Grafana Contracts

Grafana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 296 317
Rank change year-on-year +31 +21 +53
Contract jobs citing Grafana 287 340 476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 0.78% 0.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.24% 6.61% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 259 359
10th Percentile £400 £375 £450
25th Percentile £463 £439 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £535
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -4.67% -10.83%
75th Percentile £653 £603 £650
90th Percentile £738 £671 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +3.75% +1.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £78.70 £41.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.79% -37.02% -16.83%
75th Percentile - £66.56 £75.00
90th Percentile - £76.13 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £41.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +90.79% -36.54% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Grafana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Grafana in the UK

Grafana
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Grafana.

Daily rate trend for Grafana in the UK

Grafana
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in the UK

Grafana
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Grafana.

Hourly rate trend for Grafana in the UK

Grafana
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +42 234 £568 +8.10% 262
London +13 124 £575 +9.52% 162
UK excluding London +19 116 £525 +3.75% 112
Work from Home +45 113 £550 +10.00% 169
North of England +39 52 £638 +15.91% 41
Yorkshire +26 28 £725 +16.56% 15
Scotland -18 25 £480 -0.10% 10
South West +40 18 £550 - 17
North West +16 16 £550 +15.79% 24
Midlands +19 10 £431 +20.39% 16
West Midlands +12 10 £431 +20.39% 14
South East +37 9 £389 -19.54% 15
North East -5 8 £590 +42.17% 2
East of England +33 1 £420 -52.00% 8
Wales -1 1 £586 -9.08% 3

