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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 286 318
Rank change year-on-year +20 +32 +60
Contract jobs citing Grafana 278 339 453
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.79% 0.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.07% 6.65% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 258 339
10th Percentile £400 £368 £449
25th Percentile £463 £436 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £510 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.39% -6.42% -9.17%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £663
90th Percentile £718 £688 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £78.70 £41.25 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.79% -37.74% -17.19%
75th Percentile - £66.56 £75.38
90th Percentile - £76.13 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £41.25 £65.25
% change year-on-year +90.79% -36.78% -

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 4,579 5,098 9,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.76% 11.85% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,132 3,660 6,709
10th Percentile £313 £263 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £560
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -8.04% -0.88%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £675
90th Percentile £713 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +0.35% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 113 207
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £17.72 £23.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £25.77 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -53.15% +144.44%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £70.13
90th Percentile £71.25 £71.25 £82.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £28.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -7.83% -32.35% +112.50%

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 13 May 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

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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 13 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
England +41 223 £550 +4.76% 401
London +9 118 £560 +6.67% 252
UK excluding London +2 113 £513 +2.50% 234
Work from Home +43 112 £550 +8.70% 261
North of England +25 46 £550 -1.35% 53
Scotland -12 27 £480 +0.42% 17
Yorkshire +18 22 £709 +13.99% 25
North West +27 19 £525 +10.53% 26
South West +39 17 £546 -0.68% 20
Midlands +10 11 £466 +30.03% 32
West Midlands +10 11 £466 +30.03% 20
South East +40 10 £325 -31.43% 89
North East -13 5 £565 +37.64% 2
East of England +23 1 £420 -52.00% 17
Wales -2 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 27 (9.71%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.60%) Apache
3 7 (2.52%) nginx
4 3 (1.08%) Traefik
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.72%) Confluence
5 2 (0.72%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.72%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 146 (52.52%) AWS
2 73 (26.26%) Azure
3 47 (16.91%) GCP
4 46 (16.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (14.03%) GitHub
6 38 (13.67%) Amazon S3
7 36 (12.95%) Amazon EC2
8 31 (11.15%) OpenShift
9 28 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (9.71%) Serverless
11 26 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (7.91%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (7.91%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (5.76%) Azure AKS
16 15 (5.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (5.04%) Datadog
18 12 (4.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.79%) DNS
2 22 (7.91%) TCP/IP
3 16 (5.76%) HTTP
4 14 (5.04%) Firewall
5 12 (4.32%) SSL
6 9 (3.24%) Network Security
7 8 (2.88%) Internet
8 4 (1.44%) NAS
8 4 (1.44%) SAN
8 4 (1.44%) VPN
9 3 (1.08%) DHCP
9 3 (1.08%) DOCSIS
9 3 (1.08%) FTP
9 3 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.08%) SMTP
9 3 (1.08%) SNMP
9 3 (1.08%) SSH
9 3 (1.08%) Telnet
9 3 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.99%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (11.87%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (8.63%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (8.63%) MongoDB
4 23 (8.27%) Hadoop
5 21 (7.55%) NoSQL
6 19 (6.83%) Big Data
7 17 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (5.76%) Redis
9 11 (3.96%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (3.96%) InfluxDB
9 11 (3.96%) MySQL
10 8 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.52%) Power BI
12 6 (2.16%) BigQuery
12 6 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.16%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.80%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.80%) Hazelcast
13 5 (1.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 91 (32.73%) Jenkins
2 70 (25.18%) GitLab
3 36 (12.95%) Git
4 15 (5.40%) JUnit
5 14 (5.04%) Maven
6 13 (4.68%) CircleCI
7 11 (3.96%) JIRA
8 9 (3.24%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.88%) Artifactory
9 8 (2.88%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.88%) Mockito
10 7 (2.52%) Selenium
11 6 (2.16%) Jaeger
12 5 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.44%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.44%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.44%) Gradle
13 4 (1.44%) IntelliJ
13 4 (1.44%) jMock
14 3 (1.08%) TestNG
General
1 63 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.39%) Banking
3 38 (13.67%) Finance
4 34 (12.23%) Public Sector
5 27 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.60%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.16%) Military
7 6 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Legal
11 2 (0.72%) Electronics
11 2 (0.72%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.72%) Marketing
