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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 376 508
Rank change year-on-year -41 +132 -47
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 410 339 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.69% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.49% 6.04% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 246 224 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £40,404
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% - +7.69%

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 5,474 5,613 9,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.54% 11.42% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,043 3,346 6,526
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,373 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,625 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +6.48% -10.00%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -23 360 £70,079 -3.34% 128
UK excluding London -65 192 £64,000 -8.57% 82
Work from Home +68 173 £65,000 -7.14% 61
London -17 173 £82,500 - 61
South East +11 58 £62,500 -15.25% 18
South West -10 49 £75,000 +15.38% 16
North of England -27 47 £60,000 -7.69% 24
North West -1 27 £71,250 +18.75% 18
Midlands -59 21 £64,000 -11.72% 12
North East -41 17 £47,500 -20.83% 1
West Midlands -70 15 £62,500 -13.79% 10
Wales -52 8 £70,000 +27.27% 1
East Midlands -33 6 £64,500 +15.70% 2
Scotland -8 4 £62,500 -34.21% 7
East of England -12 3 £80,150 +18.74% 6
Yorkshire -43 3 £52,500 -29.88% 5
Northern Ireland -58 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 18 (4.39%) Apache
2 9 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.71%) IIS
4 6 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.46%) Confluence
5 5 (1.22%) nginx
6 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.49%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 277 (67.56%) AWS
2 164 (40.00%) Azure
2 164 (40.00%) GCP
3 77 (18.78%) Amazon EKS
4 68 (16.59%) GitHub
5 67 (16.34%) Datadog
6 66 (16.10%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (16.10%) GitHub Actions
7 56 (13.66%) SaaS
8 53 (12.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 50 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (12.20%) Serverless
10 36 (8.78%) Amazon S3
11 35 (8.54%) OpenShift
12 32 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 61 (14.88%) Firewall
2 23 (5.61%) DNS
2 23 (5.61%) TCP/IP
3 19 (4.63%) VLAN
4 17 (4.15%) HTTP
5 16 (3.90%) VPN
6 11 (2.68%) WAN
7 10 (2.44%) LAN
7 10 (2.44%) Unified Communications
7 10 (2.44%) WebEx
8 9 (2.20%) Broadband
8 9 (2.20%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (2.20%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (1.95%) BGP
10 7 (1.71%) MQTT
10 7 (1.71%) Network Security
10 7 (1.71%) OSPF
10 7 (1.71%) SSH
11 6 (1.46%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.46%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (5.85%) MySQL
4 21 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.41%) InfluxDB
6 14 (3.41%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.95%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.98%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.73%) Big Data
12 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.49%) Looker
12 2 (0.49%) SQLPlus
13 1 (0.24%) KDB
Development Applications
1 88 (21.46%) GitLab
2 86 (20.98%) Jenkins
3 66 (16.10%) TeamCity
4 65 (15.85%) Git
5 24 (5.85%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.61%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.12%) JMeter
8 13 (3.17%) CircleCI
8 13 (3.17%) JIRA
9 12 (2.93%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.68%) Cypress.io
10 11 (2.68%) Octopus Deploy
10 11 (2.68%) Selenium
11 10 (2.44%) Gatling
11 10 (2.44%) LoadRunner
12 7 (1.71%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.71%) TestRail
13 6 (1.46%) Burp Suite
13 6 (1.46%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.22%) Locust
General
1 122 (29.76%) Finance
2 94 (22.93%) Banking
3 83 (20.24%) Law
4 80 (19.51%) Retail
5 77 (18.78%) Social Skills
6 75 (18.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (10.98%) Financial Institution
8 43 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (10.24%) Back Office
10 38 (9.27%) Public Sector
11 27 (6.59%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.20%) Marketing
13 8 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.73%) Legal
16 2 (0.49%) Advertising
16 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.24%) Aviation
17 1 (0.24%) Billing
Job Titles
1 93 (22.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 76 (18.54%) Senior
3 68 (16.59%) Software Engineer
4 42 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 36 (8.78%) Platform Engineer
7 34 (8.29%) Lead
8 26 (6.34%) AWS Engineer
8 26 (6.34%) Developer
9 22 (5.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 21 (5.12%) Administrator
10 21 (5.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (4.88%) Java Engineer
11 20 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (4.88%) Site Engineer
