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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 397 492
Rank change year-on-year +2 +95 -4
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 390 289 436
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.66% 0.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.09% 5.56% 4.54%
Number of salaries quoted 221 189 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,254 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +7.69%

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 4,823 5,202 9,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.18% 11.89% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,439 3,091 7,029
10th Percentile £33,950 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -5.17%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +11 343 £74,502 +2.76% 161
UK excluding London -32 174 £62,500 -7.41% 100
London +4 168 £82,500 - 78
Work from Home +101 166 £70,079 +0.11% 92
South West -15 50 £75,000 +15.38% 7
North of England -19 48 £50,000 -23.08% 32
South East -1 44 £62,500 -19.35% 27
North West -7 23 £67,500 +12.50% 23
North East -26 18 £47,500 -19.15% 4
Midlands -52 16 £64,000 -5.19% 12
West Midlands -57 12 £56,250 -16.67% 7
Yorkshire -46 7 £80,000 +6.85% 5
East of England -4 6 £85,000 +47.83% 9
Scotland -9 5 £65,533 -31.02% 10
East Midlands -26 4 £69,500 +32.38% 5
Wales -41 3 £70,079 +21.88% 2
Northern Ireland -39 2 - - 3

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 (4.87%) Apache
2 13 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.79%) Confluence
4 6 (1.54%) 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 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.03%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.26%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 271 (69.49%) AWS
2 158 (40.51%) Azure
3 153 (39.23%) GCP
4 86 (22.05%) Amazon EKS
5 67 (17.18%) GitHub
6 63 (16.15%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (16.15%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (15.90%) Datadog
8 58 (14.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 58 (14.87%) Serverless
9 49 (12.56%) SaaS
10 39 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 38 (9.74%) Amazon S3
12 33 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (7.44%) OpenShift
14 26 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (4.36%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (14.62%) Firewall
2 30 (7.69%) DNS
3 24 (6.15%) HTTP
3 24 (6.15%) TCP/IP
4 17 (4.36%) VLAN
5 14 (3.59%) VPN
6 11 (2.82%) WAN
7 10 (2.56%) LAN
7 10 (2.56%) Unified Communications
7 10 (2.56%) WebEx
8 9 (2.31%) Broadband
8 9 (2.31%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (2.31%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (2.05%) BGP
10 7 (1.79%) MQTT
10 7 (1.79%) Network Security
10 7 (1.79%) OSPF
11 6 (1.54%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.54%) SNMP
12 5 (1.28%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (4.62%) MySQL
5 15 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.59%) InfluxDB
7 12 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.82%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.54%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.03%) Big Data
11 4 (1.03%) 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 85 (21.79%) GitLab
2 84 (21.54%) Jenkins
3 63 (16.15%) TeamCity
4 49 (12.56%) Git
5 26 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 24 (6.15%) Cucumber
7 20 (5.13%) JMeter
8 15 (3.85%) CircleCI
9 13 (3.33%) JIRA
10 12 (3.08%) Cypress.io
11 11 (2.82%) Bitbucket
11 11 (2.82%) LoadRunner
11 11 (2.82%) Selenium
12 10 (2.56%) Gatling
13 7 (1.79%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.79%) TestRail
14 6 (1.54%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.28%) Locust
15 5 (1.28%) MLflow
15 5 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 119 (30.51%) Finance
2 83 (21.28%) Law
3 80 (20.51%) Banking
4 78 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 76 (19.49%) Retail
6 69 (17.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (10.00%) Financial Institution
8 37 (9.49%) Back Office
9 33 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
9 33 (8.46%) Public Sector
10 31 (7.95%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.31%) Marketing
12 6 (1.54%) 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%) Aviation
15 1 (0.26%) Games
15 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 84 (21.54%) Senior
2 81 (20.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 61 (15.64%) Software Engineer
4 39 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.74%) Lead
6 36 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (5.90%) Developer
9 21 (5.38%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (5.13%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (4.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (4.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 17 (4.36%) Administrator
13 17 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (4.36%) Site Engineer
13 17 (4.36%) Team Leader
14 16 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
14 16 (4.10%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (14.87%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (10.00%) Kafka
3 22 (5.64%) .NET
4 20 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
4 20 (5.13%) React
5 19 (4.87%) Node.js
6 18 (4.62%) Loki
7 17 (4.36%) RabbitMQ
7 17 (4.36%) REST
8 14 (3.59%) OAuth
9 13 (3.33%) Spring
10 12 (3.08%) gRPC
10 12 (3.08%) Spring Boot
11 11 (2.82%) Apache NiFi
11 11 (2.82%) YAML
12 10 (2.56%) AWS CDK
12 10 (2.56%) Playwright
12 10 (2.56%) Vue
12 10 (2.56%) XMPP
13 9 (2.31%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 121 (31.03%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.97%) Product Ownership
3 27 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.62%) Blog
7 13 (3.33%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.82%) Replication
9 10 (2.56%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.79%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.54%) PKI
12 6 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.28%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.03%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 105 (26.92%) Linux
2 50 (12.82%) Windows
3 18 (4.62%) CentOS
4 11 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.79%) VMS
7 5 (1.28%) Unix
8 4 (1.03%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.77%) Debian
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (76.15%) CI/CD
2 221 (56.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 220 (56.41%) DevOps
4 168 (43.08%) Observability
5 157 (40.26%) Containerisation
6 138 (35.38%) Test Automation
7 118 (30.26%) Agile
8 117 (30.00%) Software Engineering
9 107 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (27.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 105 (26.92%) Deployment Automation
12 88 (22.56%) Microservices
13 83 (21.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 72 (18.46%) Platform Engineering
15 70 (17.95%) Mentoring
16 61 (15.64%) Clean Code
17 59 (15.13%) Continuous Deployment
18 54 (13.85%) AI
18 54 (13.85%) DevSecOps
19 53 (13.59%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 234 (60.00%) Python
2 151 (38.72%) Bash
3 115 (29.49%) Java
4 60 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 50 (12.82%) SQL
6 47 (12.05%) Go
7 46 (11.79%) JavaScript
8 35 (8.97%) C#
9 25 (6.41%) Rust
10 22 (5.64%) TypeScript
11 17 (4.36%) C++
12 8 (2.05%) Bicep
12 8 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.54%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.77%) Elixir
15 3 (0.77%) Erlang
16 2 (0.51%) C
16 2 (0.51%) Ruby
16 2 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.26%) Degree
3 33 (8.46%) DV Cleared
4 30 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 27 (6.92%) AWS Certification
6 17 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
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%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.26%) QA
2 12 (3.08%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.82%) GDPR
4 10 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.31%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.05%) SLA
7 6 (1.54%) 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
1 166 (42.56%) Docker
2 21 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.31%) vSphere
5 7 (1.79%) iptables
5 7 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.54%) KVM
6 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.03%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 288 (73.85%) Terraform
2 250 (64.10%) Kubernetes
3 212 (54.36%) Prometheus
4 149 (38.21%) Ansible
5 28 (7.18%) Kibana
6 21 (5.38%) Puppet
7 19 (4.87%) Argo
8 15 (3.85%) Nagios
9 12 (3.08%) Istio
10 11 (2.82%) logstash
11 10 (2.56%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.56%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.31%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (2.31%) Progress Chef
13 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (2.05%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.79%) linkerd
15 6 (1.54%) Mesos
16 4 (1.03%) HP Fortify
16 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (11.79%) Splunk
2 37 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.49%) VMware
3 26 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 22 (5.64%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.10%) Google
6 11 (2.82%) Cisco
7 10 (2.56%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.56%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.56%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.05%) Oracle
8 8 (2.05%) 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%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.28%) Tenable
11 4 (1.03%) Cribl.io
11 4 (1.03%) Veracode