Grafana Contracts in the UK excluding London

Grafana
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Grafana skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grafana over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 245 251
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +124
Contract jobs citing Grafana 115 157 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.90% 0.76% 0.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.10% 6.67% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 119 174
10th Percentile £416 £358 £439
25th Percentile £468 £434 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £652 £575 £557
90th Percentile £750 £639 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £508 £535
% change year-on-year +8.27% -5.05% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £78.70 £41.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.79% -36.54% -
75th Percentile - £66.56 £65.75
90th Percentile - £76.13 £69.65
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £41.25 £65.50
% change year-on-year +90.79% -37.02% -16.83%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Grafana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Grafana in the UK excluding London

Grafana
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Grafana in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Grafana in the UK excluding London

Grafana
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in the UK excluding London

Grafana
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Grafana in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Grafana in the UK excluding London

Grafana
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +29 51 £638 +15.91% 113
Yorkshire +19 28 £725 +16.56% 44
Scotland -14 25 £480 -0.10% 24
South West +41 18 £550 - 56
North West +21 15 £550 +15.79% 60
Midlands +13 10 £431 +20.39% 84
West Midlands +6 10 £431 +20.39% 47
South East +41 9 £389 -19.54% 127
North East -5 8 £590 +42.17% 9
East of England +30 1 £420 -52.00% 64
Wales -5 1 £586 -9.08% 11
Grafana
UK

Grafana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (11.30%) nginx
2 7 (6.09%) Traefik
3 6 (5.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.35%) Apache
5 2 (1.74%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.74%) IIS
6 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.87%) Confluence
6 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 49 (42.61%) AWS
2 22 (19.13%) OpenShift
3 21 (18.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (16.52%) Azure
6 17 (14.78%) Amazon S3
7 15 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (11.30%) AWS Fargate
9 12 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (10.43%) GitHub
9 12 (10.43%) Serverless
10 11 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (9.57%) Entra ID
10 11 (9.57%) GCP
11 10 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (6.96%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (6.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (6.09%) Collibra
14 7 (6.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.30%) DNS
2 9 (7.83%) TCP/IP
3 8 (6.96%) Firewall
3 8 (6.96%) SSL
4 4 (3.48%) NAS
4 4 (3.48%) SAN
5 2 (1.74%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.87%) Network Security
6 1 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.09%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.22%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (5.22%) BigQuery
5 6 (5.22%) InfluxDB
6 5 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.35%) Hadoop
6 5 (4.35%) Redis
7 4 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.48%) Big Data
7 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.61%) GIS
8 3 (2.61%) MariaDB
8 3 (2.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (37.39%) Jenkins
2 29 (25.22%) GitLab
3 15 (13.04%) Git
4 8 (6.96%) JUnit
5 6 (5.22%) Maven
6 5 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.35%) Mockito
6 5 (4.35%) Selenium
7 4 (3.48%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (3.48%) DbUnit
7 4 (3.48%) JIRA
7 4 (3.48%) jMock
7 4 (3.48%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.61%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (2.61%) JMeter
9 2 (1.74%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.74%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.74%) Postman
General
1 28 (24.35%) Public Sector
2 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.30%) Banking
4 12 (10.43%) Finance
5 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.61%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.61%) Legal
7 3 (2.61%) Military
8 2 (1.74%) Aviation
8 2 (1.74%) Electronics
8 2 (1.74%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.74%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Police
8 2 (1.74%) Swedish Language
8 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.74%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (28.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (14.78%) Senior
3 13 (11.30%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (10.43%) Architect
4 12 (10.43%) Developer
5 8 (6.96%) Java Developer
5 8 (6.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.09%) Applications Support
6 7 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.09%) Site Engineer
6 7 (6.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Lead
8 5 (4.35%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Support Specialist
9 4 (3.48%) Analyst
9 4 (3.48%) Applications Support Specialist
9 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.48%) Kafka
2 18 (15.65%) REST
3 12 (10.43%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (10.43%) Spring
4 11 (9.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (8.70%) cloud-init
5 10 (8.70%) Keycloak
5 10 (8.70%) Loki
5 10 (8.70%) Middleware
6 9 (7.83%) AWS CDK
6 9 (7.83%) React
6 9 (7.83%) Spring Boot
7 8 (6.96%) SOAP
8 7 (6.09%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.09%) LDAP
8 7 (6.09%) Web Services
9 6 (5.22%) ARM Templates
9 6 (5.22%) RESTful
9 6 (5.22%) YAML
10 5 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.83%) PKI
3 6 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.22%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.48%) Clustering
5 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) Replication
6 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.74%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.74%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Robotics
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 54 (46.96%) Linux
2 23 (20.00%) Unix
3 17 (14.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (8.70%) CentOS
5 9 (7.83%) Windows
6 2 (1.74%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.74%) VMS
6 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.87%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.87%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (55.65%) CI/CD
1 64 (55.65%) DevOps
2 43 (37.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (34.78%) Agile
4 34 (29.57%) Containerisation
5 31 (26.96%) Observability
6 23 (20.00%) Microservices
7 19 (16.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 18 (15.65%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (15.65%) Scrum
9 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (12.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (12.17%) High Availability
10 14 (12.17%) Test Automation
11 13 (11.30%) ITIL
11 13 (11.30%) Kanban
11 13 (11.30%) Migration
11 13 (11.30%) Software Engineering
12 11 (9.57%) Configuration Management
12 11 (9.57%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (47.83%) Python
2 34 (29.57%) Bash
3 23 (20.00%) Java
3 23 (20.00%) SQL
4 16 (13.91%) Go
5 12 (10.43%) PowerShell
5 12 (10.43%) Shell Script
6 11 (9.57%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.83%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.22%) Groovy
8 6 (5.22%) Perl
9 5 (4.35%) Bicep
10 4 (3.48%) C#
11 2 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.87%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (35.65%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.57%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.48%) Degree
6 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.74%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.87%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) OCP
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) NCSC
2 5 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 42 (36.52%) Docker
2 8 (6.96%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 8 (6.96%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.35%) Postfix
3 5 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) KVM
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (68.70%) Prometheus
2 75 (65.22%) Kubernetes
3 59 (51.30%) Terraform
4 36 (31.30%) Ansible
5 12 (10.43%) Packer
6 11 (9.57%) HAProxy
6 11 (9.57%) Istio
6 11 (9.57%) ZABBIX
7 10 (8.70%) Consul
8 9 (7.83%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (7.83%) linkerd
8 9 (7.83%) Rancher
9 5 (4.35%) Kibana
10 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
11 3 (2.61%) Puppet
12 2 (1.74%) BMC PATROL
12 2 (1.74%) Control-M
12 2 (1.74%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.74%) logstash
12 2 (1.74%) Nagios
Vendors
1 44 (38.26%) Splunk
2 12 (10.43%) VMware
3 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.83%) Okta
3 9 (7.83%) Oracle
4 8 (6.96%) Veritas
5 7 (6.09%) Apple
5 7 (6.09%) ESET
6 5 (4.35%) AppDynamics
6 5 (4.35%) Confluent
6 5 (4.35%) Google
7 4 (3.48%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.48%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.48%) IBM
7 4 (3.48%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (2.61%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.74%) BMC
9 2 (1.74%) Ribbon
9 2 (1.74%) SAP
9 2 (1.74%) xMatters