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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 385 474
Rank change year-on-year -24 +89 -12
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 407 347 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.71% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.28% 6.19% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 247 232 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £61,250 £52,500
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 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 5,587 5,607 8,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.56% 11.42% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,107 3,335 5,889
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £44,076 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -8.33%

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 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 24 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 -41 353 £70,000 -3.45% 172
UK excluding London -50 198 £65,000 -7.14% 92
Work from Home +55 165 £65,000 -7.14% 82
London -19 162 £82,500 - 106
South East +6 60 £62,500 -16.67% 18
South West -12 50 £65,000 -18.75% 16
North of England -32 49 £63,750 -1.92% 23
North West -1 31 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Midlands -75 20 £63,250 -12.76% 12
North East -34 16 £47,500 -20.83% 2
West Midlands -74 15 £62,500 -13.79% 10
Wales -52 9 £70,000 +33.18% 4
Scotland -8 5 £62,500 -34.21% 11
East Midlands -25 5 £64,000 +14.80% 2
East of England -13 3 £80,150 +18.74% 9
Yorkshire -44 2 £67,500 -9.84% 7
Northern Ireland -66 2 - - 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 17 (4.18%) Apache
2 9 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.72%) Confluence
3 7 (1.72%) IIS
4 6 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.23%) nginx
6 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 271 (66.58%) AWS
2 164 (40.29%) Azure
3 159 (39.07%) GCP
4 70 (17.20%) Datadog
5 63 (15.48%) Amazon EKS
5 63 (15.48%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (15.48%) GitHub
6 61 (14.99%) GitHub Actions
7 56 (13.76%) SaaS
8 51 (12.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (12.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 49 (12.04%) Serverless
11 38 (9.34%) OpenShift
12 36 (8.85%) Amazon S3
13 33 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (6.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (13.76%) Firewall
2 22 (5.41%) DNS
3 21 (5.16%) TCP/IP
4 19 (4.67%) VLAN
5 16 (3.93%) HTTP
6 12 (2.95%) VPN
7 11 (2.70%) WAN
8 10 (2.46%) LAN
8 10 (2.46%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.46%) WebEx
9 9 (2.21%) Broadband
9 9 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.21%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.97%) BGP
10 8 (1.97%) Network Security
11 7 (1.72%) MQTT
11 7 (1.72%) OSPF
11 7 (1.72%) SSH
12 6 (1.47%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.47%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
3 26 (6.39%) MySQL
4 23 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.67%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.44%) InfluxDB
6 14 (3.44%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.95%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.97%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.74%) 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%) Redis
12 2 (0.49%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 89 (21.87%) GitLab
2 80 (19.66%) Jenkins
3 71 (17.44%) Git
4 57 (14.00%) TeamCity
5 23 (5.65%) SonarQube
6 22 (5.41%) Cucumber
6 22 (5.41%) JMeter
7 14 (3.44%) JIRA
8 12 (2.95%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.70%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.70%) Cypress.io
9 11 (2.70%) Gatling
9 11 (2.70%) LoadRunner
9 11 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
9 11 (2.70%) Selenium
10 7 (1.72%) Robot Framework
10 7 (1.72%) TestRail
11 6 (1.47%) Burp Suite
11 6 (1.47%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.23%) Locust
General
1 126 (30.96%) Finance
2 89 (21.87%) Banking
3 73 (17.94%) Law
3 73 (17.94%) Social Skills
4 69 (16.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 69 (16.95%) Retail
5 45 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (10.07%) Financial Institution
7 40 (9.83%) Public Sector
8 38 (9.34%) Back Office
9 25 (6.14%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.46%) Marketing
11 8 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.23%) Legal
13 2 (0.49%) Advertising
13 2 (0.49%) Billing
13 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (23.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (17.94%) Senior
3 61 (14.99%) Software Engineer
4 43 (10.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 35 (8.60%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (8.11%) Lead
8 29 (7.13%) Developer
9 24 (5.90%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (5.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 22 (5.41%) Site Engineer
11 20 (4.91%) Administrator
12 19 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (4.67%) Systems Administrator
13 18 (4.42%) Java Engineer
14 17 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (4.18%) Lead Software Engineer
14 17 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (4.18%) Team Leader
