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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 385 522
Rank change year-on-year -5 +137 -42
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 394 317 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.71% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.98% 5.93% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 231 202 197
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £38,850
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £89,688 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £111,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% +15.38%

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 4,936 5,342 9,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.32% 12.03% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,555 3,117 6,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +10.66% -9.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -7.60%

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 13 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 13 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 -4 350 £72,500 - 99
UK excluding London -42 181 £62,500 -10.71% 68
London +12 170 £82,500 +3.13% 42
Work from Home +82 161 £70,000 - 54
South West -11 50 £66,250 +1.92% 7
South East +4 49 £62,500 -19.35% 21
North of England -29 49 £52,500 -19.23% 21
North West +6 23 £67,500 +12.50% 14
North East -24 19 £47,500 -19.15% 2
Midlands -51 17 £64,000 -5.19% 6
West Midlands -57 12 £56,250 -22.41% 3
Yorkshire -43 7 £80,000 +6.85% 5
East of England -12 5 £85,000 +47.83% 6
East Midlands -19 5 £64,000 +11.30% 3
Wales -48 5 £70,000 +21.74% 1
Scotland -9 4 £62,500 -34.21% 6
Northern Ireland -30 2 - - 2

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 18 (4.57%) Apache
2 12 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.78%) Confluence
4 6 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.76%) IIS
5 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.02%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 271 (68.78%) AWS
2 161 (40.86%) Azure
3 152 (38.58%) GCP
4 81 (20.56%) Amazon EKS
5 69 (17.51%) GitHub
6 67 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (16.50%) GitHub Actions
8 61 (15.48%) Datadog
9 60 (15.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 56 (14.21%) Serverless
11 49 (12.44%) SaaS
12 41 (10.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (9.39%) Amazon S3
14 33 (8.38%) OpenShift
15 32 (8.12%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (6.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
18 22 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
19 18 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
20 15 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 58 (14.72%) Firewall
2 29 (7.36%) DNS
3 24 (6.09%) TCP/IP
4 23 (5.84%) HTTP
5 18 (4.57%) VLAN
6 15 (3.81%) VPN
7 11 (2.79%) WAN
8 10 (2.54%) LAN
8 10 (2.54%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.54%) WebEx
9 9 (2.28%) Broadband
9 9 (2.28%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.28%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (2.03%) BGP
11 7 (1.78%) MQTT
11 7 (1.78%) Network Security
11 7 (1.78%) OSPF
12 6 (1.52%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.52%) SNMP
13 5 (1.27%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.11%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (5.08%) MySQL
4 16 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.55%) InfluxDB
6 13 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.05%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.78%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.02%) Big Data
9 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.76%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.51%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.51%) Looker
11 2 (0.51%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 89 (22.59%) GitLab
2 85 (21.57%) Jenkins
3 61 (15.48%) TeamCity
4 54 (13.71%) Git
5 27 (6.85%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.84%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.33%) JMeter
8 14 (3.55%) CircleCI
8 14 (3.55%) JIRA
9 12 (3.05%) Bitbucket
9 12 (3.05%) Cypress.io
9 12 (3.05%) Selenium
10 11 (2.79%) LoadRunner
11 10 (2.54%) Gatling
12 7 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.78%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.78%) TestRail
13 6 (1.52%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.27%) Burp Suite
14 5 (1.27%) JUnit
General
1 115 (29.19%) Finance
2 81 (20.56%) Banking
2 81 (20.56%) Law
3 77 (19.54%) Social Skills
4 74 (18.78%) Retail
5 68 (17.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (9.90%) Financial Institution
7 36 (9.14%) Back Office
7 36 (9.14%) Public Sector
8 35 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
9 31 (7.87%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.28%) Marketing
11 7 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Legal
14 2 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.25%) Aviation
15 1 (0.25%) Games
15 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 87 (22.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 82 (20.81%) Senior
3 59 (14.97%) Software Engineer
4 41 (10.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (9.14%) Platform Engineer
6 34 (8.63%) Lead
