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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 377 434
Rank change year-on-year -51 +57 +2
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 435 328 414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.66% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.49% 6.61% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 231 214 215
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,375 £41,549
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,750 £115,000 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +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 5,125 4,961 6,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 10.00% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,633 2,869 3,938
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,821 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -3.53% -1.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -51 354 £70,000 -3.45% 454
UK excluding London -97 196 £65,000 -10.34% 240
London -9 179 £80,000 -3.03% 280
Work from Home +52 176 £65,000 -7.14% 398
South East -3 63 £62,500 -19.35% 57
South West -38 47 £75,000 -18.92% 24
North of England -55 41 £70,000 +9.80% 59
North West -20 29 £70,000 +14.29% 33
Midlands -79 15 £61,250 -15.52% 17
Wales -61 14 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Scotland -7 12 £62,500 - 41
North East -53 11 £57,500 -4.17% 11
West Midlands -82 10 £50,000 -31.03% 9
East Midlands -34 5 £64,000 +14.80% 8
East of England -27 3 £86,250 +27.78% 28
Yorkshire -58 1 £82,500 +3.13% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10

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 17 (3.91%) Apache
2 8 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.84%) Confluence
3 6 (1.38%) IIS
3 6 (1.38%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.15%) nginx
5 4 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 302 (69.43%) AWS
2 180 (41.38%) GCP
3 149 (34.25%) Azure
4 89 (20.46%) Amazon EKS
5 72 (16.55%) Datadog
5 72 (16.55%) SaaS
6 60 (13.79%) GitHub
7 57 (13.10%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (11.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (9.43%) Serverless
12 38 (8.74%) OpenShift
13 36 (8.28%) Amazon S3
14 34 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (7.13%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 19 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (3.68%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (10.11%) Firewall
2 16 (3.68%) DNS
2 16 (3.68%) VLAN
3 14 (3.22%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.76%) VPN
5 10 (2.30%) HTTP
5 10 (2.30%) SSH
6 8 (1.84%) BGP
6 8 (1.84%) WAN
7 7 (1.61%) Broadband
7 7 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (1.61%) Cisco Firepower
7 7 (1.61%) LAN
7 7 (1.61%) OSPF
7 7 (1.61%) Unified Communications
7 7 (1.61%) WebEx
8 6 (1.38%) IPFIX
8 6 (1.38%) Network Security
8 6 (1.38%) SNMP
9 3 (0.69%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (15.17%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.05%) Elasticsearch
3 34 (7.82%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (7.82%) MySQL
4 24 (5.52%) MongoDB
5 23 (5.29%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.99%) InfluxDB
7 12 (2.76%) Redis
7 12 (2.76%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.07%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.07%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.61%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.69%) Big Data
11 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.69%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.46%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 84 (19.31%) Jenkins
2 83 (19.08%) Git
2 83 (19.08%) GitLab
3 68 (15.63%) TeamCity
4 25 (5.75%) SonarQube
5 21 (4.83%) Cucumber
6 20 (4.60%) Selenium
7 17 (3.91%) Cypress.io
7 17 (3.91%) JMeter
8 16 (3.68%) Gatling
9 14 (3.22%) JIRA
10 11 (2.53%) LoadRunner
10 11 (2.53%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (2.30%) Postman
12 8 (1.84%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.84%) JUnit
12 8 (1.84%) Robot Framework
12 8 (1.84%) TestRail
13 6 (1.38%) Burp Suite
13 6 (1.38%) Maven
General
1 161 (37.01%) Finance
2 108 (24.83%) Banking
3 99 (22.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (20.23%) Law
5 85 (19.54%) Retail
6 81 (18.62%) Social Skills
7 54 (12.41%) Financial Institution
8 50 (11.49%) Back Office
9 47 (10.80%) Public Sector
10 41 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (4.14%) Marketing
12 16 (3.68%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.61%) Legal
13 7 (1.61%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.69%) Military
16 2 (0.46%) Advertising
16 2 (0.46%) Billing
16 2 (0.46%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 82 (18.85%) Software Engineer
2 80 (18.39%) Senior
3 72 (16.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (10.57%) Lead
5 44 (10.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (9.20%) Developer
6 40 (9.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 39 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 39 (8.97%) Site Engineer
8 34 (7.82%) Platform Engineer
9 33 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (5.98%) Team Leader
11 25 (5.75%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (5.06%) Administrator
13 21 (4.83%) Systems Administrator
