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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 383 458
Rank change year-on-year -37 +75 -19
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 476 326 330
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.66% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.92% 6.53% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 257 220 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,911
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,300 £115,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.07% +7.41% +8.00%

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 5,339 4,995 6,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 10.06% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,667 2,833 3,725
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £39,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 October 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 October 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 -34 384 £70,000 -3.45% 1,036
London +8 215 £82,500 - 433
Work from Home +63 197 £65,000 -7.14% 829
UK excluding London -106 194 £63,750 -12.07% 853
South East -21 66 £62,500 -13.79% 155
South West -34 43 £70,000 -24.32% 105
North of England -60 39 £70,000 +12.00% 173
North West -34 27 £71,250 +16.33% 77
Wales -51 18 £62,000 -0.80% 78
Midlands -92 13 £61,250 -15.52% 85
North East -57 12 £57,500 -4.17% 41
Scotland -13 11 £62,500 -16.11% 153
West Midlands -78 8 £55,000 -24.14% 45
East Midlands -39 5 £62,500 +12.11% 40
East of England -33 3 £86,250 +25.45% 90
Yorkshire -50 3 £57,500 -28.13% 56
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 25

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 15 (3.15%) Apache
2 11 (2.31%) Confluence
3 8 (1.68%) nginx
4 6 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.05%) IIS
6 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 331 (69.54%) AWS
2 209 (43.91%) GCP
3 158 (33.19%) Azure
4 113 (23.74%) Amazon EKS
5 93 (19.54%) SaaS
6 83 (17.44%) GitHub
7 72 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (14.08%) Datadog
9 62 (13.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 54 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (9.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 41 (8.61%) Serverless
13 37 (7.77%) OpenShift
14 33 (6.93%) Amazon S3
15 31 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
16 30 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
18 22 (4.62%) Entra ID
19 21 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
19 21 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (10.29%) Firewall
2 24 (5.04%) VPN
3 18 (3.78%) TCP/IP
4 15 (3.15%) DNS
4 15 (3.15%) VLAN
5 14 (2.94%) HTTP
6 12 (2.52%) BGP
7 11 (2.31%) Network Security
8 9 (1.89%) SSH
9 6 (1.26%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.26%) OSPF
9 6 (1.26%) SNMP
9 6 (1.26%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.26%) WAN
10 5 (1.05%) LAN
11 4 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.84%) WebEx
12 3 (0.63%) 5G
12 3 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (19.75%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (9.03%) MySQL
3 42 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
4 40 (8.40%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 25 (5.25%) NoSQL
7 22 (4.62%) Redis
8 14 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.31%) InfluxDB
10 11 (2.31%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.31%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.68%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.26%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.05%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.84%) Metadata
15 3 (0.63%) Big Data
15 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.63%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.42%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 93 (19.54%) Git
2 89 (18.70%) GitLab
3 88 (18.49%) Jenkins
4 86 (18.07%) TeamCity
5 22 (4.62%) SonarQube
6 18 (3.78%) Gatling
6 18 (3.78%) Selenium
7 17 (3.57%) JMeter
8 16 (3.36%) Cucumber
8 16 (3.36%) JIRA
9 14 (2.94%) Cypress.io
10 13 (2.73%) LoadRunner
11 9 (1.89%) Postman
12 8 (1.68%) Artifactory
12 8 (1.68%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.68%) JUnit
12 8 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.47%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.47%) TestRail
14 6 (1.26%) Maven
General
1 185 (38.87%) Finance
2 125 (26.26%) Banking
2 125 (26.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 105 (22.06%) Law
4 104 (21.85%) Social Skills
5 100 (21.01%) Retail
6 69 (14.50%) Financial Institution
7 65 (13.66%) Back Office
8 63 (13.24%) Public Sector
9 49 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (3.15%) Marketing
11 13 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.05%) Legal
12 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.05%) Police
13 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.63%) Military
15 2 (0.42%) Advertising
15 2 (0.42%) Billing
15 2 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (20.59%) Senior
2 88 (18.49%) Software Engineer
3 79 (16.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (10.71%) Lead
5 45 (9.45%) Developer
6 41 (8.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 38 (7.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 37 (7.77%) Platform Engineer
9 37 (7.77%) Site Engineer
10 36 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (6.30%) Administrator
12 29 (6.09%) Lead Software Engineer
