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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 382 455
Rank change year-on-year -19 +73 -13
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 502 323 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.25% 6.55% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 264 218 195
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,911
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +11.52%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +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 5,425 4,933 6,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.59% 9.99% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,706 2,823 3,632
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £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 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.68% -10.45% -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 11 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 11 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 -33 402 £72,500 - 672
London +30 226 £85,000 +3.03% 426
Work from Home +79 214 £65,000 -7.14% 273
UK excluding London -89 204 £65,000 -10.34% 284
South East -13 70 £62,500 -10.71% 72
South West -29 47 £70,000 -24.32% 34
North of England -77 38 £70,000 +12.00% 72
North West -28 24 £71,250 +14.00% 36
Wales -58 20 £62,000 -0.80% 8
North East -61 14 £57,500 +3.14% 11
Midlands -90 13 £61,250 -15.52% 23
Scotland -3 12 £62,500 -16.11% 33
West Midlands -91 8 £55,000 -24.14% 12
East Midlands -28 5 £62,500 +12.11% 11
East of England -41 3 £86,250 +25.45% 24
Yorkshire -51 3 £57,500 -28.13% 25
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 19

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 18 (3.59%) Apache
2 9 (1.79%) Confluence
2 9 (1.79%) nginx
3 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.00%) IIS
4 4 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 353 (70.32%) AWS
2 225 (44.82%) GCP
3 163 (32.47%) Azure
4 127 (25.30%) Amazon EKS
5 107 (21.31%) SaaS
6 90 (17.93%) GitHub
7 77 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (13.75%) Datadog
9 65 (12.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 58 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (9.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (8.57%) Serverless
13 41 (8.17%) OpenShift
14 34 (6.77%) Amazon S3
15 32 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
17 27 (5.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 27 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (4.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 53 (10.56%) Firewall
2 33 (6.57%) VPN
3 26 (5.18%) TCP/IP
4 21 (4.18%) VLAN
5 20 (3.98%) BGP
6 17 (3.39%) DNS
7 15 (2.99%) Network Security
8 14 (2.79%) HTTP
9 8 (1.59%) SSH
10 7 (1.39%) Unified Communications
10 7 (1.39%) WAN
11 6 (1.20%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.20%) LAN
11 6 (1.20%) OSPF
11 6 (1.20%) SNMP
12 5 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (1.00%) WebEx
13 4 (0.80%) SSL
14 3 (0.60%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (21.71%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (8.96%) MySQL
4 44 (8.76%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (5.98%) MongoDB
6 26 (5.18%) NoSQL
7 23 (4.58%) Redis
8 14 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.19%) InfluxDB
11 10 (1.99%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.99%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.39%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.00%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.80%) Metadata
15 3 (0.60%) Big Data
15 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.60%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.40%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 99 (19.72%) TeamCity
2 97 (19.32%) GitLab
3 95 (18.92%) Git
4 93 (18.53%) Jenkins
5 23 (4.58%) SonarQube
6 18 (3.59%) Gatling
6 18 (3.59%) JMeter
6 18 (3.59%) Selenium
7 17 (3.39%) Cucumber
8 15 (2.99%) Cypress.io
9 14 (2.79%) JIRA
10 13 (2.59%) LoadRunner
11 9 (1.79%) Postman
12 8 (1.59%) Artifactory
12 8 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (1.59%) Robot Framework
12 8 (1.59%) TestRail
13 7 (1.39%) JUnit
14 6 (1.20%) Bitbucket
15 5 (1.00%) Maven
General
1 197 (39.24%) Finance
2 137 (27.29%) Banking
2 137 (27.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 114 (22.71%) Law
4 111 (22.11%) Retail
4 111 (22.11%) Social Skills
5 80 (15.94%) Financial Institution
6 76 (15.14%) Back Office
7 68 (13.55%) Public Sector
8 49 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (3.19%) Marketing
10 14 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.39%) Police
12 5 (1.00%) Legal
13 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.60%) Military
14 3 (0.60%) Publishing
15 2 (0.40%) Advertising
15 2 (0.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 110 (21.91%) Senior
2 93 (18.53%) Software Engineer
3 83 (16.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 56 (11.16%) Lead
5 49 (9.76%) Developer
6 47 (9.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (8.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 38 (7.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 37 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
9 37 (7.37%) Site Engineer
10 36 (7.17%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (5.98%) Administrator
11 30 (5.98%) Lead Software Engineer
12 25 (4.98%) Team Leader
13 24 (4.78%) Java Engineer
14 23 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (4.38%) Java Software Engineer
