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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 369 460
Rank change year-on-year -60 +91 -15
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 468 326 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.66% 0.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.84% 6.59% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 248 217 210
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £56,250
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 £100,000 £116,000 £102,750
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 5,292 4,948 6,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 10.04% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,677 2,870 3,803
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -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 24 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 24 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 -45 381 £70,000 -3.45% 635
UK excluding London -89 203 £65,000 -10.34% 307
London +4 201 £80,000 -1.84% 405
Work from Home +53 194 £65,000 -7.14% 272
South East -23 66 £62,500 -18.03% 64
South West -35 47 £70,000 -24.32% 42
North of England -60 44 £70,000 +9.80% 75
North West -20 31 £71,250 +14.00% 45
Wales -64 16 £70,000 +12.00% 11
Midlands -91 15 £60,000 -17.24% 24
North East -59 12 £57,500 -4.17% 8
Scotland -11 11 £62,500 -16.11% 43
West Midlands -88 10 £50,000 -31.03% 14
East Midlands -26 5 £62,500 +12.11% 10
East of England -32 3 £86,250 +25.45% 28
Yorkshire -48 2 £70,000 -12.50% 23
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 22

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 (3.63%) Apache
2 10 (2.14%) Confluence
3 7 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.28%) nginx
5 5 (1.07%) IIS
5 5 (1.07%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 328 (70.09%) AWS
2 200 (42.74%) GCP
3 161 (34.40%) Azure
4 107 (22.86%) Amazon EKS
5 90 (19.23%) SaaS
6 79 (16.88%) GitHub
7 70 (14.96%) Datadog
8 69 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
9 58 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (12.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (8.97%) Serverless
13 38 (8.12%) OpenShift
14 32 (6.84%) Amazon S3
14 32 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (4.91%) Entra ID
18 21 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
19 20 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (10.68%) Firewall
2 20 (4.27%) VPN
3 17 (3.63%) VLAN
4 16 (3.42%) DNS
4 16 (3.42%) TCP/IP
5 13 (2.78%) HTTP
6 10 (2.14%) BGP
6 10 (2.14%) SSH
7 9 (1.92%) Network Security
8 8 (1.71%) WAN
9 7 (1.50%) LAN
9 7 (1.50%) OSPF
9 7 (1.50%) Unified Communications
10 6 (1.28%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.28%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (1.28%) IPFIX
10 6 (1.28%) SNMP
10 6 (1.28%) WebEx
11 4 (0.85%) DHCP
12 3 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (17.31%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (8.55%) Elasticsearch
3 38 (8.12%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (7.69%) MySQL
5 26 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 23 (4.91%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.63%) Redis
8 14 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.78%) InfluxDB
10 12 (2.56%) SQL Server
11 11 (2.35%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.92%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.50%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.85%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.64%) Big Data
15 3 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.64%) Metadata
15 3 (0.64%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.43%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 92 (19.66%) Jenkins
2 89 (19.02%) GitLab
3 86 (18.38%) Git
4 82 (17.52%) TeamCity
5 25 (5.34%) SonarQube
6 20 (4.27%) Cucumber
6 20 (4.27%) Selenium
7 19 (4.06%) JMeter
8 18 (3.85%) Gatling
9 16 (3.42%) Cypress.io
10 15 (3.21%) JIRA
11 14 (2.99%) LoadRunner
12 10 (2.14%) Postman
13 9 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (1.71%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.71%) JUnit
14 8 (1.71%) Robot Framework
14 8 (1.71%) TestRail
15 7 (1.50%) Artifactory
16 6 (1.28%) Burp Suite
General
1 180 (38.46%) Finance
2 122 (26.07%) Banking
3 120 (25.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (22.22%) Law
5 100 (21.37%) Retail
6 99 (21.15%) Social Skills
7 66 (14.10%) Financial Institution
8 62 (13.25%) Back Office
9 59 (12.61%) Public Sector
10 45 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
11 17 (3.63%) Marketing
12 15 (3.21%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.28%) Legal
15 5 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.07%) Police
16 3 (0.64%) Military
17 2 (0.43%) Advertising
17 2 (0.43%) Billing
17 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (19.66%) Senior
2 89 (19.02%) Software Engineer
3 76 (16.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (10.47%) Lead
5 42 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 42 (8.97%) Developer
6 40 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 40 (8.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 39 (8.33%) Site Engineer
8 37 (7.91%) Platform Engineer
9 36 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
10 28 (5.98%) Lead Software Engineer
11 27 (5.77%) Team Leader
12 25 (5.34%) Administrator
13 23 (4.91%) Systems Administrator
14 22 (4.70%) Software Team Leader
15 20 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
15 20 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 19 (4.06%) DevOps Administrator
16 19 (4.06%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (70.51%) Terraform
2 63 (13.46%) Elastic Stack
3 56 (11.97%) Kafka
4 41 (8.76%) OpenTelemetry
5 35 (7.48%) REST
6 32 (6.84%) RESTful
7 30 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
8 24 (5.13%) Spring
8 24 (5.13%) Spring Boot
9 23 (4.91%) Node.js
10 22 (4.70%) React
11 20 (4.27%) Loki
12 18 (3.85%) Playwright
13 17 (3.63%) .NET
13 17 (3.63%) Keycloak
13 17 (3.63%) pytest
14 15 (3.21%) Hibernate
14 15 (3.21%) JPA
15 13 (2.78%) GraphQL
15 13 (2.78%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 166 (35.47%) Cloud Native
2 66 (14.10%) Product Ownership
3 58 (12.39%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (5.56%) Blog
5 25 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (4.91%) Replication
7 18 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.63%) Onboarding
8 17 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (3.63%) Virtual Team
9 15 (3.21%) Private Cloud
10 12 (2.56%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.35%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.50%) IoT
13 7 (1.50%) PKI
13 7 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
14 6 (1.28%) FlexPod
14 6 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 124 (26.50%) Linux
2 42 (8.97%) Windows
3 19 (4.06%) CentOS
4 17 (3.63%) Unix
5 10 (2.14%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.07%) Android
8 5 (1.07%) VMS
9 4 (0.85%) Debian
9 4 (0.85%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.43%) Rocky
12 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (73.50%) CI/CD
2 259 (55.34%) DevOps
3 247 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 246 (52.56%) Observability
5 168 (35.90%) Software Engineering
6 161 (34.40%) Test Automation
7 142 (30.34%) Agile
7 142 (30.34%) Containerisation
8 139 (29.70%) Deployment Automation
9 119 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (25.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (25.00%) Microservices
12 111 (23.72%) Mentoring
13 101 (21.58%) Platform Engineering
14 97 (20.73%) AI
15 94 (20.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 77 (16.45%) Continuous Deployment
17 75 (16.03%) Clean Code
18 68 (14.53%) GitOps
19 66 (14.10%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 271 (57.91%) Python
2 159 (33.97%) Java
3 157 (33.55%) Bash
4 83 (17.74%) PowerShell
5 68 (14.53%) SQL
6 46 (9.83%) JavaScript
7 44 (9.40%) Go
8 30 (6.41%) TypeScript
9 24 (5.13%) C#
10 21 (4.49%) Rust
11 16 (3.42%) Bicep
11 16 (3.42%) C++
12 10 (2.14%) Groovy
13 9 (1.92%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.50%) PHP
14 7 (1.50%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.50%) VBA
15 4 (0.85%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.85%) Scala
16 3 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 113 (24.15%) Security Cleared
2 60 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.62%) Degree
4 26 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 23 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (4.70%) AWS Certification
7 18 (3.85%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.07%) CISSP
11 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.64%) CISM
12 3 (0.64%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.64%) OCP
12 3 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.43%) GSEC
13 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.03%) QA
2 13 (2.78%) SLA
3 9 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.28%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.85%) NIST
6 4 (0.85%) WCAG
7 3 (0.64%) GDPR
7 3 (0.64%) PSD2
8 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 196 (41.88%) Docker
2 19 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.56%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.28%) vSphere
7 5 (1.07%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.85%) KVM
8 4 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.64%) iptables
9 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.43%) Xen
11 1 (0.21%) Firmware
11 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 316 (67.52%) Kubernetes
2 255 (54.49%) Prometheus
3 140 (29.91%) Ansible
4 49 (10.47%) Argo
5 31 (6.62%) Kibana
6 25 (5.34%) Istio
7 17 (3.63%) logstash
7 17 (3.63%) Nagios
8 16 (3.42%) Puppet
9 13 (2.78%) Kustomize
10 12 (2.56%) linkerd
11 11 (2.35%) Rancher
12 9 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.71%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.50%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.28%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (1.28%) Mesos
15 6 (1.28%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.07%) Cilium
16 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (14.53%) Splunk
2 58 (12.39%) Dynatrace
3 53 (11.32%) Microsoft
4 32 (6.84%) Google
5 29 (6.20%) Red Hat
5 29 (6.20%) VMware
6 19 (4.06%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.78%) AppDynamics
8 12 (2.56%) Oracle
9 10 (2.14%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.92%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.71%) Cisco
11 8 (1.71%) Databricks
12 7 (1.50%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.28%) Informatica
13 6 (1.28%) New Relic
13 6 (1.28%) NVIDIA
13 6 (1.28%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.07%) NetApp
15 4 (0.85%) Veracode