Grafana Contract Job Trends in London

Grafana
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Grafana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 227 244
Rank change year-on-year +25 +17 +78
Contract jobs citing Grafana 213 130 152
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.02% 0.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.58% 6.43% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 97 124
10th Percentile £374 £368 £376
25th Percentile £437 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £626 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £710
England median daily rate £500 £568 £525
% change year-on-year -11.89% +8.10% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £57.60 - -
25th Percentile £58.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £71.50 - -
90th Percentile £72.40 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £78.70 £41.25
% change year-on-year -30.11% +90.79% -37.02%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,483 2,021 2,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.28% 15.90% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 1,399 1,564
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £425 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.04% -10.17%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 43
10th Percentile £22.72 £23.33 £14.08
25th Percentile £26.32 £24.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £27.73 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +93.87% +7.84% -63.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £69.33 £66.43 £69.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.34% -9.17% -47.83%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Grafana job vacancy trend in London

Grafana
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Grafana

Grafana
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in London

Grafana
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Grafana

Grafana
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Central London -10 25 £575 -15.44% 22
South London 0 21 £528 -22.99% 1
West London -13 13 £450 +13.92% 2
East London -3 3 £400 +60.00% 5
Grafana
England

Grafana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 14 (6.57%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.63%) Confluence
3 10 (4.69%) nginx
4 9 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.88%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.47%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 129 (60.56%) AWS
2 53 (24.88%) Azure
3 44 (20.66%) Amazon S3
4 36 (16.90%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (16.90%) Serverless
5 34 (15.96%) GitHub
6 32 (15.02%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (15.02%) GCP
7 31 (14.55%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (12.68%) Datadog
9 25 (11.74%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (10.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (9.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (9.39%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (9.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (6.10%) Route 53
14 12 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (5.63%) OpenShift
15 10 (4.69%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.39%) Firewall
1 20 (9.39%) VPN
2 16 (7.51%) WAN
3 15 (7.04%) DNS
4 13 (6.10%) BGP
5 11 (5.16%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.23%) OpenVPN
6 9 (4.23%) VXLAN
7 6 (2.82%) Ethernet
7 6 (2.82%) InfiniBand
7 6 (2.82%) NetScaler
7 6 (2.82%) Wireless
8 4 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.88%) DMZ
8 4 (1.88%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.88%) IGMP
8 4 (1.88%) MPLS
8 4 (1.88%) Multicast
9 3 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.94%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (17.84%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.92%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (8.92%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (7.04%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (5.16%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (5.16%) Big Data
6 8 (3.76%) Redis
6 8 (3.76%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.29%) Amazon QuickSight
7 7 (3.29%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.82%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.82%) Flink
9 5 (2.35%) Power BI
9 5 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.35%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.88%) OLTP
10 4 (1.88%) Presto
Development Applications
1 66 (30.99%) Jenkins
2 45 (21.13%) GitLab
3 35 (16.43%) Git
4 14 (6.57%) SonarQube
5 13 (6.10%) JIRA
6 8 (3.76%) Maven
7 7 (3.29%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.82%) JUnit
8 6 (2.82%) Mockito
9 5 (2.35%) Artifactory
9 5 (2.35%) Gatling
10 4 (1.88%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.88%) Gradle
10 4 (1.88%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.88%) Selenium
10 4 (1.88%) Snyk
11 3 (1.41%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.41%) DbUnit
11 3 (1.41%) JMeter
11 3 (1.41%) jMock
General
1 44 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.84%) Finance
3 28 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.51%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (7.04%) Banking
7 5 (2.35%) Front Office
