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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 103 104
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +51
Contract jobs citing Grafana 29 20 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.26% 1.14% 0.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.86% 6.25% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 18
10th Percentile £496 £467 £460
25th Percentile £525 £513 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £680 £665
Median % change year-on-year -16.54% +2.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £703 £710 £699
90th Percentile £738 £711 £711
Central London median daily rate £550 £680 £655
% change year-on-year -19.12% +3.82% -6.43%

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 267 320 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.61% 18.21% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 218 194
10th Percentile £355 £300 £350
25th Percentile £441 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £649 £674 £659
90th Percentile £738 £725 £755
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £27.82 - -
25th Percentile £38.32 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 - £20.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.92%
75th Percentile £67.36 - £32.81
90th Percentile £71.94 - £43.28
Central London median hourly rate £41.62 £26.45 £20.25
% change year-on-year +57.34% +30.62% -75.92%

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 6 May 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 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (10.34%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) GitHub
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (13.79%) GCP
4 4 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (10.34%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (10.34%) OpenShift
5 3 (10.34%) Serverless
5 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.90%) Apigee
6 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) IPFIX
2 1 (3.45%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (3.45%) SNMP
2 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
1 5 (17.24%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.79%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (10.34%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.90%) Hazelcast
4 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Redis
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.45%) ClickHouse
5 1 (3.45%) Metadata
5 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Jenkins
2 7 (24.14%) Git
3 5 (17.24%) GitLab
4 4 (13.79%) JMeter
4 4 (13.79%) Postman
5 3 (10.34%) Gradle
5 3 (10.34%) Maven
6 2 (6.90%) Gatling
7 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.45%) git-flow
7 1 (3.45%) Jaeger
7 1 (3.45%) Vite
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Front Office
5 2 (6.90%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Games
6 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Military
6 1 (3.45%) Police
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Java Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Tester
4 3 (10.34%) Electronics Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) Kafka
2 10 (34.48%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (24.14%) Spring
4 5 (17.24%) REST
4 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
5 4 (13.79%) Swagger
6 3 (10.34%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (10.34%) JMS
6 3 (10.34%) Middleware
6 3 (10.34%) Node.js
6 3 (10.34%) OAuth
6 3 (10.34%) OAuth2
6 3 (10.34%) OpenID
6 3 (10.34%) React
6 3 (10.34%) RESTful
7 2 (6.90%) Apache Avro
7 2 (6.90%) JSON
7 2 (6.90%) Loki
7 2 (6.90%) Micronaut
7 2 (6.90%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.34%) Equities
3 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.45%) Media Streaming
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Observability
2 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
3 18 (62.07%) Containerisation
4 15 (51.72%) DevOps
5 12 (41.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (37.93%) Microservices
7 9 (31.03%) Test Automation
8 6 (20.69%) Performance Engineering
8 6 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (20.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
9 5 (17.24%) Validation
10 4 (13.79%) Low Latency
10 4 (13.79%) Manual Testing
10 4 (13.79%) Performance Testing
10 4 (13.79%) Proactive Monitoring
10 4 (13.79%) Runbook
10 4 (13.79%) Secrets Management
10 4 (13.79%) Test Strategy
11 3 (10.34%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Java
2 14 (48.28%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) Bash
5 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.90%) Go
8 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.45%) C#
8 1 (3.45%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) ISO 20022
2 2 (6.90%) ISO 8583
2 2 (6.90%) PSD2
2 2 (6.90%) SEPA
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Prometheus
2 18 (62.07%) Kubernetes
3 10 (34.48%) Terraform
4 8 (27.59%) Ansible
5 3 (10.34%) Argo
6 2 (6.90%) Istio
7 1 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (3.45%) Karpenter
7 1 (3.45%) Kustomize
7 1 (3.45%) linkerd
7 1 (3.45%) Puppet
7 1 (3.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Splunk
2 5 (17.24%) Dynatrace
3 4 (13.79%) AppDynamics
4 3 (10.34%) Bloomberg
4 3 (10.34%) Charles River
5 2 (6.90%) Confluent
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.90%) Snow
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco
6 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.45%) SevOne