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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 377 455
Rank change year-on-year -32 +78 -20
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 477 326 337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.93% 6.52% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 258 220 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,911
25th Percentile £56,563 £61,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £86,875
90th Percentile £100,225 £115,250 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.07% +7.41% +8.00%

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 5,344 5,003 6,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 10.09% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,684 2,849 3,732
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,029 £39,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -31 385 £70,000 -3.45% 1,073
London +12 213 £82,500 - 468
Work from Home +61 198 £65,000 -7.14% 932
UK excluding London -108 197 £63,750 -12.07% 961
South East -18 67 £62,500 -16.67% 156
South West -36 43 £70,000 -24.32% 99
North of England -65 41 £68,750 +10.00% 179
North West -31 29 £70,000 +14.29% 84
Wales -59 18 £62,000 -0.80% 100
Midlands -89 13 £61,250 -15.52% 92
North East -57 12 £57,500 -4.17% 37
Scotland -12 11 £62,500 -16.11% 214
West Midlands -82 8 £55,000 -24.14% 49
East Midlands -37 5 £62,500 +12.11% 43
East of England -39 3 £86,250 +25.45% 83
Yorkshire -48 3 £57,500 -28.13% 58
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 41

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 15 (3.14%) Apache
2 11 (2.31%) Confluence
3 8 (1.68%) nginx
4 7 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.05%) IIS
6 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 334 (70.02%) AWS
2 210 (44.03%) GCP
3 161 (33.75%) Azure
4 113 (23.69%) Amazon EKS
5 93 (19.50%) SaaS
6 84 (17.61%) GitHub
7 73 (15.30%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (14.47%) Datadog
9 62 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 56 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (10.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (8.81%) Serverless
13 37 (7.76%) OpenShift
14 34 (7.13%) Amazon S3
15 32 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (4.82%) Entra ID
19 22 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
19 22 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (10.27%) Firewall
2 24 (5.03%) VPN
3 18 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 15 (3.14%) DNS
4 15 (3.14%) VLAN
5 14 (2.94%) HTTP
6 12 (2.52%) BGP
7 11 (2.31%) Network Security
8 9 (1.89%) SSH
9 6 (1.26%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.26%) OSPF
9 6 (1.26%) SNMP
9 6 (1.26%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.26%) WAN
10 5 (1.05%) LAN
11 4 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.84%) WebEx
12 3 (0.63%) 4G
12 3 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (19.50%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (8.60%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (8.60%) Elasticsearch
2 41 (8.60%) MySQL
3 28 (5.87%) MongoDB
4 26 (5.45%) NoSQL
5 21 (4.40%) Redis
6 14 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.52%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.52%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.31%) InfluxDB
10 9 (1.89%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.47%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.84%) Metadata
14 3 (0.63%) Big Data
14 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.63%) ZAP BI
15 2 (0.42%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 92 (19.29%) Git
2 89 (18.66%) GitLab
2 89 (18.66%) Jenkins
3 86 (18.03%) TeamCity
4 22 (4.61%) SonarQube
5 18 (3.77%) Gatling
5 18 (3.77%) Selenium
6 17 (3.56%) JMeter
7 16 (3.35%) Cucumber
7 16 (3.35%) JIRA
8 14 (2.94%) Cypress.io
9 13 (2.73%) LoadRunner
10 9 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (1.89%) Postman
11 8 (1.68%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.68%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.68%) JUnit
12 7 (1.47%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.47%) TestRail
13 6 (1.26%) Maven
General
1 185 (38.78%) Finance
2 125 (26.21%) Banking
2 125 (26.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 105 (22.01%) Law
4 104 (21.80%) Social Skills
5 100 (20.96%) Retail
6 69 (14.47%) Financial Institution
7 65 (13.63%) Back Office
8 64 (13.42%) Public Sector
9 49 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (3.14%) Marketing
11 13 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.26%) Legal
13 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.05%) Police
14 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.63%) Military
16 2 (0.42%) Advertising
16 2 (0.42%) Billing
16 2 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (20.55%) Senior
2 88 (18.45%) Software Engineer
3 78 (16.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (10.69%) Lead
5 45 (9.43%) Developer
6 43 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 39 (8.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 38 (7.97%) Site Engineer
9 36 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
10 29 (6.08%) Administrator
10 29 (6.08%) Lead Software Engineer
11 26 (5.45%) Team Leader
12 23 (4.82%) Systems Administrator
13 22 (4.61%) Software Team Leader
