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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 113 93
Rank change year-on-year -1 -20 +28
Contract jobs citing Grafana 32 15 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.34% 0.79% 1.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.22% 6.52% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 26
10th Percentile - £400 £484
25th Percentile £405 £463 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £710
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -22.54% +5.19%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £766
90th Percentile £665 £793 £863
London median daily rate £550 £515 £600
% change year-on-year +6.73% -14.11% -7.34%

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 313 230 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.06% 12.09% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 174 214
10th Percentile £292 £281 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -5.38% +5.68%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £718 £775 £766
London median daily rate £550 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £14.20 £19.26 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £19.85 £27.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £24.43 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% -64.85% +91.72%
75th Percentile £45.00 £39.08 £112.00
90th Percentile £63.00 £54.98 -
London median hourly rate £47.00 £38.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.29% +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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -5 26 £550 -12.00% 33
West End of London -5 5 £410 -13.68% 1
City of Westminster -7 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 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) AWS
2 10 (31.25%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) GitHub
4 6 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (15.63%) Datadog
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (12.50%) GCP
6 4 (12.50%) OpenShift
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
7 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
7 3 (9.38%) PowerApps
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.25%) Serverless
9 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.13%) Kong
9 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) DNS
1 5 (15.63%) VPN
2 4 (12.50%) BGP
2 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (12.50%) WAN
3 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.25%) VLAN
4 1 (3.13%) IPFIX
4 1 (3.13%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (3.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (9.38%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.13%) ClickHouse
3 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (40.63%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.00%) Git
3 6 (18.75%) JMeter
4 5 (15.63%) JIRA
5 4 (12.50%) Postman
6 3 (9.38%) Artifactory
6 3 (9.38%) GitLab
6 3 (9.38%) JUnit
6 3 (9.38%) Mockito
7 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
7 2 (6.25%) Gatling
7 2 (6.25%) LoadRunner
7 2 (6.25%) Maven
7 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (3.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Banking
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Local Government
6 1 (3.13%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Senior
2 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Tester
3 4 (12.50%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Java Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Applications Support
5 2 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (34.38%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) REST
2 4 (12.50%) Spring
2 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (12.50%) Swagger
3 3 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (9.38%) Kafka
3 3 (9.38%) RESTful
4 2 (6.25%) .NET
4 2 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 2 (6.25%) JPA
4 2 (6.25%) SOAP
4 2 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Web Services
5 1 (3.13%) Express.js
5 1 (3.13%) Middleware
5 1 (3.13%) OAuth
5 1 (3.13%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.38%) CMDB
3 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Genomics
5 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 20 (62.50%) Observability
3 17 (53.13%) DevOps
4 16 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (31.25%) Agile
6 10 (31.25%) Test Automation
7 7 (21.88%) AIOps
7 7 (21.88%) Microservices
7 7 (21.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (18.75%) Performance Testing
8 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (18.75%) Test Strategy
9 5 (15.63%) ITSM
10 4 (12.50%) Anomaly Detection
10 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
10 4 (12.50%) Manual Testing
10 4 (12.50%) Performance Engineering
10 4 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) Bash
3 6 (18.75%) Java
3 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.25%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) CQL
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) Korn
6 1 (3.13%) PromQL
6 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) CCNP
2 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (71.88%) Prometheus
2 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.75%) Ansible
4 3 (9.38%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (3.13%) Kibana
5 1 (3.13%) Puppet
5 1 (3.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Splunk
2 10 (31.25%) Dynatrace
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow
5 4 (12.50%) AppDynamics
6 2 (6.25%) Google
6 2 (6.25%) ION Trading
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle
7 1 (3.13%) Cisco
7 1 (3.13%) Databricks
7 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.13%) IBM
7 1 (3.13%) New Relic
7 1 (3.13%) SevOne
7 1 (3.13%) TIBCO