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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 109 98
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 +37
Contract jobs citing Grafana 28 20 35
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.12% 1.01% 1.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.15% 8.00% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 29
10th Percentile - £413 £496
25th Percentile £405 £475 £645
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £710
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -22.54% +5.19%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £730
90th Percentile £671 £743 £840
London median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -14.23%

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 306 250 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.26% 12.58% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 184 226
10th Percentile £287 £281 £350
25th Percentile £450 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £642 £675 £675
90th Percentile £715 £775 £779
London median daily rate £538 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £26.20 £21.14 -
25th Percentile £29.50 £24.56 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.48 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.39% +1.76% -25.52%
75th Percentile £55.00 £39.08 -
90th Percentile £67.00 £54.98 -
London median hourly rate £62.75 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +109.17% +11.11% -55.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -9 23 £550 - 11
West End of London -6 4 £410 -13.68% 4
City of Westminster -8 4 £410 -13.68% 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 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) GitHub
3 9 (32.14%) Azure
4 5 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
6 3 (10.71%) Power Automate
6 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
6 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.14%) Datadog
7 2 (7.14%) Serverless
8 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.57%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) DNS
1 5 (17.86%) VPN
2 4 (14.29%) BGP
2 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 4 (14.29%) WAN
3 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.14%) VLAN
4 1 (3.57%) IPFIX
4 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (3.57%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.71%) Power BI
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) ClickHouse
4 1 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 8 (28.57%) Git
3 5 (17.86%) JMeter
4 4 (14.29%) Postman
5 3 (10.71%) Artifactory
5 3 (10.71%) GitLab
5 3 (10.71%) Gradle
5 3 (10.71%) JIRA
5 3 (10.71%) Maven
6 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.57%) Gatling
7 1 (3.57%) git-flow
7 1 (3.57%) JUnit
7 1 (3.57%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.57%) Mockito
7 1 (3.57%) NeoLoad
General
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Military
5 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Tester
3 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Support
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Spring
2 5 (17.86%) Spring Boot
3 4 (14.29%) Kafka
3 4 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (14.29%) RESTful
3 4 (14.29%) Swagger
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.14%) REST
5 1 (3.57%) Express.js
5 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.57%) Jest
5 1 (3.57%) Loki
5 1 (3.57%) Node.js
5 1 (3.57%) OAuth
5 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.57%) React
5 1 (3.57%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Genomics
4 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) DevOps
1 20 (71.43%) Observability
2 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
3 15 (53.57%) Containerisation
4 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (35.71%) Test Automation
6 7 (25.00%) Microservices
7 6 (21.43%) Agile
7 6 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (17.86%) Performance Testing
8 5 (17.86%) Test Strategy
8 5 (17.86%) Validation
9 4 (14.29%) API Design
9 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
9 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (14.29%) Manual Testing
9 4 (14.29%) Performance Engineering
9 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Bash
2 7 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.57%) CQL
4 1 (3.57%) Korn
4 1 (3.57%) PromQL
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) CCNP
2 4 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (82.14%) Prometheus
2 16 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (21.43%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Splunk
2 6 (21.43%) Dynatrace
3 4 (14.29%) AppDynamics
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.14%) Google
5 2 (7.14%) ION Trading
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle
5 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco
6 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.57%) SevOne