Grafana Job Trends in the South East

Grafana
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Grafana skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 258 289
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 -11
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 64 33 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.34% 0.37% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.46% 5.13% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 49 13 35
10th Percentile £50,000 - £33,764
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £49,456
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +14.81% -15.63%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £86,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

Grafana falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 858 643 1,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.59% 7.18% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 689 438 674
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,925 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,065 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.07% -7.71% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,913 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Grafana relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Grafana job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Grafana.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Grafana

Grafana
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Grafana in the South East over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Grafana in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Surrey -7 28 £56,250 -19.64% 8
Thames Valley -2 18 £70,000 -9.68% 31
Hampshire -39 14 £60,000 -27.27% 7
Berkshire -5 7 £80,000 +3.23% 17
Oxfordshire - 7 - - 9
Buckinghamshire - 4 £70,000 - 5
West Sussex - 4 £68,750 - 4
Grafana
England

Grafana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (7.81%) IIS
1 5 (7.81%) nginx
2 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (56.25%) AWS
2 27 (42.19%) Azure
3 16 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (20.31%) Datadog
6 11 (17.19%) Azure AKS
6 11 (17.19%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (17.19%) GitHub
6 11 (17.19%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (14.06%) Entra ID
8 9 (14.06%) GCP
8 9 (14.06%) SaaS
9 7 (10.94%) OpenShift
10 6 (9.38%) Serverless
11 5 (7.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (7.81%) Azure Pipelines
11 5 (7.81%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (7.81%) Cloudflare
12 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.56%) Firewall
2 9 (14.06%) VPN
3 8 (12.50%) DNS
3 8 (12.50%) HTTP
4 3 (4.69%) DHCP
4 3 (4.69%) MQTT
4 3 (4.69%) Network Security
5 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.19%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.13%) Couchbase
6 2 (3.13%) DocumentDB
6 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) JMeter
2 8 (12.50%) Gatling
2 8 (12.50%) LoadRunner
3 7 (10.94%) GitLab
3 7 (10.94%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (9.38%) Git
5 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
6 4 (6.25%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.13%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.13%) JUnit
7 2 (3.13%) MSI
General
1 9 (14.06%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.94%) Retail
4 6 (9.38%) Finance
4 6 (9.38%) Legal
5 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.13%) Advertising
7 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Senior
2 16 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (15.63%) Administrator
3 10 (15.63%) Senior DevOps
3 10 (15.63%) Systems Administrator
4 9 (14.06%) DevOps Administrator
5 8 (12.50%) Performance Tester
5 8 (12.50%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 8 (12.50%) Site Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Tester
6 7 (10.94%) Lead
7 6 (9.38%) Senior Performance Tester
7 6 (9.38%) Senior Tester
8 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Platform Manager
10 3 (4.69%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (60.94%) Terraform
2 16 (25.00%) Loki
3 8 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (9.38%) OpenTofu
4 6 (9.38%) YAML
5 5 (7.81%) .NET
5 5 (7.81%) ARM Templates
5 5 (7.81%) Kafka
6 3 (4.69%) gRPC
6 3 (4.69%) Keycloak
6 3 (4.69%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (4.69%) React
6 3 (4.69%) REST
7 2 (3.13%) ADO
7 2 (3.13%) Redfish
7 2 (3.13%) Spring
7 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.13%) Vert.x
8 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (18.75%) Private Cloud
3 11 (17.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (12.50%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (6.25%) IoT
5 4 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (6.25%) Robotics
6 3 (4.69%) Life Science
6 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.69%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.13%) Hackathon
8 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (51.56%) Linux
2 12 (18.75%) Windows
3 4 (6.25%) Debian
3 4 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.13%) CentOS
4 2 (3.13%) Rocky
4 2 (3.13%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.13%) VMS
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.56%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 43 (67.19%) DevOps
3 42 (65.63%) Observability
4 31 (48.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (32.81%) Agile
6 18 (28.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 17 (26.56%) GitOps
7 17 (26.56%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (25.00%) AI
9 14 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (20.31%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (18.75%) Cloud Security
11 12 (18.75%) Microservices
12 11 (17.19%) Containerisation
13 9 (14.06%) Event-Driven
13 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
13 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
13 9 (14.06%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 8 (12.50%) Performance Testing
14 8 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.13%) Python
2 27 (42.19%) Bash
3 16 (25.00%) Go
4 14 (21.88%) PowerShell
5 9 (14.06%) SQL
6 5 (7.81%) Bicep
6 5 (7.81%) C#
6 5 (7.81%) Rust
7 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.69%) PHP
9 2 (3.13%) Java
9 2 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (28.13%) SC Cleared
1 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 7 (10.94%) Degree
4 5 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) QA
2 3 (4.69%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (42.19%) Docker
2 9 (14.06%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
4 4 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.13%) Xen
7 1 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 48 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 22 (34.38%) Ansible
3 12 (18.75%) Argo
4 11 (17.19%) Kibana
5 10 (15.63%) Kustomize
6 9 (14.06%) Istio
7 8 (12.50%) Proxmox
8 7 (10.94%) Puppet
9 4 (6.25%) ZABBIX
10 3 (4.69%) Podman
11 2 (3.13%) FlexNet
11 2 (3.13%) Rancher
11 2 (3.13%) Scalr
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) VMware
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 8 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 7 (10.94%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.25%) Tenable
6 3 (4.69%) Google
6 3 (4.69%) NVIDIA
7 2 (3.13%) NetApp
7 2 (3.13%) Oracle
7 2 (3.13%) Splunk
8 1 (1.56%) Atlassian