Grafana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Grafana skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 373 423
Rank change year-on-year -59 +50 +12
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 424 332 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.67% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.34% 6.74% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 230 218 215
10th Percentile £49,750 £56,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,750 £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +3.85%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,084 4,929 6,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.58% 9.99% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,628 2,857 4,007
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% -5.17%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Grafana job vacancy trend in the UK

Grafana
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Grafana.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Grafana

Grafana
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Grafana over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Grafana in the UK

Grafana
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Grafana within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England -66 349 £70,000 -3.45% 427
UK excluding London -85 193 £65,000 -10.34% 211
London -19 174 £82,500 - 286
Work from Home +50 170 £65,000 -7.14% 181
South East -8 62 £62,500 -19.35% 40
South West -35 47 £75,000 -18.92% 30
North of England -63 39 £70,000 +12.00% 50
North West -9 28 £71,250 +18.75% 29
Midlands -80 17 £62,500 -13.79% 20
Scotland -12 12 £62,500 - 44
Wales -59 12 £70,000 +21.74% 4
West Midlands -77 12 £56,250 -22.41% 12
North East -54 10 £57,500 -4.17% 10
East Midlands -32 5 £64,000 +14.80% 8
East of England -37 3 £82,500 +22.22% 15
Yorkshire -58 1 £82,500 +3.13% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10

