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

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 225 287
Rank change year-on-year +36 +62 +50
Contract jobs citing Grafana 118 119 194
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 0.78% 0.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.71% 7.23% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 90 142
10th Percentile £425 £381 £451
25th Percentile £473 £440 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.82% -7.13%
75th Percentile £641 £600 £594
90th Percentile £736 £683 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £506 £536
% change year-on-year +8.70% -5.60% -10.67%
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 1,530 1,646 4,216
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.51% 10.81% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,223 3,116
10th Percentile £388 £350 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -5.83% -0.89%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £675
90th Percentile £780 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 78
10th Percentile £17.41 £21.49 £25.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £37.71 £52.81
Median hourly rate £54.50 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% -28.03% +76.00%
75th Percentile £64.38 £56.88 £76.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £65.75 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -2.75% -52.61% +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 7 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 11 (9.32%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.08%) nginx
3 5 (4.24%) Traefik
4 3 (2.54%) Apache
5 2 (1.69%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.85%) CMS
6 1 (0.85%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 72 (61.02%) AWS
2 40 (33.90%) AWS CloudFormation
3 37 (31.36%) Azure
4 23 (19.49%) GCP
5 21 (17.80%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (16.10%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (16.10%) GitHub
7 17 (14.41%) Amazon S3
8 15 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (11.86%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (11.86%) Serverless
9 14 (11.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (11.02%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (10.17%) OpenShift
12 11 (9.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (8.47%) AWS Fargate
14 9 (7.63%) Entra ID
15 8 (6.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (21.19%) DNS
2 23 (19.49%) TCP/IP
3 15 (12.71%) HTTP
4 8 (6.78%) Firewall
4 8 (6.78%) Internet
5 6 (5.08%) SSL
6 4 (3.39%) Network Security
7 3 (2.54%) VPN
8 2 (1.69%) DHCP
8 2 (1.69%) DOCSIS
8 2 (1.69%) FTP
8 2 (1.69%) SMTP
8 2 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.85%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.85%) VLAN
9 1 (0.85%) VSAN
9 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (14.41%) MongoDB
3 16 (13.56%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (12.71%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (11.02%) Redis
6 12 (10.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (10.17%) Big Data
7 10 (8.47%) Hadoop
8 8 (6.78%) MySQL
9 6 (5.08%) InfluxDB
10 5 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (4.24%) NoSQL
11 4 (3.39%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.54%) GIS
12 3 (2.54%) Hazelcast
13 2 (1.69%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.69%) MariaDB
13 2 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 55 (46.61%) Jenkins
2 34 (28.81%) GitLab
3 19 (16.10%) Git
4 8 (6.78%) CircleCI
5 6 (5.08%) Maven
6 4 (3.39%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.39%) JUnit
7 3 (2.54%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.54%) Gradle
7 3 (2.54%) IntelliJ
7 3 (2.54%) JIRA
7 3 (2.54%) Mockito
7 3 (2.54%) TestNG
8 2 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.69%) JMeter
8 2 (1.69%) Postman
8 2 (1.69%) Selenium
8 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.85%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.85%) MLflow
General
1 32 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.56%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.17%) Banking
5 6 (5.08%) Finance
6 4 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.69%) Aviation
7 2 (1.69%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.69%) Legal
7 2 (1.69%) Police
7 2 (1.69%) Swedish Language
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Front Office
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (36.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (27.12%) Senior
3 23 (19.49%) Senior DevOps
4 19 (16.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 17 (14.41%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (11.86%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (11.86%) Developer
7 13 (11.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.47%) Site Engineer
8 10 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (7.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Architect
11 5 (4.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Python Developer
11 5 (4.24%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.39%) Lead
13 3 (2.54%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.27%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (16.95%) Kafka
3 12 (10.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (8.47%) AWS CDK
4 10 (8.47%) React
4 10 (8.47%) REST
5 9 (7.63%) Node.js
6 8 (6.78%) Keycloak
6 8 (6.78%) RESTful
6 8 (6.78%) Spring
7 7 (5.93%) cloud-init
7 7 (5.93%) Loki
7 7 (5.93%) OAuth
8 6 (5.08%) YAML
9 5 (4.24%) JWT
9 5 (4.24%) Playwright
9 5 (4.24%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.39%) GraphQL
10 4 (3.39%) JSON
10 4 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.93%) PKI
3 6 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.54%) Grid Computing
4 3 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.54%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.54%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.69%) IoT
5 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.69%) Robotics
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (41.53%) Linux
2 24 (20.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (10.17%) Unix
4 8 (6.78%) CentOS
4 8 (6.78%) Windows
5 6 (5.08%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.39%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (66.10%) CI/CD
2 72 (61.02%) DevOps
3 56 (47.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (45.76%) Containerisation
5 37 (31.36%) Agile
6 36 (30.51%) Observability
7 32 (27.12%) Microservices
8 28 (23.73%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (20.34%) Test Automation
10 22 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (17.80%) Configuration Management
12 17 (14.41%) Analytics
12 17 (14.41%) Mentoring
13 16 (13.56%) Migration
13 16 (13.56%) Software Engineering
14 14 (11.86%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 13 (11.02%) Scrum
16 12 (10.17%) Task Automation
17 11 (9.32%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 70 (59.32%) Python
2 36 (30.51%) Bash
3 23 (19.49%) Java
4 22 (18.64%) Go
5 17 (14.41%) SQL
6 15 (12.71%) PowerShell
7 13 (11.02%) JavaScript
8 8 (6.78%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.93%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.24%) C#
10 5 (4.24%) C++
11 4 (3.39%) Bicep
11 4 (3.39%) Groovy
11 4 (3.39%) Perl
11 4 (3.39%) Ruby
12 3 (2.54%) C
12 3 (2.54%) Kotlin
12 3 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (33.05%) Security Cleared
2 36 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.56%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.78%) Degree
5 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) NCSC
2 5 (4.24%) QA
3 4 (3.39%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.54%) GDPR
5 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 58 (49.15%) Docker
2 3 (2.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.69%) Platform Symphony
3 2 (1.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) KVM
4 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (72.88%) Kubernetes
2 75 (63.56%) Prometheus
3 73 (61.86%) Terraform
4 50 (42.37%) Ansible
5 21 (17.80%) Puppet
6 19 (16.10%) Progress Chef
7 11 (9.32%) Argo
7 11 (9.32%) Istio
8 10 (8.47%) Kibana
9 9 (7.63%) Packer
10 8 (6.78%) Consul
10 8 (6.78%) linkerd
10 8 (6.78%) ZABBIX
11 7 (5.93%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (5.93%) Rancher
12 6 (5.08%) HAProxy
13 3 (2.54%) Control-M
13 3 (2.54%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (2.54%) Rundeck
14 2 (1.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (16.10%) Splunk
2 17 (14.41%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.32%) Google
4 7 (5.93%) Okta
5 5 (4.24%) Apple
5 5 (4.24%) ESET
5 5 (4.24%) VMware
6 4 (3.39%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.54%) IBM
7 3 (2.54%) Oracle
7 3 (2.54%) Tenable
7 3 (2.54%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.69%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.69%) Imperva
8 2 (1.69%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.69%) Ribbon
8 2 (1.69%) Veritas
9 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.85%) Palo Alto