Grafana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 26 (9.06%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.27%) nginx
3 12 (4.18%) Traefik
4 9 (3.14%) Apache
5 3 (1.05%) Confluence
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.70%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.70%) IIS
6 2 (0.70%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 155 (54.01%) AWS
2 71 (24.74%) Azure
3 56 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 44 (15.33%) GCP
5 42 (14.63%) GitHub
6 40 (13.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 39 (13.59%) Amazon S3
8 35 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
9 31 (10.80%) OpenShift
10 29 (10.10%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (9.06%) Serverless
12 25 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (8.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (8.36%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (7.67%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (6.97%) AWS Fargate
17 17 (5.92%) Entra ID
18 15 (5.23%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.59%) DNS
2 31 (10.80%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.23%) HTTP
4 14 (4.88%) Firewall
5 13 (4.53%) SSL
6 9 (3.14%) Network Security
7 7 (2.44%) Internet
8 4 (1.39%) NAS
8 4 (1.39%) SAN
8 4 (1.39%) VPN
9 3 (1.05%) DHCP
9 3 (1.05%) DOCSIS
9 3 (1.05%) FTP
9 3 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.05%) SMTP
9 3 (1.05%) SNMP
9 3 (1.05%) SSH
9 3 (1.05%) Telnet
9 3 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.77%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (11.50%) Elasticsearch
3 32 (11.15%) MongoDB
4 25 (8.71%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (8.71%) Hadoop
5 20 (6.97%) NoSQL
6 19 (6.62%) Big Data
7 16 (5.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 16 (5.57%) Redis
8 12 (4.18%) MySQL
9 11 (3.83%) InfluxDB
10 10 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.44%) Power BI
13 6 (2.09%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.09%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.09%) SQL Server
14 5 (1.74%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.74%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 103 (35.89%) Jenkins
2 79 (27.53%) GitLab
3 39 (13.59%) Git
4 15 (5.23%) Maven
5 13 (4.53%) JUnit
6 12 (4.18%) CircleCI
6 12 (4.18%) JIRA
7 9 (3.14%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.79%) Artifactory
8 8 (2.79%) Mockito
8 8 (2.79%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.09%) Jaeger
9 6 (2.09%) Selenium
10 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.39%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.39%) Gradle
11 4 (1.39%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.39%) jMock
11 4 (1.39%) Postman
General
1 60 (20.91%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.94%) Banking
3 38 (13.24%) Finance
4 36 (12.54%) Public Sector
5 26 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.48%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.79%) Military
8 6 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Legal
11 2 (0.70%) Electronics
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.70%) Marketing
11 2 (0.70%) Police
11 2 (0.70%) Swedish Language
11 2 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (31.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (19.51%) Senior
3 36 (12.54%) Senior DevOps
4 29 (10.10%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (10.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 28 (9.76%) Developer
6 25 (8.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 24 (8.36%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (8.36%) Site Engineer
8 23 (8.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 21 (7.32%) Architect
10 19 (6.62%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 14 (4.88%) Lead
12 13 (4.53%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.83%) Data Engineer
14 8 (2.79%) Software Engineer
15 7 (2.44%) Applications Support
15 7 (2.44%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.12%) Elastic Stack
2 50 (17.42%) Kafka
3 40 (13.94%) OpenTelemetry
4 32 (11.15%) Spring
5 24 (8.36%) REST
6 20 (6.97%) Spring Boot
7 17 (5.92%) Loki
7 17 (5.92%) React
8 16 (5.57%) Keycloak
9 15 (5.23%) cloud-init
10 14 (4.88%) AWS CDK
10 14 (4.88%) JSON
11 13 (4.53%) Node.js
11 13 (4.53%) RESTful
12 12 (4.18%) .NET
13 11 (3.83%) AngularJS
13 11 (3.83%) YAML
14 10 (3.48%) Middleware
15 9 (3.14%) Web Services
16 8 (2.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.88%) PKI
4 12 (4.18%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.79%) Social Media
6 6 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.09%) Replication
7 5 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.74%) Grid Computing
7 5 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.39%) Clustering
8 4 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.70%) IoT
10 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (39.72%) Linux
2 42 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (10.80%) Unix
4 17 (5.92%) Windows
5 16 (5.57%) CentOS
6 8 (2.79%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.05%) Android
9 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.70%) VMS
10 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (56.45%) CI/CD
2 161 (56.10%) DevOps
3 119 (41.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (36.93%) Containerisation
5 93 (32.40%) Observability
6 85 (29.62%) Agile
7 76 (26.48%) Microservices
8 49 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
9 46 (16.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 45 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (12.54%) Configuration Management
12 35 (12.20%) Software Engineering
12 35 (12.20%) Test Automation
13 33 (11.50%) Migration
14 30 (10.45%) Analytics
15 26 (9.06%) High Availability
15 26 (9.06%) Scrum
16 24 (8.36%) Task Automation
17 23 (8.01%) Cloud Security
18 22 (7.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 140 (48.78%) Python
2 69 (24.04%) Bash
3 61 (21.25%) Java
4 49 (17.07%) SQL
5 47 (16.38%) Go
6 28 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.67%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.92%) TypeScript
9 16 (5.57%) Shell Script
10 13 (4.53%) Bicep
11 12 (4.18%) C#
12 10 (3.48%) Groovy
13 9 (3.14%) Perl
14 8 (2.79%) C++
14 8 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (2.09%) Ruby
16 5 (1.74%) Kotlin
17 4 (1.39%) C
18 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 92 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 74 (25.78%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.85%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.62%) Degree
5 10 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CEH
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.35%) OCP
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.57%) NCSC
2 11 (3.83%) QA
3 8 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.44%) GDPR
5 5 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.39%) NIST
7 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.05%) SLA
8 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.35%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 115 (40.07%) Docker
2 8 (2.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 8 (2.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 7 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.74%) Postfix
5 4 (1.39%) Platform Symphony
6 3 (1.05%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (1.05%) iptables
6 3 (1.05%) Lustre
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.35%) HDFS
8 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.35%) KVM
8 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 197 (68.64%) Kubernetes
2 180 (62.72%) Prometheus
3 162 (56.45%) Terraform
4 101 (35.19%) Ansible
5 27 (9.41%) Puppet
6 25 (8.71%) Argo
7 24 (8.36%) Istio
8 23 (8.01%) Progress Chef
9 21 (7.32%) ZABBIX
10 20 (6.97%) Kibana
11 18 (6.27%) Packer
12 16 (5.57%) Consul
12 16 (5.57%) HAProxy
12 16 (5.57%) linkerd
13 14 (4.88%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (4.88%) Rancher
14 5 (1.74%) Control-M
14 5 (1.74%) ITRS Geneos
14 5 (1.74%) Nagios
14 5 (1.74%) Podman
Vendors
1 73 (25.44%) Splunk
2 26 (9.06%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.97%) Red Hat
4 18 (6.27%) Google
5 17 (5.92%) VMware
6 15 (5.23%) Oracle
7 14 (4.88%) Okta
8 12 (4.18%) Apple
8 12 (4.18%) ESET
9 8 (2.79%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.79%) IBM
9 8 (2.79%) Veritas
10 6 (2.09%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.09%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.09%) TIBCO
11 5 (1.74%) Confluent
12 4 (1.39%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.39%) Informatica
12 4 (1.39%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (1.39%) Talend