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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 68 90
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 +26
Contract jobs citing Grafana 25 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.07% 1.22% 0.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.69% 8.07% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 4
10th Percentile £357 £524 £478
25th Percentile £372 £545 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -7.37% +11.50%
75th Percentile £484 £622 £652
90th Percentile £514 £694 £666
North West median daily rate £370 £545 £594
% change year-on-year -32.11% -8.21% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - £62.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £65.63 - £80.63
90th Percentile £70.00 - £81.75
North West median hourly rate £55.00 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.23%

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 197 161 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.32% 15.16% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 87 187
10th Percentile £319 £288 £290
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.28%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £575
90th Percentile £663 £671 £671
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 13
10th Percentile £19.77 - £17.90
25th Percentile £52.50 - £19.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.25 - £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 - £81.75
North West median hourly rate £48.84 £44.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +9.54% -3.44% -7.30%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Grafana in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Grafana in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Oldham - 4 - -
Grafana
North West

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 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (24.00%) GitHub
2 6 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Datadog
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
3 4 (16.00%) Pulumi
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 19 (76.00%) GitLab
2 8 (32.00%) Gradle
3 7 (28.00%) IntelliJ
4 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.00%) Android Studio
5 1 (4.00%) Crashlytics
5 1 (4.00%) fastlane
5 1 (4.00%) Xcode
5 1 (4.00%) XCTest
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
2 4 (16.00%) Games
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Java Engineer
1 7 (28.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 7 (28.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Android Developer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Developer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Spring
1 9 (36.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (28.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (16.00%) REST
4 2 (8.00%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (8.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (8.00%) JSON
4 2 (8.00%) JSON Schema
4 2 (8.00%) Node.js
5 1 (4.00%) Dagger
5 1 (4.00%) Kafka
5 1 (4.00%) OkHttp
5 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.00%) Retrofit
5 1 (4.00%) SwiftUI
5 1 (4.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) Android
4 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (36.00%) Observability
3 7 (28.00%) DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) TDD
4 5 (20.00%) User Experience
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (12.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (12.00%) Mathematics
6 3 (12.00%) Statistics
6 3 (12.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Kotlin
3 6 (24.00%) Bash
4 4 (16.00%) Go
5 3 (12.00%) PHP
5 3 (12.00%) SQL
6 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.00%) Objective-C
7 1 (4.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (76.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 10 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk