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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 464 430
Rank change year-on-year +115 -34 +116
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 334 300 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.44% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.53% 4.50% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 226 171 232
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,911 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £92,500 £105,000
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 4,433 6,671 7,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.34% 9.86% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,146 4,021 6,534
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,750 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.72% +2.77%

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 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 24 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 +107 276 £72,500 +3.57% 156
UK excluding London +91 168 £70,000 +3.70% 124
London +79 131 £80,250 -5.59% 61
Work from Home +79 114 £67,500 -10.00% 94
North of England +34 58 £61,250 -18.33% 25
Midlands +82 40 £72,500 +11.54% 18
West Midlands +82 35 £72,500 +11.54% 15
North West +62 30 £62,500 -16.67% 15
South East +29 29 £70,000 +3.70% 39
Scotland +35 27 £72,289 +15.66% 9
North East -5 16 £57,600 -5.96% 4
Yorkshire +19 12 £75,000 -11.76% 6
South West +4 9 £72,500 +11.54% 21
East Midlands +22 5 £55,200 +38.00% 3
Wales +5 4 £67,539 +3.91% 2
East of England +25 2 £68,750 +37.50% 9
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 32 (9.58%) Confluence
2 15 (4.49%) nginx
3 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.80%) Apache
4 6 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.50%) IIS
6 2 (0.60%) CICS
6 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.60%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.80%) 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
1 230 (68.86%) AWS
2 144 (43.11%) Azure
3 98 (29.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 74 (22.16%) GCP
5 71 (21.26%) GitHub
6 58 (17.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
8 53 (15.87%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (15.27%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (14.07%) Amazon S3
11 44 (13.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 40 (11.98%) Azure DevOps
13 36 (10.78%) Azure Monitor
13 36 (10.78%) Datadog
14 34 (10.18%) Serverless
15 32 (9.58%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (9.58%) AWS KMS
16 29 (8.68%) Amazon ELB
16 29 (8.68%) SaaS
17 26 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 53 (15.87%) Firewall
2 31 (9.28%) DNS
3 26 (7.78%) HTTP
4 20 (5.99%) FTP
5 19 (5.69%) SMTP
5 19 (5.69%) SSH
6 9 (2.69%) WAN
7 8 (2.40%) VPN
8 7 (2.10%) LAN
8 7 (2.10%) SAN
8 7 (2.10%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.10%) Wireless
9 6 (1.80%) BGP
9 6 (1.80%) IMAP
9 6 (1.80%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (1.50%) Network Security
11 4 (1.20%) MPLS
11 4 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.20%) SSL
11 4 (1.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (14.07%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (8.98%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.08%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.79%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.19%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.69%) Redis
7 8 (2.40%) InfluxDB
8 7 (2.10%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.10%) MySQL
9 5 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.90%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.60%) Big Data
11 2 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.60%) Metadata
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 126 (37.72%) Jenkins
2 75 (22.46%) Git
2 75 (22.46%) GitLab
3 64 (19.16%) JIRA
4 29 (8.68%) Vagrant
5 21 (6.29%) TeamCity
6 17 (5.09%) Cucumber
7 16 (4.79%) Bitbucket
8 14 (4.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (2.99%) JUnit
9 10 (2.99%) Selenium
10 9 (2.69%) JMeter
11 8 (2.40%) Artifactory
11 8 (2.40%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (2.40%) SonarQube
12 7 (2.10%) CircleCI
12 7 (2.10%) Locust
13 4 (1.20%) Robot Framework
13 4 (1.20%) TestRail
14 3 (0.90%) Gradle
General
1 103 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 97 (29.04%) Finance
3 44 (13.17%) Law
4 39 (11.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (10.18%) Public Sector
6 30 (8.98%) Banking
7 19 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.79%) Back Office
9 15 (4.49%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.19%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.19%) Retail
11 13 (3.89%) Marketing
12 11 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.99%) Legal
14 8 (2.40%) Advertising
15 5 (1.50%) Games
16 4 (1.20%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.60%) Agriculture
17 2 (0.60%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 92 (27.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (21.56%) Senior
3 36 (10.78%) Software Engineer
4 35 (10.48%) Lead
5 33 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
6 32 (9.58%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (6.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 21 (6.29%) Analyst
