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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 73 86
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +37
Contract jobs citing Grafana 15 9 14
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.40% 0.78% 0.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.15% 5.81% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £381 £507 £503
25th Percentile - £520 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £540 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -16.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £468 £564 £731
90th Percentile £495 £578 £738
North West median daily rate £360 £496 £650
% change year-on-year -27.46% -23.65% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £76.38
25th Percentile - - £76.56
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
75th Percentile - - £81.56
90th Percentile - - £82.13
North West median hourly rate - - £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 164 155 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.33% 13.36% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 84 210
10th Percentile £313 £316 £298
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £603 £572
90th Percentile £686 £675 £658
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.21% -1.95% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile £19.21 £31.18 £17.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £33.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £49.50 £39.25 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.11% -10.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £87.13 £44.69 £64.38
90th Percentile £91.85 £47.13 £78.75
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -56.69% - +90.63%

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

Grafana
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

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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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 31 October 2025. 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 - 4 - -
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 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (40.00%) GitHub
2 6 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (33.33%) GCP
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) Datadog
4 4 (26.67%) Pulumi
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (13.33%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) Apigee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) GitLab
2 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Banking
1 4 (26.67%) Games
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Writer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (26.67%) Playwright
2 3 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) Puppeteer
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Observability
3 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
3 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
6 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
6 2 (13.33%) High Availability
6 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Bash
3 5 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (26.67%) Go
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Terraform
2 9 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (13.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Google
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) PagerDuty
1 1 (6.67%) Splunk