Grafana Contract Job Trends

Grafana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Grafana skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 226 294
Rank change year-on-year +41 +68 +86
Contract jobs citing Grafana 576 338 314
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.08% 0.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.81% 7.24% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 211 232
10th Percentile £385 £420 £413
25th Percentile £430 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £681 £650
90th Percentile £644 £738 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £506
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.75% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 12
10th Percentile - - £25.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £69.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £79.69
90th Percentile £73.60 - £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

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 5,873 4,670 5,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.75% 14.93% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,075 3,002 3,980
10th Percentile £313 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £418 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 65 162
10th Percentile £18.54 £15.33 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +23.61%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £82.90 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.46% -47.64% +19.95%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Grafana job vacancy trend in the UK

Grafana
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Grafana

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grafana over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Grafana in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Grafana

Grafana
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Grafana over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Grafana in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Job 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 20 January 2026. 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 +61 462 £513 -14.58% 293
UK excluding London +87 331 £500 -4.76% 282
London -17 164 £500 -18.37% 61
Work from Home +5 154 £525 -2.60% 90
North of England +16 136 £482 -18.31% 50
Yorkshire +1 84 £500 -31.03% 23
Midlands +23 80 £542 +12.00% 34
West Midlands +28 78 £540 +11.58% 9
South East +27 57 £473 -27.23% 82
Scotland +18 42 £501 +4.43% 27
North West -1 39 £375 -31.19% 18
South West +13 33 £550 -8.33% 42
North East -8 13 £575 -0.43% 9
East of England -12 7 £550 +100.00% 33
East Midlands - 2 £575 - 22
Wales -7 1 £600 +2.39% 14

