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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 380 464
Rank change year-on-year -24 +84 -18
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 506 323 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.30% 6.59% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 266 218 195
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,911
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -2.03% +9.63%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,750 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +8.00%

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 5,439 4,900 6,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.61% 9.97% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,705 2,816 3,638
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -36 405 £72,500 - 612
London +19 228 £85,000 +3.03% 374
Work from Home +71 217 £65,000 -7.14% 257
UK excluding London -104 205 £65,000 -10.34% 271
South East -13 71 £62,500 -10.71% 69
South West -29 47 £70,000 -24.32% 31
North of England -66 38 £70,000 +12.00% 70
North West -33 24 £71,250 +14.00% 35
Wales -52 20 £62,000 -0.80% 8
North East -61 14 £57,500 +3.14% 11
Midlands -85 13 £61,250 -15.52% 22
Scotland -10 12 £62,500 -16.11% 29
West Midlands -82 8 £55,000 -24.14% 12
East Midlands -29 5 £62,500 +12.11% 10
East of England -37 3 £86,250 +25.45% 24
Yorkshire -49 3 £57,500 -28.13% 24
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 19

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 (3.56%) Apache
2 9 (1.78%) Confluence
2 9 (1.78%) nginx
3 5 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.99%) IIS
4 4 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 355 (70.16%) AWS
2 227 (44.86%) GCP
3 163 (32.21%) Azure
4 129 (25.49%) Amazon EKS
5 109 (21.54%) SaaS
6 90 (17.79%) GitHub
7 77 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (13.64%) Datadog
9 65 (12.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 58 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (9.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (8.50%) Serverless
13 41 (8.10%) OpenShift
14 34 (6.72%) Amazon S3
15 32 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (6.13%) Azure Monitor
17 28 (5.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 28 (5.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (4.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 54 (10.67%) Firewall
2 34 (6.72%) VPN
3 27 (5.34%) TCP/IP
4 21 (4.15%) BGP
4 21 (4.15%) VLAN
5 17 (3.36%) DNS
6 16 (3.16%) Network Security
7 14 (2.77%) HTTP
8 8 (1.58%) SSH
9 7 (1.38%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.38%) WAN
10 6 (1.19%) IPFIX
10 6 (1.19%) LAN
10 6 (1.19%) OSPF
10 6 (1.19%) SNMP
11 5 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (0.99%) WebEx
12 4 (0.79%) SSL
13 3 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (21.94%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (9.88%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (9.09%) MySQL
4 45 (8.89%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (5.93%) MongoDB
6 26 (5.14%) NoSQL
7 24 (4.74%) Redis
8 14 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.17%) InfluxDB
11 10 (1.98%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.98%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.38%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.99%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.99%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.79%) Metadata
15 3 (0.59%) Big Data
15 3 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.59%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.40%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 101 (19.96%) TeamCity
2 97 (19.17%) GitLab
3 96 (18.97%) Git
4 93 (18.38%) Jenkins
5 23 (4.55%) SonarQube
6 18 (3.56%) Gatling
6 18 (3.56%) JMeter
6 18 (3.56%) Selenium
7 17 (3.36%) Cucumber
8 15 (2.96%) Cypress.io
9 14 (2.77%) JIRA
10 13 (2.57%) LoadRunner
11 9 (1.78%) Postman
12 8 (1.58%) Artifactory
12 8 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (1.58%) Robot Framework
12 8 (1.58%) TestRail
13 7 (1.38%) JUnit
14 6 (1.19%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.99%) Maven
General
1 200 (39.53%) Finance
2 138 (27.27%) Banking
2 138 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 115 (22.73%) Law
4 113 (22.33%) Social Skills
5 112 (22.13%) Retail
6 82 (16.21%) Financial Institution
7 78 (15.42%) Back Office
8 68 (13.44%) Public Sector
9 50 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (3.16%) Marketing
11 14 (2.77%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.38%) Police
13 5 (0.99%) Legal
14 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.59%) Military
15 3 (0.59%) Publishing
16 2 (0.40%) Advertising
16 2 (0.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 111 (21.94%) Senior
2 94 (18.58%) Software Engineer
3 83 (16.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 56 (11.07%) Lead
5 49 (9.68%) Developer
6 47 (9.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 43 (8.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 38 (7.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 37 (7.31%) Platform Engineer
9 37 (7.31%) Site Engineer
10 36 (7.11%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (6.13%) Administrator
12 30 (5.93%) Lead Software Engineer
13 25 (4.94%) Team Leader
14 24 (4.74%) Java Engineer
15 23 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
16 22 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
16 22 (4.35%) Software Team Leader
16 22 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (70.55%) Terraform
2 70 (13.83%) Elastic Stack
3 56 (11.07%) Kafka
4 48 (9.49%) OpenTelemetry
5 44 (8.70%) RESTful
6 40 (7.91%) REST
7 32 (6.32%) RabbitMQ
8 29 (5.73%) Spring
8 29 (5.73%) Spring Boot
9 22 (4.35%) Loki
9 22 (4.35%) Node.js
10 19 (3.75%) Hibernate
10 19 (3.75%) React
11 18 (3.56%) .NET
11 18 (3.56%) GraphQL
11 18 (3.56%) JPA
11 18 (3.56%) pytest
12 17 (3.36%) Playwright
13 16 (3.16%) Keycloak
14 13 (2.57%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 188 (37.15%) Cloud Native
2 75 (14.82%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (14.03%) Product Ownership
4 43 (8.50%) Blog
5 25 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (4.35%) Replication
7 21 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (3.95%) Management Information System
9 19 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (3.75%) Virtual Team
10 17 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (3.36%) Onboarding
11 15 (2.96%) Private Cloud
12 11 (2.17%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.78%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.38%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.38%) PKI
14 7 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 135 (26.68%) Linux
2 42 (8.30%) Windows
3 19 (3.75%) Unix
4 17 (3.36%) CentOS
5 9 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.99%) Android
7 5 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.59%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.59%) VMS
9 2 (0.40%) Debian
9 2 (0.40%) Rocky
10 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (74.31%) CI/CD
2 276 (54.55%) DevOps
3 271 (53.56%) Observability
4 260 (51.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 174 (34.39%) Software Engineering
5 174 (34.39%) Test Automation
6 148 (29.25%) Deployment Automation
7 147 (29.05%) Agile
8 143 (28.26%) Containerisation
9 131 (25.89%) Microservices
10 130 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
11 124 (24.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 123 (24.31%) Mentoring
13 112 (22.13%) Platform Engineering
14 103 (20.36%) AI
15 95 (18.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 90 (17.79%) Fintech
17 88 (17.39%) Clean Code
18 82 (16.21%) Continuous Deployment
19 75 (14.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 287 (56.72%) Python
2 180 (35.57%) Java
3 165 (32.61%) Bash
4 89 (17.59%) SQL
5 80 (15.81%) PowerShell
6 57 (11.26%) Go
7 41 (8.10%) JavaScript
8 33 (6.52%) TypeScript
9 27 (5.34%) C#
10 20 (3.95%) Rust
11 19 (3.75%) Bicep
12 15 (2.96%) C++
13 9 (1.78%) Groovy
13 9 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.58%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.38%) PHP
15 7 (1.38%) VBA
16 4 (0.79%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.79%) Scala
17 3 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 121 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 68 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.73%) Degree
4 28 (5.53%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 21 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.56%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.17%) CISSP
9 9 (1.78%) CISM
10 8 (1.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.38%) CCSP
11 7 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.59%) OCP
14 3 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (12.06%) QA
2 21 (4.15%) PCI DSS
3 18 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (3.36%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.37%) SLA
6 10 (1.98%) NIST
7 9 (1.78%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.38%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.59%) GDPR
9 3 (0.59%) PSD2
9 3 (0.59%) WCAG
10 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.20%) SOC 1
System Software
1 193 (38.14%) Docker
2 19 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
2 19 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.98%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.78%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (1.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.79%) KVM
7 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.40%) Xen
9 1 (0.20%) Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) iptables
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 343 (67.79%) Kubernetes
2 267 (52.77%) Prometheus
3 143 (28.26%) Ansible
4 54 (10.67%) Argo
5 31 (6.13%) Kibana
6 27 (5.34%) Istio
7 18 (3.56%) Nagios
8 17 (3.36%) logstash
9 15 (2.96%) Kustomize
9 15 (2.96%) Puppet
10 12 (2.37%) linkerd
11 11 (2.17%) Rancher
12 10 (1.98%) Cilium
13 9 (1.78%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (1.58%) Proxmox
15 6 (1.19%) Mesos
15 6 (1.19%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
16 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 73 (14.43%) Splunk
2 62 (12.25%) Dynatrace
3 49 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 43 (8.50%) Google
5 31 (6.13%) Red Hat
6 28 (5.53%) VMware
7 19 (3.75%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.77%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.37%) Oracle
10 10 (1.98%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.78%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.58%) Databricks
13 7 (1.38%) Cisco
14 6 (1.19%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.19%) Informatica
14 6 (1.19%) NVIDIA
15 5 (0.99%) NetApp
15 5 (0.99%) New Relic
15 5 (0.99%) Palo Alto
16 4 (0.79%) Solace