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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 462 436
Rank change year-on-year +126 -26 +115
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 331 303 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.46% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.58% 4.58% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 227 176 234
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,206 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £73,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% +4.64% -9.68%
75th Percentile £85,125 £85,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £117,000 £91,250 £109,625
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 4,369 6,609 7,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.08% 10.10% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,116 4,015 6,489
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,612 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.72% +0.08%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +97 269 £72,500 +3.57% 147
UK excluding London +80 164 £70,000 +3.70% 130
London +82 127 £80,250 -5.59% 63
Work from Home +84 120 £67,500 -10.00% 79
North of England +47 61 £62,500 -16.67% 30
Midlands +61 37 £72,500 +11.54% 15
West Midlands +72 32 £72,500 +11.54% 14
North West +61 32 £62,500 -16.67% 15
Scotland +31 26 £72,289 +15.66% 10
South East +34 25 £70,000 +3.70% 42
North East -12 16 £55,200 -9.88% 5
Yorkshire +19 13 £80,000 -5.88% 10
South West +7 10 £90,000 +38.46% 25
East Midlands +15 5 £55,200 +35.46% 1
Wales +1 4 £67,539 +3.91% 2
East of England +26 2 £68,750 +37.50% 5
Northern Ireland 0 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 29 (8.76%) Confluence
2 16 (4.83%) nginx
3 10 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.11%) Apache
5 6 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.81%) IIS
6 5 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.60%) CICS
7 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.60%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 223 (67.37%) AWS
2 147 (44.41%) Azure
3 96 (29.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 75 (22.66%) GitHub
5 73 (22.05%) GCP
6 58 (17.52%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (17.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (15.71%) Amazon EC2
9 50 (15.11%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (13.90%) Amazon S3
11 41 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (12.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 37 (11.18%) Datadog
13 35 (10.57%) Serverless
14 30 (9.06%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (8.76%) Azure Monitor
16 28 (8.46%) AWS KMS
16 28 (8.46%) SaaS
17 27 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
18 26 (7.85%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 51 (15.41%) Firewall
2 31 (9.37%) DNS
3 25 (7.55%) HTTP
4 19 (5.74%) FTP
5 18 (5.44%) SMTP
5 18 (5.44%) SSH
6 9 (2.72%) VPN
6 9 (2.72%) WAN
7 7 (2.11%) LAN
7 7 (2.11%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.11%) Wireless
8 6 (1.81%) BGP
8 6 (1.81%) IMAP
8 6 (1.81%) OpenLDAP
8 6 (1.81%) SAN
9 5 (1.51%) Network Security
9 5 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.21%) MPLS
10 4 (1.21%) SSL
10 4 (1.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.90%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.16%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.14%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.63%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.02%) InfluxDB
6 10 (3.02%) Redis
7 9 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.11%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.11%) MySQL
10 5 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.91%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.91%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.60%) Metadata
12 2 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 125 (37.76%) Jenkins
2 78 (23.56%) GitLab
3 75 (22.66%) Git
4 60 (18.13%) JIRA
5 26 (7.85%) Vagrant
6 21 (6.34%) TeamCity
7 18 (5.44%) Cucumber
8 17 (5.14%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (3.32%) Selenium
11 10 (3.02%) JMeter
11 10 (3.02%) JUnit
12 8 (2.42%) Locust
12 8 (2.42%) SonarQube
13 7 (2.11%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.11%) CircleCI
13 7 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (1.51%) Robot Framework
14 5 (1.51%) TestRail
15 3 (0.91%) Gradle
General
1 101 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 91 (27.49%) Finance
3 32 (9.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 32 (9.67%) Law
4 31 (9.37%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.16%) Banking
6 18 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.83%) Back Office
8 15 (4.53%) Telecoms
9 14 (4.23%) Financial Institution
9 14 (4.23%) Retail
10 11 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.72%) Marketing
12 8 (2.42%) Advertising
13 5 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.51%) Games
13 5 (1.51%) Legal
14 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.60%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.60%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 91 (27.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 67 (20.24%) Senior
3 36 (10.88%) Lead
4 34 (10.27%) Platform Engineer
5 32 (9.67%) Software Engineer
6 29 (8.76%) AWS Engineer
7 22 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (6.34%) Analyst
9 19 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (5.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (5.44%) Developer
11 17 (5.14%) Senior DevOps
11 17 (5.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.83%) Applications Support
13 14 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (4.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) Site Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) Support Analyst
14 13 (3.93%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (19.03%) Elastic Stack
2 28 (8.46%) .NET
3 18 (5.44%) Kafka
4 15 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (4.53%) Spring
5 14 (4.23%) Node.js
5 14 (4.23%) React
6 13 (3.93%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (3.93%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.32%) ADO
7 11 (3.32%) Django
7 11 (3.32%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (3.32%) Loki
8 10 (3.02%) AWS CDK
8 10 (3.02%) Flask
9 9 (2.72%) pytest
10 8 (2.42%) Gherkin
11 7 (2.11%) ARM Templates
11 7 (2.11%) LDAP
12 6 (1.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.92%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.04%) Replication
4 13 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (3.02%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.72%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.51%) IoT
9 4 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.21%) PKI
10 3 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.91%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.60%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.60%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.60%) NHS
11 2 (0.60%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 150 (45.32%) Linux
2 72 (21.75%) Windows
3 30 (9.06%) VMS
4 26 (7.85%) Unix
5 18 (5.44%) Amazon Linux
5 18 (5.44%) Ubuntu
6 11 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.81%) CentOS
7 6 (1.81%) Debian
7 6 (1.81%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.91%) SUSE
9 2 (0.60%) AIX
9 2 (0.60%) Android
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (69.79%) CI/CD
2 217 (65.56%) DevOps
3 142 (42.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 128 (38.67%) Observability
5 112 (33.84%) Containerisation
6 84 (25.38%) Agile
7 77 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (21.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 67 (20.24%) Platform Engineering
10 61 (18.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (16.92%) Configuration Management
11 56 (16.92%) Test Automation
12 54 (16.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 51 (15.41%) Software Engineering
14 49 (14.80%) Microservices
15 48 (14.50%) Cloud Security
16 42 (12.69%) Mentoring
17 41 (12.39%) High Availability
17 41 (12.39%) Incident Response
18 40 (12.08%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 203 (61.33%) Python
2 85 (25.68%) Bash
3 83 (25.08%) Java
4 75 (22.66%) PowerShell
5 55 (16.62%) SQL
6 37 (11.18%) JavaScript
7 35 (10.57%) Go
8 29 (8.76%) Groovy
9 22 (6.65%) C#
10 17 (5.14%) Bicep
11 14 (4.23%) Perl
11 14 (4.23%) TypeScript
12 12 (3.63%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.42%) Delphi
14 6 (1.81%) C++
14 6 (1.81%) Ruby
15 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.91%) PHP
17 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 87 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 67 (20.24%) SC Cleared
3 63 (19.03%) Degree
4 38 (11.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (8.76%) AWS Certification
6 27 (8.16%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.14%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.21%) CCNA
10 4 (1.21%) CCNP
11 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.91%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.39%) QA
2 7 (2.11%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.11%) WCAG
3 6 (1.81%) GDPR
4 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 175 (52.87%) Docker
2 25 (7.55%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.44%) DFS Replication
4 10 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.81%) Dovecot
6 6 (1.81%) Postfix
6 6 (1.81%) Squid
7 3 (0.91%) KVM
7 3 (0.91%) vSphere
8 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.60%) iptables
8 2 (0.60%) NFS
8 2 (0.60%) RACF
8 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.30%) pfSense
9 1 (0.30%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 211 (63.75%) Terraform
2 208 (62.84%) Prometheus
3 205 (61.93%) Kubernetes
4 109 (32.93%) Ansible
5 19 (5.74%) Argo
6 12 (3.63%) Control-M
7 11 (3.32%) Kibana
8 10 (3.02%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (3.02%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.42%) Nessus
10 7 (2.11%) logstash
11 6 (1.81%) Proxmox
12 5 (1.51%) Nagios
12 5 (1.51%) Puppet
12 5 (1.51%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.91%) Istio
14 3 (0.91%) linkerd
14 3 (0.91%) Rancher
15 2 (0.60%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 60 (18.13%) Splunk
2 37 (11.18%) ServiceNow
3 28 (8.46%) Microsoft
4 20 (6.04%) Oracle
5 19 (5.74%) VMware
6 18 (5.44%) Dynatrace
7 15 (4.53%) SolarWinds
8 13 (3.93%) Atlassian
9 12 (3.63%) Google
9 12 (3.63%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.02%) Cisco
11 9 (2.72%) AppDynamics
11 9 (2.72%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.72%) Juniper
12 7 (2.11%) IBM
13 6 (1.81%) Jaspersoft
14 5 (1.51%) F5
14 5 (1.51%) Sonatype
15 3 (0.91%) Arista
15 3 (0.91%) Cribl.io