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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 88 113
Rank change year-on-year -21 +25 +59
Contract jobs citing Grafana 15 31 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.80% 1.67% 0.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.86% 9.78% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 15
10th Percentile £400 £527 £481
25th Percentile £457 £594 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £681 £655
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +3.89% +9.17%
75th Percentile £738 £710 £704
90th Percentile £930 £730 £728
Central London median daily rate £507 £681 £655
% change year-on-year -25.50% +3.89% +9.17%

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 256 317 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.63% 17.13% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 208 249
10th Percentile £356 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £738 £711 £739
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £20.24 - £16.15
25th Percentile £20.34 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% +261.29% +50.47%
75th Percentile £22.91 - £41.25
90th Percentile £23.39 - £46.65
Central London median hourly rate £23.87 £112.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -78.69% +261.29% +49.72%

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 27 January 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 (6.67%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (6.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (26.67%) OpenShift
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (13.33%) Apigee
5 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) Google Gemini
6 1 (6.67%) Route 53
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Hazelcast
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) Redis
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) Pinecone
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) GitLab
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Gatling
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.67%) Jaeger
3 1 (6.67%) Vite
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Front Office
5 1 (6.67%) Games
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Kafka
1 5 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (20.00%) Loki
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) Micronaut
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
3 2 (13.33%) OpenID
3 2 (13.33%) Quarkus
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.67%) Faiss
4 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.67%) LangChain
4 1 (6.67%) Vitest
4 1 (6.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Equities
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Media Streaming
3 1 (6.67%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (53.33%) Observability
4 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) Microservices
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Secrets Management
6 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
8 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Programming
8 2 (13.33%) High Availability
8 2 (13.33%) ITIL
8 2 (13.33%) Performance Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Resilience Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) MCP
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) ISO 20022
2 2 (13.33%) ISO 8583
2 2 (13.33%) PSD2
2 2 (13.33%) SEPA
3 1 (6.67%) EU AI Act
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 10 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 8 (53.33%) Terraform
3 5 (33.33%) Argo
4 3 (20.00%) Ansible
5 2 (13.33%) Istio
5 2 (13.33%) Kustomize
6 1 (6.67%) Karpenter
6 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (13.33%) Confluent
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) Snow
4 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
4 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg
4 1 (6.67%) Charles River
4 1 (6.67%) OpenAI
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Tenable