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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 467 433
Rank change year-on-year +115 -34 +112
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 324 300 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.47% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.45% 4.59% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 226 174 232
10th Percentile £48,184 £42,923 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £74,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +6.43% -9.68%
75th Percentile £85,188 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £91,250 £109,875
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 4,348 6,529 7,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.01% 10.22% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,103 3,970 6,437
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,518 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,125 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +0.88%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +102 262 £72,500 +3.57% 234
UK excluding London +82 160 £70,000 +3.70% 221
London +86 124 £80,500 -5.29% 67
Work from Home +78 119 £67,500 -10.00% 163
North of England +40 60 £62,500 -16.67% 58
Midlands +55 34 £72,500 +11.54% 27
North West +60 31 £62,500 -16.67% 27
West Midlands +67 29 £72,500 +11.54% 19
Scotland +33 26 £72,289 +15.66% 11
South East +20 23 £70,000 +3.70% 72
North East -10 16 £55,200 -9.88% 6
Yorkshire +10 13 £80,000 -5.88% 26
South West -1 11 £82,500 +26.92% 32
East Midlands +14 5 £55,200 +35.46% 7
Wales 0 4 £67,539 +3.91% 4
East of England +23 3 £67,500 +35.00% 18
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 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 26 (8.02%) Confluence
2 15 (4.63%) nginx
3 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.16%) Apache
5 6 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.85%) IIS
6 5 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.62%) CICS
7 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 217 (66.98%) AWS
2 144 (44.44%) Azure
3 92 (28.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 77 (23.77%) GitHub
5 72 (22.22%) GCP
6 60 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
7 56 (17.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (15.43%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (13.27%) Amazon S3
11 41 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (11.42%) Datadog
12 37 (11.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 35 (10.80%) Serverless
14 28 (8.64%) SaaS
15 27 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
16 25 (7.72%) AWS KMS
16 25 (7.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (14.81%) Firewall
2 30 (9.26%) DNS
3 24 (7.41%) HTTP
4 18 (5.56%) FTP
5 17 (5.25%) SMTP
5 17 (5.25%) SSH
6 9 (2.78%) VPN
6 9 (2.78%) WAN
7 7 (2.16%) LAN
7 7 (2.16%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.16%) Wireless
8 6 (1.85%) BGP
8 6 (1.85%) SAN
9 5 (1.54%) IMAP
9 5 (1.54%) Network Security
9 5 (1.54%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.23%) MPLS
10 4 (1.23%) SSL
10 4 (1.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.27%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.25%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.09%) InfluxDB
7 9 (2.78%) Redis
8 8 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.16%) MySQL
10 5 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.93%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.62%) Big Data
12 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 120 (37.04%) Jenkins
2 74 (22.84%) GitLab
3 72 (22.22%) Git
4 56 (17.28%) JIRA
5 23 (7.10%) Vagrant
6 21 (6.48%) TeamCity
7 18 (5.56%) Cucumber
8 16 (4.94%) Bitbucket
9 13 (4.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (3.40%) Selenium
11 10 (3.09%) JMeter
11 10 (3.09%) JUnit
12 8 (2.47%) CircleCI
12 8 (2.47%) Locust
12 8 (2.47%) SonarQube
13 7 (2.16%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.16%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (1.54%) Robot Framework
14 5 (1.54%) TestRail
15 3 (0.93%) Gradle
General
1 98 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 87 (26.85%) Finance
3 31 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 29 (8.95%) Law
6 27 (8.33%) Banking
7 18 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.94%) Back Office
9 15 (4.63%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.32%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.32%) Retail
11 9 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.47%) Advertising
12 8 (2.47%) Marketing
13 5 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.54%) Games
14 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.93%) Legal
16 2 (0.62%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 89 (27.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 66 (20.37%) Senior
3 36 (11.11%) Lead
4 33 (10.19%) Platform Engineer
5 32 (9.88%) Software Engineer
6 27 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
7 22 (6.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (6.48%) Analyst
9 18 (5.56%) Developer
