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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 75 86
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Grafana 34 14 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.37% 1.34% 0.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.38% 7.95% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 3
10th Percentile £359 £500 £469
25th Percentile £400 £520 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £547 £603 £531
90th Percentile £574 £694 -
North West median daily rate £475 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -8.65% +1.46% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile - - £64.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £71.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile £58.44 - £82.50
90th Percentile £69.13 - -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +21.15%

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 221 176 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.39% 16.91% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 111 154
10th Percentile £326 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £615 £575 £605
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 8
10th Percentile - - £42.75
25th Percentile £52.50 - £57.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £82.50
90th Percentile £68.25 - £87.75
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £33.09
% change year-on-year +27.91% +29.95% -22.14%

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 6 March 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

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 6 March 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
Oldham - 2 - -
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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) GitHub
3 6 (17.65%) Azure
3 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (14.71%) GCP
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.76%) Serverless
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (5.88%) Datadog
6 2 (5.88%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.94%) dbt
7 1 (2.94%) Firebase
7 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.88%) MySQL
2 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.94%) DocumentDB
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (76.47%) GitLab
2 13 (38.24%) Gradle
3 12 (35.29%) IntelliJ
4 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
5 4 (11.76%) Git
6 3 (8.82%) Selenium
7 2 (5.88%) JMeter
7 2 (5.88%) Mocha
7 2 (5.88%) Postman
8 1 (2.94%) Android Studio
8 1 (2.94%) Crashlytics
8 1 (2.94%) fastlane
8 1 (2.94%) Gatling
8 1 (2.94%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.94%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (2.94%) Xcode
8 1 (2.94%) XCTest
General
1 5 (14.71%) Finance
1 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Banking
3 2 (5.88%) Games
4 1 (2.94%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Software Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Java Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) Node.js Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (58.82%) Spring
1 20 (58.82%) Spring Boot
2 12 (35.29%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (20.59%) REST
4 6 (17.65%) Kafka
5 4 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (11.76%) GraphQL
5 4 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (11.76%) RESTful
6 3 (8.82%) JSON
6 3 (8.82%) Node.js
7 2 (5.88%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (5.88%) Jest
7 2 (5.88%) Jetpack Compose
7 2 (5.88%) JSON Schema
7 2 (5.88%) React
8 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
8 1 (2.94%) OkHttp
8 1 (2.94%) Playwright
8 1 (2.94%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Unix
3 2 (5.88%) Android
4 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) CI/CD
1 15 (44.12%) Software Engineering
2 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
2 11 (32.35%) Observability
3 9 (26.47%) DevOps
3 9 (26.47%) Test Automation
4 7 (20.59%) TDD
5 6 (17.65%) Agile
5 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (17.65%) Microservices
6 5 (14.71%) API Development
6 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven
6 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.71%) User Experience
7 4 (11.76%) Architectural Design
7 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
7 4 (11.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (8.82%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) Java
2 13 (38.24%) Kotlin
3 8 (23.53%) Python
4 5 (14.71%) Go
5 3 (8.82%) Bash
5 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.82%) PHP
5 3 (8.82%) SQL
5 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.94%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (32.35%) Prometheus
3 10 (29.41%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) PagerDuty
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Splunk