.43%
75th Percentile £688 £710 £695
90th Percentile £738 £711 £710
London median daily rate £530 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -7.83% +9.52% -12.86%

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 287 366 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.80% 18.16% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 250 206
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £428 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £711 £748
London median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £22.68 - -
25th Percentile - - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +30.62% -75.92%
75th Percentile £59.72 - £32.81
90th Percentile £68.89 - £43.28
London median hourly rate £56.38 £29.00 £25.36
% change year-on-year +94.42% +14.38% -61.58%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -15 24 £600 -11.76% 20
West End of London - 3 £350 -
City of Westminster - 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 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (11.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) GitHub
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (7.41%) Apigee
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) BGP
1 3 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
1 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
2 4 (14.81%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.41%) Hazelcast
4 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.41%) Redis
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) Metadata
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) GitLab
2 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) Gradle
3 3 (11.11%) Maven
4 2 (7.41%) Gatling
5 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.70%) git-flow
5 1 (3.70%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.70%) JMeter
5 1 (3.70%) Postman
5 1 (3.70%) Vite
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Front Office
5 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.70%) Games
6 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (3.70%) Military
6 1 (3.70%) Police
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Electronics Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
6 1 (3.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) Kafka
2 10 (37.04%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (25.93%) Spring
4 5 (18.52%) Spring Boot
5 4 (14.81%) REST
6 3 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (11.11%) JMS
6 3 (11.11%) Middleware
6 3 (11.11%) Node.js
6 3 (11.11%) OAuth
6 3 (11.11%) OAuth2
6 3 (11.11%) OpenID
6 3 (11.11%) React
6 3 (11.11%) RESTful
7 2 (7.41%) Apache Avro
7 2 (7.41%) JSON
7 2 (7.41%) Micronaut
7 2 (7.41%) Quarkus
7 2 (7.41%) WireMock
8 1 (3.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) Equities
3 3 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.70%) Media Streaming
5 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.70%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Observability
2 16 (59.26%) CI/CD
3 14 (51.85%) Containerisation
4 12 (44.44%) DevOps
5 11 (40.74%) Microservices
6 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
8 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (14.81%) Secrets Management
10 3 (11.11%) API Design
10 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
10 3 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
10 3 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
10 3 (11.11%) Order Management
10 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (11.11%) Runbook
10 3 (11.11%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) Java
2 10 (37.04%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) Go
7 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.70%) C#
7 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) CCNP
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) ISO 20022
2 2 (7.41%) ISO 8583
2 2 (7.41%) PSD2
2 2 (7.41%) SEPA
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (70.37%) Prometheus
2 14 (51.85%) Kubernetes
3 10 (37.04%) Terraform
4 4 (14.81%) Ansible
5 3 (11.11%) Argo
6 2 (7.41%) Istio
7 1 (3.70%) Karpenter
7 1 (3.70%) Kustomize
7 1 (3.70%) linkerd
7 1 (3.70%) Puppet
7 1 (3.70%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Splunk
2 5 (18.52%) Dynatrace
3 4 (14.81%) AppDynamics
4 3 (11.11%) Bloomberg
4 3 (11.11%) Charles River
5 2 (7.41%) Confluent
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.41%) Snow
6 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.70%) Google
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (3.70%) Salesforce