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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 442 526
Rank change year-on-year +95 +84 -24
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 381 237 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.52% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.60% 4.42% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 231 146 184
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,625 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -8.20% +1.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -10.34% +18.85%

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 4,432 5,365 8,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.17% 11.74% 11.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,058 3,474 6,974
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,469 £50,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £83,625
90th Percentile £102,875 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.09% -3.54%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +70 310 £70,079 -1.64% 196
Work from Home +107 174 £72,500 +7.41% 165
UK excluding London +25 165 £62,500 -3.85% 145
London +99 160 £82,500 -8.33% 73
North of England -35 60 £60,000 -19.86% 37
South West -5 31 £55,000 -15.38% 20
South East -7 30 £62,500 -7.41% 42
North East -31 24 £51,500 -15.92% 6
North West -12 23 £62,500 -16.67% 14
Scotland 0 17 £72,289 -23.91% 4
Midlands -12 13 £63,250 -2.69% 19
Yorkshire -29 13 £67,500 -9.84% 17
West Midlands -6 9 £58,850 -9.46% 14
East of England +11 7 £85,000 +70.00% 13
Wales -18 5 £70,079 +7.81% 8
East Midlands -25 4 £69,500 +68.48% 4
Northern Ireland -32 2 - - 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 19 (4.99%) Apache
2 14 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.57%) nginx
5 5 (1.31%) Confluence
6 3 (0.79%) IIS
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) CICS
8 1 (0.26%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.26%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.05%) Weka
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.26%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 275 (72.18%) AWS
2 176 (46.19%) Azure
3 155 (40.68%) GCP
4 102 (26.77%) GitHub
5 98 (25.72%) Amazon EKS
6 85 (22.31%) GitHub Actions
7 74 (19.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 62 (16.27%) Datadog
9 57 (14.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 55 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (12.86%) Serverless
12 48 (12.60%) SaaS
13 28 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (7.35%) OpenShift
14 25 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (5.77%) Amazon S3
16 19 (4.99%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (4.99%) dbt
16 19 (4.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.29%) Firewall
2 27 (7.09%) DNS
3 26 (6.82%) HTTP
4 18 (4.72%) TCP/IP
5 16 (4.20%) VPN
6 10 (2.62%) WAN
7 8 (2.10%) LAN
7 8 (2.10%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (1.84%) SSL
8 7 (1.84%) Wireless
9 6 (1.57%) BGP
9 6 (1.57%) MQTT
9 6 (1.57%) VLAN
10 5 (1.31%) DHCP
10 5 (1.31%) Network Security
11 4 (1.05%) MPLS
12 3 (0.79%) SAN
12 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.79%) WebEx
13 2 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.09%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.94%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.15%) MySQL
7 10 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.36%) InfluxDB
9 8 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.10%) Redis
10 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.79%) Big Data
11 3 (0.79%) Metadata
12 2 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.52%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.52%) PostHog
12 2 (0.52%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 106 (27.82%) Jenkins
2 88 (23.10%) GitLab
3 57 (14.96%) Git
4 56 (14.70%) TeamCity
5 28 (7.35%) Cucumber
6 27 (7.09%) JIRA
7 20 (5.25%) JMeter
8 17 (4.46%) Bitbucket
9 16 (4.20%) CircleCI
10 15 (3.94%) SonarQube
11 14 (3.67%) Selenium
12 11 (2.89%) Locust
13 10 (2.62%) JUnit
14 8 (2.10%) Robot Framework
14 8 (2.10%) TestRail
15 7 (1.84%) Cypress.io
16 6 (1.57%) Artifactory
16 6 (1.57%) LoadRunner
16 6 (1.57%) MLflow
17 5 (1.31%) Gatling
General
1 118 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 114 (29.92%) Finance
3 66 (17.32%) Law
4 62 (16.27%) Banking
5 61 (16.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (15.49%) Retail
7 35 (9.19%) Back Office
8 33 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
8 33 (8.66%) Financial Institution
9 31 (8.14%) Telecoms
10 17 (4.46%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.84%) Advertising
12 5 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.79%) Legal
15 2 (0.52%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.52%) Marketing
16 1 (0.26%) Aviation
16 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (24.67%) Senior
2 84 (22.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (14.44%) Software Engineer
4 43 (11.29%) Lead
5 34 (8.92%) Platform Engineer
6 31 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (6.82%) Developer
8 24 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (5.77%) Java Engineer
9 22 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (4.46%) Applications Support
10 17 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (4.20%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 16 (4.20%) Java Software Engineer
