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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 69 88
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing Grafana 33 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.96% 1.08% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.64% 6.80% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 4
10th Percentile £379 £395 £472
25th Percentile £406 £488 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.64% -6.25%
75th Percentile £556 £603 £531
90th Percentile £575 £694 -
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile £52.50 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £58.44 - £77.19
90th Percentile £69.13 - £80.38
North West median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

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 242 147 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.38% 15.87% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 108 129
10th Percentile £313 £225 £323
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -11.36% +0.92%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 5
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -21.88% +143.90%
75th Percentile £65.31 £63.75 £100.00
90th Percentile £73.00 - £102.40
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -12.00% +252.71% -40.93%

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 1 May 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

Grafana
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Grafana in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Grafana in Manchester

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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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) GitHub
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) dbt
6 2 (6.06%) Serverless
6 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) BrowserStack
7 1 (3.03%) Datadog
7 1 (3.03%) Firebase
7 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Data Vault
3 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) DocumentDB
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (63.64%) GitLab
2 13 (39.39%) Gradle
3 12 (36.36%) IntelliJ
4 7 (21.21%) Git
5 4 (12.12%) Selenium
6 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
6 3 (9.09%) Postman
7 2 (6.06%) JMeter
7 2 (6.06%) Mocha
8 1 (3.03%) Android Studio
8 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
8 1 (3.03%) Crashlytics
8 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
8 1 (3.03%) fastlane
8 1 (3.03%) Gatling
8 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.03%) Robot Framework
8 1 (3.03%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (3.03%) Xcode
8 1 (3.03%) XCTest
General
1 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 12 (36.36%) Java Engineer
2 12 (36.36%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Android Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.03%) iOS Android Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (63.64%) Spring
2 20 (60.61%) Spring Boot
3 13 (39.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (21.21%) REST
5 6 (18.18%) Kafka
6 4 (12.12%) GraphQL
6 4 (12.12%) RESTful
7 3 (9.09%) JSON
7 3 (9.09%) Node.js
7 3 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (6.06%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (6.06%) Jest
8 2 (6.06%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (6.06%) JSON Schema
8 2 (6.06%) React
9 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
9 1 (3.03%) OkHttp
9 1 (3.03%) Playwright
9 1 (3.03%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Unix
3 2 (6.06%) Android
4 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Software Engineering
2 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 12 (36.36%) Observability
3 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 8 (24.24%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Microservices
5 7 (21.21%) TDD
6 6 (18.18%) API Development
6 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (18.18%) DevOps
7 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven
7 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (15.15%) User Experience
8 4 (12.12%) Architectural Design
8 4 (12.12%) Code Quality
8 4 (12.12%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps
8 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (72.73%) Java
2 13 (39.39%) Kotlin
3 6 (18.18%) Python
4 3 (9.09%) Bash
4 3 (9.09%) Go
4 3 (9.09%) PHP
4 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.06%) Bicep
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 12 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) zsh
Systems Management
1 28 (84.85%) Kubernetes
2 11 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 6 (18.18%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) PagerDuty
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk