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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 72 88
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 +10
Contract jobs citing Grafana 34 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.89% 1.10% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.39% 7.58% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 4
10th Percentile £403 £335 £472
25th Percentile £434 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £506
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £574 £506 £531
90th Percentile £608 £518 -
North West median daily rate £525 £495 £461
% change year-on-year +6.06% +7.32% -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 254 132 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.15% 14.47% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 101 109
10th Percentile £316 £300 £313
25th Percentile £407 £419 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £602 £538 £613
90th Percentile £650 £638 £694
North West median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 6
10th Percentile - £63.70 £49.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £67.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.38% +12.86% +238.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £89.75 £95.63
90th Percentile £76.40 £92.90 £102.00
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £63.40 £27.50
% change year-on-year -13.25% +130.55% -7.25%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 1 (2.94%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
2 10 (29.41%) GitHub
3 9 (26.47%) Azure
4 6 (17.65%) GCP
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.88%) BrowserStack
6 2 (5.88%) dbt
6 2 (5.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.94%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.94%) Firebase
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Data Vault
4 2 (5.88%) MySQL
4 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 22 (64.71%) GitLab
2 13 (38.24%) Gradle
3 12 (35.29%) IntelliJ
4 9 (26.47%) Git
4 9 (26.47%) Selenium
5 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
6 5 (14.71%) Postman
7 4 (11.76%) Gatling
7 4 (11.76%) REST Assured
7 4 (11.76%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
8 2 (5.88%) JMeter
8 2 (5.88%) JUnit
8 2 (5.88%) Mocha
8 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
8 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (2.94%) Android Studio
9 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.94%) Xcode
General
1 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Banking
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Automotive
4 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Software Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Java Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Lead
4 6 (17.65%) Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior
6 3 (8.82%) Lead Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead Software Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Android Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Principal Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (67.65%) Spring
2 22 (64.71%) Spring Boot
3 13 (38.24%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (32.35%) Kafka
5 7 (20.59%) REST
6 4 (11.76%) GraphQL
6 4 (11.76%) Playwright
6 4 (11.76%) RESTful
6 4 (11.76%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (8.82%) JSON
7 3 (8.82%) Node.js
7 3 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (5.88%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (5.88%) Jest
8 2 (5.88%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (5.88%) JSON Schema
8 2 (5.88%) React
9 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
9 1 (2.94%) OkHttp
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Observability
1 16 (47.06%) Software Engineering
2 15 (44.12%) CI/CD
3 13 (38.24%) Microservices
3 13 (38.24%) Test Automation
4 11 (32.35%) DevOps
5 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (23.53%) Agile
7 6 (17.65%) API Development
7 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (17.65%) TDD
8 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
8 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven
8 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (14.71%) Test Strategy
8 5 (14.71%) User Experience
9 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
9 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (11.76%) Integration Testing
9 4 (11.76%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (76.47%) Java
2 13 (38.24%) Kotlin
3 3 (8.82%) Bash
3 3 (8.82%) Go
3 3 (8.82%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.88%) Bicep
4 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Swift
5 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.94%) zsh
Systems Management
1 26 (76.47%) Kubernetes
2 14 (41.18%) Prometheus
3 5 (14.71%) Terraform
4 2 (5.88%) Istio
5 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Splunk
2 3 (8.82%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) Moogsoft
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow