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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 416 483
Rank change year-on-year +55 +67 -10
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 399 232 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.99% 5.09% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 225 160 196
10th Percentile £45,065 £44,935 £41,624
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £79,875
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -9.23% +6.50%
75th Percentile £85,250 £92,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +19.61%

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 4,439 4,558 9,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.43% 11.12% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,128 3,382 7,263
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,775 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,313 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -6.09%

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 6 April 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 6 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
England +52 338 £70,079 -4.89% 134
Work from Home +100 185 £72,500 +11.54% 77
UK excluding London +5 180 £62,500 -3.85% 107
London +67 170 £82,500 -8.33% 50
North of England -62 57 £55,200 -22.53% 32
South West -16 41 £56,250 -13.46% 14
South East -9 36 £62,500 -19.35% 32
North East -29 24 £47,500 -22.45% 6
North West -32 20 £62,500 -15.25% 19
Midlands -43 16 £63,250 -2.69% 11
Scotland -21 15 £68,539 -27.85% 6
Yorkshire -45 13 £80,000 +6.85% 7
West Midlands -23 11 £55,200 -15.08% 10
East of England -24 8 £82,575 +43.61% 6
Wales -35 5 £70,079 +7.81% 5
East Midlands -45 5 £64,000 +55.15% 1
Northern Ireland -35 2 - - 1