15 16 (3.93%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.23%) Elastic Stack
2 49 (12.04%) Kafka
3 31 (7.62%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (6.39%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (5.41%) Loki
6 20 (4.91%) Node.js
7 17 (4.18%) React
7 17 (4.18%) REST
8 16 (3.93%) Spring
8 16 (3.93%) YAML
9 15 (3.69%) RESTful
9 15 (3.69%) Spring Boot
10 12 (2.95%) .NET
10 12 (2.95%) gRPC
10 12 (2.95%) Playwright
11 11 (2.70%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
11 11 (2.70%) ARM Templates
11 11 (2.70%) OAuth
12 10 (2.46%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 125 (30.71%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.06%) Product Ownership
3 34 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.16%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (2.95%) Blog
6 12 (2.95%) Replication
7 10 (2.46%) FlexPod
7 10 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.21%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.97%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.72%) PKI
11 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.23%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.98%) IoT
14 3 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 119 (29.24%) Linux
2 46 (11.30%) Windows
3 20 (4.91%) CentOS
4 14 (3.44%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.95%) Unix
6 8 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.72%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.47%) VMS
9 5 (1.23%) Debian
10 4 (0.98%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.49%) Rocky
12 1 (0.25%) Android
12 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (73.46%) CI/CD
2 235 (57.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 234 (57.49%) DevOps
4 189 (46.44%) Observability
5 171 (42.01%) Containerisation
6 132 (32.43%) Software Engineering
7 130 (31.94%) Test Automation
8 121 (29.73%) Agile
9 119 (29.24%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (26.29%) Deployment Automation
11 105 (25.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (23.59%) Microservices
13 86 (21.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 82 (20.15%) Platform Engineering
15 80 (19.66%) Mentoring
16 60 (14.74%) AI
17 58 (14.25%) Continuous Deployment
18 53 (13.02%) Clean Code
18 53 (13.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 51 (12.53%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 262 (64.37%) Python
2 164 (40.29%) Bash
3 120 (29.48%) Java
4 78 (19.16%) PowerShell
5 57 (14.00%) SQL
6 44 (10.81%) Go
7 43 (10.57%) JavaScript
8 35 (8.60%) C#
9 28 (6.88%) Rust
10 21 (5.16%) TypeScript
11 17 (4.18%) C++
12 10 (2.46%) Bicep
13 7 (1.72%) VBA
14 6 (1.47%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.23%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (1.23%) PHP
15 5 (1.23%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.49%) Ruby
16 2 (0.49%) VB
17 1 (0.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 84 (20.64%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.34%) Degree
3 32 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.67%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.49%) CISSP
12 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.49%) ISEB
12 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.04%) QA
2 15 (3.69%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.19%) GDPR
4 11 (2.70%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.21%) SLA
6 8 (1.97%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.47%) WCAG
8 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.74%) PSD2
10 2 (0.49%) GRC
10 2 (0.49%) SEPA
11 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 193 (47.42%) Docker
2 24 (5.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.95%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (2.46%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.46%) vSphere
6 6 (1.47%) iptables
6 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.23%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.23%) KVM
7 5 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.49%) Xen
9 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 288 (70.76%) Terraform
2 263 (64.62%) Kubernetes
3 232 (57.00%) Prometheus
4 147 (36.12%) Ansible
5 32 (7.86%) Argo
6 26 (6.39%) Kibana
7 19 (4.67%) Istio
7 19 (4.67%) Puppet
8 18 (4.42%) Nagios
9 16 (3.93%) logstash
10 10 (2.46%) Cisco CUCM
10 10 (2.46%) Kustomize
11 9 (2.21%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (2.21%) linkerd
12 8 (1.97%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.72%) Progress Chef
14 6 (1.47%) vCenter Server
15 5 (1.23%) Mesos
15 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (1.23%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 54 (13.27%) Splunk
2 50 (12.29%) Microsoft
3 33 (8.11%) Red Hat
4 32 (7.86%) VMware
5 28 (6.88%) Dynatrace
6 23 (5.65%) Google
7 11 (2.70%) Cisco
8 10 (2.46%) AppDynamics
8 10 (2.46%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.46%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.46%) Rapid7
9 9 (2.21%) NetApp
9 9 (2.21%) Oracle
10 8 (1.97%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.47%) Informatica
11 6 (1.47%) New Relic
12 5 (1.23%) Tenable
13 4 (0.98%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.98%) SolarWinds