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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 387 475
Rank change year-on-year -19 +88 -30
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 490 323 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.11% 6.48% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 261 218 196
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,911
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -2.68% +10.37%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +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 5,379 4,985 6,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 10.02% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,688 2,833 3,670
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £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 £86,250
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 9 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 9 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 -35 394 £71,250 -1.72% 717
London +20 220 £85,000 +3.03% 457
Work from Home +83 208 £65,000 -7.14% 298
UK excluding London -102 200 £65,000 -10.34% 307
South East -20 68 £62,500 -10.71% 67
South West -33 47 £70,000 -24.32% 41
North of England -83 38 £68,750 +10.00% 75
North West -26 26 £70,000 +12.00% 42
Wales -60 19 £66,000 +5.60% 10
Midlands -86 13 £61,250 -15.52% 30
North East -61 12 £57,500 +3.14% 11
Scotland -4 11 £62,500 -16.11% 39
West Midlands -83 8 £55,000 -24.14% 16
East Midlands -33 5 £62,500 +12.11% 14
East of England -39 3 £86,250 +25.45% 28
Yorkshire -43 3 £57,500 -28.13% 22
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 18

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 (3.47%) Apache
2 9 (1.84%) Confluence
3 8 (1.63%) nginx
4 6 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.02%) IIS
6 4 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 344 (70.20%) AWS
2 220 (44.90%) GCP
3 161 (32.86%) Azure
4 123 (25.10%) Amazon EKS
5 104 (21.22%) SaaS
6 89 (18.16%) GitHub
7 77 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (14.29%) Datadog
9 62 (12.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 57 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (9.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (8.57%) Serverless
13 39 (7.96%) OpenShift
14 33 (6.73%) Amazon S3
15 31 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
16 30 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
17 25 (5.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (4.90%) Entra ID
18 24 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 52 (10.61%) Firewall
2 31 (6.33%) VPN
3 24 (4.90%) TCP/IP
4 18 (3.67%) BGP
4 18 (3.67%) VLAN
5 16 (3.27%) DNS
6 15 (3.06%) Network Security
7 14 (2.86%) HTTP
8 8 (1.63%) SSH
9 6 (1.22%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.22%) OSPF
9 6 (1.22%) SNMP
9 6 (1.22%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.22%) WAN
10 5 (1.02%) LAN
11 4 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.82%) WebEx
12 3 (0.61%) 4G
12 3 (0.61%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (21.02%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (9.59%) Amazon RDS
3 44 (8.98%) Elasticsearch
4 43 (8.78%) MySQL
5 28 (5.71%) MongoDB
6 25 (5.10%) NoSQL
7 23 (4.69%) Redis
8 14 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.24%) InfluxDB
10 11 (2.24%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.24%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.63%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.22%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.02%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.82%) Metadata
15 3 (0.61%) Big Data
15 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.61%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.41%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 95 (19.39%) GitLab
1 95 (19.39%) TeamCity
2 94 (19.18%) Git
3 91 (18.57%) Jenkins
4 23 (4.69%) SonarQube
5 18 (3.67%) Gatling
5 18 (3.67%) Selenium
6 17 (3.47%) Cucumber
6 17 (3.47%) JMeter
7 15 (3.06%) Cypress.io
8 14 (2.86%) JIRA
9 13 (2.65%) LoadRunner
10 9 (1.84%) Postman
11 8 (1.63%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (1.63%) Robot Framework
11 8 (1.63%) TestRail
12 7 (1.43%) JUnit
13 6 (1.22%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.02%) Snyk
General
1 195 (39.80%) Finance
2 132 (26.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 131 (26.73%) Banking
4 110 (22.45%) Law
5 108 (22.04%) Social Skills
6 106 (21.63%) Retail
7 77 (15.71%) Financial Institution
8 73 (14.90%) Back Office
9 66 (13.47%) Public Sector
10 48 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (3.06%) Marketing
12 13 (2.65%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.43%) Police
14 5 (1.02%) Legal
15 4 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.61%) Military
16 3 (0.61%) Publishing
17 2 (0.41%) Advertising
17 2 (0.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 108 (22.04%) Senior
2 92 (18.78%) Software Engineer
3 80 (16.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (11.02%) Lead
5 48 (9.80%) Developer
6 44 (8.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 39 (7.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 38 (7.76%) Site Engineer
10 36 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
10 36 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (6.12%) Administrator
11 30 (6.12%) Lead Software Engineer
12 25 (5.10%) Team Leader
13 22 (4.49%) Java Engineer
13 22 (4.49%) Software Team Leader
