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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 458 414
Rank change year-on-year +92 -44 +103
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 305 283 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.51% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.27% 4.61% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 212 163 226
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,911 £45,625
25th Percentile £57,188 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £86,563 £85,625 £85,938
90th Percentile £115,000 £104,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year - +10.20% -2.32%

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 4,193 6,142 7,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.99% 11.02% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,028 3,782 6,209
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,065 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% +2.68% -2.61%

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 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 27 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 +65 239 £72,500 -3.33% 457
UK excluding London +35 141 £67,500 - 359
Work from Home +88 131 £67,500 -10.00% 180
London +52 114 £83,750 -4.29% 148
North of England +18 60 £65,000 -13.33% 93
North West +31 30 £62,500 -16.67% 50
Scotland +24 22 £72,289 +15.66% 28
Midlands +26 17 £71,521 +10.03% 61
South East +6 17 £70,000 +3.70% 87
North East -7 16 £51,500 -15.92% 9
West Midlands +32 15 £72,500 +11.54% 37
Yorkshire +10 14 £80,000 +0.63% 35
South West -15 14 £75,000 +15.38% 43
East of England +26 6 £68,750 +37.50% 40
Wales -8 4 £67,539 +3.91% 11
East Midlands -10 2 £54,600 +32.36% 20
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 3

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 13 (4.26%) Confluence
2 12 (3.93%) nginx
3 10 (3.28%) Apache
4 7 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.97%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.98%) IIS
8 2 (0.66%) CICS
8 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.33%) CMS
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 208 (68.20%) AWS
2 147 (48.20%) Azure
3 87 (28.52%) GCP
4 83 (27.21%) GitHub
5 79 (25.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 65 (21.31%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (18.69%) Amazon EKS
8 52 (17.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (13.44%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (13.44%) Datadog
10 37 (12.13%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (11.80%) Serverless
12 30 (9.84%) Amazon S3
13 28 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (9.18%) SaaS
14 26 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (8.20%) OpenShift
16 22 (7.21%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (7.21%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (6.89%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.49%) Firewall
2 25 (8.20%) DNS
3 18 (5.90%) HTTP
4 10 (3.28%) FTP
4 10 (3.28%) VPN
5 9 (2.95%) SMTP
5 9 (2.95%) SSH
5 9 (2.95%) WAN
6 8 (2.62%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.30%) LAN
7 7 (2.30%) Wireless
8 6 (1.97%) BGP
8 6 (1.97%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (1.97%) SSL
9 5 (1.64%) Network Security
10 4 (1.31%) DHCP
10 4 (1.31%) IMAP
10 4 (1.31%) MPLS
10 4 (1.31%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.98%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.82%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.20%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.61%) InfluxDB
6 9 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (2.95%) MySQL
6 9 (2.95%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.95%) Redis
7 7 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.30%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.66%) Metadata
10 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.66%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 100 (32.79%) Jenkins
2 76 (24.92%) GitLab
3 56 (18.36%) Git
4 41 (13.44%) JIRA
5 24 (7.87%) TeamCity
6 21 (6.89%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.59%) Bitbucket
8 12 (3.93%) Selenium
9 11 (3.61%) JMeter
10 10 (3.28%) JUnit
11 9 (2.95%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.95%) Vagrant
12 8 (2.62%) CircleCI
12 8 (2.62%) Locust
13 7 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (1.97%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.97%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.97%) Robot Framework
14 6 (1.97%) TestRail
15 4 (1.31%) Gradle
General
1 94 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 81 (26.56%) Finance
3 27 (8.85%) Banking
4 21 (6.89%) Law
5 20 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (5.90%) Retail
7 17 (5.57%) Back Office
7 17 (5.57%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.25%) Telecoms
9 15 (4.92%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.62%) Advertising
12 5 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.31%) Games
14 3 (0.98%) Legal
15 2 (0.66%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.66%) Front Office
16 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 78 (25.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (22.95%) Senior
3 38 (12.46%) Lead
4 33 (10.82%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (9.18%) Software Engineer
6 27 (8.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (6.23%) Developer
9 17 (5.57%) Development Engineer
9 17 (5.57%) Lead DevOps
9 17 (5.57%) Senior DevOps
9 17 (5.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 15 (4.92%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.59%) Applications Support
12 13 (4.26%) Analyst
12 13 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (3.61%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (19.67%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (10.16%) .NET
3 17 (5.57%) Kafka
4 15 (4.92%) React
4 15 (4.92%) Spring
5 14 (4.59%) ADO
5 14 (4.59%) Spring Boot
6 13 (4.26%) Node.js
6 13 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (3.93%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (3.61%) Loki
9 10 (3.28%) AWS CDK
9 10 (3.28%) Django
9 10 (3.28%) Gherkin
10 9 (2.95%) Flask
10 9 (2.95%) pytest
11 7 (2.30%) JWT
11 7 (2.30%) OAuth
12 6 (1.97%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.84%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.57%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.28%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.30%) Replication
9 5 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.64%) IoT
9 5 (1.64%) PKI
10 4 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.66%) Blog
12 2 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.66%) MPEG
12 2 (0.66%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.66%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 122 (40.00%) Linux
2 57 (18.69%) Windows
3 19 (6.23%) Unix
4 13 (4.26%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.93%) VMS
6 9 (2.95%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (2.62%) CentOS
8 6 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.31%) Debian
9 4 (1.31%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.98%) SUSE
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (76.39%) CI/CD
2 207 (67.87%) DevOps
3 150 (49.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (44.26%) Observability
5 120 (39.34%) Containerisation
6 82 (26.89%) Agile
7 81 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (24.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 69 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (21.64%) Platform Engineering
11 63 (20.66%) Test Automation
12 51 (16.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 48 (15.74%) Incident Response
14 44 (14.43%) Microservices
14 44 (14.43%) Software Engineering
15 38 (12.46%) Deployment Automation
15 38 (12.46%) Mentoring
16 37 (12.13%) Cloud Security
17 36 (11.80%) High Availability
18 34 (11.15%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 179 (58.69%) Python
2 83 (27.21%) Bash
3 70 (22.95%) Java
4 52 (17.05%) PowerShell
5 43 (14.10%) SQL
6 41 (13.44%) JavaScript
7 32 (10.49%) Go
8 24 (7.87%) C#
9 17 (5.57%) Bicep
9 17 (5.57%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.61%) Groovy
11 8 (2.62%) C++
11 8 (2.62%) Delphi
12 7 (2.30%) Perl
13 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.64%) Ruby
13 5 (1.64%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.31%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.98%) PHP
16 2 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 75 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 50 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.74%) Degree
4 28 (9.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (8.52%) AWS Certification
6 23 (7.54%) DV Cleared
7 18 (5.90%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.31%) CCNA
10 3 (0.98%) CCNP
10 3 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.98%) MCP
11 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.10%) QA
2 7 (2.30%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.30%) WCAG
3 6 (1.97%) GDPR
4 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 164 (53.77%) Docker
2 12 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.64%) DFS Replication
5 4 (1.31%) Dovecot
5 4 (1.31%) KVM
5 4 (1.31%) Postfix
5 4 (1.31%) Squid
6 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.66%) iptables
6 2 (0.66%) NFS
6 2 (0.66%) RACF
6 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.66%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) pfSense
7 1 (0.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 207 (67.87%) Terraform
2 206 (67.54%) Kubernetes
3 185 (60.66%) Prometheus
4 103 (33.77%) Ansible
5 21 (6.89%) Argo
6 11 (3.61%) Control-M
6 11 (3.61%) Docker Swarm
6 11 (3.61%) Kibana
7 8 (2.62%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.97%) Nessus
9 5 (1.64%) Istio
9 5 (1.64%) linkerd
9 5 (1.64%) logstash
10 4 (1.31%) Mesos
10 4 (1.31%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.31%) Puppet
11 3 (0.98%) Nagios
11 3 (0.98%) Rancher
11 3 (0.98%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (16.07%) Splunk
2 21 (6.89%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.57%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.25%) VMware
5 15 (4.92%) Oracle
6 13 (4.26%) Google
6 13 (4.26%) SolarWinds
7 10 (3.28%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.95%) AppDynamics
8 9 (2.95%) Cisco
8 9 (2.95%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.62%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.30%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.64%) F5
12 4 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (1.31%) Sonatype
13 3 (0.98%) Arista
13 3 (0.98%) Databricks
13 3 (0.98%) Meraki
13 3 (0.98%) New Relic