11 20 (4.88%) Systems Administrator
12 18 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
12 18 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
12 18 (4.39%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (15.61%) Elastic Stack
2 46 (11.22%) Kafka
3 29 (7.07%) OpenTelemetry
4 23 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (5.37%) Loki
6 19 (4.63%) Node.js
7 17 (4.15%) React
7 17 (4.15%) REST
8 16 (3.90%) YAML
9 15 (3.66%) Spring
10 14 (3.41%) .NET
10 14 (3.41%) Spring Boot
11 12 (2.93%) Apache NiFi
11 12 (2.93%) gRPC
11 12 (2.93%) Playwright
11 12 (2.93%) RESTful
12 11 (2.68%) ARM Templates
12 11 (2.68%) OAuth
13 10 (2.44%) AngularJS
13 10 (2.44%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 130 (31.71%) Cloud Native
2 45 (10.98%) Product Ownership
3 33 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.12%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.90%) Blog
6 12 (2.93%) Replication
7 11 (2.68%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.44%) FlexPod
8 10 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.95%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.46%) PKI
13 5 (1.22%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.73%) IoT
14 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (29.76%) Linux
2 47 (11.46%) Windows
3 19 (4.63%) CentOS
4 14 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.93%) Unix
6 8 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.95%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.71%) VMS
8 5 (1.22%) Debian
9 4 (0.98%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.49%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (74.15%) CI/CD
2 235 (57.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 234 (57.07%) DevOps
4 180 (43.90%) Observability
5 171 (41.71%) Containerisation
6 137 (33.41%) Test Automation
7 135 (32.93%) Software Engineering
8 121 (29.51%) Agile
9 119 (29.02%) Problem-Solving
10 114 (27.80%) Deployment Automation
11 106 (25.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (24.63%) Microservices
13 81 (19.76%) Mentoring
13 81 (19.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 79 (19.27%) Platform Engineering
15 67 (16.34%) Continuous Deployment
16 61 (14.88%) Clean Code
17 58 (14.15%) AI
18 55 (13.41%) Infrastructure Automation
19 51 (12.44%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 263 (64.15%) Python
2 167 (40.73%) Bash
3 130 (31.71%) Java
4 78 (19.02%) PowerShell
5 57 (13.90%) SQL
6 46 (11.22%) JavaScript
7 45 (10.98%) Go
8 36 (8.78%) C#
9 29 (7.07%) Rust
10 19 (4.63%) TypeScript
11 17 (4.15%) C++
12 11 (2.68%) Bicep
13 7 (1.71%) VBA
14 5 (1.22%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (1.22%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.73%) PHP
16 3 (0.73%) Ruby
17 2 (0.49%) VB
18 1 (0.24%) JCL
Qualifications
1 85 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.27%) Degree
3 32 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.61%) AWS Certification
4 23 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 22 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.49%) CISSP
11 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.49%) ISEB
11 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.71%) QA
2 14 (3.41%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.17%) GDPR
4 12 (2.93%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.20%) SLA
6 8 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.46%) WCAG
8 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.49%) GRC
10 2 (0.49%) PSD2
10 2 (0.49%) SEPA
11 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 186 (45.37%) Docker
2 24 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.93%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (2.68%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.44%) vSphere
6 6 (1.46%) iptables
6 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.22%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.22%) KVM
7 5 (1.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.49%) Xen
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 295 (71.95%) Terraform
2 268 (65.37%) Kubernetes
3 229 (55.85%) Prometheus
4 154 (37.56%) Ansible
5 30 (7.32%) Argo
6 25 (6.10%) Kibana
7 20 (4.88%) Puppet
8 17 (4.15%) Istio
8 17 (4.15%) Nagios
9 15 (3.66%) logstash
10 10 (2.44%) Cisco CUCM
10 10 (2.44%) ZABBIX
11 9 (2.20%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (2.20%) Kustomize
12 8 (1.95%) linkerd
12 8 (1.95%) Proxmox
13 7 (1.71%) Progress Chef
14 6 (1.46%) vCenter Server
15 5 (1.22%) Mesos
15 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (12.44%) Microsoft
1 51 (12.44%) Splunk
2 37 (9.02%) VMware
3 32 (7.80%) Red Hat
4 27 (6.59%) Dynatrace
5 20 (4.88%) Google
6 11 (2.68%) Cisco
7 10 (2.44%) Atlassian
7 10 (2.44%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.20%) AppDynamics
8 9 (2.20%) NetApp
8 9 (2.20%) Rapid7
9 8 (1.95%) Oracle
9 8 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.46%) Informatica
10 6 (1.46%) New Relic
11 5 (1.22%) Tenable
12 4 (0.98%) PagerDuty
12 4 (0.98%) SolarWinds