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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 384 442
Rank change year-on-year -41 +58 +9
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 419 347 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.70% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.18% 6.22% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 241 231 203
10th Percentile £46,250 £53,500 £40,162
25th Percentile £55,750 £61,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +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 5,835 5,583 7,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.58% 11.26% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,248 3,327 5,216
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,123
25th Percentile £46,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,559 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +1.56% -4.48%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -49 358 £70,000 -3.45% 315
UK excluding London -65 203 £65,000 -7.14% 153
Work from Home +47 172 £65,000 -7.14% 161
London -32 168 £82,500 - 204
South East -11 62 £62,500 -16.67% 31
South West -13 53 £65,000 -18.75% 25
North of England -36 46 £67,500 +3.85% 40
North West 0 30 £71,250 +18.75% 20
Midlands -81 19 £63,250 -12.76% 12
North East -40 15 £47,500 -20.83% 7
West Midlands -73 14 £62,500 -13.79% 8
Scotland +8 10 £62,500 -16.67% 22
Wales -49 10 £70,000 +33.18% 5
East Midlands -15 5 £64,500 +15.70% 4
East of England -27 2 £77,575 +14.93% 11
Yorkshire -38 1 £82,500 +10.19% 13
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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 (3.82%) Apache
2 10 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.91%) Confluence
4 7 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.43%) IIS
6 5 (1.19%) nginx
7 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 285 (68.02%) AWS
2 166 (39.62%) GCP
3 164 (39.14%) Azure
4 85 (20.29%) Datadog
5 67 (15.99%) Amazon EKS
5 67 (15.99%) GitHub
6 63 (15.04%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (14.80%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (14.56%) SaaS
9 55 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 44 (10.50%) Serverless
12 42 (10.02%) OpenShift
13 38 (9.07%) Amazon S3
14 31 (7.40%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (6.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 53 (12.65%) Firewall
2 20 (4.77%) DNS
2 20 (4.77%) VLAN
3 18 (4.30%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.10%) HTTP
5 12 (2.86%) WAN
6 11 (2.63%) LAN
6 11 (2.63%) Unified Communications
6 11 (2.63%) VPN
6 11 (2.63%) WebEx
7 10 (2.39%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (2.39%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (2.15%) Broadband
9 8 (1.91%) BGP
9 8 (1.91%) Network Security
10 7 (1.67%) OSPF
10 7 (1.67%) SSH
11 6 (1.43%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.43%) MQTT
11 6 (1.43%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (6.68%) MySQL
4 26 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.82%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.10%) InfluxDB
6 13 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.91%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.91%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.19%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.95%) ZAP BI
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.72%) Big Data
12 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (22.43%) GitLab
2 81 (19.33%) Jenkins
3 73 (17.42%) Git
4 59 (14.08%) TeamCity
5 25 (5.97%) SonarQube
6 22 (5.25%) Cucumber
6 22 (5.25%) JMeter
7 15 (3.58%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.58%) JIRA
7 15 (3.58%) Selenium
8 12 (2.86%) Gatling
9 11 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.63%) LoadRunner
9 11 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (1.91%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.91%) Postman
11 7 (1.67%) Robot Framework
11 7 (1.67%) TestRail
12 6 (1.43%) Burp Suite
12 6 (1.43%) REST Assured
General
1 140 (33.41%) Finance
2 96 (22.91%) Banking
3 81 (19.33%) Law
4 79 (18.85%) Social Skills
5 78 (18.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 72 (17.18%) Retail
7 43 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (10.26%) Financial Institution
8 40 (9.55%) Back Office
8 40 (9.55%) Public Sector
9 23 (5.49%) Telecoms
10 18 (4.30%) Marketing
11 7 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.43%) Legal
13 5 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Military
15 2 (0.48%) Advertising
15 2 (0.48%) Billing
15 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (21.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (16.71%) Senior
3 65 (15.51%) Software Engineer
4 42 (10.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 42 (10.02%) Lead
5 41 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.88%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (7.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 31 (7.40%) Developer
9 30 (7.16%) Site Engineer
10 29 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.01%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (4.77%) Administrator
13 19 (4.53%) Systems Administrator
13 19 (4.53%) Team Leader
14 18 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (4.06%) Java Engineer
16 16 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
16 16 (3.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (14.80%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (11.22%) Kafka
3 31 (7.40%) OpenTelemetry
4 27 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (5.25%) Node.js
5 22 (5.25%) React
6 21 (5.01%) Loki
6 21 (5.01%) REST
7 18 (4.30%) RESTful
7 18 (4.30%) Spring
8 17 (4.06%) .NET
8 17 (4.06%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.58%) pytest
9 15 (3.58%) YAML
10 14 (3.34%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.10%) Playwright
12 11 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
12 11 (2.63%) ARM Templates
12 11 (2.63%) gRPC
12 11 (2.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 130 (31.03%) Cloud Native
2 47 (11.22%) Product Ownership
3 34 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.25%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.10%) Blog
6 13 (3.10%) Replication
7 11 (2.63%) FlexPod
7 11 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.67%) PKI
10 7 (1.67%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.19%) IoT
12 5 (1.19%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 120 (28.64%) Linux
2 45 (10.74%) Windows
3 21 (5.01%) CentOS
4 14 (3.34%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.86%) Unix
6 7 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.43%) VMS
8 5 (1.19%) Debian
9 4 (0.95%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.48%) Android
10 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.48%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (71.60%) CI/CD
2 243 (58.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 234 (55.85%) DevOps
4 204 (48.69%) Observability
5 165 (39.38%) Containerisation
6 138 (32.94%) Software Engineering
7 136 (32.46%) Test Automation
8 119 (28.40%) Agile
9 116 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
10 113 (26.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 113 (26.97%) Deployment Automation
11 95 (22.67%) Microservices
12 93 (22.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 86 (20.53%) Platform Engineering
14 83 (19.81%) Mentoring
15 64 (15.27%) AI
16 62 (14.80%) Continuous Deployment
17 57 (13.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 54 (12.89%) Clean Code
18 54 (12.89%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 269 (64.20%) Python
2 157 (37.47%) Bash
3 125 (29.83%) Java
4 83 (19.81%) PowerShell
5 53 (12.65%) SQL
6 47 (11.22%) JavaScript
7 43 (10.26%) Go
8 34 (8.11%) C#
9 24 (5.73%) Rust
10 23 (5.49%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.82%) C++
12 10 (2.39%) Bicep
13 7 (1.67%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.67%) VBA
14 6 (1.43%) PHP
15 5 (1.19%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.48%) Ruby
17 2 (0.48%) Swift
18 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 86 (20.53%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.59%) Degree
3 34 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.25%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.01%) AWS Certification
5 21 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.72%) OCP
11 3 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CISSP
12 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.48%) ISEB
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.41%) QA
2 13 (3.10%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.63%) GDPR
3 11 (2.63%) SLA
4 9 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.15%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.67%) WCAG
6 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.95%) NIST
7 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.72%) PSD2
8 2 (0.48%) GRC
8 2 (0.48%) SEPA
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 197 (47.02%) Docker
2 24 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.10%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (2.63%) vSphere
5 10 (2.39%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.19%) iptables
7 5 (1.19%) KVM
7 5 (1.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.48%) Xen
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 298 (71.12%) Terraform
2 270 (64.44%) Kubernetes
3 229 (54.65%) Prometheus
4 149 (35.56%) Ansible
5 37 (8.83%) Argo
6 26 (6.21%) Kibana
7 21 (5.01%) Istio
8 18 (4.30%) Nagios
9 17 (4.06%) Puppet
10 16 (3.82%) logstash
11 11 (2.63%) Cisco CUCM
12 10 (2.39%) Kustomize
13 9 (2.15%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (2.15%) linkerd
14 8 (1.91%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.43%) Progress Chef
15 6 (1.43%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.19%) Mesos
16 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
17 4 (0.95%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 61 (14.56%) Splunk
2 52 (12.41%) Microsoft
3 39 (9.31%) Dynatrace
4 37 (8.83%) Red Hat
5 31 (7.40%) VMware
6 25 (5.97%) Google
7 12 (2.86%) Cisco
8 11 (2.63%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.63%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.63%) Rapid7
9 10 (2.39%) AppDynamics
9 10 (2.39%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.39%) NetApp
9 10 (2.39%) Oracle
10 9 (2.15%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.67%) New Relic
12 6 (1.43%) Informatica
13 5 (1.19%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.95%) Databricks
14 4 (0.95%) Veracode