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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 103 113
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 +50
Contract jobs citing Grafana 33 19 24
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.33% 1.00% 1.00%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.46% 5.88% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 22
10th Percentile £358 £463 £430
25th Percentile £405 £506 £599
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £678
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.44% -6.55%
75th Percentile £648 £703 £710
90th Percentile £738 £711 £780
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -15.66%

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 288 323 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.58% 17.03% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 220 210
10th Percentile £350 £275 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +3.29% -11.25%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £655
90th Percentile £714 £725 £746
London median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £27.82 - -
25th Percentile £38.32 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £26.45 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +118.39% +30.62% -75.92%
75th Percentile £67.36 - £32.81
90th Percentile £71.94 - £43.28
London median hourly rate £57.77 £38.75 £24.59
% change year-on-year +49.07% +57.58% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -14 27 £568 -5.42% 12
West End of London - 6 £380 -
City of Westminster - 6 £380 -
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 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (9.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) GitHub
3 7 (21.21%) Azure
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (9.09%) GCP
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 3 (9.09%) Serverless
6 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) BGP
1 6 (18.18%) WAN
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) IPFIX
3 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (3.03%) SNMP
3 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.12%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.06%) Hazelcast
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.06%) Redis
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.03%) ClickHouse
5 1 (3.03%) Metadata
5 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) JMeter
3 4 (12.12%) Postman
4 3 (9.09%) GitLab
4 3 (9.09%) Gradle
4 3 (9.09%) Maven
5 2 (6.06%) Gatling
6 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.03%) git-flow
6 1 (3.03%) Jaeger
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Front Office
4 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Games
5 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Police
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Java Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Tester
4 3 (9.09%) Electronics Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) DevOps Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Monitoring Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Network Monitoring Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Release Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) Kafka
2 9 (27.27%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (21.21%) Spring
4 5 (15.15%) REST
4 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
5 4 (12.12%) Swagger
6 3 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (9.09%) JMS
6 3 (9.09%) Middleware
6 3 (9.09%) OAuth
6 3 (9.09%) OAuth2
6 3 (9.09%) OpenID
6 3 (9.09%) RESTful
7 2 (6.06%) Apache Avro
7 2 (6.06%) JSON
7 2 (6.06%) Loki
7 2 (6.06%) Node.js
7 2 (6.06%) Quarkus
7 2 (6.06%) React
7 2 (6.06%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.09%) Equities
3 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) Media Streaming
5 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) Observability
2 18 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 17 (51.52%) CI/CD
4 15 (45.45%) DevOps
5 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (30.30%) Microservices
7 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
8 6 (18.18%) Performance Engineering
8 6 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven
9 5 (15.15%) Validation
10 4 (12.12%) Low Latency
10 4 (12.12%) Manual Testing
10 4 (12.12%) Performance Testing
10 4 (12.12%) Proactive Monitoring
10 4 (12.12%) Runbook
10 4 (12.12%) Test Strategy
11 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (9.09%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) Java
1 13 (39.39%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Bash
2 5 (15.15%) SQL
3 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) Go
5 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.03%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) CCNP
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) ISO 20022
2 2 (6.06%) ISO 8583
2 2 (6.06%) PSD2
2 2 (6.06%) SEPA
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (75.76%) Prometheus
2 17 (51.52%) Kubernetes
3 9 (27.27%) Terraform
4 8 (24.24%) Ansible
5 3 (9.09%) Argo
6 1 (3.03%) Istio
6 1 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (3.03%) Karpenter
6 1 (3.03%) Kustomize
6 1 (3.03%) linkerd
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Splunk
2 5 (15.15%) Dynatrace
3 4 (12.12%) AppDynamics
4 3 (9.09%) Bloomberg
4 3 (9.09%) Charles River
5 2 (6.06%) Confluent
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.06%) Snow
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco
6 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.03%) SevOne