Grafana Job Trends

Grafana
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Grafana skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 444 432
Rank change year-on-year +67 -12 +62
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 327 393 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.50% 0.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.14% 5.42% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 214 210 289
10th Percentile £55,375 £41,998 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,750 £50,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% -5.13%

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 5,326 7,247 9,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 9.31% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,138 4,416 7,302
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% +4.35%

Grafana
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Grafana as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Grafana 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 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Grafana in the UK

Grafana
Top 16 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 17 September 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 +104 281 £72,500 -3.33% 174
UK excluding London +25 168 £72,500 +7.41% 131
London +78 136 £81,250 +1.56% 88
Work from Home +20 85 £70,000 -6.67% 95
Midlands +81 56 £72,500 +45.00% 14
West Midlands +90 52 £72,500 +26.09% 5
North of England +54 42 £63,750 -13.85% 31
South East +41 33 £77,500 +14.81% 46
North West +35 30 £61,250 -18.33% 6
Scotland +1 28 - - 19
Yorkshire +15 10 £80,000 -3.03% 15
Wales +16 5 £60,000 -7.69% 1
South West +22 4 £92,500 +15.63% 16
East Midlands +20 4 £55,750 +34.34% 8
East of England -10 3 £67,500 +35.00% 2
North East +17 2 £60,000 - 10

Grafana
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (14.37%) Confluence
2 18 (5.50%) nginx
3 9 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.22%) IIS
5 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.92%) CICS
5 3 (0.92%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) Apache
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) GemFire
Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (2.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 231 (70.64%) AWS
2 128 (39.14%) Azure
3 96 (29.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 74 (22.63%) Amazon EC2
5 67 (20.49%) Amazon S3
6 65 (19.88%) GCP
7 60 (18.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 59 (18.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 55 (16.82%) AWS KMS
10 42 (12.84%) Azure Monitor
11 41 (12.54%) Amazon ELB
12 38 (11.62%) GitHub
13 37 (11.31%) Amazon ECS
14 36 (11.01%) Serverless
15 33 (10.09%) Amazon Glacier
15 33 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
17 28 (8.56%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
19 22 (6.73%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 64 (19.57%) Firewall
2 35 (10.70%) DNS
3 29 (8.87%) HTTP
4 26 (7.95%) FTP
5 25 (7.65%) SMTP
5 25 (7.65%) SSH
6 10 (3.06%) Network Security
7 8 (2.45%) IMAP
7 8 (2.45%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (2.14%) VPN
9 6 (1.83%) SAN
9 6 (1.83%) WAN
10 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
10 5 (1.53%) VLAN
11 4 (1.22%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.92%) AMQP
12 3 (0.92%) Multicast
12 3 (0.92%) SSL
13 2 (0.61%) MQTT
13 2 (0.61%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.35%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.98%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.67%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.45%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (2.14%) MySQL
9 6 (1.83%) InfluxDB
10 5 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.53%) Redis
11 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.92%) Big Data
12 3 (0.92%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.92%) Couchbase
12 3 (0.92%) DB2
Development Applications
1 121 (37.00%) Jenkins
2 74 (22.63%) Git
3 62 (18.96%) JIRA
4 51 (15.60%) GitLab
5 41 (12.54%) Vagrant
6 20 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (2.75%) JUnit
8 8 (2.45%) CircleCI
8 8 (2.45%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (2.14%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.83%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.83%) Maven
10 6 (1.83%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.22%) Mockito
11 4 (1.22%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (0.92%) DbUnit
12 3 (0.92%) Gradle
12 3 (0.92%) Jaeger
General
1 108 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 97 (29.66%) Finance
3 43 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 42 (12.84%) Law
5 36 (11.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (7.34%) Banking
7 23 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (5.20%) Marketing
9 15 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (4.28%) Legal
11 6 (1.83%) Games
11 6 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.22%) Advertising
13 2 (0.61%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.31%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.31%) Front Office
14 1 (0.31%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (26.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (19.88%) Senior
3 52 (15.90%) AWS Engineer
4 40 (12.23%) Lead
4 40 (12.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 38 (11.62%) Platform Engineer
6 29 (8.87%) Site Engineer
7 26 (7.95%) Software Engineer
8 22 (6.73%) AWS DevOps
8 22 (6.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 21 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (6.12%) Support Engineer
11 19 (5.81%) Analyst
12 18 (5.50%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (5.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.89%) Applications Support
13 16 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.28%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.84%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (9.79%) .NET
3 29 (8.87%) Loki
4 24 (7.34%) Kafka
5 14 (4.28%) AWS CDK
5 14 (4.28%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (4.28%) PyTorch
5 14 (4.28%) React
5 14 (4.28%) REST
5 14 (4.28%) TensorFlow
6 13 (3.98%) Hugging Face
6 13 (3.98%) LangChain
6 13 (3.98%) Node.js
6 13 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (3.98%) Spring
7 10 (3.06%) FIX Protocol
7 10 (3.06%) RESTful
8 9 (2.75%) LDAP
9 8 (2.45%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.15%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.17%) Replication
3 13 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
4 10 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.06%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.45%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.14%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.83%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.22%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.92%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.92%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 136 (41.59%) Linux
2 63 (19.27%) Windows
3 43 (13.15%) VMS
4 27 (8.26%) Unix
5 26 (7.95%) Amazon Linux
6 22 (6.73%) Ubuntu
7 12 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (3.06%) Debian
9 9 (2.75%) Windows Server
10 7 (2.14%) CentOS
11 3 (0.92%) Android
12 2 (0.61%) AIX
12 2 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.31%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (65.14%) CI/CD
2 202 (61.77%) DevOps
3 129 (39.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (33.94%) Observability
5 87 (26.61%) Containerisation
6 80 (24.46%) Platform Engineering
7 79 (24.16%) Agile
8 74 (22.63%) Cloud Security
9 71 (21.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 69 (21.10%) Configuration Management
11 65 (19.88%) Change Management
11 65 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (17.13%) Software Engineering
13 55 (16.82%) Microservices
14 51 (15.60%) Computer Science
14 51 (15.60%) High Availability
15 45 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 45 (13.76%) Continuous Integration
16 42 (12.84%) Mentoring
17 40 (12.23%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 193 (59.02%) Python
2 85 (25.99%) Java
3 83 (25.38%) PowerShell
4 77 (23.55%) Bash
5 66 (20.18%) SQL
6 47 (14.37%) Groovy
7 46 (14.07%) Go
8 30 (9.17%) JavaScript
9 25 (7.65%) C#
10 21 (6.42%) Perl
11 19 (5.81%) TypeScript
12 17 (5.20%) Shell Script
13 13 (3.98%) Bicep
14 9 (2.75%) C++
15 6 (1.83%) Ruby
16 5 (1.53%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.92%) PHP
18 2 (0.61%) Korn
18 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 75 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 73 (22.32%) Degree
3 65 (19.88%) SC Cleared
4 45 (13.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (11.31%) AWS Certification
6 34 (10.40%) Azure Certification
7 24 (7.34%) Master's Degree
8 10 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.14%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.92%) CCNA
12 3 (0.92%) CCNP
13 2 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.31%) CCIE
14 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.31%) HNC
14 1 (0.31%) HND
14 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.87%) QA
2 10 (3.06%) GDPR
3 8 (2.45%) HIPAA
4 7 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.22%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.61%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
System Software
1 150 (45.87%) Docker
2 33 (10.09%) Active Directory
3 29 (8.87%) DFS Replication
4 11 (3.36%) Postfix
5 8 (2.45%) Dovecot
5 8 (2.45%) Squid
5 8 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.92%) RACF
8 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.61%) NFS
8 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.61%) vSphere
9 1 (0.31%) Corosync
9 1 (0.31%) iptables
9 1 (0.31%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.31%) KVM
Systems Management
1 230 (70.34%) Prometheus
2 194 (59.33%) Terraform
3 161 (49.24%) Kubernetes
4 95 (29.05%) Ansible
5 15 (4.59%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.36%) Argo
7 10 (3.06%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.45%) Nessus
9 5 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.53%) Kibana
10 4 (1.22%) Control-M
10 4 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.22%) Nagios
10 4 (1.22%) Netcool
10 4 (1.22%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 4 (1.22%) Puppet
10 4 (1.22%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.92%) Istio
11 3 (0.92%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.61%) linkerd
Vendors
1 67 (20.49%) Splunk
2 51 (15.60%) ServiceNow
3 24 (7.34%) Dynatrace
3 24 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 19 (5.81%) Oracle
5 15 (4.59%) Juniper
5 15 (4.59%) SolarWinds
6 14 (4.28%) Atlassian
6 14 (4.28%) Google
7 13 (3.98%) OpenAI
8 11 (3.36%) Jaspersoft
9 10 (3.06%) IBM
10 9 (2.75%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.75%) VMware
11 8 (2.45%) Cisco
11 8 (2.45%) Hitachi
12 5 (1.53%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.53%) Sonatype
13 3 (0.92%) Broadcom
13 3 (0.92%) Cribl.io