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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 481 439
Rank change year-on-year +139 -42 +98
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 360 296 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.44% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.84% 4.54% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 234 169 242
10th Percentile £51,595 £44,747 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,521 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -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 4,589 6,513 8,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.67% 9.71% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,215 3,879 6,563
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £35,775
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,175 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,496 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% - +4.55%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 +116 297 £72,500 - 333
UK excluding London +101 185 £70,000 +3.70% 170
London +89 139 £80,750 -7.71% 191
Work from Home +66 115 £67,500 -10.00% 172
North of England +52 60 £61,250 -18.33% 49
Midlands +73 43 £72,500 +11.54% 28
West Midlands +71 38 £72,500 +11.54% 24
South East +36 36 £70,000 +3.70% 37
Scotland +30 32 £72,289 +15.66% 7
North West +45 31 £62,500 -16.67% 36
North East -17 16 £57,600 -5.96% 5
Yorkshire +15 13 £70,000 -17.65% 8
South West +3 9 £72,500 +11.54% 27
East Midlands +17 5 £55,200 +35.46% 4
Wales 0 4 £67,539 +3.91% 3
East of England +11 2 £68,750 +37.50% 15
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 7

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 34 (9.44%) Confluence
2 16 (4.44%) nginx
3 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.67%) Apache
4 6 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.39%) IIS
6 2 (0.56%) CICS
6 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.28%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 251 (69.72%) AWS
2 155 (43.06%) Azure
3 101 (28.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 84 (23.33%) GCP
5 68 (18.89%) GitHub
6 61 (16.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (15.83%) Amazon EC2
8 52 (14.44%) Amazon S3
8 52 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (14.17%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (13.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 44 (12.22%) Azure Monitor
12 40 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
13 36 (10.00%) AWS KMS
13 36 (10.00%) Datadog
14 35 (9.72%) Serverless
15 34 (9.44%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (8.61%) Amazon ELB
17 29 (8.06%) SaaS
18 27 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 56 (15.56%) Firewall
2 33 (9.17%) DNS
3 28 (7.78%) HTTP
4 21 (5.83%) FTP
5 20 (5.56%) SMTP
5 20 (5.56%) SSH
6 10 (2.78%) WAN
7 8 (2.22%) VPN
8 7 (1.94%) IMAP
8 7 (1.94%) LAN
8 7 (1.94%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (1.94%) SAN
8 7 (1.94%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.94%) Wireless
9 6 (1.67%) BGP
10 5 (1.39%) Network Security
11 4 (1.11%) MPLS
11 4 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.11%) SSL
11 4 (1.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.78%) Redis
8 9 (2.50%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.22%) InfluxDB
9 8 (2.22%) MySQL
10 5 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.39%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.56%) Big Data
12 2 (0.56%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.56%) DB2
12 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 132 (36.67%) Jenkins
2 80 (22.22%) Git
3 76 (21.11%) GitLab
4 67 (18.61%) JIRA
5 31 (8.61%) Vagrant
6 21 (5.83%) TeamCity
7 18 (5.00%) Cucumber
8 16 (4.44%) Bitbucket
9 14 (3.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (3.06%) JUnit
11 10 (2.78%) Selenium
12 9 (2.50%) JMeter
12 9 (2.50%) SonarQube
13 8 (2.22%) Artifactory
13 8 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (1.94%) CircleCI
14 7 (1.94%) Locust
15 4 (1.11%) Robot Framework
15 4 (1.11%) Spinnaker
15 4 (1.11%) TestRail
General
1 115 (31.94%) Finance
1 115 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.39%) Law
3 48 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.72%) Banking
6 21 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (4.72%) Legal
7 17 (4.72%) Marketing
8 16 (4.44%) Back Office
9 14 (3.89%) Financial Institution
9 14 (3.89%) Retail
9 14 (3.89%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.50%) Advertising
12 6 (1.67%) Games
13 4 (1.11%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.56%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 93 (25.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (22.50%) Senior
3 42 (11.67%) Software Engineer
4 41 (11.39%) Lead
5 37 (10.28%) AWS Engineer
6 34 (9.44%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 22 (6.11%) Analyst
