Grafana Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Grafana
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 406 452
Rank change year-on-year +27 +46 +98
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 188 97 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.37% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.85% 3.60% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 129 75 87
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,400 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +19.61%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,050 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,079 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% -9.38% +6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,394 2,693 6,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.80% 10.14% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,759 1,665 4,541
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -6.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Grafana relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Grafana job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Grafana
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Grafana.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Grafana

Grafana
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Grafana in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Grafana in the UK excluding London

Grafana
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
North of England -41 57 £60,000 -14.29% 34
South West -15 48 £57,500 -11.54% 8
South East -26 36 £62,500 -19.35% 28
North East -17 22 £47,500 -22.45% 6
North West -23 22 £65,000 -5.45% 19
Midlands -48 17 £62,500 -3.85% 8
Scotland -24 15 £68,539 -27.85% 10
Yorkshire -43 13 £80,000 +6.85% 10
West Midlands -35 12 £52,600 -19.08% 7
East of England -27 8 £82,575 +43.61% 11
Wales -32 5 £70,079 +7.81% 2
East Midlands -54 5 £64,000 +55.15% 1
Northern Ireland -38 2 - - 1
Grafana
UK

Grafana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (4.79%) Apache
2 4 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.60%) Confluence
3 3 (1.60%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.06%) IIS
4 2 (1.06%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 141 (75.00%) AWS
2 101 (53.72%) Azure
3 72 (38.30%) GitHub
4 62 (32.98%) GitHub Actions
5 59 (31.38%) GCP
6 49 (26.06%) Datadog
7 46 (24.47%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (19.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (12.23%) OpenShift
10 18 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (8.51%) Serverless
11 16 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (7.45%) Amazon S3
13 13 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (5.85%) PaaS
14 11 (5.85%) SaaS
15 10 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (5.32%) CloudFront
15 10 (5.32%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 44 (23.40%) Firewall
2 24 (12.77%) DNS
2 24 (12.77%) HTTP
3 19 (10.11%) TCP/IP
4 12 (6.38%) LAN
4 12 (6.38%) WAN
5 10 (5.32%) VLAN
6 9 (4.79%) Unified Communications
6 9 (4.79%) VPN
6 9 (4.79%) WebEx
7 8 (4.26%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (4.26%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (2.66%) SSL
9 4 (2.13%) BGP
9 4 (2.13%) MQTT
9 4 (2.13%) Network Security
10 3 (1.60%) MPLS
10 3 (1.60%) Wireless
11 2 (1.06%) SAN
11 2 (1.06%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (7.45%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.85%) InfluxDB
5 8 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.66%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.13%) Big Data
8 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.60%) MySQL
8 3 (1.60%) Redis
9 2 (1.06%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.06%) Looker
9 2 (1.06%) PostHog
10 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 72 (38.30%) Jenkins
2 49 (26.06%) GitLab
3 28 (14.89%) Git
4 27 (14.36%) Cucumber
5 17 (9.04%) JMeter
5 17 (9.04%) Selenium
6 13 (6.91%) SonarQube
7 11 (5.85%) JIRA
8 10 (5.32%) Cypress.io
8 10 (5.32%) Locust
9 9 (4.79%) Robot Framework
9 9 (4.79%) TestRail
10 8 (4.26%) JUnit
11 7 (3.72%) Bitbucket
11 7 (3.72%) CircleCI
12 5 (2.66%) Gatling
12 5 (2.66%) LoadRunner
13 4 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (2.13%) REST Assured
14 3 (1.60%) Postman
General
1 48 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.96%) Telecoms
3 28 (14.89%) Finance
4 23 (12.23%) Law
5 19 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (9.57%) Retail
7 15 (7.98%) Public Sector
8 10 (5.32%) Banking
9 8 (4.26%) Marketing
10 6 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.60%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.60%) Legal
11 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Back Office
13 1 (0.53%) Games
13 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 47 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (18.62%) Senior
3 25 (13.30%) Lead
4 15 (7.98%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 14 (7.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 13 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (6.91%) Site Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
