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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 463 434
Rank change year-on-year +100 -29 +114
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 315 299 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.48% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.29% 4.58% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 221 175 230
10th Percentile £47,617 £43,064 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £85,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £92,000 £110,000
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 4,320 6,523 7,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.66% 10.50% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,116 4,001 6,438
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,881 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,313 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.72% -1.70%

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 13 December 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 13 December 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 +82 253 £72,500 +3.57% 321
UK excluding London +81 156 £70,000 +3.70% 297
Work from Home +80 127 £67,500 -10.00% 136
London +74 116 £80,750 -5.00% 80
North of England +29 60 £62,500 -16.67% 66
North West +56 32 £62,500 -16.67% 29
Midlands +41 30 £72,500 +11.54% 40
West Midlands +48 26 £72,500 +11.54% 20
Scotland +24 24 £72,289 +15.66% 22
South East +30 23 £70,000 +3.70% 86
North East -13 16 £55,200 -9.88% 7
Yorkshire +2 12 £80,000 -5.88% 31
South West +4 11 £82,500 +26.92% 42
East of England +20 5 £67,500 +35.00% 26
East Midlands +6 4 £56,350 +38.28% 17
Wales -4 4 £67,539 +3.91% 13
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 6

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 23 (7.30%) Confluence
2 16 (5.08%) nginx
3 7 (2.22%) Apache
3 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.90%) IIS
5 5 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.63%) CICS
6 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 212 (67.30%) AWS
2 142 (45.08%) Azure
3 90 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 77 (24.44%) GitHub
5 73 (23.17%) GCP
6 60 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (16.83%) Amazon EKS
7 53 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 48 (15.24%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (12.38%) Amazon S3
11 38 (12.06%) Datadog
12 37 (11.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 34 (10.79%) Serverless
14 28 (8.89%) SaaS
15 26 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (7.94%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (7.94%) Azure AKS
16 25 (7.94%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (7.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.65%) Firewall
2 30 (9.52%) DNS
3 24 (7.62%) HTTP
4 17 (5.40%) FTP
5 16 (5.08%) SMTP
5 16 (5.08%) SSH
6 9 (2.86%) VPN
6 9 (2.86%) WAN
7 7 (2.22%) LAN
7 7 (2.22%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.22%) Wireless
8 6 (1.90%) BGP
8 6 (1.90%) SAN
9 5 (1.59%) IMAP
9 5 (1.59%) Network Security
9 5 (1.59%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.59%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (1.59%) SSL
10 4 (1.27%) MPLS
10 4 (1.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.65%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.49%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.17%) InfluxDB
6 10 (3.17%) Redis
7 9 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (2.54%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.22%) MySQL
10 5 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.95%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.95%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.63%) Big Data
12 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.63%) DB2
12 2 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.63%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 113 (35.87%) Jenkins
2 75 (23.81%) GitLab
3 67 (21.27%) Git
4 53 (16.83%) JIRA
5 22 (6.98%) TeamCity
6 20 (6.35%) Vagrant
7 19 (6.03%) Cucumber
8 16 (5.08%) Bitbucket
9 13 (4.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (3.49%) Selenium
11 10 (3.17%) JMeter
11 10 (3.17%) JUnit
12 8 (2.54%) CircleCI
12 8 (2.54%) Locust
12 8 (2.54%) SonarQube
13 7 (2.22%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (1.59%) Robot Framework
14 5 (1.59%) TestRail
15 4 (1.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 96 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 82 (26.03%) Finance
3 27 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.25%) Banking
5 25 (7.94%) Law
6 17 (5.40%) Back Office
7 15 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 15 (4.76%) Retail
7 15 (4.76%) Telecoms
8 14 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.54%) Advertising
11 5 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.59%) Games
11 5 (1.59%) Marketing
12 4 (1.27%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.95%) Legal
14 2 (0.63%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 87 (27.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 66 (20.95%) Senior
3 36 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
4 35 (11.11%) Lead
