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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 401 503
Rank change year-on-year +2 +102 -15
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 392 269 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.63% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.13% 5.26% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 221 185 203
10th Percentile £45,163 £51,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -9.38% +7.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% +15.38%

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 4,819 5,113 9,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.17% 11.93% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,424 3,057 7,027
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,626 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% +10.86% -9.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +7 344 £74,127 +2.24% 84
UK excluding London -17 176 £62,500 -7.41% 60
Work from Home +100 167 £70,079 +0.11% 47
London +13 167 £82,500 - 39
South West -12 50 £75,000 +15.38% 6
North of England -34 48 £50,000 -28.57% 18
South East -9 44 £62,500 -19.35% 20
North West -2 23 £67,500 +8.00% 14
North East -21 18 £47,500 -17.39% 1
Midlands -54 16 £64,000 -5.19% 6
West Midlands -60 12 £56,250 -16.67% 5
East of England -14 8 £82,575 +43.61% 3
Yorkshire -58 7 £80,000 +6.85% 3
Scotland -17 5 £65,533 -31.02% 7
East Midlands -32 4 £69,500 +68.48% 1
Wales -40 3 £70,079 +21.88% 1
Northern Ireland -38 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 20 (5.10%) Apache
2 13 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.79%) Confluence
4 6 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.77%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.51%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.26%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.02%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.26%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 273 (69.64%) AWS
2 161 (41.07%) Azure
3 156 (39.80%) GCP
4 87 (22.19%) Amazon EKS
5 69 (17.60%) GitHub
6 65 (16.58%) Datadog
6 65 (16.58%) GitHub Actions
7 63 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (15.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 56 (14.29%) Serverless
10 49 (12.50%) SaaS
11 40 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (9.18%) Amazon S3
13 31 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (7.14%) OpenShift
15 27 (6.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
18 17 (4.34%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (14.29%) Firewall
2 30 (7.65%) DNS
3 24 (6.12%) HTTP
3 24 (6.12%) TCP/IP
4 17 (4.34%) VLAN
5 15 (3.83%) VPN
6 11 (2.81%) WAN
7 10 (2.55%) LAN
7 10 (2.55%) Unified Communications
7 10 (2.55%) WebEx
8 9 (2.30%) Broadband
8 9 (2.30%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (2.30%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (2.04%) BGP
10 7 (1.79%) MQTT
10 7 (1.79%) Network Security
10 7 (1.79%) OSPF
11 6 (1.53%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.53%) SNMP
12 5 (1.28%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (6.63%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (5.87%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (4.59%) MySQL
5 15 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.57%) InfluxDB
7 12 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.06%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.81%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.53%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.02%) Big Data
11 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.77%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.51%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.51%) Looker
13 2 (0.51%) Redis
13 2 (0.51%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 86 (21.94%) GitLab
1 86 (21.94%) Jenkins
2 63 (16.07%) TeamCity
3 50 (12.76%) Git
4 26 (6.63%) SonarQube
5 25 (6.38%) Cucumber
6 20 (5.10%) JMeter
7 17 (4.34%) CircleCI
8 14 (3.57%) JIRA
9 13 (3.32%) Cypress.io
10 11 (2.81%) LoadRunner
10 11 (2.81%) Selenium
11 10 (2.55%) Bitbucket
11 10 (2.55%) Gatling
12 7 (1.79%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.79%) TestRail
13 6 (1.53%) Postman
13 6 (1.53%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.28%) Locust
14 5 (1.28%) MLflow
General
1 118 (30.10%) Finance
2 83 (21.17%) Law
3 81 (20.66%) Social Skills
4 80 (20.41%) Banking
5 76 (19.39%) Retail
6 69 (17.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (9.95%) Financial Institution
8 37 (9.44%) Back Office
9 33 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
10 31 (7.91%) Public Sector
10 31 (7.91%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.30%) Marketing
12 6 (1.53%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.77%) Legal
14 2 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.26%) Aviation
15 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 83 (21.17%) Senior
2 81 (20.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (15.82%) Software Engineer
4 40 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.69%) Lead
6 34 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (5.87%) Developer
9 21 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (5.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 20 (5.10%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.34%) Administrator