14 20 (4.19%) DevOps Administrator
14 20 (4.19%) Java Developer
14 20 (4.19%) Java Engineer
14 20 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (69.39%) Terraform
2 63 (13.21%) Elastic Stack
3 57 (11.95%) Kafka
4 42 (8.81%) OpenTelemetry
5 37 (7.76%) REST
5 37 (7.76%) RESTful
6 31 (6.50%) RabbitMQ
7 27 (5.66%) Spring
7 27 (5.66%) Spring Boot
8 22 (4.61%) Node.js
9 21 (4.40%) Loki
9 21 (4.40%) React
10 18 (3.77%) .NET
10 18 (3.77%) Hibernate
11 17 (3.56%) JPA
11 17 (3.56%) Keycloak
12 16 (3.35%) GraphQL
12 16 (3.35%) Playwright
12 16 (3.35%) pytest
13 13 (2.73%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 172 (36.06%) Cloud Native
2 67 (14.05%) Product Ownership
3 65 (13.63%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (6.50%) Blog
5 24 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (4.61%) Replication
7 20 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (3.77%) Virtual Team
9 15 (3.14%) Onboarding
9 15 (3.14%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.94%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.31%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.47%) PKI
13 6 (1.26%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 124 (26.00%) Linux
2 40 (8.39%) Windows
3 18 (3.77%) Unix
4 17 (3.56%) CentOS
5 9 (1.89%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.05%) Android
7 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.63%) Debian
8 3 (0.63%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.63%) VMS
9 2 (0.42%) Rocky
10 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (73.58%) CI/CD
2 262 (54.93%) DevOps
3 256 (53.67%) Observability
4 247 (51.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 167 (35.01%) Software Engineering
6 162 (33.96%) Test Automation
7 144 (30.19%) Agile
8 143 (29.98%) Containerisation
9 140 (29.35%) Deployment Automation
10 124 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
11 122 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 122 (25.58%) Microservices
12 116 (24.32%) Mentoring
13 102 (21.38%) Platform Engineering
14 98 (20.55%) AI
15 93 (19.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 77 (16.14%) Clean Code
16 77 (16.14%) Continuous Deployment
17 76 (15.93%) Fintech
18 68 (14.26%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 272 (57.02%) Python
2 163 (34.17%) Java
3 155 (32.49%) Bash
4 80 (16.77%) PowerShell
5 77 (16.14%) SQL
6 47 (9.85%) Go
7 41 (8.60%) JavaScript
8 30 (6.29%) TypeScript
9 25 (5.24%) C#
10 19 (3.98%) Rust
11 16 (3.35%) Bicep
12 14 (2.94%) C++
13 9 (1.89%) Groovy
13 9 (1.89%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.47%) PHP
14 7 (1.47%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.47%) VBA
15 4 (0.84%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.84%) Scala
16 3 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 114 (23.90%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.63%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.29%) Degree
4 26 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.61%) AWS Certification
5 22 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.77%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.47%) CISSP
8 5 (1.05%) CISM
9 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.63%) CCSP
10 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.63%) OCP
10 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.58%) QA
2 12 (2.52%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.52%) SLA
3 9 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.68%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.26%) NIST
6 3 (0.63%) GDPR
6 3 (0.63%) PSD2
6 3 (0.63%) WCAG
7 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 195 (40.88%) Docker
2 17 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.10%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.05%) vSphere
7 4 (0.84%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.84%) KVM
8 3 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.42%) iptables
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.42%) Xen
10 1 (0.21%) Firmware
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 322 (67.51%) Kubernetes
2 260 (54.51%) Prometheus
3 136 (28.51%) Ansible
4 51 (10.69%) Argo
5 29 (6.08%) Kibana
6 25 (5.24%) Istio
7 17 (3.56%) Nagios
8 15 (3.14%) Puppet
9 14 (2.94%) logstash
10 13 (2.73%) Kustomize
11 12 (2.52%) linkerd
12 11 (2.31%) Rancher
13 9 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (1.68%) Proxmox
15 7 (1.47%) Cilium
16 6 (1.26%) Mesos
16 6 (1.26%) ZABBIX
17 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
17 5 (1.05%) vCenter Server
18 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (14.26%) Splunk
2 61 (12.79%) Dynatrace
3 50 (10.48%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.34%) Google
5 28 (5.87%) Red Hat
6 26 (5.45%) VMware
7 20 (4.19%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.73%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.52%) Oracle
10 9 (1.89%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.89%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.68%) Databricks
12 6 (1.26%) Cisco
12 6 (1.26%) Informatica
12 6 (1.26%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.05%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.05%) New Relic
14 4 (0.84%) NetApp
14 4 (0.84%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.84%) Solace