Grafana Contract Job Trends in the South West

Grafana
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Grafana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 111 148
Rank change year-on-year +15 +37 +25
Contract jobs citing Grafana 37 15 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.59% 0.71% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.74% 4.48% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 10 2
10th Percentile £475 £507 £560
25th Percentile £513 £516 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £643
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -10.51% +11.74%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £698
90th Percentile £712 £632 £722
England median daily rate £513 £590 £588
% change year-on-year -13.14% +0.43% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £56.75 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 380 335 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.31% 15.86% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 209 325
10th Percentile £348 £330 £353
25th Percentile £450 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £693 £633 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
England median daily rate £512 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -4.32% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 12
10th Percentile £53.85 £12.50 £19.35
25th Percentile £74.63 £13.25 £49.13
Median hourly rate £86.00 £45.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.11% -37.93% +11.54%
75th Percentile £119.00 £74.00 £78.00
90th Percentile - £74.22 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Grafana relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Grafana job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Grafana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Grafana

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana in the South West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Grafana.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Grafana

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Gloucestershire +5 18 £588 -4.08% 11
Bristol +2 9 £525 -4.55% 6
Wiltshire -11 6 £606 +1.04% 5
Dorset +12 3 £525 - 7
Grafana
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (8.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.41%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) AWS
3 12 (32.43%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (32.43%) OpenShift
4 10 (27.03%) GitHub
4 10 (27.03%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (24.32%) npm
6 8 (21.62%) Serverless
7 7 (18.92%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (16.22%) GCP
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (2.70%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.70%) Datadog
10 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) AMQP
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
2 1 (2.70%) LAN
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (18.92%) Redis
2 6 (16.22%) RDBMS
2 6 (16.22%) Relational Database
3 5 (13.51%) InfluxDB
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (8.11%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.41%) Big Data
5 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Git
1 14 (37.84%) GitLab
1 14 (37.84%) Jenkins
2 9 (24.32%) Maven
3 4 (10.81%) SonarQube
4 3 (8.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Aerospace
3 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) Support Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Applications Support
3 7 (18.92%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Backend Developer
3 7 (18.92%) Python Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
7 2 (5.41%) Administrator
7 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Site Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (21.62%) REST
3 7 (18.92%) FastAPI
3 7 (18.92%) Flask
3 7 (18.92%) GraphQL
3 7 (18.92%) gRPC
3 7 (18.92%) WebSockets
4 3 (8.11%) Node.js
5 2 (5.41%) .NET
5 2 (5.41%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (5.41%) Express.js
5 2 (5.41%) Kafka
5 2 (5.41%) React
5 2 (5.41%) RESTful
6 1 (2.70%) OpenID
6 1 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Cloud Native
1 9 (24.32%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) PKI
3 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (37.84%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) CentOS
2 6 (16.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (13.51%) Windows
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) CI/CD
2 19 (51.35%) Containerisation
2 19 (51.35%) DevOps
3 18 (48.65%) Microservices
4 16 (43.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (27.03%) Test Automation
7 9 (24.32%) Task Automation
8 8 (21.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (18.92%) Data Centre Operations
9 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
9 7 (18.92%) DevSecOps
10 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
10 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (16.22%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (13.51%) Agile
11 5 (13.51%) Observability
11 5 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
12 4 (10.81%) Incident Response
12 4 (10.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Python
2 10 (27.03%) Java
2 10 (27.03%) SQL
3 9 (24.32%) Bash
4 8 (21.62%) Go
5 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.11%) C
6 3 (8.11%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.41%) C#
7 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (89.19%) Security Cleared
2 20 (54.05%) DV Cleared
2 20 (54.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.70%) CISSP
4 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) NCSC
3 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (78.38%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (72.97%) Prometheus
2 24 (64.86%) Terraform
3 23 (62.16%) Ansible
4 22 (59.46%) Kubernetes
5 4 (10.81%) Podman
6 3 (8.11%) Packer
6 3 (8.11%) Proxmox
7 2 (5.41%) Kibana
7 2 (5.41%) logstash
7 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.41%) Rancher
8 1 (2.70%) Argo
8 1 (2.70%) Nagios
8 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) VMware
4 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.11%) Splunk