5 31 (9.84%) Software Engineer
6 26 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (5.40%) Analyst
8 17 (5.40%) Developer
9 16 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
9 16 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 15 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.44%) Applications Support
11 14 (4.44%) Development Engineer
12 13 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (3.81%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (3.81%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
2 29 (9.21%) .NET
3 18 (5.71%) Kafka
4 16 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
5 15 (4.76%) React
5 15 (4.76%) Spring
6 13 (4.13%) Loki
6 13 (4.13%) Node.js
6 13 (4.13%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.81%) ADO
7 12 (3.81%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (3.49%) Django
9 10 (3.17%) Flask
10 9 (2.86%) AWS CDK
10 9 (2.86%) Gherkin
10 9 (2.86%) pytest
11 8 (2.54%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (2.22%) ARM Templates
13 6 (1.90%) LDAP
13 6 (1.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.76%) Replication
4 13 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.13%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.59%) IoT
8 4 (1.27%) PKI
9 3 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.63%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.63%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.63%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 141 (44.76%) Linux
2 66 (20.95%) Windows
3 24 (7.62%) VMS
4 21 (6.67%) Unix
5 16 (5.08%) Amazon Linux
6 15 (4.76%) Ubuntu
7 10 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.90%) CentOS
9 5 (1.59%) Debian
9 5 (1.59%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.95%) SUSE
11 2 (0.63%) AIX
11 2 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.32%) Android
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 213 (67.62%) DevOps
3 142 (45.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (39.68%) Observability
5 111 (35.24%) Containerisation
6 83 (26.35%) Agile
7 75 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (23.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 66 (20.95%) Platform Engineering
10 63 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (17.78%) Test Automation
12 51 (16.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 47 (14.92%) Configuration Management
13 47 (14.92%) Microservices
13 47 (14.92%) Software Engineering
14 45 (14.29%) Cloud Security
15 43 (13.65%) Incident Response
16 41 (13.02%) Mentoring
17 40 (12.70%) High Availability
18 35 (11.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 192 (60.95%) Python
2 84 (26.67%) Bash
3 77 (24.44%) Java
4 69 (21.90%) PowerShell
5 48 (15.24%) SQL
6 37 (11.75%) JavaScript
7 31 (9.84%) Go
8 23 (7.30%) C#
8 23 (7.30%) Groovy
9 17 (5.40%) Bicep
10 15 (4.76%) TypeScript
11 13 (4.13%) Perl
12 9 (2.86%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.54%) Delphi
14 6 (1.90%) C++
14 6 (1.90%) Ruby
15 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.95%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.95%) PHP
17 2 (0.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 80 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 57 (18.10%) Degree
4 34 (10.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (8.89%) AWS Certification
6 24 (7.62%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.40%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.27%) CCNA
10 4 (1.27%) CCNP
10 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.33%) QA
2 7 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.22%) WCAG
3 6 (1.90%) GDPR
4 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 169 (53.65%) Docker
2 20 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.13%) DFS Replication
4 10 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.59%) Dovecot
6 5 (1.59%) Postfix
6 5 (1.59%) Squid
7 3 (0.95%) KVM
7 3 (0.95%) vSphere
8 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.63%) iptables
8 2 (0.63%) NFS
8 2 (0.63%) RACF
8 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.32%) pfSense
9 1 (0.32%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 204 (64.76%) Terraform
2 203 (64.44%) Kubernetes
3 196 (62.22%) Prometheus
4 104 (33.02%) Ansible
5 19 (6.03%) Argo
6 12 (3.81%) Control-M
7 10 (3.17%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (3.17%) Kibana
8 9 (2.86%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.22%) Nessus
10 6 (1.90%) logstash
11 5 (1.59%) Nagios
11 5 (1.59%) Proxmox
11 5 (1.59%) Puppet
11 5 (1.59%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.95%) Istio
13 3 (0.95%) linkerd
13 3 (0.95%) Rancher
14 2 (0.63%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 53 (16.83%) Splunk
2 29 (9.21%) ServiceNow
3 24 (7.62%) Microsoft
4 19 (6.03%) VMware
5 18 (5.71%) Oracle
6 15 (4.76%) SolarWinds
7 13 (4.13%) Dynatrace
8 12 (3.81%) Google
9 11 (3.49%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.17%) Atlassian
10 10 (3.17%) Cisco
11 9 (2.86%) Fortinet
12 8 (2.54%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.90%) IBM
14 5 (1.59%) F5
14 5 (1.59%) Jaspersoft
14 5 (1.59%) Juniper
14 5 (1.59%) Sonatype
15 3 (0.95%) Cribl.io
15 3 (0.95%) Meraki