9 18 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 17 (5.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (5.25%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (5.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.94%) Applications Support
12 14 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.01%) Java Engineer
13 13 (4.01%) Support Analyst
14 12 (3.70%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (18.83%) Elastic Stack
2 28 (8.64%) .NET
3 18 (5.56%) Kafka
4 15 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (4.63%) Spring
5 14 (4.32%) Node.js
5 14 (4.32%) React
6 13 (4.01%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (4.01%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.40%) ADO
7 11 (3.40%) Django
7 11 (3.40%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (3.40%) Loki
8 10 (3.09%) AWS CDK
8 10 (3.09%) Flask
9 9 (2.78%) pytest
10 8 (2.47%) Gherkin
11 7 (2.16%) ARM Templates
12 6 (1.85%) LDAP
12 6 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.25%) Replication
4 13 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.54%) IoT
9 4 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.23%) PKI
10 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.93%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.62%) NHS
11 2 (0.62%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.62%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 146 (45.06%) Linux
2 69 (21.30%) Windows
3 27 (8.33%) VMS
4 26 (8.02%) Unix
5 17 (5.25%) Amazon Linux
6 16 (4.94%) Ubuntu
7 11 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.85%) CentOS
8 6 (1.85%) Windows Server
9 5 (1.54%) Debian
10 3 (0.93%) SUSE
11 2 (0.62%) AIX
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.62%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.31%) Android
12 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (70.68%) CI/CD
2 213 (65.74%) DevOps
3 143 (44.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (38.27%) Observability
5 112 (34.57%) Containerisation
6 85 (26.23%) Agile
7 79 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (21.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 64 (19.75%) Platform Engineering
10 59 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (17.28%) Test Automation
12 52 (16.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 51 (15.74%) Configuration Management
14 50 (15.43%) Software Engineering
15 48 (14.81%) Microservices
16 45 (13.89%) Cloud Security
17 43 (13.27%) Incident Response
18 42 (12.96%) Mentoring
19 39 (12.04%) High Availability
20 38 (11.73%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 200 (61.73%) Python
2 86 (26.54%) Bash
3 83 (25.62%) Java
4 74 (22.84%) PowerShell
5 54 (16.67%) SQL
6 37 (11.42%) JavaScript
7 35 (10.80%) Go
8 26 (8.02%) Groovy
9 22 (6.79%) C#
10 17 (5.25%) Bicep
11 14 (4.32%) Perl
11 14 (4.32%) TypeScript
12 10 (3.09%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.47%) Delphi
14 6 (1.85%) C++
14 6 (1.85%) Ruby
15 4 (1.23%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.93%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.93%) PHP
17 2 (0.62%) Korn
Qualifications
1 84 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 64 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 59 (18.21%) Degree
4 36 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (8.95%) AWS Certification
6 26 (8.02%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.25%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.23%) CCNA
11 4 (1.23%) CCNP
12 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.35%) QA
2 7 (2.16%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.16%) WCAG
3 6 (1.85%) GDPR
4 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 172 (53.09%) Docker
2 23 (7.10%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.63%) DFS Replication
4 10 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.54%) Dovecot
6 5 (1.54%) Postfix
6 5 (1.54%) Squid
7 3 (0.93%) KVM
7 3 (0.93%) vSphere
8 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.62%) iptables
8 2 (0.62%) NFS
8 2 (0.62%) RACF
8 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.31%) pfSense
9 1 (0.31%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 207 (63.89%) Terraform
2 204 (62.96%) Kubernetes
3 199 (61.42%) Prometheus
4 106 (32.72%) Ansible
5 19 (5.86%) Argo
6 12 (3.70%) Control-M
7 10 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (3.09%) Kibana
7 10 (3.09%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.16%) Nessus
9 6 (1.85%) logstash
10 5 (1.54%) Nagios
10 5 (1.54%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.54%) Puppet
10 5 (1.54%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.93%) Istio
12 3 (0.93%) linkerd
12 3 (0.93%) Rancher
13 2 (0.62%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 57 (17.59%) Splunk
2 34 (10.49%) ServiceNow
3 28 (8.64%) Microsoft
4 20 (6.17%) Oracle
5 19 (5.86%) VMware
6 16 (4.94%) Dynatrace
7 15 (4.63%) SolarWinds
8 13 (4.01%) Atlassian
9 12 (3.70%) Google
9 12 (3.70%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.09%) Cisco
11 9 (2.78%) Fortinet
12 8 (2.47%) AppDynamics
13 7 (2.16%) IBM
13 7 (2.16%) Juniper
14 5 (1.54%) F5
14 5 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
14 5 (1.54%) Sonatype
15 3 (0.93%) Arista
15 3 (0.93%) Cribl.io