Grafana Contract Job Trends in England

Grafana
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Grafana skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 264 379
Rank change year-on-year +35 +115 +15
Contract jobs citing Grafana 323 297 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.16% 0.90% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.41% 6.62% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 183 175
10th Percentile £367 £360 £440
25th Percentile £435 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £735
90th Percentile £694 £773 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.30% -4.55% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £58.14 - £72.75
25th Percentile £65.85 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £79.00
75th Percentile £79.35 - £90.00
90th Percentile £79.74 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 - £79.00
% change year-on-year - - +1.12%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,358 4,489 6,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.66% 13.61% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,092 4,564
10th Percentile £303 £308 £325
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 53 158
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.43
25th Percentile £21.54 £24.18 £25.72
Median hourly rate £40.73 £40.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -21.95% +114.35%
75th Percentile £64.88 £62.50 £75.38
90th Percentile £78.88 £74.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.08% -30.00% +130.03%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Grafana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Grafana in England

Grafana
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Grafana

Grafana
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana in England over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in England

Grafana
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Grafana.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Grafana

Grafana
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Grafana in England over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Grafana in England

Grafana
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the England region over the 6 months to 12 September 2025. 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
London +15 160 £518 -5.79% 80
North of England -21 60 £463 -19.39% 39
Midlands +18 49 £500 +39.28% 9
West Midlands +17 49 £500 +39.28% 6
Yorkshire -13 37 £500 -19.81% 16
South West +32 24 £550 -4.35% 18
South East +16 21 £435 -13.00% 42
North West -4 20 £360 -19.55% 10
East of England +10 11 £620 -29.14% 1
North East -14 3 £413 +0.86% 13
Grafana
UK

