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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 109 102
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +22
Contract jobs citing Grafana 33 15 35
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.36% 0.79% 1.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.44% 6.47% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 26
10th Percentile - £400 £490
25th Percentile £405 £463 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £710
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -22.54% +5.19%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £766
90th Percentile £664 £793 £863
London median daily rate £550 £512 £600
% change year-on-year +7.37% -14.63% -6.98%

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 316 232 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.00% 12.15% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 175 216
10th Percentile £287 £281 £350
25th Percentile £441 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £678
90th Percentile £715 £775 £775
London median daily rate £538 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +0.09% -2.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £14.20 £20.45 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.81 £27.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £28.50 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -58.99% +91.72%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.91 £112.00
90th Percentile £63.00 £58.51 -
London median hourly rate £49.00 £38.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year +26.45% +43.52% -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 29 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 29 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 -10 27 £550 -12.00% 31
West End of London -5 5 £410 -13.68% 2
City of Westminster -8 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 3 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) AWS
2 12 (36.36%) Azure
3 9 (27.27%) GitHub
4 6 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (15.15%) Datadog
6 4 (12.12%) GCP
7 3 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
7 3 (9.09%) Power Automate
7 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 3 (9.09%) PowerApps
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (6.06%) Serverless
9 1 (3.03%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) DNS
1 5 (15.15%) VPN
2 4 (12.12%) BGP
2 4 (12.12%) Firewall
2 4 (12.12%) WAN
3 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.06%) VLAN
4 1 (3.03%) IPFIX
4 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (3.03%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.03%) ClickHouse
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Jenkins
2 10 (30.30%) Git
3 6 (18.18%) JMeter
4 5 (15.15%) JIRA
5 4 (12.12%) Maven
5 4 (12.12%) Postman
6 3 (9.09%) Artifactory
6 3 (9.09%) GitLab
6 3 (9.09%) JUnit
6 3 (9.09%) Mockito
7 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
7 2 (6.06%) Gatling
7 2 (6.06%) Gradle
7 2 (6.06%) LoadRunner
7 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
8 1 (3.03%) NeoLoad
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Local Government
5 1 (3.03%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.03%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Senior
2 5 (15.15%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Java Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Senior Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Senior Java Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Tester
3 4 (12.12%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Support
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Spring
2 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 5 (15.15%) RESTful
4 4 (12.12%) Kafka
4 4 (12.12%) REST
4 4 (12.12%) Swagger
5 3 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (6.06%) .NET
6 2 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.06%) Hibernate
6 2 (6.06%) JPA
6 2 (6.06%) SOAP
6 2 (6.06%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (6.06%) Web Services
7 1 (3.03%) Middleware
7 1 (3.03%) OAuth
7 1 (3.03%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.09%) CMDB
3 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) Genomics
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) CI/CD
2 22 (66.67%) Observability
3 18 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 18 (54.55%) DevOps
4 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 9 (27.27%) Agile
7 8 (24.24%) Microservices
8 7 (21.21%) AIOps
8 7 (21.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (18.18%) Performance Testing
9 6 (18.18%) Test Strategy
10 5 (15.15%) ITSM
10 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (12.12%) Anomaly Detection
11 4 (12.12%) API Design
11 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (12.12%) Performance Engineering
11 4 (12.12%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) Java
3 7 (21.21%) Bash
4 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) CQL
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) Korn
6 1 (3.03%) PromQL
6 1 (3.03%) Scala
6 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) CCNP
2 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (72.73%) Prometheus
2 16 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.18%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (3.03%) Kibana
5 1 (3.03%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Splunk
2 10 (30.30%) Dynatrace
3 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
5 4 (12.12%) AppDynamics
6 2 (6.06%) Google
6 2 (6.06%) ION Trading
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle
7 1 (3.03%) Cisco
7 1 (3.03%) Databricks
7 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.03%) IBM
7 1 (3.03%) New Relic
7 1 (3.03%) SevOne