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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 70 87
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 +17
Contract jobs citing Grafana 28 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.47% 1.15% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.26% 8.80% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 1
10th Percentile £377 £335 -
25th Percentile £406 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £567 £506 -
90th Percentile £592 £518 -
North West median daily rate £525 £363 £448
% change year-on-year +44.63% -18.88% -22.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00

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 273 125 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.31% 13.05% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 90 105
10th Percentile £316 £258 £292
25th Percentile £404 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £613
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
North West median daily rate £485 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +3.19% -1.05% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £57.75 £63.70 £34.53
25th Percentile £61.63 £67.38 £42.06
Median hourly rate £76.00 £79.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +23.92% +213.23%
75th Percentile £86.00 £89.75 £87.88
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.90 £97.55
North West median hourly rate £62.25 £63.40 £17.72
% change year-on-year -1.81% +257.79% -39.52%

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 6 July 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 (3.57%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) AWS
2 14 (50.00%) Azure
3 12 (42.86%) GitHub
4 9 (32.14%) GCP
5 5 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (14.29%) Snowflake
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (7.14%) BrowserStack
8 2 (7.14%) dbt
8 2 (7.14%) Serverless
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.57%) ChatGPT
9 1 (3.57%) Datadog
9 1 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) Internet
1 2 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Data Vault
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Jenkins
2 10 (35.71%) Git
2 10 (35.71%) GitLab
2 10 (35.71%) Selenium
3 6 (21.43%) Postman
4 4 (14.29%) Gatling
4 4 (14.29%) REST Assured
4 4 (14.29%) Serenity BDD
5 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
5 3 (10.71%) JUnit
5 3 (10.71%) SonarQube
5 3 (10.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (7.14%) JMeter
6 2 (7.14%) Mocha
7 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.57%) Gradle
7 1 (3.57%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Automotive
5 1 (3.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Lead
2 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead Software Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Principal Test Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) Kafka
2 11 (39.29%) Spring
3 10 (35.71%) Spring Boot
4 5 (17.86%) REST
5 4 (14.29%) Playwright
5 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (14.29%) RESTful
5 4 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (10.71%) Node.js
7 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (7.14%) GraphQL
7 2 (7.14%) Jest
7 2 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (7.14%) React
8 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
8 1 (3.57%) Express.js
8 1 (3.57%) Gherkin
8 1 (3.57%) JSON
8 1 (3.57%) Nunjucks
8 1 (3.57%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Replication
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (64.29%) Observability
3 16 (57.14%) DevOps
4 14 (50.00%) Microservices
5 13 (46.43%) Test Automation
6 9 (32.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 8 (28.57%) Agile
7 8 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
9 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven
9 5 (17.86%) Incident Management
9 5 (17.86%) Incident Response
9 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
9 5 (17.86%) Test Strategy
10 4 (14.29%) High Availability
10 4 (14.29%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) Bash
4 3 (10.71%) Go
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) Bicep
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) VBScript
6 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 16 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) zsh
Systems Management
1 20 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 17 (60.71%) Prometheus
3 9 (32.14%) Terraform
4 3 (10.71%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) Istio
5 2 (7.14%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Splunk
2 4 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.71%) PagerDuty
4 2 (7.14%) Confluent
4 2 (7.14%) Moogsoft
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.57%) IBM