7 5 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.88%) Retail
9 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Billing
10 2 (0.94%) Games
10 2 (0.94%) Law
10 2 (0.94%) Legal
10 2 (0.94%) Local Government
10 2 (0.94%) Military
10 2 (0.94%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (23.00%) Senior
2 35 (16.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (14.08%) Developer
4 27 (12.68%) Architect
5 21 (9.86%) Site Engineer
5 21 (9.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (8.92%) Lead
7 18 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.10%) Java Developer
9 13 (6.10%) Operations Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.69%) Network Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Data Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.82%) Kafka
2 40 (18.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 26 (12.21%) Spring
4 24 (11.27%) REST
5 23 (10.80%) Node.js
6 22 (10.33%) Spring Boot
7 18 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (7.98%) OpenID
9 16 (7.51%) Playwright
10 15 (7.04%) RESTful
11 13 (6.10%) GraphQL
12 12 (5.63%) Vitest
12 12 (5.63%) YAML
13 11 (5.16%) React
14 10 (4.69%) gRPC
14 10 (4.69%) OAuth
14 10 (4.69%) OAuth2
15 9 (4.23%) LDAP
15 9 (4.23%) Loki
16 8 (3.76%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.25%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.15%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.98%) Data Centre
4 14 (6.57%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.76%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.35%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.88%) Equities
8 4 (1.88%) PKI
9 3 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.41%) Derivative
9 3 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.41%) Energy Derivatives
9 3 (1.41%) PACS
9 3 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.94%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.19%) Linux
2 13 (6.10%) Unix
3 9 (4.23%) Windows
4 5 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.94%) Debian
5 2 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.94%) zOS
6 1 (0.47%) CentOS
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (61.50%) CI/CD
2 113 (53.05%) Observability
3 102 (47.89%) DevOps
4 91 (42.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (31.92%) Containerisation
6 48 (22.54%) Microservices
7 41 (19.25%) Agile
8 37 (17.37%) Software Engineering
8 37 (17.37%) Test Automation
9 32 (15.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 31 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (12.21%) Mentoring
13 22 (10.33%) Event-Driven
14 21 (9.86%) Roadmaps
15 20 (9.39%) Incident Response
16 19 (8.92%) Migration
17 18 (8.45%) Decision-Making
17 18 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
18 17 (7.98%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 94 (44.13%) Python
2 60 (28.17%) Java
3 39 (18.31%) SQL
4 38 (17.84%) Bash
5 20 (9.39%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.45%) Go
6 18 (8.45%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.23%) Scala
8 8 (3.76%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.35%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.41%) Groovy
10 3 (1.41%) PromQL
10 3 (1.41%) Rust
10 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.94%) Bicep
11 2 (0.94%) C#
11 2 (0.94%) C++
11 2 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.41%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.51%) Degree
4 13 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.23%) CCNP
5 9 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.86%) QA
2 6 (2.82%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.82%) SLA
3 5 (2.35%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.41%) GDPR
5 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.94%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.94%) NIST
5 2 (0.94%) PSD2
5 2 (0.94%) SEPA
6 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 90 (42.25%) Docker
2 10 (4.69%) Squid
3 4 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.41%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.41%) vSphere
5 2 (0.94%) Postfix
6 1 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.47%) Firmware
6 1 (0.47%) HDFS
6 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.47%) KVM
6 1 (0.47%) QEMU
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 158 (74.18%) Prometheus
2 107 (50.23%) Terraform
3 99 (46.48%) Kubernetes
4 51 (23.94%) Ansible
5 13 (6.10%) Argo
6 12 (5.63%) Puppet
7 11 (5.16%) Kibana
8 10 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (4.23%) FortiGate
10 8 (3.76%) Salt
11 7 (3.29%) Consul
12 6 (2.82%) Istio
13 4 (1.88%) Kustomize
13 4 (1.88%) linkerd
13 4 (1.88%) Rancher
14 3 (1.41%) Opsgenie
14 3 (1.41%) Progress Chef
14 3 (1.41%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.94%) Cilium
15 2 (0.94%) logstash
Vendors
1 42 (19.72%) Splunk
2 28 (13.15%) Dynatrace
3 17 (7.98%) Arista
3 17 (7.98%) Cisco
4 16 (7.51%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.51%) Red Hat
5 14 (6.57%) Google
6 13 (6.10%) ServiceNow
7 11 (5.16%) Atlassian
7 11 (5.16%) F5
8 10 (4.69%) Palo Alto
9 8 (3.76%) Aruba
9 8 (3.76%) Confluent
10 7 (3.29%) PagerDuty
11 6 (2.82%) BigPanda
11 6 (2.82%) CheckPoint
11 6 (2.82%) Oracle
12 5 (2.35%) AppDynamics
12 5 (2.35%) Bloomberg
13 4 (1.88%) New Relic