13 22 (4.49%) Systems Administrator
14 21 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (4.08%) Java Developer
15 20 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (70.41%) Terraform
2 68 (13.88%) Elastic Stack
3 55 (11.22%) Kafka
4 45 (9.18%) OpenTelemetry
5 41 (8.37%) RESTful
6 40 (8.16%) REST
7 31 (6.33%) RabbitMQ
8 28 (5.71%) Spring
8 28 (5.71%) Spring Boot
9 22 (4.49%) Node.js
10 21 (4.29%) Loki
11 20 (4.08%) React
12 18 (3.67%) .NET
12 18 (3.67%) GraphQL
12 18 (3.67%) Hibernate
12 18 (3.67%) pytest
13 17 (3.47%) JPA
13 17 (3.47%) Playwright
14 16 (3.27%) Keycloak
15 13 (2.65%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 180 (36.73%) Cloud Native
2 72 (14.69%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (13.88%) Product Ownership
4 39 (7.96%) Blog
5 24 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (4.29%) Replication
7 20 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (3.88%) Management Information System
9 18 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (3.67%) Virtual Team
10 16 (3.27%) Onboarding
11 15 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (3.06%) Private Cloud
12 11 (2.24%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.63%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.43%) PKI
14 7 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 6 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.22%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 127 (25.92%) Linux
2 41 (8.37%) Windows
3 19 (3.88%) Unix
4 17 (3.47%) CentOS
5 8 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.02%) Android
8 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.61%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.41%) Debian
10 2 (0.41%) Rocky
10 2 (0.41%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (74.29%) CI/CD
2 268 (54.69%) DevOps
3 265 (54.08%) Observability
4 251 (51.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 172 (35.10%) Software Engineering
6 170 (34.69%) Test Automation
7 145 (29.59%) Deployment Automation
8 144 (29.39%) Agile
9 141 (28.78%) Containerisation
10 127 (25.92%) Microservices
10 127 (25.92%) Problem-Solving
11 122 (24.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (24.49%) Mentoring
13 108 (22.04%) Platform Engineering
14 102 (20.82%) AI
15 94 (19.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 85 (17.35%) Fintech
17 83 (16.94%) Clean Code
18 80 (16.33%) Continuous Deployment
19 71 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 279 (56.94%) Python
2 172 (35.10%) Java
3 160 (32.65%) Bash
4 84 (17.14%) SQL
5 78 (15.92%) PowerShell
6 54 (11.02%) Go
7 42 (8.57%) JavaScript
8 32 (6.53%) TypeScript
9 26 (5.31%) C#
10 20 (4.08%) Rust
11 18 (3.67%) Bicep
12 15 (3.06%) C++
13 9 (1.84%) Groovy
13 9 (1.84%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.63%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.43%) PHP
15 7 (1.43%) VBA
16 4 (0.82%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.82%) Scala
17 3 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 119 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.92%) Degree
4 27 (5.51%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 21 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.67%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.04%) CISSP
9 8 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (1.63%) CISM
10 7 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.22%) CCSP
11 6 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.61%) OCP
13 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.04%) QA
2 18 (3.67%) PCI DSS
3 14 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.86%) SOC 2
4 12 (2.45%) SLA
5 9 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.84%) NIST
6 8 (1.63%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.61%) GDPR
7 3 (0.61%) PSD2
7 3 (0.61%) WCAG
8 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 192 (39.18%) Docker
2 19 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.84%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.02%) vSphere
7 4 (0.82%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.82%) KVM
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.41%) Xen
9 1 (0.20%) Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) iptables
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 331 (67.55%) Kubernetes
2 260 (53.06%) Prometheus
3 139 (28.37%) Ansible
4 53 (10.82%) Argo
5 31 (6.33%) Kibana
6 26 (5.31%) Istio
7 17 (3.47%) logstash
7 17 (3.47%) Nagios
8 15 (3.06%) Puppet
9 14 (2.86%) Kustomize
10 12 (2.45%) linkerd
11 11 (2.24%) Rancher
12 9 (1.84%) Cilium
12 9 (1.84%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.63%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (1.22%) Mesos
15 6 (1.22%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (1.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (14.29%) Splunk
2 61 (12.45%) Dynatrace
3 48 (9.80%) Microsoft
4 40 (8.16%) Google
5 30 (6.12%) Red Hat
6 27 (5.51%) VMware
7 19 (3.88%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.65%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.45%) Oracle
10 10 (2.04%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.84%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.63%) Databricks
13 6 (1.22%) Cisco
13 6 (1.22%) Informatica
13 6 (1.22%) NVIDIA
14 5 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.02%) New Relic
15 4 (0.82%) NetApp
15 4 (0.82%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.82%) Solace