Grafana
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 17 (4.01%) Apache
2 9 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.89%) Confluence
4 6 (1.42%) IIS
5 5 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.18%) nginx
6 4 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 289 (68.16%) AWS
2 170 (40.09%) GCP
3 154 (36.32%) Azure
4 79 (18.63%) Datadog
5 76 (17.92%) Amazon EKS
6 66 (15.57%) SaaS
7 61 (14.39%) GitHub
8 58 (13.68%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (12.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (10.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (10.14%) Serverless
13 42 (9.91%) OpenShift
14 39 (9.20%) Amazon S3
15 34 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (7.31%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
18 23 (5.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 18 (4.25%) Azure Monitor
20 16 (3.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 44 (10.38%) Firewall
2 16 (3.77%) VLAN
3 14 (3.30%) DNS
4 12 (2.83%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.83%) VPN
5 8 (1.89%) BGP
5 8 (1.89%) Broadband
5 8 (1.89%) SSH
5 8 (1.89%) WAN
6 7 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (1.65%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (1.65%) LAN
6 7 (1.65%) OSPF
6 7 (1.65%) Unified Communications
6 7 (1.65%) WebEx
7 6 (1.42%) IPFIX
7 6 (1.42%) Network Security
7 6 (1.42%) SNMP
8 5 (1.18%) HTTP
9 3 (0.71%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.02%) Elasticsearch
3 33 (7.78%) MySQL
4 30 (7.08%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (4.95%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.72%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.30%) InfluxDB
8 12 (2.83%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.12%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.89%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.65%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.42%) Redis
14 4 (0.94%) Big Data
14 4 (0.94%) ZAP BI
15 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
16 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
16 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 88 (20.75%) GitLab
2 83 (19.58%) Jenkins
3 79 (18.63%) Git
4 60 (14.15%) TeamCity
5 25 (5.90%) SonarQube
6 22 (5.19%) Cucumber
7 20 (4.72%) Selenium
8 19 (4.48%) Cypress.io
9 17 (4.01%) JMeter
10 15 (3.54%) Gatling
10 15 (3.54%) JIRA
11 11 (2.59%) Octopus Deploy
11 11 (2.59%) Postman
12 10 (2.36%) LoadRunner
13 9 (2.12%) Robot Framework
13 9 (2.12%) TestRail
14 8 (1.89%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.89%) JUnit
15 7 (1.65%) Burp Suite
15 7 (1.65%) REST Assured
General
1 155 (36.56%) Finance
2 99 (23.35%) Banking
3 84 (19.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (19.34%) Social Skills
5 78 (18.40%) Law
6 74 (17.45%) Retail
7 48 (11.32%) Financial Institution
8 44 (10.38%) Back Office
9 42 (9.91%) Public Sector
10 40 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (4.25%) Marketing
12 14 (3.30%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.65%) Legal
13 7 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Military
16 2 (0.47%) Advertising
16 2 (0.47%) Billing
16 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (17.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (17.22%) Senior
2 73 (17.22%) Software Engineer
3 46 (10.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 46 (10.85%) Lead
4 41 (9.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 39 (9.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 37 (8.73%) Site Engineer
7 36 (8.49%) Developer
8 35 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
9 32 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (5.66%) Team Leader
11 23 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (5.19%) Administrator
13 21 (4.95%) Systems Administrator
14 18 (4.25%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (4.25%) Software Team Leader
15 17 (4.01%) DevOps Administrator
16 15 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (3.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (69.10%) Terraform
2 55 (12.97%) Elastic Stack
3 49 (11.56%) Kafka
4 39 (9.20%) OpenTelemetry
5 28 (6.60%) RabbitMQ
6 27 (6.37%) REST
7 24 (5.66%) RESTful
8 23 (5.42%) Loki
8 23 (5.42%) Node.js
9 21 (4.95%) React
10 20 (4.72%) Spring
10 20 (4.72%) Spring Boot
11 19 (4.48%) Playwright
12 18 (4.25%) .NET
12 18 (4.25%) pytest
13 15 (3.54%) YAML
14 12 (2.83%) gRPC
15 11 (2.59%) Apache NiFi
15 11 (2.59%) Hibernate
15 11 (2.59%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 139 (32.78%) Cloud Native
2 54 (12.74%) Product Ownership
3 38 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (4.01%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.54%) Blog
7 14 (3.30%) Replication
8 13 (3.07%) Virtual Team
9 12 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.59%) Private Cloud
11 10 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.36%) Mobile App
12 9 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.65%) FlexPod
13 7 (1.65%) PKI
13 7 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
14 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.42%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 122 (28.77%) Linux
2 44 (10.38%) Windows
3 23 (5.42%) CentOS
4 13 (3.07%) Unix
5 11 (2.59%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.65%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.42%) VMS
8 5 (1.18%) Android
8 5 (1.18%) Debian
8 5 (1.18%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.47%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (70.05%) CI/CD
2 237 (55.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 228 (53.77%) Observability
4 227 (53.54%) DevOps
5 153 (36.08%) Software Engineering
6 142 (33.49%) Containerisation
7 138 (32.55%) Test Automation
8 122 (28.77%) Agile
9 115 (27.12%) Deployment Automation
10 112 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
11 109 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (23.35%) Microservices
13 93 (21.93%) Mentoring
13 93 (21.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 92 (21.70%) Platform Engineering
15 80 (18.87%) AI
16 64 (15.09%) Continuous Deployment
16 64 (15.09%) GitOps
17 59 (13.92%) Clean Code
18 54 (12.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 263 (62.03%) Python
2 147 (34.67%) Bash
3 132 (31.13%) Java
4 80 (18.87%) PowerShell
5 56 (13.21%) SQL
6 45 (10.61%) JavaScript
7 39 (9.20%) Go
8 33 (7.78%) C#
9 25 (5.90%) TypeScript
10 20 (4.72%) Rust
11 16 (3.77%) C++
12 10 (2.36%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.12%) Bicep
14 8 (1.89%) PHP
15 7 (1.65%) VBA
16 5 (1.18%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.94%) Groovy
17 4 (0.94%) Scala
17 4 (0.94%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 96 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.78%) Degree
4 24 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (4.72%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.94%) CISSP
10 4 (0.94%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.71%) OCP
11 3 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.47%) CISM
12 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.47%) GSEC
12 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (13.92%) QA
2 13 (3.07%) SLA
3 11 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.36%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.89%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.65%) GDPR
7 6 (1.42%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.42%) WCAG
8 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.71%) NIST
8 3 (0.71%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 189 (44.58%) Docker
2 21 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.59%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.36%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (1.65%) vSphere
7 5 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.18%) KVM
7 5 (1.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.71%) iptables
10 2 (0.47%) Xen
11 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 277 (65.33%) Kubernetes
2 227 (53.54%) Prometheus
3 140 (33.02%) Ansible
4 44 (10.38%) Argo
5 25 (5.90%) Istio
5 25 (5.90%) Kibana
6 18 (4.25%) Nagios
7 17 (4.01%) logstash
8 16 (3.77%) Puppet
9 13 (3.07%) Kustomize
10 11 (2.59%) linkerd
11 8 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (1.89%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.65%) Cisco CUCM
12 7 (1.65%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.18%) Cilium
13 5 (1.18%) HP Fortify
13 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.18%) Proxmox
13 5 (1.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 66 (15.57%) Splunk
2 48 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 43 (10.14%) Dynatrace
4 35 (8.25%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.08%) Google
6 29 (6.84%) VMware
7 13 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.59%) Atlassian
8 11 (2.59%) Oracle
8 11 (2.59%) Rapid7
9 8 (1.89%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.89%) Cisco
10 7 (1.65%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.65%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.42%) Informatica
11 6 (1.42%) NetApp
11 6 (1.42%) New Relic
11 6 (1.42%) NVIDIA
12 5 (1.18%) Databricks
12 5 (1.18%) Veracode