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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 68 92
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 +11
Contract jobs citing Grafana 37 14 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.44% 1.46% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.81% 9.21% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 3
10th Percentile £361 £432 £469
25th Percentile £406 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +6.34% -3.76%
75th Percentile £538 £577 £531
90th Percentile £573 £684 -
North West median daily rate £475 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -12.04% +5.37% -3.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile - - £62.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £58.44 - £80.63
90th Percentile £69.13 - £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 234 152 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.42% 15.83% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 104 140
10th Percentile £326 £258 £305
25th Percentile £406 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £487 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% -7.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £563 £620
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £476 £475 £504
% change year-on-year +0.26% -5.75% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 7
10th Percentile - - £39.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.88 - £80.63
90th Percentile £70.00 - £89.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £33.59 £19.25
% change year-on-year +63.74% +74.49% -48.67%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) GitHub
3 8 (21.62%) Azure
4 7 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.51%) GCP
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.81%) Serverless
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (5.41%) Datadog
7 2 (5.41%) dbt
7 2 (5.41%) Pulumi
7 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.41%) Data Vault
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) DocumentDB
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (70.27%) GitLab
2 13 (35.14%) Gradle
3 12 (32.43%) IntelliJ
4 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
5 6 (16.22%) Git
6 3 (8.11%) Selenium
7 2 (5.41%) JMeter
7 2 (5.41%) Mocha
7 2 (5.41%) Postman
8 1 (2.70%) Android Studio
8 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.70%) Crashlytics
8 1 (2.70%) fastlane
8 1 (2.70%) Gatling
8 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.70%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (2.70%) Xcode
8 1 (2.70%) XCTest
General
1 5 (13.51%) Finance
1 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Games
4 1 (2.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Software Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Java Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) Android Developer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (54.05%) Spring
1 20 (54.05%) Spring Boot
2 12 (32.43%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (18.92%) Kafka
3 7 (18.92%) REST
4 4 (10.81%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (10.81%) GraphQL
4 4 (10.81%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (10.81%) RESTful
5 3 (8.11%) JSON
6 2 (5.41%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (5.41%) Jest
6 2 (5.41%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (5.41%) JSON Schema
6 2 (5.41%) Node.js
6 2 (5.41%) React
7 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.70%) OkHttp
7 1 (2.70%) Retrofit
7 1 (2.70%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
3 2 (5.41%) Android
4 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) CI/CD
2 15 (40.54%) Software Engineering
3 14 (37.84%) Observability
4 13 (35.14%) Containerisation
5 10 (27.03%) DevOps
6 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
7 7 (18.92%) Agile
7 7 (18.92%) TDD
8 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (16.22%) Microservices
9 5 (13.51%) API Development
9 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven
9 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (13.51%) User Experience
10 4 (10.81%) Architectural Design
10 4 (10.81%) Code Quality
10 4 (10.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 4 (10.81%) DevSecOps
10 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Java
2 13 (35.14%) Kotlin
3 9 (24.32%) Python
4 5 (13.51%) Bash
4 5 (13.51%) Go
5 3 (8.11%) PHP
5 3 (8.11%) SQL
5 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.41%) Bicep
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.70%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) zsh
Systems Management
1 31 (83.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (37.84%) Prometheus
3 11 (29.73%) Terraform
4 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.11%) PagerDuty
2 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.41%) Splunk