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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 77 92
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +32
Contract jobs citing Grafana 11 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.08% 0.42% 0.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.28% 3.36% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile - £506 £503
25th Percentile £400 £516 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.21% -17.31% +23.81%
75th Percentile £499 £566 £731
90th Percentile £515 £579 £738
North West median daily rate £360 £448 £650
% change year-on-year -19.55% -31.15% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £80.00

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 151 149 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.89% 12.50% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 93 212
10th Percentile £312 £328 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £575
90th Percentile £691 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £19.32 £32.85 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £37.88 £18.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +137.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £84.50 £76.38 £55.31
90th Percentile £90.80 £92.95 £65.00
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -56.69% - +112.03%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Grafana 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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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
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 19 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
Oldham - 2 - -
Grafana
North West

Grafana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Apigee
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Datadog
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) GitLab
2 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (27.27%) CircleCI
3 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Games
2 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Writer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Playwright
2 5 (45.45%) Node.js
3 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
3 3 (27.27%) Puppeteer
3 3 (27.27%) React
3 3 (27.27%) RESTful
4 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (18.18%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Observability
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (45.45%) Task Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (27.27%) API Development
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
4 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) User Experience
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Bash
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 2 (18.18%) Go
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Terraform
2 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
3 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
4 2 (18.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
1 3 (27.27%) PagerDuty