Grafana Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Grafana
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Grafana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 109 137
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 +32
Contract jobs citing Grafana 11 18 8
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.65% 0.83% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.07% 6.87% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 4
10th Percentile £442 £453 £474
25th Percentile £479 £467 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £550
90th Percentile £655 £633 -
South East median daily rate £462 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.70% -4.76% -8.70%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 270 262 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.88% 12.08% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 194 242
10th Percentile £250 £325 £205
25th Percentile £375 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -13.04% +12.75%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £675
90th Percentile £638 £682 £735
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £18.87 £30.60 £30.46
25th Percentile £18.90 £31.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.08 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -27.52% -15.83%
75th Percentile £76.00 £37.06 -
90th Percentile £86.32 £37.62 £49.20
South East median hourly rate £26.39 £36.17 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.04% -34.25% +14.86%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Grafana job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Grafana
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Grafana.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Grafana

Grafana
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in the Thames Valley

Grafana
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire +17 10 £500 +1.42% 5
Oxfordshire -6 1 - - 4
Grafana
South East

Grafana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure AKS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Monitor
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Storage
1 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Table
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) DbUnit
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) jMock
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
2 1 (9.09%) Mocha
2 1 (9.09%) Mockito
2 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Site Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) ADO
1 4 (36.36%) ARM Templates
1 4 (36.36%) Loki
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) OAuth
3 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
3 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
3 2 (18.18%) OpenID
3 2 (18.18%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) Swagger
4 1 (9.09%) Fastify
4 1 (9.09%) Flask
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) Jest
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (72.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) Agile
4 6 (54.55%) DevOps
5 5 (45.45%) Observability
6 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
7 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
7 3 (27.27%) Microservices
8 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (18.18%) High Availability
8 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
9 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
9 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Bash
3 6 (54.55%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) Bicep
5 3 (27.27%) C#
5 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (36.36%) vSphere
2 3 (27.27%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Prometheus
2 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
3 6 (54.55%) Terraform
4 5 (45.45%) Argo
5 4 (36.36%) Kustomize
6 1 (9.09%) Ansible
6 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
1 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk