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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 239 272
Rank change year-on-year +20 +33 +40
Contract jobs citing Grafana 141 166 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.04% 0.78% 0.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.84% 6.92% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 122 139
10th Percentile £346 £358 £436
25th Percentile £421 £429 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -2.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £711 £645 £700
UK median daily rate £522 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.32% -9.01% -4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £78.83 - £73.50
25th Percentile £79.03 £77.50 -
Median hourly rate £79.35 £80.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% +2.56% -
75th Percentile £79.68 £82.50 £90.00
90th Percentile £79.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.35 £80.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -0.81% +2.56% -0.16%

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 2,060 2,399 3,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.20% 11.30% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,409 1,753 2,378
10th Percentile £230 £216 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.35% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 61 111
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.39 £17.72 £21.26
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +118.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £48.75 £65.88
90th Percentile £83.27 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +17.19% -44.35% +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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +26 45 £500 -11.50% 74
Scotland -8 32 £472 -0.63% 17
Yorkshire +7 25 £590 -5.14% 18
Midlands +8 24 £475 +32.68% 35
West Midlands +5 24 £475 +32.68% 21
North West +16 19 £363 -22.81% 53
South West +31 18 £530 -3.64% 34
South East +39 16 £435 -9.75% 66
East of England +28 6 £690 -21.14% 26
North East -12 1 £550 - 3
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 6 (4.26%) Confluence
2 4 (2.84%) Apache
3 3 (2.13%) nginx
4 2 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.42%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.42%) IIS
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 57 (40.43%) AWS
2 27 (19.15%) OpenShift
3 24 (17.02%) Amazon S3
4 21 (14.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 21 (14.89%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (14.18%) Azure
6 18 (12.77%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (12.77%) GCP
6 18 (12.77%) GitHub
7 16 (11.35%) AWS KMS
8 11 (7.80%) Route 53
8 11 (7.80%) Serverless
9 10 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.67%) BlazeMeter
10 8 (5.67%) SaaS
10 8 (5.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (4.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.64%) Firewall
2 12 (8.51%) DNS
3 8 (5.67%) SSL
4 6 (4.26%) SMTP
5 4 (2.84%) FTP
5 4 (2.84%) HTTP
5 4 (2.84%) NAS
5 4 (2.84%) SAN
5 4 (2.84%) SSH
6 3 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.42%) IMAP
7 2 (1.42%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.42%) Network Security
7 2 (1.42%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.42%) VPN
8 1 (0.71%) AMQP
8 1 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (23.40%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (12.06%) MongoDB
4 16 (11.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (10.64%) NoSQL
6 12 (8.51%) DynamoDB
7 11 (7.80%) Redis
8 10 (7.09%) Apache Cassandra
8 10 (7.09%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (4.26%) InfluxDB
11 5 (3.55%) BigQuery
11 5 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (2.84%) Big Data
12 4 (2.84%) MariaDB
12 4 (2.84%) MySQL
12 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
13 3 (2.13%) GIS
13 3 (2.13%) Hadoop
13 3 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (34.04%) Jenkins
2 29 (20.57%) Git
3 19 (13.48%) JUnit
4 17 (12.06%) GitLab
5 13 (9.22%) Maven
6 12 (8.51%) Mockito
7 11 (7.80%) JIRA
7 11 (7.80%) SonarQube
8 8 (5.67%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (5.67%) DbUnit
8 8 (5.67%) jMock
9 6 (4.26%) Bitbucket
9 6 (4.26%) Vagrant
10 4 (2.84%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.84%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.84%) Selenium
11 3 (2.13%) Artifactory
11 3 (2.13%) Jaeger
11 3 (2.13%) JMeter
12 2 (1.42%) Postman
General
1 34 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.70%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.80%) Finance
4 10 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.09%) Banking
4 10 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.13%) Legal
7 2 (1.42%) Aviation
7 2 (1.42%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (1.42%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.42%) Police
7 2 (1.42%) Swedish Language
8 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (25.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (17.02%) Developer
