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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 76 81
Rank change year-on-year -31 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Grafana 22 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.10% 0.99% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.73% 7.69% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile £338 - £506
25th Percentile £400 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -25.58% -17.31%
75th Percentile £522 £445 £566
90th Percentile £624 £472 £579
North West median daily rate £471 £358 £493
% change year-on-year +31.63% -27.38% -24.15%

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 252 130 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.56% 12.90% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 89 74
10th Percentile £321 £291 £316
25th Percentile £413 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £575 £612 £582
90th Percentile £642 £651 £650
North West median daily rate £480 £440 £464
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.12% -6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £75.00 £19.21 £31.18
25th Percentile £76.25 £19.72 £33.69
Median hourly rate £77.00 £49.50 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% +26.11% +23.14%
75th Percentile £85.81 £87.13 £44.69
90th Percentile £90.50 £91.85 £47.13
North West median hourly rate £76.50 £18.87 £38.59
% change year-on-year +305.41% -51.10% -16.44%

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 12 October 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 (4.55%) nginx
1 1 (4.55%) Traefik
1 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 7 (31.82%) GitHub
4 6 (27.27%) GCP
5 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Datadog
5 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.09%) Firebase
6 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.55%) BrowserStack
7 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.55%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Textract
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) Internet
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 7 (31.82%) Selenium
3 6 (27.27%) Git
3 6 (27.27%) GitLab
4 4 (18.18%) Postman
5 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
5 3 (13.64%) Gatling
5 3 (13.64%) JUnit
5 3 (13.64%) REST Assured
5 3 (13.64%) Serenity BDD
5 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
5 3 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.55%) Claude Code
6 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.55%) git-flow
6 1 (4.55%) JMeter
6 1 (4.55%) LoadRunner
6 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (18.18%) Banking
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Military
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Lead
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Test Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Principal Test Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Android Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Development Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Kafka
2 7 (31.82%) Terraform
3 5 (22.73%) Spring
3 5 (22.73%) Spring Boot
4 3 (13.64%) Playwright
4 3 (13.64%) REST
4 3 (13.64%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
5 2 (9.09%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (4.55%) cloud-init
6 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
6 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
6 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.55%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Android
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) CentOS
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) CI/CD
2 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 14 (63.64%) Observability
4 8 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 7 (31.82%) Microservices
6 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (22.73%) Agile
7 5 (22.73%) Incident Response
7 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (18.18%) Performance Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Test Strategy
9 3 (13.64%) API Testing
9 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (13.64%) High Availability
9 3 (13.64%) Non-Functional Testing
9 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (13.64%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
5 2 (9.09%) VBScript
6 1 (4.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Prometheus
2 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (18.18%) Istio
4 3 (13.64%) Ansible
4 3 (13.64%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) Consul
5 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (4.55%) linkerd
5 1 (4.55%) Packer
5 1 (4.55%) Rancher
5 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Splunk
2 5 (22.73%) Dynatrace
2 5 (22.73%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) Confluent
4 2 (9.09%) Moogsoft
5 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.55%) Apple
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) ESET
5 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.55%) IBM
5 1 (4.55%) Okta
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto