Grafana Job Trends

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 455 535
Rank change year-on-year +110 +80 -26
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 368 258 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.52% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.41% 4.49% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 221 152 186
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,771 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,813 £93,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +14.42%

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 4,377 5,744 8,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.53% 11.57% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,036 3,527 7,058
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,900 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,677
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -2.62%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 +91 292 £72,500 +3.57% 137
Work from Home +109 174 £68,750 -1.79% 83
UK excluding London +30 156 £62,500 -3.85% 100
London +88 153 £82,500 -2.94% 50
North of England -6 59 £60,000 -19.86% 30
South West -12 28 £56,250 -13.46% 12
North West +17 25 £62,500 -16.67% 15
South East +11 25 £62,500 -9.09% 27
North East -24 21 £51,500 -10.43% 4
Scotland +7 19 £72,289 -9.64% 12
Yorkshire -20 13 £67,500 -9.84% 11
Midlands -3 12 £62,500 -3.85% 15
West Midlands +9 8 £55,200 -15.08% 14
East of England +17 7 £85,000 +70.00% 1
Wales -6 4 £62,639 -3.63% 3
East Midlands -18 4 £69,500 +68.48% 2
Northern Ireland -20 2 - -

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 19 (5.16%) Apache
2 12 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.63%) nginx
5 5 (1.36%) Confluence
6 3 (0.82%) IIS
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.27%) CICS
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.27%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.09%) Weka
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.27%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 267 (72.55%) AWS
2 172 (46.74%) Azure
3 149 (40.49%) GCP
4 102 (27.72%) GitHub
5 101 (27.45%) Amazon EKS
6 86 (23.37%) GitHub Actions
7 79 (21.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 59 (16.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (14.95%) Datadog
10 54 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (12.77%) Serverless
12 46 (12.50%) SaaS
13 28 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (6.52%) OpenShift
16 22 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (5.98%) Amazon S3
16 22 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (5.43%) Azure AKS
17 20 (5.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.33%) Firewall
2 25 (6.79%) DNS
3 20 (5.43%) HTTP
4 16 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 16 (4.35%) VPN
5 8 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (1.90%) SSL
6 7 (1.90%) WAN
6 7 (1.90%) Wireless
7 6 (1.63%) BGP
8 5 (1.36%) DHCP
8 5 (1.36%) LAN
8 5 (1.36%) Network Security
9 4 (1.09%) MPLS
9 4 (1.09%) MQTT
10 3 (0.82%) SAN
10 3 (0.82%) VLAN
11 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.54%) RTMP
11 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.34%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.53%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.26%) MySQL
6 10 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (2.45%) InfluxDB
8 8 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.17%) Redis
9 6 (1.63%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.82%) Big Data
11 2 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.54%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.54%) Looker
11 2 (0.54%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 108 (29.35%) Jenkins
2 83 (22.55%) GitLab
3 56 (15.22%) TeamCity
4 52 (14.13%) Git
5 27 (7.34%) JIRA
6 25 (6.79%) Cucumber
7 17 (4.62%) Bitbucket
8 15 (4.08%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.80%) CircleCI
9 14 (3.80%) Selenium
10 12 (3.26%) JMeter
11 10 (2.72%) JUnit
12 8 (2.17%) Locust
12 8 (2.17%) Robot Framework
12 8 (2.17%) TestRail
13 7 (1.90%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.63%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.63%) MLflow
15 5 (1.36%) Maven
16 4 (1.09%) Gradle
General
1 116 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 114 (30.98%) Finance
3 64 (17.39%) Law
4 59 (16.03%) Banking
5 57 (15.49%) Retail
6 54 (14.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (9.51%) Back Office
8 33 (8.97%) Financial Institution
9 27 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
9 27 (7.34%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.26%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.17%) Advertising
12 5 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.82%) Legal
15 2 (0.54%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.27%) Aviation
16 1 (0.27%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (24.46%) Senior
2 78 (21.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (14.95%) Software Engineer
4 40 (10.87%) Lead
5 36 (9.78%) Platform Engineer
6 34 (9.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (6.79%) Developer
8 22 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (5.43%) Java Engineer
11 19 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (4.62%) Applications Support
12 17 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.35%) Development Engineer
13 16 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.80%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 14 (3.80%) Software Developer
16 13 (3.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (20.65%) Elastic Stack
2 30 (8.15%) .NET
3 27 (7.34%) Kafka
4 20 (5.43%) React
4 20 (5.43%) Spring
5 19 (5.16%) Spring Boot
6 16 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (3.53%) ADO
8 11 (2.99%) AWS CDK
8 11 (2.99%) Node.js
9 10 (2.72%) Django
9 10 (2.72%) Gherkin
9 10 (2.72%) Loki
9 10 (2.72%) pytest
9 10 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (2.72%) REST
10 9 (2.45%) Flask
10 9 (2.45%) OAuth
11 8 (2.17%) JWT
11 8 (2.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 100 (27.17%) Cloud Native
2 41 (11.14%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.08%) Blog
5 13 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.72%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.17%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.90%) PKI
9 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.36%) IoT
10 3 (0.82%) Blockchain
10 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.54%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.54%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.54%) Replication
11 2 (0.54%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 127 (34.51%) Linux
2 65 (17.66%) Windows
3 16 (4.35%) Unix
4 13 (3.53%) CentOS
5 10 (2.72%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.90%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.36%) VMS
9 3 (0.82%) SUSE
10 2 (0.54%) Debian
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (79.35%) CI/CD
2 234 (63.59%) DevOps
3 189 (51.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (42.66%) Observability
5 155 (42.12%) Containerisation
6 109 (29.62%) Test Automation
7 108 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
8 102 (27.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (26.36%) Agile
10 89 (24.18%) Software Engineering
11 83 (22.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 79 (21.47%) Deployment Automation
13 75 (20.38%) Microservices
14 69 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
15 55 (14.95%) Clean Code
16 53 (14.40%) High Availability
17 52 (14.13%) Mentoring
18 50 (13.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 48 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
20 47 (12.77%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 201 (54.62%) Python
2 111 (30.16%) Bash
3 106 (28.80%) Java
4 50 (13.59%) JavaScript
5 49 (13.32%) PowerShell
6 46 (12.50%) Go
7 43 (11.68%) SQL
8 26 (7.07%) C#
9 24 (6.52%) TypeScript
10 17 (4.62%) Bicep
11 11 (2.99%) C++
12 10 (2.72%) Rust
13 8 (2.17%) Delphi
13 8 (2.17%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.63%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (1.09%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.82%) Elixir
16 3 (0.82%) Erlang
17 2 (0.54%) Ruby
17 2 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.59%) Degree
3 44 (11.96%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.97%) AWS Certification
5 30 (8.15%) DV Cleared
6 29 (7.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.80%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.50%) QA
2 11 (2.99%) GDPR
3 8 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.90%) WCAG
5 6 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.36%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 172 (46.74%) Docker
2 11 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.72%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.63%) KVM
5 4 (1.09%) iptables
5 4 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.54%) NFS
7 2 (0.54%) vSphere
8 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.27%) pfSense
8 1 (0.27%) RACF
8 1 (0.27%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 277 (75.27%) Terraform
2 263 (71.47%) Kubernetes
3 200 (54.35%) Prometheus
4 132 (35.87%) Ansible
5 22 (5.98%) Argo
6 20 (5.43%) Kibana
7 12 (3.26%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (3.26%) Puppet
8 9 (2.45%) Control-M
8 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.45%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.17%) Istio
9 8 (2.17%) linkerd
9 8 (2.17%) logstash
9 8 (2.17%) Mesos
10 6 (1.63%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.63%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.36%) Nagios
12 3 (0.82%) Rancher
12 3 (0.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 45 (12.23%) Splunk
2 29 (7.88%) VMware
3 21 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 16 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 16 (4.35%) Oracle
5 14 (3.80%) Google
6 13 (3.53%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.99%) SolarWinds
8 8 (2.17%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.63%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.36%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.36%) Databricks
11 4 (1.09%) Cisco
11 4 (1.09%) Cribl.io
11 4 (1.09%) F5
11 4 (1.09%) New Relic
11 4 (1.09%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.82%) OneLogin
12 3 (0.82%) Zscaler