12 17 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (4.34%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.34%) Team Leader
13 16 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (4.08%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (14.80%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (9.95%) Kafka
3 21 (5.36%) .NET
4 20 (5.10%) OpenTelemetry
4 20 (5.10%) React
5 19 (4.85%) Loki
6 17 (4.34%) Node.js
6 17 (4.34%) RabbitMQ
6 17 (4.34%) REST
7 14 (3.57%) OAuth
8 13 (3.32%) Spring
9 12 (3.06%) gRPC
9 12 (3.06%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.81%) Apache NiFi
10 11 (2.81%) YAML
11 10 (2.55%) AWS CDK
11 10 (2.55%) Playwright
11 10 (2.55%) Vue
11 10 (2.55%) XMPP
12 9 (2.30%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 119 (30.36%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 27 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (5.10%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.59%) Blog
7 13 (3.32%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.81%) Replication
9 10 (2.55%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.55%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.79%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.53%) PKI
12 6 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.28%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.02%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 109 (27.81%) Linux
2 51 (13.01%) Windows
3 18 (4.59%) CentOS
4 11 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.04%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.04%) VMS
6 5 (1.28%) Unix
7 4 (1.02%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.77%) Debian
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (76.02%) CI/CD
2 222 (56.63%) DevOps
2 222 (56.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 170 (43.37%) Observability
4 159 (40.56%) Containerisation
5 137 (34.95%) Test Automation
6 118 (30.10%) Agile
7 117 (29.85%) Software Engineering
8 110 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (27.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 106 (27.04%) Deployment Automation
11 87 (22.19%) Microservices
12 83 (21.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 71 (18.11%) Platform Engineering
14 68 (17.35%) Mentoring
15 61 (15.56%) Clean Code
16 59 (15.05%) Continuous Deployment
17 57 (14.54%) DevSecOps
18 54 (13.78%) AI
19 52 (13.27%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 235 (59.95%) Python
2 151 (38.52%) Bash
3 114 (29.08%) Java
4 61 (15.56%) PowerShell
5 49 (12.50%) SQL
6 47 (11.99%) Go
6 47 (11.99%) JavaScript
7 35 (8.93%) C#
8 25 (6.38%) Rust
9 22 (5.61%) TypeScript
10 17 (4.34%) C++
11 8 (2.04%) Bicep
11 8 (2.04%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.53%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.77%) Elixir
14 3 (0.77%) Erlang
15 2 (0.51%) C
15 2 (0.51%) Ruby
15 2 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 80 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.46%) Degree
3 32 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 30 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 28 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 17 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.46%) QA
2 12 (3.06%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.81%) GDPR
4 10 (2.55%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.04%) SLA
7 6 (1.53%) WCAG
8 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.51%) GRC
8 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.51%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 169 (43.11%) Docker
2 21 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.81%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.30%) vSphere
5 7 (1.79%) iptables
5 7 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.53%) KVM
6 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.02%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 290 (73.98%) Terraform
2 253 (64.54%) Kubernetes
3 211 (53.83%) Prometheus
4 148 (37.76%) Ansible
5 28 (7.14%) Kibana
6 21 (5.36%) Puppet
7 20 (5.10%) Argo
8 15 (3.83%) Nagios
9 13 (3.32%) Istio
10 11 (2.81%) logstash
11 10 (2.55%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.55%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (2.55%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.30%) Progress Chef
13 8 (2.04%) linkerd
13 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (2.04%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.79%) Mesos
15 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
15 4 (1.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (11.48%) Splunk
2 37 (9.44%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.44%) VMware
3 26 (6.63%) Red Hat
4 22 (5.61%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.08%) Google
6 11 (2.81%) Cisco
7 10 (2.55%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.55%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.55%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.04%) Oracle
8 8 (2.04%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.79%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.79%) NetApp
9 7 (1.79%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.28%) Databricks
10 5 (1.28%) Tenable
11 4 (1.02%) Cribl.io
11 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.02%) Veracode