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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 73 81
Rank change year-on-year -33 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Grafana 19 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.96% 0.99% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.82% 7.35% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile £322 £415 £506
25th Percentile £400 £438 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £490 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% -8.84% -15.69%
75th Percentile £519 £508 £566
90th Percentile £630 £518 £579
North West median daily rate £407 £360 £448
% change year-on-year +13.13% -19.55% -29.80%

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 243 136 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.29% 13.49% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 95 70
10th Percentile £205 £312 £247
25th Percentile £407 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £456
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% +4.11% -9.88%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £640 £660 £650
North West median daily rate £480 £450 £448
% change year-on-year +6.67% +0.56% -10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £70.88 £31.58 £32.85
25th Percentile £75.75 £50.66 £37.88
Median hourly rate £77.00 £70.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.83% +48.95% +137.50%
75th Percentile £81.50 £87.13 £76.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.85 £92.95
North West median hourly rate £75.50 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.80% +35.34% -

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

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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 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in Manchester

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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

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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 (5.26%) nginx
1 1 (5.26%) Traefik
1 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) GitHub
4 6 (31.58%) GCP
5 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
6 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.26%) BrowserStack
7 1 (5.26%) ChatGPT
7 1 (5.26%) Datadog
7 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (5.26%) OCI
7 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
1 2 (10.53%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (36.84%) Selenium
3 5 (26.32%) Git
3 5 (26.32%) GitLab
4 4 (21.05%) Postman
5 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
5 3 (15.79%) Gatling
5 3 (15.79%) JUnit
5 3 (15.79%) REST Assured
5 3 (15.79%) Serenity BDD
5 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
5 3 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
6 1 (5.26%) JMeter
6 1 (5.26%) LoadRunner
6 1 (5.26%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (21.05%) Banking
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (21.05%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Principal Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) Kafka
2 7 (36.84%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) Spring
4 3 (15.79%) Playwright
4 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.79%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (10.53%) REST
6 1 (5.26%) cloud-init
6 1 (5.26%) Express.js
6 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
6 1 (5.26%) Keycloak
6 1 (5.26%) Node.js
6 1 (5.26%) Nunjucks
6 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.26%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) CentOS
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
1 14 (73.68%) DevOps
2 13 (68.42%) Observability
3 8 (42.11%) Microservices
3 8 (42.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
4 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
6 4 (21.05%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (21.05%) High Availability
6 4 (21.05%) Performance Testing
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) Coaching
7 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (15.79%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Java
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) VBScript
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
5 1 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.26%) NCSC
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Kubernetes
1 13 (68.42%) Prometheus
2 4 (21.05%) Istio
3 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) Argo
4 1 (5.26%) Consul
4 1 (5.26%) HAProxy
4 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (5.26%) linkerd
4 1 (5.26%) Packer
4 1 (5.26%) Rancher
4 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Splunk
2 5 (26.32%) Dynatrace
2 5 (26.32%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) Confluent
4 2 (10.53%) Moogsoft
5 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
5 1 (5.26%) Apple
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) ESET
5 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.26%) IBM
5 1 (5.26%) Okta
5 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.26%) Red Hat