9 21 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (5.28%) Support Engineer
11 18 (5.00%) Applications Support
11 18 (5.00%) Developer
11 18 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.72%) Site Engineer
13 16 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.44%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (16.39%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (7.50%) .NET
3 23 (6.39%) Kafka
4 19 (5.28%) OpenTelemetry
5 16 (4.44%) Spring
6 15 (4.17%) Node.js
7 14 (3.89%) Spring Boot
7 14 (3.89%) TensorFlow
8 13 (3.61%) AWS CDK
8 13 (3.61%) Hugging Face
8 13 (3.61%) LangChain
8 13 (3.61%) PyTorch
8 13 (3.61%) React
9 12 (3.33%) Loki
9 12 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (3.06%) Django
10 11 (3.06%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (2.78%) Flask
12 9 (2.50%) REST
13 8 (2.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 59 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.67%) Replication
3 14 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (1.94%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.67%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.39%) IoT
11 4 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.56%) MPEG
13 2 (0.56%) NHS
13 2 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 148 (41.11%) Linux
2 77 (21.39%) Windows
3 34 (9.44%) VMS
4 25 (6.94%) Unix
5 20 (5.56%) Amazon Linux
5 20 (5.56%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.94%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.67%) Debian
9 4 (1.11%) CentOS
10 3 (0.83%) Android
11 2 (0.56%) AIX
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (67.22%) CI/CD
2 223 (61.94%) DevOps
3 143 (39.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 142 (39.44%) Observability
5 111 (30.83%) Containerisation
6 91 (25.28%) Agile
7 81 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (21.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 74 (20.56%) Platform Engineering
10 67 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (18.33%) Software Engineering
12 62 (17.22%) Cloud Security
13 58 (16.11%) Change Management
13 58 (16.11%) Microservices
14 57 (15.83%) Configuration Management
14 57 (15.83%) Test Automation
15 56 (15.56%) Computer Science
16 54 (15.00%) High Availability
17 53 (14.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 43 (11.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 215 (59.72%) Python
2 98 (27.22%) Java
3 81 (22.50%) Bash
3 81 (22.50%) PowerShell
4 64 (17.78%) SQL
5 42 (11.67%) Go
6 34 (9.44%) Groovy
7 32 (8.89%) JavaScript
8 22 (6.11%) C#
9 17 (4.72%) Bicep
10 14 (3.89%) Perl
11 13 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.61%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.22%) Delphi
13 7 (1.94%) C++
14 6 (1.67%) Ruby
15 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.83%) PHP
17 2 (0.56%) Korn
17 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (24.72%) Security Cleared
2 77 (21.39%) Degree
3 74 (20.56%) SC Cleared
4 52 (14.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (9.17%) AWS Certification
6 31 (8.61%) Azure Certification
7 20 (5.56%) Master's Degree
8 14 (3.89%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.11%) CCNA
11 4 (1.11%) CCNP
12 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.00%) QA
2 7 (1.94%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.94%) WCAG
3 6 (1.67%) GDPR
4 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (45.83%) Docker
2 27 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 22 (6.11%) DFS Replication
4 9 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.22%) Postfix
5 8 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (1.94%) Dovecot
6 7 (1.94%) Squid
7 4 (1.11%) vSphere
8 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.56%) KVM
8 2 (0.56%) NFS
8 2 (0.56%) RACF
8 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.28%) iptables
9 1 (0.28%) pfSense
9 1 (0.28%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 230 (63.89%) Prometheus
2 220 (61.11%) Terraform
3 205 (56.94%) Kubernetes
4 106 (29.44%) Ansible
5 15 (4.17%) Argo
6 13 (3.61%) Control-M
7 11 (3.06%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.78%) Kibana
9 9 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (2.50%) Nessus
10 7 (1.94%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.67%) logstash
11 6 (1.67%) Puppet
12 5 (1.39%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (1.11%) Nagios
13 4 (1.11%) Netcool
13 4 (1.11%) Netcool/OMNIbus
13 4 (1.11%) Tivoli
14 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 70 (19.44%) Splunk
2 46 (12.78%) ServiceNow
3 29 (8.06%) Microsoft
4 23 (6.39%) Oracle
5 22 (6.11%) Dynatrace
6 18 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 15 (4.17%) VMware
8 14 (3.89%) Atlassian
9 13 (3.61%) OpenAI
10 12 (3.33%) Google
10 12 (3.33%) Juniper
11 10 (2.78%) Cisco
11 10 (2.78%) Red Hat
12 9 (2.50%) AppDynamics
12 9 (2.50%) Fortinet
12 9 (2.50%) IBM
13 8 (2.22%) Jaspersoft
14 5 (1.39%) F5
14 5 (1.39%) Sonatype
15 3 (0.83%) New Relic