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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 73 92
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 +13
Contract jobs citing Grafana 37 15 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.26% 1.62% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.92% 9.68% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 3
10th Percentile £361 £435 £469
25th Percentile £406 £499 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +5.37% -5.09%
75th Percentile £547 £550 £531
90th Percentile £575 £675 -
North West median daily rate £500 £540 £461
% change year-on-year -7.41% +17.07% -14.58%
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 248 155 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.16% 16.70% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 110 132
10th Percentile £312 £248 £302
25th Percentile £402 £414 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £611 £559 £625
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £494 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +0.84% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 5
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.08%
75th Percentile £62.88 - £100.00
90th Percentile £70.00 - £102.40
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +27.91% +142.66% -52.75%

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 10 April 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 10 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Grafana in Manchester

Grafana
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 10 April 2026. 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 - 1 - -
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 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) GitHub
3 8 (21.62%) Azure
4 6 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.81%) GCP
6 4 (10.81%) Serverless
7 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (5.41%) dbt
8 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.70%) BrowserStack
9 1 (2.70%) Datadog
9 1 (2.70%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.41%) Data Vault
3 2 (5.41%) MySQL
3 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) DocumentDB
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (67.57%) GitLab
2 13 (35.14%) Gradle
3 12 (32.43%) IntelliJ
4 6 (16.22%) Git
4 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
5 3 (8.11%) Selenium
6 2 (5.41%) JMeter
6 2 (5.41%) Mocha
6 2 (5.41%) Postman
7 1 (2.70%) Android Studio
7 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.70%) Crashlytics
7 1 (2.70%) fastlane
7 1 (2.70%) Gatling
7 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.70%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (2.70%) Xcode
7 1 (2.70%) XCTest
General
1 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.51%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Automotive
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Software Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Java Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Lead Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Lead Software Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Android Developer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (56.76%) Spring
2 20 (54.05%) Spring Boot
3 13 (35.14%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (21.62%) REST
5 7 (18.92%) Kafka
6 4 (10.81%) GraphQL
6 4 (10.81%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (10.81%) RESTful
7 3 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (8.11%) JSON
7 3 (8.11%) Node.js
8 2 (5.41%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (5.41%) Jest
8 2 (5.41%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (5.41%) JSON Schema
8 2 (5.41%) React
9 1 (2.70%) Dagger
9 1 (2.70%) Express.js
9 1 (2.70%) Retrofit
9 1 (2.70%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
3 2 (5.41%) Android
4 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) CI/CD
2 15 (40.54%) Software Engineering
3 14 (37.84%) Observability
4 12 (32.43%) Containerisation
5 9 (24.32%) DevOps
5 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
6 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (18.92%) Agile
7 7 (18.92%) Microservices
7 7 (18.92%) TDD
8 6 (16.22%) API Development
8 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven
9 5 (13.51%) User Experience
10 4 (10.81%) Architectural Design
10 4 (10.81%) Code Quality
10 4 (10.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 4 (10.81%) DevSecOps
10 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Java
2 13 (35.14%) Kotlin
3 8 (21.62%) Python
4 4 (10.81%) Bash
4 4 (10.81%) Go
5 3 (8.11%) PHP
5 3 (8.11%) SQL
5 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.41%) Bicep
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.70%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) zsh
Systems Management
1 31 (83.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (37.84%) Prometheus
3 10 (27.03%) Terraform
4 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.11%) PagerDuty
2 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.41%) Splunk