3 20 (14.18%) Java Developer
4 15 (10.64%) Lead
5 13 (9.22%) Senior
6 11 (7.80%) Architect
7 8 (5.67%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) Applications Support
8 6 (4.26%) Lead Developer
8 6 (4.26%) Lead Java Developer
8 6 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) Site Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (3.55%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.55%) Programme Manager
9 5 (3.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (3.55%) Support Specialist
10 4 (2.84%) Applications Specialist
10 4 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (2.84%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.73%) Spring
2 22 (15.60%) AngularJS
2 22 (15.60%) Kafka
3 18 (12.77%) REST
4 17 (12.06%) React
4 17 (12.06%) Spring Boot
5 16 (11.35%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (9.93%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (9.22%) RESTful
8 12 (8.51%) Loki
8 12 (8.51%) Node.js
9 11 (7.80%) ActiveMQ
9 11 (7.80%) JPA
9 11 (7.80%) SOAP
9 11 (7.80%) Spring Cloud
9 11 (7.80%) Web Services
10 10 (7.09%) Bootstrap
10 10 (7.09%) CSS
10 10 (7.09%) Middleware
11 9 (6.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.38%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.67%) Replication
4 7 (4.96%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.84%) Clustering
7 4 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.84%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.13%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.42%) Robotics
10 1 (0.71%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 56 (39.72%) Linux
2 18 (12.77%) Windows
3 15 (10.64%) Unix
4 8 (5.67%) VMS
5 6 (4.26%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (2.13%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.71%) CentOS
8 1 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (51.06%) CI/CD
1 72 (51.06%) DevOps
2 59 (41.84%) Agile
3 54 (38.30%) Containerisation
4 42 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (28.37%) Microservices
5 40 (28.37%) Observability
6 23 (16.31%) Scrum
7 22 (15.60%) Configuration Management
7 22 (15.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 22 (15.60%) Software Engineering
8 19 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (12.77%) Change Management
10 17 (12.06%) High Availability
10 17 (12.06%) Test Automation
11 16 (11.35%) Artificial Intelligence
11 16 (11.35%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (11.35%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (9.93%) ITIL
12 14 (9.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 62 (43.97%) Python
2 50 (35.46%) Java
3 32 (22.70%) Bash
4 31 (21.99%) SQL
5 21 (14.89%) PowerShell
6 18 (12.77%) JavaScript
7 16 (11.35%) TypeScript
8 14 (9.93%) Shell Script
9 12 (8.51%) Groovy
10 10 (7.09%) Perl
11 7 (4.96%) Bicep
12 5 (3.55%) C#
12 5 (3.55%) Go
12 5 (3.55%) Kotlin
12 5 (3.55%) PHP
13 3 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.71%) C
14 1 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.51%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.96%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.55%) Degree
6 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.42%) APMG
7 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.42%) CCNA
7 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.42%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.71%) OCP
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.84%) GDPR
2 4 (2.84%) NIST
3 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.42%) QA
4 2 (1.42%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 51 (36.17%) Docker
2 11 (7.80%) Postfix
3 8 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (5.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.84%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.42%) Dovecot
6 2 (1.42%) Squid
7 1 (0.71%) KVM
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (62.41%) Prometheus
2 73 (51.77%) Kubernetes
3 59 (41.84%) Terraform
4 41 (29.08%) Ansible
5 6 (4.26%) Puppet
6 5 (3.55%) Packer
7 4 (2.84%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.84%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.13%) Control-M
8 3 (2.13%) Istio
8 3 (2.13%) Kiali
8 3 (2.13%) Kibana
9 2 (1.42%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (1.42%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.42%) Graylog
9 2 (1.42%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.42%) logstash
9 2 (1.42%) Nessus
9 2 (1.42%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 52 (36.88%) Splunk
2 17 (12.06%) Oracle
3 12 (8.51%) Dynatrace
3 12 (8.51%) VMware
4 10 (7.09%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (6.38%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.67%) AppDynamics
6 8 (5.67%) Atlassian
6 8 (5.67%) Veritas
7 7 (4.96%) Red Hat
7 7 (4.96%) ServiceNow
8 6 (4.26%) Google
9 5 (3.55%) Confluent
10 4 (2.84%) PagerDuty
11 3 (2.13%) xMatters
12 2 (1.42%) BMC
12 2 (1.42%) Commvault
12 2 (1.42%) NVIDIA
12 2 (1.42%) Ribbon
12 2 (1.42%) Tenable