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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 473 436
Rank change year-on-year +134 -37 +97
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 362 297 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.44% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.57% 4.58% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 238 170 249
10th Percentile £52,400 £44,852 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,313 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £105,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -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 4,784 6,483 8,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.14% 9.62% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,228 3,855 6,664
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,508 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £103,350 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% - +4.55%

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 12 November 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 12 November 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 +105 298 £72,500 - 325
UK excluding London +96 188 £70,000 +3.70% 147
London +81 138 £80,500 -8.00% 192
Work from Home +52 114 £67,500 -10.00% 184
North of England +3 56 £62,500 -16.67% 50
Midlands +80 48 £72,500 +11.54% 24
West Midlands +78 43 £72,500 +11.54% 20
South East +31 37 £70,000 +3.70% 30
Scotland +24 31 £72,289 +15.66% 4
North West +39 30 £61,250 -18.33% 34
Yorkshire +13 14 £75,000 -11.76% 9
North East -17 12 £53,350 -12.90% 7
South West -2 9 £72,500 +11.54% 22
Wales +4 6 £62,500 -3.85% 3
East Midlands +18 5 £55,200 +35.46% 4
East of England +3 2 £68,750 +37.50% 7
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 9

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 39 (10.77%) Confluence
2 18 (4.97%) nginx
3 8 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.66%) Apache
5 5 (1.38%) IIS
6 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.55%) CICS
8 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (2.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.28%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 256 (70.72%) AWS
2 151 (41.71%) Azure
3 111 (30.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 81 (22.38%) GCP
5 67 (18.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (18.23%) Amazon EC2
7 63 (17.40%) GitHub
8 60 (16.57%) Amazon S3
9 54 (14.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 50 (13.81%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (12.98%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (12.71%) Azure Monitor
13 42 (11.60%) AWS KMS
14 38 (10.50%) Serverless
15 37 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
16 36 (9.94%) Amazon ECS
16 36 (9.94%) Amazon ELB
17 35 (9.67%) Datadog
18 30 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
18 30 (8.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (16.57%) Firewall
2 34 (9.39%) DNS
3 28 (7.73%) HTTP
4 24 (6.63%) FTP
5 23 (6.35%) SMTP
5 23 (6.35%) SSH
6 10 (2.76%) WAN
7 8 (2.21%) IMAP
7 8 (2.21%) OpenLDAP
7 8 (2.21%) VPN
8 7 (1.93%) LAN
8 7 (1.93%) SAN
8 7 (1.93%) Wireless
9 6 (1.66%) BGP
9 6 (1.66%) Network Security
10 4 (1.10%) MPLS
10 4 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.10%) SSL
10 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (15.75%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.91%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.14%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.87%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.59%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.49%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.49%) MySQL
8 9 (2.49%) Redis
9 8 (2.21%) InfluxDB
10 6 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.38%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.55%) Big Data
13 2 (0.55%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.55%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 135 (37.29%) Jenkins
2 85 (23.48%) Git
3 75 (20.72%) GitLab
4 70 (19.34%) JIRA
5 36 (9.94%) Vagrant
6 20 (5.52%) TeamCity
7 18 (4.97%) Cucumber
8 14 (3.87%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (3.04%) JUnit
10 10 (2.76%) Selenium
11 9 (2.49%) JMeter
12 8 (2.21%) CircleCI
12 8 (2.21%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.93%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.93%) Locust
13 7 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (1.10%) Robot Framework
14 4 (1.10%) Spinnaker
14 4 (1.10%) TestRail
General
1 113 (31.22%) Finance
1 113 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 56 (15.47%) Law
3 48 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (11.60%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.67%) Banking
6 22 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (4.70%) Marketing
8 16 (4.42%) Back Office
8 16 (4.42%) Legal
9 14 (3.87%) Financial Institution
9 14 (3.87%) Retail
10 13 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.76%) Advertising
12 9 (2.49%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.66%) Games
14 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.55%) Agriculture
17 1 (0.28%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 94 (25.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (22.38%) Senior
3 42 (11.60%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (11.60%) Lead
3 42 (11.60%) Software Engineer