15 22 (4.38%) Software Team Leader
15 22 (4.38%) Systems Administrator
16 21 (4.18%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (70.72%) Terraform
2 70 (13.94%) Elastic Stack
3 56 (11.16%) Kafka
4 48 (9.56%) OpenTelemetry
5 44 (8.76%) RESTful
6 40 (7.97%) REST
7 32 (6.37%) RabbitMQ
8 29 (5.78%) Spring
8 29 (5.78%) Spring Boot
9 22 (4.38%) Loki
9 22 (4.38%) Node.js
10 19 (3.78%) Hibernate
10 19 (3.78%) React
11 18 (3.59%) .NET
11 18 (3.59%) GraphQL
11 18 (3.59%) JPA
11 18 (3.59%) pytest
12 17 (3.39%) Playwright
13 16 (3.19%) Keycloak
14 13 (2.59%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 186 (37.05%) Cloud Native
2 74 (14.74%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (13.94%) Product Ownership
4 42 (8.37%) Blog
5 25 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (4.38%) Replication
7 21 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (3.78%) Management Information System
8 19 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (3.78%) Virtual Team
9 17 (3.39%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (2.99%) Private Cloud
11 11 (2.19%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.59%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (1.39%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.39%) PKI
13 7 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 133 (26.49%) Linux
2 42 (8.37%) Windows
3 19 (3.78%) Unix
4 17 (3.39%) CentOS
5 9 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.00%) Android
7 5 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.60%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.60%) VMS
9 2 (0.40%) Debian
9 2 (0.40%) Rocky
10 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (74.50%) CI/CD
2 275 (54.78%) DevOps
3 270 (53.78%) Observability
4 259 (51.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 173 (34.46%) Software Engineering
5 173 (34.46%) Test Automation
6 147 (29.28%) Agile
6 147 (29.28%) Deployment Automation
7 143 (28.49%) Containerisation
8 129 (25.70%) Microservices
9 128 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
10 122 (24.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (24.30%) Mentoring
11 112 (22.31%) Platform Engineering
12 103 (20.52%) AI
13 95 (18.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 88 (17.53%) Fintech
15 87 (17.33%) Clean Code
16 81 (16.14%) Continuous Deployment
17 74 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 285 (56.77%) Python
2 178 (35.46%) Java
3 165 (32.87%) Bash
4 86 (17.13%) SQL
5 80 (15.94%) PowerShell
6 56 (11.16%) Go
7 41 (8.17%) JavaScript
8 33 (6.57%) TypeScript
9 27 (5.38%) C#
10 20 (3.98%) Rust
11 19 (3.78%) Bicep
12 15 (2.99%) C++
13 9 (1.79%) Groovy
13 9 (1.79%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.59%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.39%) PHP
15 7 (1.39%) VBA
16 4 (0.80%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.80%) Scala
17 3 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 121 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 68 (13.55%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.78%) Degree
4 28 (5.58%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.38%) AWS Certification
6 21 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.59%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.99%) CISSP
9 8 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (1.59%) CISM
10 7 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.20%) CCSP
11 6 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.60%) OCP
13 3 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (12.15%) QA
2 20 (3.98%) PCI DSS
3 17 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.19%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.39%) SLA
6 9 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.79%) NIST
7 7 (1.39%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.60%) GDPR
8 3 (0.60%) PSD2
8 3 (0.60%) WCAG
9 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 1
System Software
1 193 (38.45%) Docker
2 19 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
2 19 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.99%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (1.20%) vSphere
6 4 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.80%) KVM
7 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.40%) Xen
9 1 (0.20%) Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) iptables
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 341 (67.93%) Kubernetes
2 266 (52.99%) Prometheus
3 143 (28.49%) Ansible
4 54 (10.76%) Argo
5 31 (6.18%) Kibana
6 27 (5.38%) Istio
7 17 (3.39%) logstash
7 17 (3.39%) Nagios
8 15 (2.99%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.99%) Puppet
9 12 (2.39%) linkerd
10 11 (2.19%) Rancher
11 9 (1.79%) Cilium
11 9 (1.79%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.59%) Proxmox
13 6 (1.20%) Mesos
13 6 (1.20%) vCenter Server
14 5 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 73 (14.54%) Splunk
2 62 (12.35%) Dynatrace
3 49 (9.76%) Microsoft
4 42 (8.37%) Google
5 31 (6.18%) Red Hat
6 28 (5.58%) VMware
7 19 (3.78%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.79%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.39%) Oracle
10 10 (1.99%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.79%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.59%) Databricks
13 7 (1.39%) Cisco
14 6 (1.20%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.20%) Informatica
14 6 (1.20%) NVIDIA
15 5 (1.00%) NetApp
15 5 (1.00%) New Relic
15 5 (1.00%) Palo Alto
16 4 (0.80%) Solace