Grafana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (9.91%) Confluence
2 13 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.02%) nginx
3 11 (3.41%) Apache
4 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.93%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.93%) Traefik
4 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.62%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.31%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (3.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 203 (62.85%) AWS
2 79 (24.46%) GitHub
3 78 (24.15%) Azure
4 74 (22.91%) GCP
5 56 (17.34%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 49 (15.17%) Amazon S3
8 45 (13.93%) Amazon EC2
9 38 (11.76%) AWS KMS
10 37 (11.46%) OpenShift
11 35 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (10.84%) Serverless
12 31 (9.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 29 (8.98%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (8.36%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
16 24 (7.43%) Amazon ELB
17 20 (6.19%) Route 53
18 17 (5.26%) Azure AKS
19 16 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 48 (14.86%) DNS
2 44 (13.62%) Firewall
3 31 (9.60%) HTTP
4 27 (8.36%) SMTP
5 25 (7.74%) FTP
6 22 (6.81%) SSH
7 17 (5.26%) TCP/IP
8 12 (3.72%) IMAP
8 12 (3.72%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (1.86%) Internet
9 6 (1.86%) SSL
10 5 (1.55%) VPN
11 3 (0.93%) AMQP
11 3 (0.93%) Network Security
12 2 (0.62%) Calico
12 2 (0.62%) MQTT
12 2 (0.62%) tcpdump
12 2 (0.62%) Wireshark
13 1 (0.31%) Multicast
13 1 (0.31%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.72%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (15.48%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (8.36%) Amazon Aurora
4 24 (7.43%) NoSQL
5 17 (5.26%) Redis
6 13 (4.02%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (3.41%) Big Data
8 11 (3.41%) MongoDB
9 10 (3.10%) Hadoop
10 9 (2.79%) DynamoDB
11 8 (2.48%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.48%) Power BI
11 8 (2.48%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.17%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.55%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.55%) Flink
14 5 (1.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 112 (34.67%) Jenkins
2 72 (22.29%) GitLab
3 58 (17.96%) Git
4 41 (12.69%) JIRA
5 25 (7.74%) CircleCI
6 24 (7.43%) Vagrant
7 17 (5.26%) SonarQube
8 16 (4.95%) Liquibase
9 15 (4.64%) Maven
10 12 (3.72%) JUnit
11 11 (3.41%) Jaeger
12 9 (2.79%) Mockito
13 7 (2.17%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (1.86%) DbUnit
14 6 (1.86%) jMock
15 4 (1.24%) Artifactory
15 4 (1.24%) Gradle
15 4 (1.24%) Snyk
General
1 99 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.58%) Public Sector
3 38 (11.76%) Finance
4 29 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.98%) Banking
5 12 (3.72%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.55%) Military
8 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.93%) Front Office
8 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.93%) Legal
9 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.62%) Aviation
9 2 (0.62%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (0.62%) Marketing
9 2 (0.62%) Police
9 2 (0.62%) Swedish Language
9 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (30.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (17.03%) Senior
3 50 (15.48%) Platform Engineer
4 42 (13.00%) AWS Engineer
5 33 (10.22%) Developer
6 31 (9.60%) AWS DevOps
7 30 (9.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 30 (9.29%) Site Engineer
7 30 (9.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 26 (8.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 18 (5.57%) Architect
9 18 (5.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 17 (5.26%) Lead
11 16 (4.95%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.33%) Consultant
12 14 (4.33%) Java Developer
12 14 (4.33%) Senior DevOps
12 14 (4.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.72%) Technical Architect
14 11 (3.41%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (20.12%) Elastic Stack
2 42 (13.00%) Kafka
3 35 (10.84%) RESTful
4 33 (10.22%) REST
5 29 (8.98%) Node.js
6 21 (6.50%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (6.50%) YAML
7 18 (5.57%) AngularJS
8 16 (4.95%) Spring
8 16 (4.95%) Spring Boot
9 15 (4.64%) gRPC
10 13 (4.02%) .NET
10 13 (4.02%) Keycloak
11 12 (3.72%) GraphQL
11 12 (3.72%) LDAP
12 11 (3.41%) Spring Cloud
13 9 (2.79%) Loki
13 9 (2.79%) OAuth
13 9 (2.79%) SOAP
13 9 (2.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 44 (13.62%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.74%) Replication
4 23 (7.12%) Public Cloud
5 15 (4.64%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.48%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.86%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.55%) PKI
11 4 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.24%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.93%) IoT
12 3 (0.93%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.62%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 128 (39.63%) Linux
2 41 (12.69%) Windows
3 26 (8.05%) VMS
4 24 (7.43%) Amazon Linux
5 13 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (3.41%) Ubuntu
6 11 (3.41%) Unix
7 6 (1.86%) CentOS
8 5 (1.55%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (65.94%) CI/CD
2 201 (62.23%) DevOps
3 157 (48.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 140 (43.34%) Observability
5 123 (38.08%) Containerisation
6 88 (27.24%) Agile
7 79 (24.46%) Microservices
8 73 (22.60%) Platform Engineering
8 73 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 49 (15.17%) Change Management
11 48 (14.86%) Configuration Management
12 47 (14.55%) Continuous Integration
13 44 (13.62%) Software Engineering
14 37 (11.46%) High Availability
15 35 (10.84%) Cloud Security
16 34 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
17 30 (9.29%) Test Automation
18 29 (8.98%) Continuous Delivery
18 29 (8.98%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 186 (57.59%) Python
2 97 (30.03%) Bash
3 74 (22.91%) Java
4 67 (20.74%) Go
5 62 (19.20%) SQL
6 53 (16.41%) PowerShell
7 31 (9.60%) Groovy
8 18 (5.57%) PromQL
9 17 (5.26%) JavaScript
9 17 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.64%) Perl
11 14 (4.33%) Kotlin
12 13 (4.02%) C#
13 12 (3.72%) Shell Script
14 9 (2.79%) PHP
15 8 (2.48%) Bicep
16 5 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (1.55%) Ruby
17 4 (1.24%) C
18 3 (0.93%) C++
Qualifications
1 116 (35.91%) Security Cleared
2 85 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.15%) Degree
4 30 (9.29%) AWS Certification
5 22 (6.81%) DV Cleared
6 21 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 14 (4.33%) Master's Degree
9 11 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.24%) CCNA
11 4 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.62%) APMG
13 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.62%) OCA
13 2 (0.62%) OCP
13 2 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.02%) QA
2 12 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.79%) GDPR
4 8 (2.48%) NIST
5 7 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.55%) NCSC
6 5 (1.55%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.24%) SLA
8 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.31%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.31%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 161 (49.85%) Docker
2 22 (6.81%) DFS Replication
3 18 (5.57%) Postfix
4 14 (4.33%) Active Directory
5 12 (3.72%) Dovecot
5 12 (3.72%) Squid
6 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.31%) etcd
8 1 (0.31%) KVM
8 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 234 (72.45%) Prometheus
2 211 (65.33%) Kubernetes
3 195 (60.37%) Terraform
4 91 (28.17%) Ansible
5 19 (5.88%) Puppet
6 14 (4.33%) Argo
6 14 (4.33%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.72%) Nessus
8 10 (3.10%) Istio
8 10 (3.10%) Kibana
8 10 (3.10%) Proxmox
9 8 (2.48%) Packer
10 6 (1.86%) Podman
11 4 (1.24%) Kiali
11 4 (1.24%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.24%) logstash
12 3 (0.93%) Control-M
12 3 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.93%) Rancher
Vendors
1 81 (25.08%) Splunk
2 29 (8.98%) ServiceNow
3 27 (8.36%) Oracle
4 23 (7.12%) Google
5 19 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 18 (5.57%) Jaspersoft
7 16 (4.95%) Red Hat
8 13 (4.02%) AppDynamics
8 13 (4.02%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.79%) VMware
10 7 (2.17%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.86%) PagerDuty
12 5 (1.55%) Databricks
13 3 (0.93%) Denodo
13 3 (0.93%) New Relic
13 3 (0.93%) Okta
13 3 (0.93%) Solace
13 3 (0.93%) Talend
13 3 (0.93%) Tenable
13 3 (0.93%) xMatters