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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 368 481
Rank change year-on-year -36 +113 -42
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 484 324 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.05% 6.49% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 261 219 199
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,911
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,500 £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 5,347 4,989 6,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.54% 10.05% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,684 2,830 3,687
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £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 £96,250 £101,375 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -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 8 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 8 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 -38 388 £70,000 -3.45% 686
London +15 217 £83,750 +1.52% 431
Work from Home +73 205 £65,000 -7.14% 309
UK excluding London -85 196 £65,000 -10.34% 318
South East -18 68 £62,500 -10.71% 74
South West -31 43 £70,000 -24.32% 36
North of England -75 39 £70,000 +12.00% 77
North West -24 27 £71,250 +14.00% 40
Wales -61 18 £62,000 -0.80% 12
Midlands -83 13 £61,250 -15.52% 28
North East -56 12 £57,500 +3.14% 12
Scotland -15 11 £62,500 -16.11% 37
West Midlands -83 8 £55,000 -24.14% 17
East Midlands -30 5 £62,500 +12.11% 11
East of England -30 3 £86,250 +25.45% 30
Yorkshire -42 3 £57,500 -28.13% 25
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 25

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 15 (3.10%) Apache
2 10 (2.07%) Confluence
3 8 (1.65%) nginx
4 6 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.03%) IIS
6 4 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 337 (69.63%) AWS
2 216 (44.63%) GCP
3 161 (33.26%) Azure
4 119 (24.59%) Amazon EKS
5 102 (21.07%) SaaS
6 88 (18.18%) GitHub
7 76 (15.70%) GitHub Actions
8 71 (14.67%) Datadog
9 63 (13.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 57 (11.78%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (9.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (8.68%) Serverless
13 38 (7.85%) OpenShift
14 32 (6.61%) Amazon S3
15 31 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
16 30 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (6.20%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (4.96%) Entra ID
17 24 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 22 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.54%) Firewall
2 29 (5.99%) VPN
3 22 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 17 (3.51%) VLAN
5 16 (3.31%) BGP
5 16 (3.31%) DNS
6 14 (2.89%) HTTP
6 14 (2.89%) Network Security
7 8 (1.65%) SSH
8 6 (1.24%) IPFIX
8 6 (1.24%) OSPF
8 6 (1.24%) SNMP
8 6 (1.24%) Unified Communications
8 6 (1.24%) WAN
9 5 (1.03%) LAN
10 4 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (0.83%) WebEx
11 3 (0.62%) 5G
11 3 (0.62%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (20.25%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (8.88%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (8.68%) Elasticsearch
3 42 (8.68%) MySQL
4 28 (5.79%) MongoDB
5 25 (5.17%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.55%) Redis
7 14 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.27%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.07%) InfluxDB
11 8 (1.65%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.24%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.03%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.83%) Metadata
15 3 (0.62%) Big Data
15 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.62%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.41%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 93 (19.21%) Git
2 92 (19.01%) TeamCity
3 91 (18.80%) GitLab
4 87 (17.98%) Jenkins
5 21 (4.34%) SonarQube
6 18 (3.72%) Gatling
7 17 (3.51%) JMeter
7 17 (3.51%) Selenium
8 15 (3.10%) Cucumber
8 15 (3.10%) JIRA
9 14 (2.89%) Cypress.io
10 13 (2.69%) LoadRunner
11 9 (1.86%) Postman
12 8 (1.65%) Artifactory
12 8 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.45%) JUnit
13 7 (1.45%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.45%) TestRail
14 6 (1.24%) Bitbucket
15 5 (1.03%) Snyk
General
1 192 (39.67%) Finance
2 129 (26.65%) Banking
2 129 (26.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 108 (22.31%) Law
3 108 (22.31%) Social Skills
4 104 (21.49%) Retail
5 75 (15.50%) Financial Institution
6 71 (14.67%) Back Office
7 65 (13.43%) Public Sector
8 47 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (3.10%) Marketing
10 13 (2.69%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.45%) Police
12 5 (1.03%) Legal
13 4 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.62%) Military
14 3 (0.62%) Publishing
15 2 (0.41%) Advertising
15 2 (0.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 105 (21.69%) Senior
2 90 (18.60%) Software Engineer
3 81 (16.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (10.95%) Lead
5 46 (9.50%) Developer
6 42 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 41 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 39 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 38 (7.85%) Site Engineer
10 36 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
10 36 (7.44%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (6.20%) Lead Software Engineer
12 29 (5.99%) Administrator
