Grafana Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Grafana
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Grafana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 106 91
Rank change year-on-year -13 -15 +38
Contract jobs citing Grafana 25 17 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.09% 0.95% 1.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.65% 7.80% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 27
10th Percentile £419 £400 £492
25th Percentile £505 £488 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £705
Median % change year-on-year - -21.99% +4.44%
75th Percentile £591 £656 £730
90th Percentile £698 £760 £855
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £708
% change year-on-year -4.55% -22.26% +4.81%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 259 218 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.33% 12.20% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 159 210
10th Percentile £283 £281 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -3.42%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £753
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.65% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £28.10 £30.26 -
25th Percentile £34.25 £35.53 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +70.77% -25.52%
75th Percentile £62.25 £56.74 -
90th Percentile £69.90 £62.04 -
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +27.39% +1.76% -25.52%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Grafana relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Grafana job vacancy trend in the City of London

Grafana
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Grafana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Grafana

Grafana
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in the City of London

Grafana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (12.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) GitHub
3 9 (36.00%) Azure
4 5 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (12.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (12.00%) GCP
6 3 (12.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
6 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.00%) Datadog
7 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (8.00%) Serverless
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) DNS
1 5 (20.00%) VPN
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
3 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.00%) VLAN
4 1 (4.00%) IPFIX
4 1 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (4.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (16.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) ClickHouse
4 1 (4.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Git
1 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.00%) JMeter
2 5 (20.00%) Maven
3 4 (16.00%) Postman
4 3 (12.00%) Artifactory
4 3 (12.00%) Gradle
4 3 (12.00%) JUnit
4 3 (12.00%) Mockito
5 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (8.00%) GitLab
5 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.00%) Gatling
6 1 (4.00%) git-flow
6 1 (4.00%) LoadRunner
6 1 (4.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Senior
2 6 (24.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Tester
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Terraform
2 6 (24.00%) RESTful
2 6 (24.00%) Spring
2 6 (24.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (16.00%) Kafka
3 4 (16.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (16.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) Swagger
4 2 (8.00%) .NET
4 2 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.00%) JPA
4 2 (8.00%) SOAP
4 2 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Web Services
5 1 (4.00%) Express.js
5 1 (4.00%) OAuth
5 1 (4.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Genomics
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (76.00%) DevOps
2 19 (76.00%) Observability
3 17 (68.00%) Containerisation
4 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (48.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (36.00%) Microservices
6 8 (32.00%) Agile
7 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 5 (20.00%) Performance Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.00%) Test Strategy
8 5 (20.00%) Validation
9 4 (16.00%) AIOps
9 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven
9 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
9 4 (16.00%) Manual Testing
9 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Java
3 7 (28.00%) Bash
4 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.00%) CQL
6 1 (4.00%) Korn
6 1 (4.00%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 15 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (24.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.00%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (4.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Splunk
2 6 (24.00%) Dynatrace
3 4 (16.00%) AppDynamics
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.00%) Google
5 2 (8.00%) ION Trading
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle
5 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco
6 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.00%) SevOne