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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 403 495
Rank change year-on-year +11 +92 -15
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 400 268 439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.63% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.31% 5.26% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 224 185 206
10th Percentile £45,489 £49,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.38% +7.38%
75th Percentile £86,563 £91,000 £90,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% +20.00%

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 4,816 5,093 9,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.18% 11.98% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,403 3,049 7,050
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,000 £61,353
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +12.46% -9.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +26 347 £73,250 +1.03% 149
UK excluding London -10 178 £62,500 -7.41% 94
Work from Home +99 171 £70,079 +0.11% 75
London +21 168 £82,500 - 69
South West -14 50 £75,000 +15.38% 12
North of England -14 48 £50,000 -28.57% 28
South East +8 45 £62,500 -19.35% 26
North West -12 23 £67,500 +3.85% 20
North East -23 18 £47,500 -17.39% 3
Midlands -55 16 £64,000 -5.19% 11
West Midlands -61 12 £56,250 -16.67% 7
East of England -20 8 £82,575 +43.61% 8
Scotland -14 7 £65,533 -31.02% 8
Yorkshire -43 7 £80,000 +6.85% 5
East Midlands -33 4 £69,500 +63.53% 4
Wales -43 3 £70,079 +21.88% 1
Northern Ireland -38 1 - - 1

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 20 (5.00%) Apache
2 13 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.75%) Confluence
4 6 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.50%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.00%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 278 (69.50%) AWS
2 167 (41.75%) Azure
3 158 (39.50%) GCP
4 88 (22.00%) Amazon EKS
5 74 (18.50%) GitHub
6 69 (17.25%) GitHub Actions
7 67 (16.75%) Datadog
8 64 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
9 60 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 57 (14.25%) Serverless
11 49 (12.25%) SaaS
12 41 (10.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (9.50%) Amazon S3
14 32 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (7.50%) OpenShift
16 27 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (6.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 21 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
18 17 (4.25%) Azure Monitor
18 17 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (14.00%) Firewall
2 30 (7.50%) DNS
3 24 (6.00%) HTTP
3 24 (6.00%) TCP/IP
4 17 (4.25%) VLAN
5 15 (3.75%) VPN
6 11 (2.75%) WAN
7 10 (2.50%) LAN
7 10 (2.50%) Unified Communications
7 10 (2.50%) WebEx
8 9 (2.25%) Broadband
8 9 (2.25%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (2.25%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (2.00%) BGP
10 7 (1.75%) MQTT
10 7 (1.75%) Network Security
10 7 (1.75%) OSPF
11 6 (1.50%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.50%) SNMP
12 5 (1.25%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.75%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (4.50%) MySQL
5 15 (3.75%) InfluxDB
5 15 (3.75%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.75%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.00%) Big Data
10 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.75%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.50%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.50%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.50%) Looker
12 2 (0.50%) Redis
12 2 (0.50%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 90 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 88 (22.00%) GitLab
3 64 (16.00%) TeamCity
4 52 (13.00%) Git
5 27 (6.75%) SonarQube
6 25 (6.25%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.25%) JMeter
8 17 (4.25%) CircleCI
9 14 (3.50%) JIRA
10 13 (3.25%) Cypress.io
11 12 (3.00%) Selenium
12 11 (2.75%) Bitbucket
12 11 (2.75%) LoadRunner
13 10 (2.50%) Gatling
14 8 (2.00%) Robot Framework
14 8 (2.00%) TestRail
15 7 (1.75%) REST Assured
16 6 (1.50%) Locust
16 6 (1.50%) Postman
17 5 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 122 (30.50%) Finance
2 84 (21.00%) Social Skills
3 82 (20.50%) Law
4 79 (19.75%) Banking
5 75 (18.75%) Retail
6 68 (17.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (9.75%) Financial Institution
8 37 (9.25%) Back Office
9 33 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
10 32 (8.00%) Public Sector
11 31 (7.75%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.25%) Marketing
13 6 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Legal
15 2 (0.50%) Advertising
15 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
16 1 (0.25%) Aviation
16 1 (0.25%) Games
16 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 85 (21.25%) Senior
2 82 (20.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (15.50%) Software Engineer
4 42 (10.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (9.75%) Lead
6 35 (8.75%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (5.75%) Developer