4 36 (9.94%) Platform Engineer
5 29 (8.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 21 (5.80%) Analyst
6 21 (5.80%) Support Engineer
7 20 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (5.25%) AWS DevOps
9 18 (4.97%) Applications Support
9 18 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (4.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 18 (4.97%) Developer
9 18 (4.97%) Senior DevOps
9 18 (4.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 18 (4.97%) Site Engineer
10 17 (4.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.75%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (7.18%) .NET
3 19 (5.25%) Kafka
4 18 (4.97%) OpenTelemetry
5 16 (4.42%) Spring
6 15 (4.14%) Node.js
7 14 (3.87%) Loki
7 14 (3.87%) Spring Boot
7 14 (3.87%) TensorFlow
8 13 (3.59%) AWS CDK
8 13 (3.59%) Hugging Face
8 13 (3.59%) LangChain
8 13 (3.59%) PyTorch
8 13 (3.59%) React
9 12 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (3.04%) Django
11 10 (2.76%) Flask
12 9 (2.49%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (2.49%) LDAP
13 8 (2.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.57%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.73%) Replication
3 23 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.59%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
7 8 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.93%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.66%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.38%) IoT
11 3 (0.83%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.55%) MPEG
12 2 (0.55%) NHS
12 2 (0.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 152 (41.99%) Linux
2 79 (21.82%) Windows
3 39 (10.77%) VMS
4 25 (6.91%) Unix
5 23 (6.35%) Amazon Linux
6 22 (6.08%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (2.21%) Windows Server
9 7 (1.93%) Debian
10 4 (1.10%) CentOS
11 3 (0.83%) Android
12 2 (0.55%) AIX
12 2 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (66.85%) CI/CD
2 225 (62.15%) DevOps
3 142 (39.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (38.12%) Observability
5 107 (29.56%) Containerisation
6 92 (25.41%) Agile
7 79 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (21.55%) Platform Engineering
9 74 (20.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 69 (19.06%) Software Engineering
11 67 (18.51%) Cloud Security
12 65 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 63 (17.40%) Change Management
13 63 (17.40%) Configuration Management
14 57 (15.75%) Microservices
14 57 (15.75%) Test Automation
15 55 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 54 (14.92%) Computer Science
17 50 (13.81%) High Availability
18 43 (11.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 219 (60.50%) Python
2 99 (27.35%) Java
3 86 (23.76%) PowerShell
4 84 (23.20%) Bash
5 65 (17.96%) SQL
6 40 (11.05%) Go
7 39 (10.77%) Groovy
8 31 (8.56%) JavaScript
9 21 (5.80%) C#
10 17 (4.70%) Bicep
10 17 (4.70%) Perl
11 15 (4.14%) Shell Script
12 13 (3.59%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.21%) Delphi
14 7 (1.93%) C++
15 6 (1.66%) Ruby
16 4 (1.10%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.83%) PHP
17 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
18 2 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 92 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 77 (21.27%) SC Cleared
3 75 (20.72%) Degree
4 50 (13.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (9.39%) AWS Certification
6 33 (9.12%) Azure Certification
7 21 (5.80%) Master's Degree
8 14 (3.87%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.10%) CCNA
11 4 (1.10%) CCNP
12 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.50%) QA
2 7 (1.93%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.93%) WCAG
3 5 (1.38%) GDPR
4 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 168 (46.41%) Docker
2 31 (8.56%) Active Directory
3 25 (6.91%) DFS Replication
4 9 (2.49%) Postfix
4 9 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.21%) Dovecot
5 8 (2.21%) Squid
6 3 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.83%) KVM
6 3 (0.83%) vSphere
7 2 (0.55%) NFS
7 2 (0.55%) RACF
7 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.28%) Corosync
8 1 (0.28%) iptables
8 1 (0.28%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.28%) pfSense
8 1 (0.28%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 231 (63.81%) Prometheus
2 221 (61.05%) Terraform
3 202 (55.80%) Kubernetes
4 102 (28.18%) Ansible
5 14 (3.87%) Argo
6 12 (3.31%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.04%) Control-M
8 10 (2.76%) Kibana
8 10 (2.76%) Nessus
9 8 (2.21%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (2.21%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.66%) logstash
10 6 (1.66%) Puppet
11 5 (1.38%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (1.10%) Nagios
12 4 (1.10%) Netcool
12 4 (1.10%) Netcool/OMNIbus
12 4 (1.10%) Tivoli
13 3 (0.83%) Istio
Vendors
1 72 (19.89%) Splunk
2 51 (14.09%) ServiceNow
3 28 (7.73%) Microsoft
4 25 (6.91%) Oracle
5 23 (6.35%) Dynatrace
6 19 (5.25%) SolarWinds
7 14 (3.87%) Google
7 14 (3.87%) Juniper
7 14 (3.87%) VMware
8 13 (3.59%) OpenAI
9 12 (3.31%) Atlassian
10 10 (2.76%) Cisco
10 10 (2.76%) Red Hat
11 9 (2.49%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.49%) IBM
11 9 (2.49%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (2.21%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.66%) F5
14 5 (1.38%) Sonatype
15 4 (1.10%) Hitachi