7 29 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (6.85%) AWS Engineer
9 26 (6.60%) Developer
10 22 (5.58%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (5.08%) Java Engineer
11 20 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (4.82%) Administrator
13 18 (4.57%) Site Engineer
13 18 (4.57%) Systems Administrator
14 17 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (4.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 17 (4.31%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 16 (4.06%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.99%) Elastic Stack
2 43 (10.91%) Kafka
3 26 (6.60%) OpenTelemetry
4 20 (5.08%) Loki
5 19 (4.82%) Node.js
5 19 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
5 19 (4.82%) REST
6 18 (4.57%) .NET
6 18 (4.57%) React
7 14 (3.55%) OAuth
7 14 (3.55%) Spring
8 13 (3.30%) Spring Boot
9 12 (3.05%) Apache NiFi
9 12 (3.05%) gRPC
9 12 (3.05%) YAML
10 11 (2.79%) Playwright
11 10 (2.54%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.54%) Vue
11 10 (2.54%) XMPP
12 9 (2.28%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 124 (31.47%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.88%) Product Ownership
3 30 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (4.82%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.31%) Blog
7 13 (3.30%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.79%) Replication
9 10 (2.54%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.54%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.27%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.27%) PKI
12 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.02%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 110 (27.92%) Linux
2 51 (12.94%) Windows
3 20 (5.08%) CentOS
4 12 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.78%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.78%) VMS
7 6 (1.52%) Unix
8 4 (1.02%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.76%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (76.14%) CI/CD
2 228 (57.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 224 (56.85%) DevOps
4 170 (43.15%) Observability
5 163 (41.37%) Containerisation
6 133 (33.76%) Test Automation
7 120 (30.46%) Agile
7 120 (30.46%) Software Engineering
8 109 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (26.40%) Deployment Automation
10 103 (26.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (22.34%) Microservices
12 79 (20.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 73 (18.53%) Platform Engineering
14 69 (17.51%) Mentoring
15 58 (14.72%) Clean Code
15 58 (14.72%) Continuous Deployment
16 56 (14.21%) DevSecOps
17 55 (13.96%) AI
18 53 (13.45%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 242 (61.42%) Python
2 160 (40.61%) Bash
3 117 (29.70%) Java
4 67 (17.01%) PowerShell
5 51 (12.94%) SQL
6 46 (11.68%) Go
7 44 (11.17%) JavaScript
8 35 (8.88%) C#
9 27 (6.85%) Rust
10 20 (5.08%) TypeScript
11 16 (4.06%) C++
12 9 (2.28%) Bicep
13 7 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.27%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.02%) VBA
16 3 (0.76%) Elixir
16 3 (0.76%) Erlang
16 3 (0.76%) Ruby
17 2 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 86 (21.83%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.41%) Degree
3 35 (8.88%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.61%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.60%) AWS Certification
6 19 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.15%) QA
2 12 (3.05%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.79%) GDPR
4 10 (2.54%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.28%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.03%) SLA
7 6 (1.52%) WCAG
8 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.51%) GRC
9 2 (0.51%) SEPA
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 173 (43.91%) Docker
2 22 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.54%) vSphere
4 9 (2.28%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (1.78%) iptables
5 7 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.27%) KVM
8 4 (1.02%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.02%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 289 (73.35%) Terraform
2 255 (64.72%) Kubernetes
3 220 (55.84%) Prometheus
4 152 (38.58%) Ansible
5 29 (7.36%) Kibana
6 25 (6.35%) Argo
7 21 (5.33%) Puppet
8 17 (4.31%) Nagios
9 14 (3.55%) Istio
10 12 (3.05%) logstash
11 10 (2.54%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.54%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.28%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (2.28%) Progress Chef
13 8 (2.03%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.78%) Kustomize
14 7 (1.78%) linkerd
14 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (1.27%) Mesos
15 5 (1.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (12.94%) Splunk
2 41 (10.41%) Microsoft
3 39 (9.90%) VMware
4 30 (7.61%) Red Hat
5 24 (6.09%) Dynatrace
6 16 (4.06%) Google
7 11 (2.79%) Cisco
8 10 (2.54%) AppDynamics
8 10 (2.54%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.54%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.28%) Atlassian
9 9 (2.28%) Rapid7
10 8 (2.03%) Oracle
11 7 (1.78%) NetApp
11 7 (1.78%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.27%) Tenable
14 4 (1.02%) Cribl.io
14 4 (1.02%) PagerDuty
14 4 (1.02%) Veracode