11 16 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.94%) Software Developer
13 14 (3.67%) Development Engineer
14 13 (3.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (21.00%) Elastic Stack
2 34 (8.92%) Kafka
3 28 (7.35%) .NET
4 22 (5.77%) Spring
5 21 (5.51%) Spring Boot
6 20 (5.25%) React
7 16 (4.20%) OpenTelemetry
8 13 (3.41%) Gherkin
8 13 (3.41%) OAuth
8 13 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (2.89%) ADO
9 11 (2.89%) AWS CDK
9 11 (2.89%) Loki
10 10 (2.62%) Node.js
10 10 (2.62%) pytest
11 9 (2.36%) Django
11 9 (2.36%) Flask
11 9 (2.36%) REST
12 8 (2.10%) JWT
12 8 (2.10%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 101 (26.51%) Cloud Native
2 41 (10.76%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.99%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.94%) Blog
6 13 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.62%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.10%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.84%) PKI
10 5 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.31%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.31%) IoT
10 5 (1.31%) Replication
11 3 (0.79%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.79%) FlexPod
11 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.52%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 126 (33.07%) Linux
2 64 (16.80%) Windows
3 16 (4.20%) Unix
4 13 (3.41%) CentOS
5 9 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.36%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.36%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.31%) VMS
7 3 (0.79%) SUSE
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (79.00%) CI/CD
2 238 (62.47%) DevOps
3 199 (52.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (43.83%) Containerisation
5 166 (43.57%) Observability
6 116 (30.45%) Test Automation
7 110 (28.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 110 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (27.30%) Agile
9 93 (24.41%) Software Engineering
10 84 (22.05%) Deployment Automation
10 84 (22.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 80 (21.00%) Microservices
12 67 (17.59%) Platform Engineering
13 57 (14.96%) High Availability
14 55 (14.44%) Clean Code
14 55 (14.44%) Mentoring
15 52 (13.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 49 (12.86%) Continuous Deployment
17 47 (12.34%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 207 (54.33%) Python
2 116 (30.45%) Bash
3 111 (29.13%) Java
4 50 (13.12%) PowerShell
5 48 (12.60%) Go
5 48 (12.60%) JavaScript
6 45 (11.81%) SQL
7 27 (7.09%) C#
8 25 (6.56%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.41%) Bicep
9 13 (3.41%) Rust
10 11 (2.89%) C++
11 8 (2.10%) Delphi
11 8 (2.10%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.57%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (1.31%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.79%) Elixir
14 3 (0.79%) Erlang
15 2 (0.52%) Perl
15 2 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (21.26%) Security Cleared
2 52 (13.65%) Degree
3 42 (11.02%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.87%) AWS Certification
4 30 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 29 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.62%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.79%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.86%) QA
2 12 (3.15%) GDPR
3 11 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.62%) WCAG
5 8 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.84%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.57%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.52%) GRC
9 2 (0.52%) SEPA
10 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 179 (46.98%) Docker
2 14 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.62%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.57%) KVM
5 5 (1.31%) vSphere
6 4 (1.05%) iptables
6 4 (1.05%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.52%) NFS
8 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.26%) pfSense
9 1 (0.26%) RACF
9 1 (0.26%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 285 (74.80%) Terraform
2 267 (70.08%) Kubernetes
3 207 (54.33%) Prometheus
4 135 (35.43%) Ansible
5 23 (6.04%) Kibana
6 22 (5.77%) Argo
7 13 (3.41%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (2.89%) Puppet
9 9 (2.36%) Control-M
9 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (2.10%) Istio
10 8 (2.10%) linkerd
10 8 (2.10%) logstash
10 8 (2.10%) Mesos
10 8 (2.10%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.57%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.57%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.31%) Nagios
13 3 (0.79%) Rancher
13 3 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (12.07%) Splunk
2 32 (8.40%) VMware
3 24 (6.30%) Dynatrace
4 23 (6.04%) Microsoft
5 17 (4.46%) Red Hat
6 16 (4.20%) Oracle
7 15 (3.94%) Google
8 11 (2.89%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.89%) SolarWinds
9 9 (2.36%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.10%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.84%) Cisco
12 5 (1.31%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.31%) Databricks
13 4 (1.05%) Cribl.io
13 4 (1.05%) F5
13 4 (1.05%) New Relic
13 4 (1.05%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.05%) Palo Alto
14 3 (0.79%) Rapid7