11 2 (0.72%) Police
11 2 (0.72%) Swedish Language
11 2 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (30.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (18.71%) Senior
3 32 (11.51%) Developer
4 28 (10.07%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (9.71%) Senior DevOps
6 25 (8.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 25 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 24 (8.63%) Site Engineer
8 23 (8.27%) AWS DevOps
9 22 (7.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 21 (7.55%) Architect
11 19 (6.83%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 14 (5.04%) Java Developer
13 13 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (3.60%) Data Engineer
15 10 (3.60%) Lead
16 8 (2.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 8 (2.88%) Software Engineer
17 7 (2.52%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (18.35%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (14.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 36 (12.95%) Kafka
4 31 (11.15%) Spring
5 23 (8.27%) REST
6 20 (7.19%) React
7 17 (6.12%) Loki
7 17 (6.12%) Spring Boot
8 16 (5.76%) RESTful
9 14 (5.04%) AWS CDK
9 14 (5.04%) JSON
10 13 (4.68%) .NET
10 13 (4.68%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.68%) Node.js
11 10 (3.60%) Middleware
11 10 (3.60%) Playwright
11 10 (3.60%) YAML
12 8 (2.88%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (2.88%) Hibernate
12 8 (2.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.99%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.96%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.52%) Social Media
5 6 (2.16%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.16%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.16%) Replication
6 5 (1.80%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.80%) Grid Computing
6 5 (1.80%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (1.44%) Clustering
7 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.44%) PKI
8 3 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 101 (36.33%) Linux
2 30 (10.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (6.83%) Unix
4 17 (6.12%) Windows
5 8 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.80%) CentOS
6 5 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.44%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.08%) Android
9 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.72%) VMS
10 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (55.04%) CI/CD
2 149 (53.60%) DevOps
3 110 (39.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (38.13%) Containerisation
5 85 (30.58%) Observability
6 81 (29.14%) Agile
7 79 (28.42%) Microservices
8 45 (16.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 43 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (14.03%) Continuous Integration
10 39 (14.03%) Test Automation
11 38 (13.67%) Configuration Management
12 35 (12.59%) Software Engineering
13 33 (11.87%) Migration
14 32 (11.51%) Analytics
15 26 (9.35%) High Availability
15 26 (9.35%) Task Automation
16 25 (8.99%) Scrum
17 24 (8.63%) Mentoring
18 22 (7.91%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 131 (47.12%) Python
2 63 (22.66%) Bash
2 63 (22.66%) Java
3 49 (17.63%) SQL
4 34 (12.23%) Go
5 30 (10.79%) PowerShell
6 24 (8.63%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.19%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.76%) Shell Script
9 14 (5.04%) Bicep
10 13 (4.68%) C#
11 11 (3.96%) Groovy
12 9 (3.24%) Perl
13 8 (2.88%) C++
13 8 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (2.16%) Ruby
15 5 (1.80%) Kotlin
16 4 (1.44%) C
17 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (28.06%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.27%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.47%) Degree
5 9 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.36%) CEH
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
9 1 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) OCP
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.68%) QA
2 9 (3.24%) GDPR
3 8 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.16%) NCSC
5 4 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.44%) NIST
6 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.08%) SLA
7 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 114 (41.01%) Docker
2 8 (2.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 8 (2.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 7 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.80%) Postfix
5 4 (1.44%) Platform Symphony
6 3 (1.08%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (1.08%) iptables
6 3 (1.08%) Lustre
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) KVM
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 191 (68.71%) Kubernetes
2 171 (61.51%) Prometheus
3 150 (53.96%) Terraform
4 102 (36.69%) Ansible
5 29 (10.43%) Puppet
6 24 (8.63%) Progress Chef
7 23 (8.27%) Argo
8 22 (7.91%) Kibana
9 12 (4.32%) Istio
10 9 (3.24%) ZABBIX
11 7 (2.52%) Packer
12 6 (2.16%) Consul
12 6 (2.16%) HAProxy
12 6 (2.16%) linkerd
13 5 (1.80%) Control-M
13 5 (1.80%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.80%) Nagios
13 5 (1.80%) Podman
14 4 (1.44%) logstash
14 4 (1.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 61 (21.94%) Splunk
2 26 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.19%) Google
3 20 (7.19%) Red Hat
4 17 (6.12%) VMware
5 13 (4.68%) Oracle
6 11 (3.96%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.88%) IBM
7 8 (2.88%) Veritas
8 7 (2.52%) AppDynamics
8 7 (2.52%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.16%) TIBCO
10 5 (1.80%) Confluent
11 4 (1.44%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.44%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (1.44%) Okta
12 3 (1.08%) Apple
12 3 (1.08%) ESET
12 3 (1.08%) Nokia
12 3 (1.08%) PagerDuty