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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 82 85
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing Grafana 22 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.13% 0.80% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.26% 5.71% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 1
10th Percentile £353 £315 -
25th Percentile £401 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% -2.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £538 £508 -
90th Percentile £608 £518 -
North West median daily rate £443 £359 £448
% change year-on-year +23.26% -19.78% -26.94%

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 303 140 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.57% 13.92% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 99 85
10th Percentile £295 £300 £313
25th Percentile £415 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £617 £606 £613
90th Percentile £675 £690 £665
North West median daily rate £500 £465 £484
% change year-on-year +7.53% -3.88% -7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £61.70 £31.58 £32.85
25th Percentile £64.33 £50.66 £37.88
Median hourly rate £76.00 £70.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% +48.95% +137.50%
75th Percentile £86.00 £87.13 £76.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.85 £92.95
North West median hourly rate £64.58 £63.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year +1.86% +37.29% +8.66%

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 10 August 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%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 11 (50.00%) Azure
3 8 (36.36%) GitHub
4 6 (27.27%) GCP
5 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (18.18%) Snowflake
6 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 2 (9.09%) dbt
8 1 (4.55%) BrowserStack
8 1 (4.55%) ChatGPT
8 1 (4.55%) Datadog
8 1 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (4.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) Internet
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) Data Vault
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
2 7 (31.82%) Git
2 7 (31.82%) Selenium
3 5 (22.73%) 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%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.55%) JMeter
6 1 (4.55%) LoadRunner
6 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Lead
2 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Test Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
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%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) Kafka
2 4 (18.18%) Spring
3 3 (13.64%) Playwright
3 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.64%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) Express.js
5 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.55%) Node.js
5 1 (4.55%) Nunjucks
5 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
5 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%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 14 (63.64%) DevOps
2 14 (63.64%) Observability
3 9 (40.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (36.36%) Microservices
4 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (22.73%) Incident Response
8 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
8 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 4 (18.18%) High Availability
8 4 (18.18%) Performance Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (18.18%) Test Strategy
9 3 (13.64%) API Testing
9 3 (13.64%) Coaching
9 3 (13.64%) Non-Functional Testing
9 3 (13.64%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Java
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Bash
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Bicep
4 2 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) zsh
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
1 14 (63.64%) Prometheus
2 7 (31.82%) Terraform
3 4 (18.18%) Ansible
4 3 (13.64%) Argo
4 3 (13.64%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Splunk
2 5 (22.73%) Dynatrace
2 5 (22.73%) ServiceNow
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) Confluent
4 2 (9.09%) Moogsoft
4 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.55%) IBM
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto