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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 385 472
Rank change year-on-year -29 +87 -41
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 479 327 332
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.96% 6.53% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 259 220 205
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,911
25th Percentile £56,875 £61,438 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £88,125 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,150 £115,250 £104,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.07% +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 5,008 6,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 10.07% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,681 2,854 3,720
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £86,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £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 4 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 4 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 -47 387 £70,000 -3.45% 963
London +10 215 £82,500 - 461
Work from Home +63 198 £65,000 -7.14% 608
UK excluding London -105 197 £63,750 -12.07% 654
South East -18 67 £62,500 -16.67% 124
South West -31 43 £70,000 -24.32% 89
North of England -66 41 £68,750 +10.00% 151
North West -18 29 £70,000 +14.29% 77
Wales -58 18 £62,000 -0.80% 43
Midlands -85 13 £61,250 -15.52% 71
North East -55 12 £57,500 -4.17% 22
Scotland -13 11 £62,500 -16.11% 89
West Midlands -81 8 £55,000 -24.14% 34
East Midlands -44 5 £62,500 +12.11% 37
East of England -33 3 £86,250 +25.45% 71
Yorkshire -51 3 £57,500 -28.13% 52
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 21

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 (3.13%) Apache
2 11 (2.30%) Confluence
3 8 (1.67%) nginx
4 7 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.04%) IIS
6 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 334 (69.73%) AWS
2 210 (43.84%) GCP
3 161 (33.61%) Azure
4 113 (23.59%) Amazon EKS
5 93 (19.42%) SaaS
6 84 (17.54%) GitHub
7 73 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (14.41%) Datadog
9 62 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 56 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (10.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (8.77%) Serverless
13 37 (7.72%) OpenShift
14 34 (7.10%) Amazon S3
15 32 (6.68%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (5.64%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (4.80%) Entra ID
19 22 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
19 22 (4.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (10.23%) Firewall
2 24 (5.01%) VPN
3 18 (3.76%) TCP/IP
4 15 (3.13%) DNS
4 15 (3.13%) VLAN
5 14 (2.92%) HTTP
6 12 (2.51%) BGP
7 11 (2.30%) Network Security
8 9 (1.88%) SSH
9 6 (1.25%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.25%) OSPF
9 6 (1.25%) SNMP
9 6 (1.25%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.25%) WAN
10 5 (1.04%) LAN
11 4 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.84%) WebEx
12 3 (0.63%) 5G
12 3 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (19.83%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (8.98%) MySQL
3 42 (8.77%) Elasticsearch
4 41 (8.56%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (6.05%) MongoDB
6 26 (5.43%) NoSQL
7 22 (4.59%) Redis
8 14 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (2.51%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.51%) SQL Server
11 11 (2.30%) InfluxDB
12 9 (1.88%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.46%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.04%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.84%) Metadata
16 3 (0.63%) Big Data
16 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.63%) ZAP BI
17 2 (0.42%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 93 (19.42%) Git
2 89 (18.58%) GitLab
2 89 (18.58%) Jenkins
3 86 (17.95%) TeamCity
4 22 (4.59%) SonarQube
5 18 (3.76%) Gatling
5 18 (3.76%) Selenium
6 17 (3.55%) JMeter
7 16 (3.34%) Cucumber
7 16 (3.34%) JIRA
8 14 (2.92%) Cypress.io
9 13 (2.71%) LoadRunner
10 9 (1.88%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (1.88%) Postman
11 8 (1.67%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.67%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.67%) JUnit
12 7 (1.46%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.46%) TestRail
13 6 (1.25%) Maven
General
1 186 (38.83%) Finance
2 125 (26.10%) Banking
2 125 (26.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 105 (21.92%) Law
4 104 (21.71%) Social Skills
5 100 (20.88%) Retail
6 69 (14.41%) Financial Institution
7 65 (13.57%) Back Office
8 64 (13.36%) Public Sector
9 49 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (3.13%) Marketing
11 13 (2.71%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.25%) Legal
13 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.04%) Police
14 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.63%) Military
16 2 (0.42%) Advertising
16 2 (0.42%) Publishing
16 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (20.67%) Senior
2 88 (18.37%) Software Engineer
3 79 (16.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (10.65%) Lead
5 45 (9.39%) Developer
6 43 (8.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 39 (8.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 38 (7.93%) Site Engineer
9 37 (7.72%) Platform Engineer
10 36 (7.52%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (6.26%) Administrator
12 29 (6.05%) Lead Software Engineer
13 26 (5.43%) Team Leader
14 23 (4.80%) Systems Administrator
15 22 (4.59%) Software Team Leader
16 20 (4.18%) DevOps Administrator
16 20 (4.18%) Java Developer
16 20 (4.18%) Java Engineer
16 20 (4.18%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (69.31%) Terraform
2 64 (13.36%) Elastic Stack
3 57 (11.90%) Kafka
4 42 (8.77%) OpenTelemetry
5 37 (7.72%) REST
5 37 (7.72%) RESTful
6 31 (6.47%) RabbitMQ
7 27 (5.64%) Spring
7 27 (5.64%) Spring Boot
8 22 (4.59%) Node.js
9 21 (4.38%) Loki
9 21 (4.38%) React
10 18 (3.76%) .NET
10 18 (3.76%) Hibernate
11 17 (3.55%) JPA
11 17 (3.55%) Keycloak
12 16 (3.34%) GraphQL
12 16 (3.34%) Playwright
12 16 (3.34%) pytest
13 13 (2.71%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 172 (35.91%) Cloud Native
2 67 (13.99%) Product Ownership
3 65 (13.57%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (6.47%) Blog
5 24 (5.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (4.59%) Replication
7 20 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (3.76%) Virtual Team
9 15 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
9 15 (3.13%) Onboarding
9 15 (3.13%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.92%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.30%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.46%) PKI
14 6 (1.25%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.25%) IoT
14 6 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 126 (26.30%) Linux
2 40 (8.35%) Windows
3 18 (3.76%) Unix
4 17 (3.55%) CentOS
5 9 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.46%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.04%) Android
7 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.63%) Debian
8 3 (0.63%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.63%) VMS
9 2 (0.42%) Rocky
10 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (73.28%) CI/CD
2 263 (54.91%) DevOps
3 258 (53.86%) Observability
4 248 (51.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 167 (34.86%) Software Engineering
6 162 (33.82%) Test Automation
7 144 (30.06%) Agile
8 143 (29.85%) Containerisation
9 140 (29.23%) Deployment Automation
10 125 (26.10%) Problem-Solving
11 123 (25.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 122 (25.47%) Microservices
13 116 (24.22%) Mentoring
14 103 (21.50%) Platform Engineering
15 98 (20.46%) AI
16 93 (19.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 77 (16.08%) Clean Code
17 77 (16.08%) Continuous Deployment
17 77 (16.08%) Fintech
18 68 (14.20%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 272 (56.78%) Python
2 163 (34.03%) Java
3 156 (32.57%) Bash
4 80 (16.70%) PowerShell
5 78 (16.28%) SQL
6 47 (9.81%) Go
7 41 (8.56%) JavaScript
8 30 (6.26%) TypeScript
9 25 (5.22%) C#
10 19 (3.97%) Rust
11 16 (3.34%) Bicep
12 14 (2.92%) C++
13 9 (1.88%) Groovy
13 9 (1.88%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.46%) PHP
14 7 (1.46%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.46%) VBA
15 4 (0.84%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.84%) Scala
16 3 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 114 (23.80%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.26%) Degree
4 26 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.59%) AWS Certification
5 22 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.76%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.46%) CISSP
8 5 (1.04%) CISM
9 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.63%) CCSP
10 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.63%) OCP
10 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.53%) QA
2 12 (2.51%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.51%) SLA
3 9 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.67%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.25%) NIST
6 3 (0.63%) GDPR
6 3 (0.63%) PSD2
6 3 (0.63%) WCAG
7 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 195 (40.71%) Docker
2 17 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.09%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.04%) vSphere
7 4 (0.84%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.84%) KVM
8 3 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.42%) iptables
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.42%) Xen
10 1 (0.21%) Firmware
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 323 (67.43%) Kubernetes
2 261 (54.49%) Prometheus
3 137 (28.60%) Ansible
4 51 (10.65%) Argo
5 29 (6.05%) Kibana
6 25 (5.22%) Istio
7 17 (3.55%) Nagios
8 15 (3.13%) Puppet
9 14 (2.92%) logstash
10 13 (2.71%) Kustomize
11 12 (2.51%) linkerd
12 11 (2.30%) Rancher
13 9 (1.88%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (1.67%) Proxmox
15 7 (1.46%) Cilium
16 6 (1.25%) Mesos
16 6 (1.25%) ZABBIX
17 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
17 5 (1.04%) vCenter Server
18 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (14.20%) Splunk
2 61 (12.73%) Dynatrace
3 50 (10.44%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.31%) Google
5 28 (5.85%) Red Hat
6 26 (5.43%) VMware
7 20 (4.18%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.71%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.51%) Oracle
10 9 (1.88%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.88%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.67%) Databricks
12 6 (1.25%) Cisco
12 6 (1.25%) Informatica
12 6 (1.25%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.04%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.04%) New Relic
14 4 (0.84%) NetApp
14 4 (0.84%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.84%) Solace