Grafana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 26 (4.51%) Confluence
2 16 (2.78%) nginx
3 10 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.74%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.87%) Apache
6 3 (0.52%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.52%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.35%) FileNet
7 2 (0.35%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) Camunda
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (1.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.35%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 351 (60.94%) AWS
2 164 (28.47%) GitHub
3 152 (26.39%) Azure
4 135 (23.44%) GitHub Actions
5 115 (19.97%) Serverless
6 114 (19.79%) GCP
7 94 (16.32%) Amazon S3
8 92 (15.97%) Amazon EKS
9 91 (15.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 90 (15.63%) OpenShift
11 82 (14.24%) Amazon EC2
12 80 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 62 (10.76%) Amazon ECS
14 59 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
15 52 (9.03%) Datadog
16 45 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 28 (4.86%) AWS KMS
18 26 (4.51%) Azure AKS
19 25 (4.34%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.42%) Firewall
2 33 (5.73%) DNS
3 21 (3.65%) HTTP
4 14 (2.43%) FTP
4 14 (2.43%) SMTP
4 14 (2.43%) SSH
4 14 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.56%) IMAP
5 9 (1.56%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (1.39%) AMQP
6 8 (1.39%) VPN
7 7 (1.22%) Network Security
8 6 (1.04%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.87%) WAN
10 4 (0.69%) BGP
10 4 (0.69%) Multicast
10 4 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.69%) tcpdump
10 4 (0.69%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.52%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (18.58%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (12.15%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (8.51%) NoSQL
4 42 (7.29%) MongoDB
5 37 (6.42%) Redis
6 25 (4.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 23 (3.99%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.43%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.91%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.91%) InfluxDB
11 10 (1.74%) Big Data
11 10 (1.74%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.56%) MySQL
13 7 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.04%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.04%) HBase
15 5 (0.87%) Flink
15 5 (0.87%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 230 (39.93%) GitLab
1 230 (39.93%) Jenkins
2 108 (18.75%) Git
3 46 (7.99%) JIRA
4 25 (4.34%) Gradle
5 23 (3.99%) Artifactory
5 23 (3.99%) CircleCI
5 23 (3.99%) Liquibase
6 22 (3.82%) Maven
7 19 (3.30%) JUnit
7 19 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 15 (2.60%) Jaeger
10 14 (2.43%) Gatling
10 14 (2.43%) Vagrant
11 12 (2.08%) Cypress.io
11 12 (2.08%) IntelliJ
12 11 (1.91%) Selenium
13 10 (1.74%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.74%) SonarQube
General
1 186 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 87 (15.10%) Finance
3 85 (14.76%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.55%) Banking
5 47 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (5.21%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.04%) Front Office
10 6 (1.04%) Games
11 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.69%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.69%) Legal
12 4 (0.69%) Military
12 4 (0.69%) Retail
13 3 (0.52%) Billing
13 3 (0.52%) Law
14 1 (0.17%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.17%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (25.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 112 (19.44%) Senior
3 74 (12.85%) Developer
4 69 (11.98%) AWS Engineer
5 59 (10.24%) Platform Engineer
6 56 (9.72%) AWS DevOps
7 55 (9.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 52 (9.03%) Site Engineer
9 46 (7.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (5.90%) Software Engineer
11 30 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (4.51%) Lead
13 24 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 21 (3.65%) GCP Engineer
14 21 (3.65%) Python Developer
15 20 (3.47%) Senior Developer
16 19 (3.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 19 (3.30%) Java Developer
17 17 (2.95%) Senior DevOps
17 17 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (20.31%) Elastic Stack
2 96 (16.67%) Kafka
3 85 (14.76%) REST
4 76 (13.19%) OpenTelemetry
5 57 (9.90%) Spring Boot
6 54 (9.38%) Node.js
7 47 (8.16%) Spring
8 45 (7.81%) RESTful
9 31 (5.38%) FastAPI
10 25 (4.34%) gRPC
10 25 (4.34%) Loki
10 25 (4.34%) OAuth
10 25 (4.34%) Playwright
11 24 (4.17%) AWS CDK
11 24 (4.17%) GraphQL
12 23 (3.99%) Middleware
12 23 (3.99%) React
12 23 (3.99%) YAML
13 22 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
14 18 (3.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 113 (19.62%) Cloud Native
2 71 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 22 (3.82%) Replication
5 19 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.95%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.39%) NHS
13 7 (1.22%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.22%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.04%) PKI
14 6 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (0.87%) Data Structures
16 4 (0.69%) Blockchain
16 4 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 208 (36.11%) Linux
2 39 (6.77%) Windows
3 35 (6.08%) Unix
4 25 (4.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.13%) VMS
6 14 (2.43%) Amazon Linux
6 14 (2.43%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.22%) CentOS
8 6 (1.04%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.35%) Android
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (79.34%) CI/CD
2 320 (55.56%) DevOps
3 306 (53.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 278 (48.26%) Observability
5 252 (43.75%) Containerisation
6 185 (32.12%) Agile
7 131 (22.74%) Microservices
8 113 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
9 111 (19.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 110 (19.10%) Software Engineering
11 94 (16.32%) Platform Engineering
12 84 (14.58%) Test Automation
13 76 (13.19%) Root Cause Analysis
14 67 (11.63%) Software Delivery
15 65 (11.28%) Configuration Management
16 62 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (10.76%) Incident Response
17 61 (10.59%) Infrastructure Automation
18 57 (9.90%) DevSecOps
19 54 (9.38%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 343 (59.55%) Python
2 160 (27.78%) Bash
3 138 (23.96%) Java
4 107 (18.58%) Go
5 79 (13.72%) SQL
6 56 (9.72%) PowerShell
7 42 (7.29%) Shell Script
8 40 (6.94%) JavaScript
9 36 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 23 (3.99%) Groovy
11 19 (3.30%) Perl
12 13 (2.26%) Kotlin
12 13 (2.26%) Rust
13 11 (1.91%) C#
13 11 (1.91%) PHP
14 5 (0.87%) Scala
15 4 (0.69%) PromQL
16 2 (0.35%) Bicep
16 2 (0.35%) C++
16 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 192 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 155 (26.91%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.59%) Degree
4 41 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (6.42%) DV Cleared
6 28 (4.86%) AWS Certification
7 27 (4.69%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.91%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.22%) OCP
10 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.69%) CCNP
14 3 (0.52%) CISSP
15 2 (0.35%) CISM
16 1 (0.17%) CCNA
16 1 (0.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.08%) QA
2 20 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.56%) SLA
4 8 (1.39%) NCSC
5 7 (1.22%) WCAG
6 6 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.69%) GDPR
7 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.52%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.52%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.52%) NIST
9 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.35%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.35%) PSD2
9 2 (0.35%) SEPA
9 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 304 (52.78%) Docker
2 17 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.43%) DFS Replication
4 12 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.08%) vSphere
5 10 (1.74%) Squid
6 9 (1.56%) Dovecot
6 9 (1.56%) Postfix
7 7 (1.22%) KVM
8 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.17%) etcd
10 1 (0.17%) Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 417 (72.40%) Prometheus
2 403 (69.97%) Kubernetes
3 349 (60.59%) Terraform
4 184 (31.94%) Ansible
5 56 (9.72%) Argo
6 28 (4.86%) Puppet
7 24 (4.17%) Progress Chef
8 20 (3.47%) Nessus
9 17 (2.95%) Istio
10 16 (2.78%) Kibana
11 12 (2.08%) Podman
11 12 (2.08%) Proxmox
11 12 (2.08%) Rancher
12 11 (1.91%) Control-M
12 11 (1.91%) IBM Guardium
12 11 (1.91%) Kustomize
13 10 (1.74%) linkerd
14 8 (1.39%) Kiali
15 7 (1.22%) Sysdig
16 6 (1.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 119 (20.66%) Splunk
2 39 (6.77%) Dynatrace
3 37 (6.42%) Red Hat
4 33 (5.73%) Google
4 33 (5.73%) Oracle
5 32 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 32 (5.56%) VMware
6 28 (4.86%) ServiceNow
7 19 (3.30%) AppDynamics
8 16 (2.78%) PagerDuty
9 12 (2.08%) Tenable
10 11 (1.91%) New Relic
11 9 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
12 7 (1.22%) Confluent
13 5 (0.87%) Databricks
13 5 (0.87%) NVIDIA
13 5 (0.87%) Solace
14 4 (0.69%) Arista
14 4 (0.69%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.69%) Palo Alto