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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 446 424
Rank change year-on-year +82 -22 +107
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 308 288 296
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.24% 4.61% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 215 166 227
10th Percentile £47,547 £43,911 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -0.33%

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 4,257 6,243 7,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.22% 11.06% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,085 3,865 6,242
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,925 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,250 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,625 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -6.74% +2.68% -2.61%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +66 242 £72,500 -2.68% 97
UK excluding London +45 144 £68,750 +1.85% 85
Work from Home +67 130 £67,500 -10.00% 45
London +68 115 £85,000 - 39
North of England +27 61 £62,500 -16.67% 29
North West +51 31 £62,500 -16.67% 15
Scotland +25 22 £72,289 +15.66% 5
Midlands +20 21 £72,500 +11.54% 7
West Midlands +36 19 £72,500 +11.54% 6
South East +16 18 £70,000 +3.70% 26
North East -12 17 £53,350 -12.90% 2
Yorkshire +11 13 £80,000 +0.63% 13
South West -12 12 £75,000 +15.38% 15
East of England +21 5 £67,500 +35.00% 3
Wales -10 4 £67,539 +3.91% 2
East Midlands -8 2 £54,600 +32.36% 1
Northern Ireland -5 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 16 (5.19%) Confluence
2 13 (4.22%) nginx
3 10 (3.25%) Apache
4 6 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.30%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) CICS
6 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.65%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 211 (68.51%) AWS
2 147 (47.73%) Azure
3 85 (27.60%) GCP
4 82 (26.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 82 (26.62%) GitHub
5 65 (21.10%) GitHub Actions
6 56 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
7 53 (17.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 41 (13.31%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (12.99%) Amazon EC2
9 40 (12.99%) Datadog
10 34 (11.04%) Serverless
11 33 (10.71%) Amazon S3
12 29 (9.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 28 (9.09%) SaaS
14 27 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (8.12%) OpenShift
16 24 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (7.47%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (7.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.01%) Firewall
2 26 (8.44%) DNS
3 20 (6.49%) HTTP
4 12 (3.90%) FTP
5 11 (3.57%) SMTP
5 11 (3.57%) SSH
6 10 (3.25%) VPN
7 9 (2.92%) WAN
8 8 (2.60%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.27%) LAN
9 7 (2.27%) Wireless
10 6 (1.95%) BGP
10 6 (1.95%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (1.62%) Network Security
11 5 (1.62%) SSL
12 4 (1.30%) IMAP
12 4 (1.30%) MPLS
12 4 (1.30%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (1.30%) SAN
13 3 (0.97%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.69%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.44%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.57%) InfluxDB
6 9 (2.92%) MySQL
6 9 (2.92%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.92%) Redis
7 8 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.27%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.97%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.97%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.65%) Big Data
11 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.65%) Metadata
11 2 (0.65%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 103 (33.44%) Jenkins
2 74 (24.03%) GitLab
3 61 (19.81%) Git
4 45 (14.61%) JIRA
5 25 (8.12%) TeamCity
6 21 (6.82%) Cucumber
7 15 (4.87%) Bitbucket
8 13 (4.22%) Vagrant
9 11 (3.57%) Selenium
10 10 (3.25%) JMeter
11 9 (2.92%) JUnit
11 9 (2.92%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (2.60%) CircleCI
12 8 (2.60%) Locust
13 7 (2.27%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.95%) Robot Framework
14 6 (1.95%) TestRail
15 5 (1.62%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.62%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 97 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 82 (26.62%) Finance
3 27 (8.77%) Banking
4 21 (6.82%) Law
4 21 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (5.84%) Retail
7 17 (5.52%) Back Office
8 16 (5.19%) Telecoms
9 15 (4.87%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.60%) Advertising
12 6 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.62%) Games
14 4 (1.30%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.97%) Legal
16 2 (0.65%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.65%) Front Office
17 1 (0.32%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 79 (25.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (22.73%) Senior
3 37 (12.01%) Lead
4 34 (11.04%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 26 (8.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (7.47%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (6.17%) Developer
9 17 (5.52%) Development Engineer
10 16 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
10 16 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.87%) Analyst
11 15 (4.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.87%) Lead DevOps
12 14 (4.55%) Applications Support
13 13 (4.22%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
14 11 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (19.48%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (10.39%) .NET
3 16 (5.19%) Kafka
4 15 (4.87%) React
5 14 (4.55%) ADO
5 14 (4.55%) Node.js
5 14 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
5 14 (4.55%) Spring
6 13 (4.22%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (3.57%) Loki
9 10 (3.25%) AWS CDK
9 10 (3.25%) Django
9 10 (3.25%) Gherkin
10 9 (2.92%) Flask
10 9 (2.92%) pytest
11 7 (2.27%) ARM Templates
11 7 (2.27%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.95%) JWT
12 6 (1.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (19.48%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.42%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.25%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.25%) Replication
7 9 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.62%) IoT
8 5 (1.62%) PKI
9 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.65%) Blog
10 2 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.65%) NHS
10 2 (0.65%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.65%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 128 (41.56%) Linux
2 61 (19.81%) Windows
3 20 (6.49%) Unix
4 16 (5.19%) VMS
5 13 (4.22%) Ubuntu
6 11 (3.57%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (2.60%) CentOS
8 6 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.30%) Debian
9 4 (1.30%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.97%) SUSE
11 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (74.35%) CI/CD
2 209 (67.86%) DevOps
3 149 (48.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 131 (42.53%) Observability
5 118 (38.31%) Containerisation
6 83 (26.95%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (25.32%) Agile
8 74 (24.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 69 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 68 (22.08%) Platform Engineering
11 61 (19.81%) Test Automation
12 51 (16.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 48 (15.58%) Incident Response
14 44 (14.29%) Microservices
14 44 (14.29%) Software Engineering
15 40 (12.99%) Cloud Security
16 39 (12.66%) Configuration Management
16 39 (12.66%) Mentoring
17 36 (11.69%) Deployment Automation
18 35 (11.36%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 185 (60.06%) Python
2 83 (26.95%) Bash
3 72 (23.38%) Java
4 59 (19.16%) PowerShell
5 44 (14.29%) SQL
6 42 (13.64%) JavaScript
7 33 (10.71%) Go
8 26 (8.44%) C#
9 17 (5.52%) Bicep
9 17 (5.52%) TypeScript
10 16 (5.19%) Groovy
11 9 (2.92%) C++
11 9 (2.92%) Perl
12 8 (2.60%) Delphi
13 6 (1.95%) Ruby
14 5 (1.62%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.62%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.30%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.97%) PHP
17 2 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 79 (25.65%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 51 (16.56%) Degree
4 30 (9.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (8.44%) AWS Certification
6 22 (7.14%) DV Cleared
7 20 (6.49%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.30%) CCNA
10 3 (0.97%) CCNP
10 3 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.65%) MCP
12 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.29%) QA
2 7 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.27%) WCAG
3 6 (1.95%) GDPR
4 4 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 163 (52.92%) Docker
2 15 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.60%) DFS Replication
5 4 (1.30%) Dovecot
5 4 (1.30%) KVM
5 4 (1.30%) Postfix
5 4 (1.30%) Squid
6 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.97%) vSphere
7 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.65%) iptables
7 2 (0.65%) NFS
7 2 (0.65%) RACF
8 1 (0.32%) pfSense
8 1 (0.32%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 207 (67.21%) Terraform
2 203 (65.91%) Kubernetes
3 186 (60.39%) Prometheus
4 104 (33.77%) Ansible
5 21 (6.82%) Argo
6 12 (3.90%) Control-M
6 12 (3.90%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (2.92%) Kibana
7 9 (2.92%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.95%) Nessus
9 5 (1.62%) Istio
9 5 (1.62%) linkerd
9 5 (1.62%) logstash
9 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.62%) Puppet
10 4 (1.30%) Mesos
10 4 (1.30%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.97%) Nagios
11 3 (0.97%) Rancher
11 3 (0.97%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (15.26%) Splunk
2 23 (7.47%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.82%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.19%) VMware
5 15 (4.87%) Oracle
6 14 (4.55%) SolarWinds
7 13 (4.22%) Google
8 9 (2.92%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.92%) Cisco
8 9 (2.92%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.92%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.60%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.60%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.62%) F5
10 5 (1.62%) Sonatype
11 4 (1.30%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (0.97%) Arista
12 3 (0.97%) Juniper
12 3 (0.97%) Meraki
12 3 (0.97%) New Relic