9 20 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (5.39%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (5.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.09%) Applications Support
12 17 (5.09%) Developer
13 16 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (4.79%) Support Engineer
14 15 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 14 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (4.19%) Java Engineer
15 14 (4.19%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (17.96%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (8.08%) .NET
3 18 (5.39%) Kafka
4 15 (4.49%) Spring
5 14 (4.19%) Node.js
5 14 (4.19%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (3.89%) React
6 13 (3.89%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.59%) AWS CDK
7 12 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (3.29%) Django
8 11 (3.29%) Loki
9 10 (2.99%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (2.99%) Flask
10 9 (2.69%) ADO
11 8 (2.40%) pytest
11 8 (2.40%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.10%) Gherkin
12 7 (2.10%) LDAP
12 7 (2.10%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.59%) Replication
4 12 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.50%) IoT
7 5 (1.50%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.20%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.60%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.60%) PKI
10 2 (0.60%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 143 (42.81%) Linux
2 73 (21.86%) Windows
3 32 (9.58%) VMS
4 25 (7.49%) Unix
5 19 (5.69%) Amazon Linux
6 18 (5.39%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.80%) Debian
8 6 (1.80%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.20%) CentOS
10 3 (0.90%) Android
11 2 (0.60%) AIX
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.60%) SUSE
11 2 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (68.86%) CI/CD
2 215 (64.37%) DevOps
3 138 (41.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (38.92%) Observability
5 109 (32.63%) Containerisation
6 83 (24.85%) Agile
7 78 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (21.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 66 (19.76%) Platform Engineering
10 60 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (17.37%) Software Engineering
12 55 (16.47%) Test Automation
13 54 (16.17%) Cloud Security
13 54 (16.17%) Configuration Management
14 53 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 52 (15.57%) Microservices
16 48 (14.37%) Computer Science
17 47 (14.07%) Change Management
18 46 (13.77%) High Availability
19 41 (12.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 203 (60.78%) Python
2 88 (26.35%) Java
3 80 (23.95%) Bash
4 79 (23.65%) PowerShell
5 58 (17.37%) SQL
6 38 (11.38%) Go
7 32 (9.58%) Groovy
7 32 (9.58%) JavaScript
8 21 (6.29%) C#
9 17 (5.09%) Bicep
10 14 (4.19%) Perl
11 13 (3.89%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.89%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.40%) Delphi
13 6 (1.80%) Ruby
14 5 (1.50%) C++
15 3 (0.90%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.90%) PHP
16 2 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 85 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 69 (20.66%) Degree
2 69 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 45 (13.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (8.98%) AWS Certification
5 28 (8.38%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.89%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.20%) CCNA
9 4 (1.20%) CCNP
10 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.90%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.78%) QA
2 7 (2.10%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.10%) WCAG
3 6 (1.80%) GDPR
4 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.90%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 163 (48.80%) Docker
2 26 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 20 (5.99%) DFS Replication
4 9 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.80%) Dovecot
6 6 (1.80%) Postfix
6 6 (1.80%) Squid
7 4 (1.20%) vSphere
8 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.60%) KVM
8 2 (0.60%) NFS
8 2 (0.60%) RACF
8 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.30%) iptables
9 1 (0.30%) pfSense
9 1 (0.30%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 211 (63.17%) Terraform
2 210 (62.87%) Prometheus
3 199 (59.58%) Kubernetes
4 103 (30.84%) Ansible
5 16 (4.79%) Argo
6 13 (3.89%) Control-M
7 10 (2.99%) Kibana
7 10 (2.99%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.69%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (2.40%) Nessus
10 6 (1.80%) logstash
10 6 (1.80%) Proxmox
11 5 (1.50%) Puppet
11 5 (1.50%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.20%) Nagios
13 3 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.90%) Netcool
13 3 (0.90%) Netcool/OMNIbus
13 3 (0.90%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 64 (19.16%) Splunk
2 42 (12.57%) ServiceNow
3 28 (8.38%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.29%) Oracle
5 20 (5.99%) Dynatrace
6 16 (4.79%) SolarWinds
6 16 (4.79%) VMware
7 13 (3.89%) Atlassian
8 12 (3.59%) Google
9 11 (3.29%) Juniper
10 10 (2.99%) Cisco
11 9 (2.69%) AppDynamics
11 9 (2.69%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.69%) Red Hat
12 8 (2.40%) IBM
13 7 (2.10%) OpenAI
14 6 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
15 5 (1.50%) F5
15 5 (1.50%) Sonatype
16 3 (0.90%) New Relic