8 11 (5.85%) Administrator
9 10 (5.32%) Development Engineer
9 10 (5.32%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (5.32%) Test Leader
10 9 (4.79%) Developer
11 8 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) DevOps Administrator
11 8 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) Senior Development Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 8 (4.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (7.45%) .NET
3 13 (6.91%) Spring
4 12 (6.38%) Loki
4 12 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (6.38%) Spring Boot
5 11 (5.85%) Gherkin
5 11 (5.85%) OAuth
5 11 (5.85%) pytest
6 10 (5.32%) ADO
7 9 (4.79%) XMPP
8 8 (4.26%) Playwright
8 8 (4.26%) SAML
9 7 (3.72%) Kafka
9 7 (3.72%) React
10 6 (3.19%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (3.19%) Django
10 6 (3.19%) Flask
10 6 (3.19%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (3.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.83%) Cloud Native
1 26 (13.83%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.11%) Onboarding
3 17 (9.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (5.85%) Private Cloud
5 9 (4.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (4.79%) FlexPod
5 9 (4.79%) Replication
5 9 (4.79%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.19%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.66%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.06%) IoT
10 2 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 66 (35.11%) Linux
2 28 (14.89%) Windows
3 11 (5.85%) CentOS
4 7 (3.72%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.13%) VMS
7 3 (1.60%) Debian
7 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
7 3 (1.60%) Unix
8 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (79.79%) CI/CD
2 144 (76.60%) DevOps
3 111 (59.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (54.79%) Containerisation
5 89 (47.34%) Observability
6 71 (37.77%) Agile
7 70 (37.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (33.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 56 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (23.40%) Test Automation
11 36 (19.15%) DevSecOps
12 35 (18.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 33 (17.55%) Continuous Delivery
13 33 (17.55%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (15.96%) Infrastructure Automation
15 29 (15.43%) High Availability
16 28 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (13.83%) Cloud Security
17 26 (13.83%) Cybersecurity
18 25 (13.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 132 (70.21%) Python
2 90 (47.87%) Bash
3 45 (23.94%) PowerShell
4 36 (19.15%) Java
5 30 (15.96%) Go
6 23 (12.23%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.91%) SQL
8 11 (5.85%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.79%) Rust
10 6 (3.19%) C#
10 6 (3.19%) Delphi
11 4 (2.13%) C++
12 3 (1.60%) Elixir
12 3 (1.60%) Erlang
12 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.06%) Bicep
13 2 (1.06%) C
13 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.53%) JCL
14 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.23%) Degree
3 17 (9.04%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.98%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.98%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.60%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.09%) QA
2 13 (6.91%) Accessibility
3 11 (5.85%) WCAG
4 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.06%) GDPR
4 2 (1.06%) GRC
4 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.06%) SEPA
5 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
5 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (54.26%) Docker
2 13 (6.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.72%) vSphere
4 6 (3.19%) iptables
4 6 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (2.66%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.53%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 142 (75.53%) Terraform
2 113 (60.11%) Prometheus
3 111 (59.04%) Kubernetes
4 86 (45.74%) Ansible
5 12 (6.38%) Kibana
6 11 (5.85%) Puppet
7 10 (5.32%) logstash
8 9 (4.79%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (4.26%) Proxmox
10 5 (2.66%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.13%) vCenter Server
11 4 (2.13%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.60%) Argo
12 3 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.60%) HP Fortify
12 3 (1.60%) Nagios
12 3 (1.60%) Scalr
13 2 (1.06%) Graylog
13 2 (1.06%) Opsgenie
13 2 (1.06%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (15.96%) Splunk
2 23 (12.23%) VMware
3 18 (9.57%) Red Hat
4 16 (8.51%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.45%) Dynatrace
6 13 (6.91%) Fortinet
7 11 (5.85%) Oracle
8 9 (4.79%) Cisco
8 9 (4.79%) Palo Alto
8 9 (4.79%) SolarWinds
9 6 (3.19%) NetApp
10 5 (2.66%) Atlassian
11 4 (2.13%) Google
11 4 (2.13%) PagerDuty
12 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
12 3 (1.60%) F5
12 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.60%) Veracode
13 2 (1.06%) GoldenSource
13 2 (1.06%) LogicMonitor