14 20 (4.60%) Software Team Leader
15 19 (4.37%) Senior Software Engineer
16 17 (3.91%) DevOps Administrator
16 17 (3.91%) Java Engineer
17 16 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (68.97%) Terraform
2 58 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
3 53 (12.18%) Kafka
4 39 (8.97%) OpenTelemetry
5 29 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 29 (6.67%) REST
6 28 (6.44%) RESTful
7 23 (5.29%) Loki
7 23 (5.29%) Node.js
8 22 (5.06%) React
8 22 (5.06%) Spring
8 22 (5.06%) Spring Boot
9 19 (4.37%) Playwright
9 19 (4.37%) pytest
10 17 (3.91%) .NET
11 15 (3.45%) YAML
12 14 (3.22%) Keycloak
13 13 (2.99%) gRPC
13 13 (2.99%) Hibernate
13 13 (2.99%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 151 (34.71%) Cloud Native
2 60 (13.79%) Product Ownership
3 43 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.37%) Blog
4 19 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.91%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.91%) Replication
6 15 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 14 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.76%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.30%) Mobile App
10 9 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.61%) FlexPod
11 7 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.38%) IoT
12 6 (1.38%) PKI
12 6 (1.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 121 (27.82%) Linux
2 43 (9.89%) Windows
3 21 (4.83%) CentOS
4 14 (3.22%) Unix
5 11 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.38%) VMS
8 5 (1.15%) Android
8 5 (1.15%) Debian
9 4 (0.92%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.46%) Rocky
12 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (71.26%) CI/CD
2 236 (54.25%) DevOps
3 235 (54.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 232 (53.33%) Observability
5 162 (37.24%) Software Engineering
6 148 (34.02%) Test Automation
7 137 (31.49%) Containerisation
8 127 (29.20%) Agile
9 123 (28.28%) Deployment Automation
10 112 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (24.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (23.91%) Microservices
13 100 (22.99%) Mentoring
14 93 (21.38%) Platform Engineering
14 93 (21.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 86 (19.77%) AI
16 72 (16.55%) Continuous Deployment
17 68 (15.63%) Clean Code
18 63 (14.48%) GitOps
19 55 (12.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 262 (60.23%) Python
2 148 (34.02%) Bash
3 141 (32.41%) Java
4 78 (17.93%) PowerShell
5 58 (13.33%) SQL
6 45 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 40 (9.20%) Go
8 30 (6.90%) C#
9 28 (6.44%) TypeScript
10 21 (4.83%) Rust
11 16 (3.68%) C++
12 9 (2.07%) Bicep
12 9 (2.07%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.61%) Groovy
13 7 (1.61%) PHP
13 7 (1.61%) VBA
14 6 (1.38%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.92%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.92%) Scala
16 3 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 98 (22.53%) Security Cleared
2 46 (10.57%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.13%) Degree
4 24 (5.52%) DV Cleared
5 22 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (4.60%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.92%) CISSP
10 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.69%) OCP
11 3 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.46%) CISM
12 2 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.46%) GSEC
12 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (14.02%) QA
2 13 (2.99%) SLA
3 10 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.84%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.15%) GDPR
6 5 (1.15%) WCAG
7 4 (0.92%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.69%) NIST
8 3 (0.69%) PSD2
9 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 187 (42.99%) Docker
2 19 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.53%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (1.61%) vSphere
7 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.92%) KVM
8 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.69%) iptables
10 2 (0.46%) Xen
11 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 284 (65.29%) Kubernetes
2 234 (53.79%) Prometheus
3 136 (31.26%) Ansible
4 44 (10.11%) Argo
5 28 (6.44%) Kibana
6 25 (5.75%) Istio
7 17 (3.91%) logstash
7 17 (3.91%) Nagios
8 16 (3.68%) Puppet
9 13 (2.99%) Kustomize
10 11 (2.53%) linkerd
11 8 (1.84%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (1.84%) Rancher
11 8 (1.84%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.61%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (1.38%) Proxmox
13 6 (1.38%) vCenter Server
14 5 (1.15%) Cilium
14 5 (1.15%) Mesos
15 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 65 (14.94%) Splunk
2 47 (10.80%) Microsoft
3 46 (10.57%) Dynatrace
4 31 (7.13%) Red Hat
5 29 (6.67%) Google
6 28 (6.44%) VMware
7 16 (3.68%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.53%) Oracle
9 10 (2.30%) AppDynamics
9 10 (2.30%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.30%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.84%) Cisco
11 7 (1.61%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.61%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.38%) Informatica
12 6 (1.38%) NetApp
12 6 (1.38%) New Relic
12 6 (1.38%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.15%) Databricks
14 4 (0.92%) Veracode