13 25 (5.17%) Team Leader
14 22 (4.55%) Software Team Leader
14 22 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
15 21 (4.34%) Java Engineer
16 20 (4.13%) DevOps Administrator
16 20 (4.13%) Java Developer
16 20 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (69.83%) Terraform
2 64 (13.22%) Elastic Stack
3 55 (11.36%) Kafka
4 44 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
5 40 (8.26%) REST
6 39 (8.06%) RESTful
7 31 (6.40%) RabbitMQ
8 27 (5.58%) Spring
8 27 (5.58%) Spring Boot
9 22 (4.55%) Node.js
10 21 (4.34%) Loki
11 20 (4.13%) React
12 18 (3.72%) .NET
12 18 (3.72%) GraphQL
12 18 (3.72%) Hibernate
13 17 (3.51%) JPA
14 16 (3.31%) Keycloak
14 16 (3.31%) Playwright
14 16 (3.31%) pytest
15 13 (2.69%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 177 (36.57%) Cloud Native
2 70 (14.46%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (14.05%) Product Ownership
4 35 (7.23%) Blog
5 24 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (4.34%) Replication
7 20 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (3.72%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (3.72%) Virtual Team
9 16 (3.31%) Onboarding
10 15 (3.10%) Private Cloud
11 14 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (2.27%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.45%) PKI
14 7 (1.45%) Security Posture
15 6 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (1.24%) Hedge funds
15 6 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 126 (26.03%) Linux
2 42 (8.68%) Windows
3 18 (3.72%) Unix
4 16 (3.31%) CentOS
5 9 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.03%) Android
8 4 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.62%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.41%) Debian
10 2 (0.41%) Rocky
10 2 (0.41%) VMS
11 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (73.97%) CI/CD
2 267 (55.17%) DevOps
3 264 (54.55%) Observability
4 249 (51.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 170 (35.12%) Software Engineering
6 167 (34.50%) Test Automation
7 145 (29.96%) Deployment Automation
8 143 (29.55%) Containerisation
9 142 (29.34%) Agile
10 126 (26.03%) Microservices
11 124 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
12 123 (25.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (24.59%) Mentoring
14 107 (22.11%) Platform Engineering
15 100 (20.66%) AI
16 94 (19.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 81 (16.74%) Clean Code
17 81 (16.74%) Fintech
18 78 (16.12%) Continuous Deployment
19 70 (14.46%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 274 (56.61%) Python
2 167 (34.50%) Java
3 155 (32.02%) Bash
4 81 (16.74%) SQL
5 78 (16.12%) PowerShell
6 51 (10.54%) Go
7 40 (8.26%) JavaScript
8 31 (6.40%) TypeScript
9 26 (5.37%) C#
10 19 (3.93%) Bicep
10 19 (3.93%) Rust
11 14 (2.89%) C++
12 9 (1.86%) Groovy
12 9 (1.86%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.45%) PHP
13 7 (1.45%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.45%) VBA
14 4 (0.83%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.83%) Scala
15 3 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 115 (23.76%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.20%) Degree
4 26 (5.37%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 22 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.93%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.86%) CISSP
8 7 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.45%) CISM
9 6 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.03%) CCSP
10 5 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.62%) OCP
12 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.41%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.40%) QA
2 16 (3.31%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.48%) SLA
3 12 (2.48%) SOC 2
4 8 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.65%) NIST
5 3 (0.62%) GDPR
5 3 (0.62%) PSD2
5 3 (0.62%) WCAG
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 193 (39.88%) Docker
2 18 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.07%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.03%) vSphere
7 4 (0.83%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.83%) KVM
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.41%) Xen
9 1 (0.21%) Firmware
9 1 (0.21%) iptables
9 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 328 (67.77%) Kubernetes
2 261 (53.93%) Prometheus
3 135 (27.89%) Ansible
4 53 (10.95%) Argo
5 28 (5.79%) Kibana
6 26 (5.37%) Istio
7 17 (3.51%) Nagios
8 14 (2.89%) Kustomize
8 14 (2.89%) logstash
8 14 (2.89%) Puppet
9 12 (2.48%) linkerd
10 11 (2.27%) Rancher
11 9 (1.86%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (1.65%) Cilium
12 8 (1.65%) Proxmox
13 6 (1.24%) Mesos
13 6 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (1.03%) vCenter Server
14 5 (1.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 68 (14.05%) Splunk
2 62 (12.81%) Dynatrace
3 49 (10.12%) Microsoft
4 38 (7.85%) Google
5 29 (5.99%) Red Hat
6 26 (5.37%) VMware
7 19 (3.93%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.69%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.48%) Oracle
10 9 (1.86%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.86%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.65%) Databricks
12 6 (1.24%) Cisco
12 6 (1.24%) Informatica
12 6 (1.24%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.03%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.03%) New Relic
14 4 (0.83%) NetApp
14 4 (0.83%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.83%) Solace