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 (4.76%) Apache
2 15 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.25%) Confluence
5 4 (1.00%) IIS
6 3 (0.75%) nginx
7 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.00%) Weka
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 286 (71.68%) AWS
2 177 (44.36%) Azure
3 163 (40.85%) GCP
4 100 (25.06%) GitHub
5 95 (23.81%) Amazon EKS
6 85 (21.30%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (19.30%) Datadog
8 74 (18.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 58 (14.54%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (14.04%) Serverless
11 52 (13.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 51 (12.78%) SaaS
13 33 (8.27%) OpenShift
14 31 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (7.52%) Amazon S3
16 27 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 22 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
19 21 (5.26%) dbt
20 15 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.28%) Firewall
2 32 (8.02%) DNS
3 28 (7.02%) HTTP
4 20 (5.01%) TCP/IP
5 18 (4.51%) VPN
6 11 (2.76%) LAN
6 11 (2.76%) WAN
7 10 (2.51%) Broadband
8 9 (2.26%) VLAN
9 7 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (1.75%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.75%) WebEx
10 6 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.50%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (1.50%) Network Security
11 5 (1.25%) BGP
11 5 (1.25%) DHCP
11 5 (1.25%) SSL
12 4 (1.00%) MQTT
12 4 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (5.76%) SQL Server
4 19 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.76%) Relational Database
6 14 (3.51%) MySQL
7 13 (3.26%) InfluxDB
8 12 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.75%) Redis
11 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.75%) Big Data
12 3 (0.75%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.50%) Looker
13 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.50%) PostHog
13 2 (0.50%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 105 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 93 (23.31%) GitLab
3 61 (15.29%) TeamCity
4 55 (13.78%) Git
5 35 (8.77%) Cucumber
6 26 (6.52%) JMeter
7 21 (5.26%) JIRA
8 19 (4.76%) SonarQube
9 18 (4.51%) Selenium
10 17 (4.26%) CircleCI
11 13 (3.26%) Locust
12 12 (3.01%) Bitbucket
13 11 (2.76%) Cypress.io
14 10 (2.51%) JUnit
14 10 (2.51%) Robot Framework
14 10 (2.51%) TestRail
15 9 (2.26%) LoadRunner
16 8 (2.01%) Gatling
17 5 (1.25%) MLflow
17 5 (1.25%) Postman
General
1 119 (29.82%) Finance
2 108 (27.07%) Social Skills
3 76 (19.05%) Law
4 73 (18.30%) Banking
5 70 (17.54%) Retail
6 67 (16.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (9.77%) Back Office
8 37 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (9.27%) Financial Institution
9 36 (9.02%) Telecoms
10 20 (5.01%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.50%) Legal
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.50%) Advertising
16 1 (0.25%) Front Office
16 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 89 (22.31%) Senior
2 80 (20.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 58 (14.54%) Software Engineer
4 51 (12.78%) Lead
5 34 (8.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (7.77%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (7.27%) Developer
8 27 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.51%) Java Engineer
11 20 (5.01%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (4.51%) Software Developer
13 17 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
14 16 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 15 (3.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 14 (3.51%) Administrator
16 14 (3.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 13 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
17 13 (3.26%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (18.80%) Elastic Stack
2 36 (9.02%) Kafka
3 28 (7.02%) .NET
4 21 (5.26%) React
5 20 (5.01%) OpenTelemetry
5 20 (5.01%) Spring
6 19 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 17 (4.26%) OAuth
7 17 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (4.01%) Gherkin
9 14 (3.51%) Loki
9 14 (3.51%) pytest
10 12 (3.01%) REST
11 11 (2.76%) Node.js
12 10 (2.51%) ADO
12 10 (2.51%) AWS CDK
13 9 (2.26%) Django
13 9 (2.26%) Flask
13 9 (2.26%) JWT
13 9 (2.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 107 (26.82%) Cloud Native
2 44 (11.03%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.51%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.01%) Blog
6 12 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.76%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.51%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.26%) Replication
10 8 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (2.01%) PKI
11 7 (1.75%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.75%) FlexPod
11 7 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.25%) IoT
13 4 (1.00%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 120 (30.08%) Linux
2 61 (15.29%) Windows
3 19 (4.76%) CentOS
4 14 (3.51%) Unix
5 11 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.76%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.51%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.01%) VMS
8 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
9 2 (0.50%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (77.44%) CI/CD
2 242 (60.65%) DevOps
3 214 (53.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 177 (44.36%) Observability
5 176 (44.11%) Containerisation
6 132 (33.08%) Test Automation
7 121 (30.33%) Problem-Solving
8 115 (28.82%) Agile
8 115 (28.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 111 (27.82%) Software Engineering
10 89 (22.31%) Deployment Automation
11 87 (21.80%) Microservices
12 84 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 69 (17.29%) Platform Engineering
14 60 (15.04%) Clean Code
15 57 (14.29%) Mentoring
16 56 (14.04%) Continuous Deployment
17 53 (13.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 52 (13.03%) High Availability
19 51 (12.78%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 230 (57.64%) Python
2 132 (33.08%) Bash
3 117 (29.32%) Java
4 55 (13.78%) PowerShell
5 53 (13.28%) JavaScript
6 52 (13.03%) Go
7 49 (12.28%) SQL
8 37 (9.27%) C#
9 25 (6.27%) TypeScript
10 15 (3.76%) Rust
11 14 (3.51%) C++
12 9 (2.26%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.01%) Delphi
14 7 (1.75%) Bicep
14 7 (1.75%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.75%) Elixir
15 3 (0.75%) Erlang
15 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.50%) C
16 2 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 74 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 45 (11.28%) Degree
3 31 (7.77%) AWS Certification
3 31 (7.77%) DV Cleared
4 29 (7.27%) SC Cleared
5 23 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.25%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.28%) QA
2 15 (3.76%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.76%) GDPR
3 13 (3.26%) WCAG
4 10 (2.51%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.51%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.01%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
7 2 (0.50%) SEPA
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) NIST
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 190 (47.62%) Docker
2 20 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.75%) iptables
4 7 (1.75%) KVM
4 7 (1.75%) vSphere
5 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.00%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.25%) pfSense
8 1 (0.25%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 299 (74.94%) Terraform
2 266 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 205 (51.38%) Prometheus
4 145 (36.34%) Ansible
5 23 (5.76%) Kibana
6 14 (3.51%) Argo
6 14 (3.51%) Puppet
7 12 (3.01%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.26%) Istio
8 9 (2.26%) logstash
8 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.26%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.01%) linkerd
9 8 (2.01%) Mesos
9 8 (2.01%) Nagios
9 8 (2.01%) Proxmox
9 8 (2.01%) ZABBIX
10 7 (1.75%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (1.00%) Control-M
12 3 (0.75%) Scalr
Vendors
1 49 (12.28%) Splunk
2 39 (9.77%) VMware
3 28 (7.02%) Microsoft
4 25 (6.27%) Dynatrace
5 24 (6.02%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.76%) Oracle
7 13 (3.26%) Google
8 12 (3.01%) AppDynamics
8 12 (3.01%) Fortinet
9 10 (2.51%) SolarWinds
10 9 (2.26%) Cisco
11 8 (2.01%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.50%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.50%) NetApp
12 6 (1.50%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.25%) Databricks
13 5 (1.25%) Rapid7
14 4 (1.00%) Cribl.io
14 4 (1.00%) New Relic
14 4 (1.00%) PagerDuty