13 26 (5.46%) Team Leader
14 23 (4.83%) Systems Administrator
15 22 (4.62%) Software Team Leader
16 20 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 20 (4.20%) DevOps Administrator
16 20 (4.20%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (69.33%) Terraform
2 64 (13.45%) Elastic Stack
3 56 (11.76%) Kafka
4 41 (8.61%) OpenTelemetry
5 37 (7.77%) REST
5 37 (7.77%) RESTful
6 31 (6.51%) RabbitMQ
7 27 (5.67%) Spring
7 27 (5.67%) Spring Boot
8 22 (4.62%) Node.js
9 21 (4.41%) React
10 20 (4.20%) Loki
11 18 (3.78%) .NET
11 18 (3.78%) Hibernate
12 17 (3.57%) JPA
12 17 (3.57%) Keycloak
13 16 (3.36%) GraphQL
13 16 (3.36%) Playwright
13 16 (3.36%) pytest
14 13 (2.73%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 170 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 67 (14.08%) Product Ownership
3 64 (13.45%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (6.51%) Blog
5 24 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (4.62%) Replication
7 20 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (3.78%) Virtual Team
9 15 (3.15%) Onboarding
9 15 (3.15%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.94%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.31%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.47%) PKI
14 6 (1.26%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.26%) IoT
14 6 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 126 (26.47%) Linux
2 40 (8.40%) Windows
3 18 (3.78%) Unix
4 17 (3.57%) CentOS
5 9 (1.89%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.47%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.05%) Android
7 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.63%) Debian
8 3 (0.63%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.63%) VMS
9 2 (0.42%) Rocky
10 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (73.32%) CI/CD
2 261 (54.83%) DevOps
3 255 (53.57%) Observability
4 246 (51.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 166 (34.87%) Software Engineering
6 162 (34.03%) Test Automation
7 143 (30.04%) Agile
8 142 (29.83%) Containerisation
9 139 (29.20%) Deployment Automation
10 124 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
11 122 (25.63%) Microservices
12 121 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (24.37%) Mentoring
14 103 (21.64%) Platform Engineering
15 97 (20.38%) AI
16 92 (19.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 77 (16.18%) Clean Code
17 77 (16.18%) Fintech
18 76 (15.97%) Continuous Deployment
19 68 (14.29%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 269 (56.51%) Python
2 163 (34.24%) Java
3 154 (32.35%) Bash
4 78 (16.39%) PowerShell
5 76 (15.97%) SQL
6 47 (9.87%) Go
7 41 (8.61%) JavaScript
8 30 (6.30%) TypeScript
9 25 (5.25%) C#
10 19 (3.99%) Rust
11 16 (3.36%) Bicep
12 14 (2.94%) C++
13 9 (1.89%) Groovy
13 9 (1.89%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.47%) PHP
14 7 (1.47%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.47%) VBA
15 4 (0.84%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.84%) Scala
16 3 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 114 (23.95%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.30%) Degree
4 26 (5.46%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 22 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.78%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.47%) CISSP
8 5 (1.05%) CISM
9 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.63%) CCSP
10 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.63%) OCP
10 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.61%) QA
2 12 (2.52%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.52%) SLA
3 8 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.68%) SOC 2
4 6 (1.26%) NIST
5 3 (0.63%) GDPR
5 3 (0.63%) PSD2
5 3 (0.63%) WCAG
6 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 193 (40.55%) Docker
2 17 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.10%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.05%) vSphere
7 4 (0.84%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.84%) KVM
8 3 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.42%) iptables
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.42%) Xen
10 1 (0.21%) Firmware
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 322 (67.65%) Kubernetes
2 258 (54.20%) Prometheus
3 137 (28.78%) Ansible
4 51 (10.71%) Argo
5 29 (6.09%) Kibana
6 25 (5.25%) Istio
7 17 (3.57%) Nagios
8 15 (3.15%) Puppet
9 14 (2.94%) logstash
10 13 (2.73%) Kustomize
11 12 (2.52%) linkerd
12 11 (2.31%) Rancher
13 9 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (1.68%) Proxmox
15 7 (1.47%) Cilium
16 6 (1.26%) Mesos
16 6 (1.26%) ZABBIX
17 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
17 5 (1.05%) vCenter Server
18 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (14.29%) Splunk
2 61 (12.82%) Dynatrace
3 49 (10.29%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.35%) Google
5 28 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 26 (5.46%) VMware
7 20 (4.20%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.73%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.52%) Oracle
10 9 (1.89%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.89%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.68%) Databricks
12 6 (1.26%) Cisco
12 6 (1.26%) Informatica
12 6 (1.26%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.05%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.05%) New Relic
14 4 (0.84%) NetApp
14 4 (0.84%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.84%) Solace