10 21 (5.25%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 20 (5.00%) Java Engineer
11 20 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (4.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 17 (4.25%) Administrator
13 17 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (4.25%) Site Engineer
13 17 (4.25%) Team Leader
14 16 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
14 16 (4.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.50%) Elastic Stack
2 40 (10.00%) Kafka
3 23 (5.75%) .NET
4 21 (5.25%) OpenTelemetry
5 20 (5.00%) React
6 19 (4.75%) Loki
7 18 (4.50%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (4.25%) Node.js
8 17 (4.25%) REST
9 14 (3.50%) OAuth
10 13 (3.25%) Spring
11 12 (3.00%) gRPC
11 12 (3.00%) Spring Boot
12 11 (2.75%) Apache NiFi
12 11 (2.75%) Playwright
12 11 (2.75%) YAML
13 10 (2.50%) AngularJS
13 10 (2.50%) AWS CDK
13 10 (2.50%) Vue
13 10 (2.50%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 121 (30.25%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.25%) Product Ownership
3 28 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.50%) Onboarding
5 21 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (4.50%) Blog
7 13 (3.25%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.75%) Replication
9 10 (2.50%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.00%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.75%) PKI
13 6 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.25%) Data Centre
15 4 (1.00%) Blockchain
15 4 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
15 4 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 3 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 115 (28.75%) Linux
2 53 (13.25%) Windows
3 19 (4.75%) CentOS
4 11 (2.75%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.00%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.00%) VMS
7 6 (1.50%) Unix
8 4 (1.00%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.75%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (76.50%) CI/CD
2 227 (56.75%) DevOps
2 227 (56.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 176 (44.00%) Observability
4 164 (41.00%) Containerisation
5 139 (34.75%) Test Automation
6 121 (30.25%) Agile
7 117 (29.25%) Software Engineering
8 114 (28.50%) Problem-Solving
9 111 (27.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 106 (26.50%) Deployment Automation
11 87 (21.75%) Microservices
12 86 (21.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 75 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
14 68 (17.00%) Mentoring
15 61 (15.25%) Clean Code
16 59 (14.75%) Continuous Deployment
17 58 (14.50%) DevSecOps
18 54 (13.50%) AI
18 54 (13.50%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 241 (60.25%) Python
2 153 (38.25%) Bash
3 115 (28.75%) Java
4 62 (15.50%) PowerShell
5 51 (12.75%) JavaScript
6 49 (12.25%) SQL
7 47 (11.75%) Go
8 36 (9.00%) C#
9 25 (6.25%) Rust
10 22 (5.50%) TypeScript
11 18 (4.50%) C++
12 9 (2.25%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.00%) Bicep
14 7 (1.75%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.75%) Elixir
16 3 (0.75%) Erlang
17 2 (0.50%) Ruby
17 2 (0.50%) VB
17 2 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.50%) Degree
3 34 (8.50%) DV Cleared
4 30 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 29 (7.25%) AWS Certification
6 18 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.00%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.00%) QA
2 12 (3.00%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.75%) GDPR
4 10 (2.50%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.25%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.00%) SLA
7 6 (1.50%) WCAG
8 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.50%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 178 (44.50%) Docker
2 22 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.25%) vSphere
5 7 (1.75%) iptables
5 7 (1.75%) KVM
5 7 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.00%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 297 (74.25%) Terraform
2 262 (65.50%) Kubernetes
3 218 (54.50%) Prometheus
4 151 (37.75%) Ansible
5 29 (7.25%) Kibana
6 22 (5.50%) Argo
7 21 (5.25%) Puppet
8 15 (3.75%) Nagios
9 13 (3.25%) Istio
10 12 (3.00%) logstash
11 10 (2.50%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (2.50%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (2.25%) Progress Chef
13 8 (2.00%) linkerd
13 8 (2.00%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.75%) Mesos
15 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
15 4 (1.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (11.50%) Splunk
2 39 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.75%) VMware
3 28 (7.00%) Red Hat
4 23 (5.75%) Dynatrace
5 17 (4.25%) Google
6 11 (2.75%) Cisco
7 10 (2.50%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.50%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.00%) Oracle
8 8 (2.00%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.75%) NetApp
9 7 (1.75%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.25%) Databricks
10 5 (1.25%) Tenable
11 4 (1.00%) Cribl.io
11 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.00%) Veracode