Grafana Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Grafana
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 189 226 279
Rank change year-on-year +37 +53 +73
Contract jobs citing Grafana 115 119 204
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 0.78% 0.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.50% 7.23% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 90 153
10th Percentile £425 £381 £451
25th Percentile £471 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.72% -8.62%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £619
90th Percentile £737 £683 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £508 £535
% change year-on-year +8.27% -5.05% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £60.63 -
25th Percentile - £63.44 £64.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.48% -
75th Percentile - £77.19 £69.50
90th Percentile - £80.38 -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £41.25 £65.50
% change year-on-year +90.79% -37.02% -16.83%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Grafana falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Grafana
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Grafana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Grafana trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Grafana
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Grafana.

Grafana daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Grafana
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Grafana over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Grafana daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Grafana
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Grafana.

Grafana hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Grafana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.22%) nginx
3 5 (4.35%) Traefik
4 2 (1.74%) Apache
4 2 (1.74%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.87%) Confluence
5 1 (0.87%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.87%) SAS
5 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 71 (61.74%) AWS
2 39 (33.91%) AWS CloudFormation
3 38 (33.04%) Azure
4 23 (20.00%) GCP
5 20 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (16.52%) GitHub
7 18 (15.65%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (14.78%) Amazon S3
9 15 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (12.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (12.17%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (12.17%) Serverless
10 14 (12.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (11.30%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (10.43%) OpenShift
13 11 (9.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 10 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
15 9 (7.83%) Entra ID
16 8 (6.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.87%) DNS
2 22 (19.13%) TCP/IP
3 14 (12.17%) HTTP
4 8 (6.96%) Firewall
5 7 (6.09%) Internet
6 6 (5.22%) SSL
7 4 (3.48%) Network Security
8 3 (2.61%) VPN
9 2 (1.74%) DHCP
9 2 (1.74%) DOCSIS
9 2 (1.74%) FTP
9 2 (1.74%) SMTP
9 2 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.87%) VLAN
10 1 (0.87%) VSAN
10 1 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.22%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.91%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (13.91%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (13.91%) MongoDB
3 13 (11.30%) Redis
4 11 (9.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (9.57%) Big Data
4 11 (9.57%) Hadoop
5 9 (7.83%) MySQL
6 6 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (5.22%) InfluxDB
7 5 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.48%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.61%) GIS
9 3 (2.61%) Hazelcast
9 3 (2.61%) Power BI
10 2 (1.74%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.74%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 53 (46.09%) Jenkins
2 33 (28.70%) GitLab
3 18 (15.65%) Git
4 7 (6.09%) CircleCI
5 6 (5.22%) Maven
6 4 (3.48%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.48%) JUnit
7 3 (2.61%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.61%) Gradle
7 3 (2.61%) IntelliJ
7 3 (2.61%) JIRA
7 3 (2.61%) Mockito
7 3 (2.61%) TestNG
8 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.74%) JMeter
8 2 (1.74%) Postman
8 2 (1.74%) Selenium
8 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.87%) MLflow
9 1 (0.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 14 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.43%) Banking
5 6 (5.22%) Finance
6 4 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Aviation
7 2 (1.74%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.74%) Legal
7 2 (1.74%) Police
7 2 (1.74%) Swedish Language
8 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Front Office
8 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (35.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (25.22%) Senior
3 21 (18.26%) Senior DevOps
4 17 (14.78%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (14.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.17%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (11.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) Developer
8 10 (8.70%) Site Engineer
8 10 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (7.83%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Architect
11 5 (4.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Python Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Lead
13 3 (2.61%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.09%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (17.39%) Kafka
3 12 (10.43%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (8.70%) AWS CDK
4 10 (8.70%) REST
5 9 (7.83%) React
6 8 (6.96%) Keycloak
6 8 (6.96%) Node.js
6 8 (6.96%) Spring
7 7 (6.09%) cloud-init
7 7 (6.09%) Loki
8 6 (5.22%) YAML
9 5 (4.35%) RESTful
9 5 (4.35%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.48%) Django
10 4 (3.48%) Express.js
10 4 (3.48%) JSON
10 4 (3.48%) OAuth
10 4 (3.48%) PostGIS
10 4 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.09%) PKI
3 4 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.61%) Grid Computing
4 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.61%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.74%) IoT
5 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.74%) Robotics
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.87%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 48 (41.74%) Linux
2 24 (20.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (11.30%) Unix
4 8 (6.96%) CentOS
4 8 (6.96%) Windows
5 6 (5.22%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.48%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.87%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (66.09%) CI/CD
2 70 (60.87%) DevOps
3 53 (46.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (44.35%) Containerisation
5 37 (32.17%) Agile
6 33 (28.70%) Observability
7 31 (26.96%) Microservices
8 27 (23.48%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 22 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (17.39%) Configuration Management
12 17 (14.78%) Software Engineering
13 16 (13.91%) Analytics
13 16 (13.91%) Migration
14 15 (13.04%) Mentoring
15 14 (12.17%) Scrum
15 14 (12.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 11 (9.57%) Cloud Security
16 11 (9.57%) Deployment Automation
16 11 (9.57%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (60.00%) Python
2 34 (29.57%) Bash
3 23 (20.00%) Java
4 20 (17.39%) Go
5 17 (14.78%) SQL
6 15 (13.04%) PowerShell
7 13 (11.30%) JavaScript
8 8 (6.96%) Shell Script
9 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.35%) C#
10 5 (4.35%) C++
11 4 (3.48%) Bicep
11 4 (3.48%) Groovy
11 4 (3.48%) Perl
11 4 (3.48%) Ruby
12 3 (2.61%) C
12 3 (2.61%) Kotlin
12 3 (2.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.87%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 35 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.91%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.96%) Degree
5 4 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) NCSC
2 5 (4.35%) QA
3 4 (3.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (47.83%) Docker
2 3 (2.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.74%) Platform Symphony
3 2 (1.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) HDFS
4 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.87%) KVM
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (70.43%) Kubernetes
2 70 (60.87%) Prometheus
2 70 (60.87%) Terraform
3 50 (43.48%) Ansible
4 20 (17.39%) Puppet
5 18 (15.65%) Progress Chef
6 11 (9.57%) Argo
6 11 (9.57%) Istio
7 9 (7.83%) Packer
8 8 (6.96%) Consul
8 8 (6.96%) Kibana
8 8 (6.96%) linkerd
8 8 (6.96%) ZABBIX
9 7 (6.09%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (6.09%) Rancher
10 6 (5.22%) HAProxy
11 3 (2.61%) Control-M
11 3 (2.61%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (2.61%) Rundeck
12 2 (1.74%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (16.52%) Splunk
2 16 (13.91%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.70%) Google
4 7 (6.09%) Okta
5 5 (4.35%) Apple
5 5 (4.35%) ESET
5 5 (4.35%) Oracle
5 5 (4.35%) VMware
6 4 (3.48%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.61%) IBM
7 3 (2.61%) Tenable
7 3 (2.61%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.74%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.74%) Imperva
8 2 (1.74%) Informatica
8 2 (1.74%) Ribbon
8 2 (1.74%) Talend
8 2 (1.74%) Veritas
9 1 (0.87%) PagerDuty