Grafana Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Grafana
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 73 77 91
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +10
Contract jobs citing Grafana 36 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.17% 1.40% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.00% 8.67% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 3
10th Percentile £362 £415 £469
25th Percentile £403 £494 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +6.34% -5.09%
75th Percentile £544 £577 £531
90th Percentile £575 £684 -
North West median daily rate £488 £545 £461
% change year-on-year -10.55% +18.16% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile £52.50 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £58.44 - £77.19
90th Percentile £69.13 - £80.38
North West median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 240 150 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.47% 16.11% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 107 132
10th Percentile £311 £242 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £599 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.02% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 5
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -21.88% +102.02%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.75 £100.00
90th Percentile £70.00 - £102.40
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £68.75 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +287.98% -40.93%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Grafana job vacancy trend in Manchester

Grafana
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Grafana

Grafana
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in Manchester

Grafana
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Grafana

Grafana
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Grafana in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Grafana in Manchester

Grafana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) GitHub
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
3 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (11.11%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) Serverless
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.56%) dbt
5 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.78%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.78%) Datadog
6 1 (2.78%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.56%) Data Vault
3 2 (5.56%) MySQL
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.78%) DocumentDB
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (66.67%) GitLab
2 13 (36.11%) Gradle
3 12 (33.33%) IntelliJ
4 7 (19.44%) Git
5 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
6 4 (11.11%) Selenium
7 3 (8.33%) Postman
8 2 (5.56%) JMeter
8 2 (5.56%) Mocha
9 1 (2.78%) Android Studio
9 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.78%) Crashlytics
9 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.78%) fastlane
9 1 (2.78%) Gatling
9 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.78%) Robot Framework
9 1 (2.78%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (2.78%) Xcode
9 1 (2.78%) XCTest
General
1 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Software Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Lead Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Lead Software Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Android Developer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (58.33%) Spring
2 20 (55.56%) Spring Boot
3 13 (36.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (19.44%) REST
5 6 (16.67%) Kafka
6 4 (11.11%) GraphQL
6 4 (11.11%) RESTful
7 3 (8.33%) JSON
7 3 (8.33%) Node.js
7 3 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (5.56%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (5.56%) Jest
8 2 (5.56%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (5.56%) JSON Schema
8 2 (5.56%) React
9 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
9 1 (2.78%) OkHttp
9 1 (2.78%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (2.78%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Unix
3 2 (5.56%) Android
4 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 14 (38.89%) Observability
4 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
5 9 (25.00%) DevOps
5 9 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 8 (22.22%) Agile
6 8 (22.22%) Microservices
7 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (19.44%) TDD
8 6 (16.67%) API Development
8 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.89%) Event-Driven
9 5 (13.89%) User Experience
10 4 (11.11%) Architectural Design
10 4 (11.11%) Code Quality
10 4 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 4 (11.11%) DevSecOps
10 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Java
2 13 (36.11%) Kotlin
3 8 (22.22%) Python
4 3 (8.33%) Bash
4 3 (8.33%) Go
4 3 (8.33%) PHP
4 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.56%) Bicep
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) SQL
6 1 (2.78%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 14 (38.89%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.78%) zsh
Systems Management
1 30 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (38.89%) Prometheus
3 9 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.33%) PagerDuty
2 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.56%) Splunk