Grafana Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Grafana
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Grafana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 21 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Grafana 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 2.90% 1.09% -
As % of the Systems Management category 17.39% 3.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +5.45%

All Systems Management Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 23 29 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 16.67% 31.52% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 10
10th Percentile - £223 £358
25th Percentile £350 £250 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £425 £498
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -14.57% +20.61%
75th Percentile £556 £488 £523
90th Percentile £575 £580 £538
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £535
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Grafana job vacancy trend in Dorset

Grafana
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Grafana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Grafana

Grafana
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 24 February 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
Blandford Forum - 3 £525 -
Bournemouth -3 1 - - 3
Grafana
South West

Grafana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) CockroachDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) gRPC
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) WebAssembly
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Code Coverage
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Monorepo
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Podman
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Packer
2 3 (75.00%) Proxmox
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat