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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 446 452
Rank change year-on-year +79 +6 +71
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 305 266 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.50% 0.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.41% 4.51% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 211 154 198
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,344 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £60,063 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,500 £87,500 £87,188
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.74% +12.50% -4.32%

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 4,117 5,898 7,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.86% 11.02% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,930 3,587 6,142
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,400 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +6.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +61 238 £73,750 -1.67% 261
UK excluding London +43 140 £67,000 -0.74% 244
Work from Home +86 135 £68,750 -8.33% 57
London +70 114 £82,500 -7.82% 51
North of England +8 58 £65,000 -13.33% 51
North West +33 29 £62,500 -16.67% 20
Scotland +23 22 £72,289 +15.66% 12
South West -1 18 £55,000 -15.38% 40
South East +14 16 £68,750 -1.79% 71
North East -11 16 £51,500 -8.85% 9
Midlands +14 15 £70,542 +8.53% 32
West Midlands +19 13 £72,500 +11.54% 9
Yorkshire -2 13 £80,000 +3.90% 22
East of England +24 6 £77,500 +55.00% 27
Wales 0 4 £67,539 +3.91% 11
East Midlands -13 2 £54,600 +32.36% 21
Northern Ireland -11 1 - - 4

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 12 (3.93%) Confluence
2 11 (3.61%) Apache
3 10 (3.28%) nginx
4 9 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.97%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.66%) CICS
7 2 (0.66%) IIS
7 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
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
1 211 (69.18%) AWS
2 151 (49.51%) Azure
3 91 (29.84%) GCP
4 82 (26.89%) GitHub
5 78 (25.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 64 (20.98%) GitHub Actions
7 61 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
8 50 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
10 42 (13.77%) Serverless
11 41 (13.44%) Datadog
12 36 (11.80%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (9.84%) Amazon S3
13 30 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (9.51%) SaaS
15 26 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (7.87%) Azure Monitor
16 24 (7.87%) OpenShift
17 22 (7.21%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (6.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.85%) Firewall
2 24 (7.87%) DNS
3 17 (5.57%) HTTP
4 10 (3.28%) VPN
5 9 (2.95%) WAN
6 8 (2.62%) FTP
6 8 (2.62%) SSL
6 8 (2.62%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.30%) LAN
7 7 (2.30%) SMTP
7 7 (2.30%) SSH
7 7 (2.30%) Wireless
8 6 (1.97%) BGP
8 6 (1.97%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (1.64%) DHCP
9 5 (1.64%) Network Security
10 4 (1.31%) IMAP
10 4 (1.31%) MPLS
10 4 (1.31%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.98%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.82%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.20%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (3.61%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.95%) InfluxDB
5 9 (2.95%) MySQL
5 9 (2.95%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.95%) Redis
6 7 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.66%) Big Data
9 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.66%) DB2
9 2 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 98 (32.13%) Jenkins
2 76 (24.92%) GitLab
3 53 (17.38%) Git
4 38 (12.46%) JIRA
5 25 (8.20%) TeamCity
6 21 (6.89%) Cucumber
7 15 (4.92%) Bitbucket
8 13 (4.26%) Selenium
9 11 (3.61%) JMeter
9 11 (3.61%) JUnit
10 10 (3.28%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.62%) Locust
12 7 (2.30%) CircleCI
12 7 (2.30%) Cypress.io
12 7 (2.30%) Vagrant
13 6 (1.97%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.97%) MLflow
13 6 (1.97%) Robot Framework
13 6 (1.97%) TestRail
14 5 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 95 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 82 (26.89%) Finance
3 26 (8.52%) Banking
4 22 (7.21%) Law
5 21 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (6.23%) Retail
7 18 (5.90%) Back Office
8 17 (5.57%) Public Sector
8 17 (5.57%) Telecoms
9 16 (5.25%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.62%) Advertising
12 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.98%) Legal
14 2 (0.66%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.66%) Games
15 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (24.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (22.95%) Senior
3 36 (11.80%) Lead
4 33 (10.82%) Platform Engineer
5 29 (9.51%) Software Engineer
6 28 (9.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (6.23%) Developer
9 18 (5.90%) Senior DevOps
9 18 (5.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 17 (5.57%) Development Engineer
10 17 (5.57%) Lead DevOps
11 16 (5.25%) Applications Support
12 15 (4.92%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 13 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.93%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.61%) Analyst
16 11 (3.61%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (19.67%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (10.16%) .NET
3 16 (5.25%) Kafka
3 16 (5.25%) Spring
4 15 (4.92%) Spring Boot
5 14 (4.59%) ADO
5 14 (4.59%) React
6 12 (3.93%) AWS CDK
7 11 (3.61%) Node.js
7 11 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (3.28%) Django
8 10 (3.28%) Gherkin
8 10 (3.28%) Loki
9 9 (2.95%) Flask
9 9 (2.95%) pytest
10 6 (1.97%) OAuth
10 6 (1.97%) OAuth2
10 6 (1.97%) REST
10 6 (1.97%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 66 (21.64%) 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 9 (2.95%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.97%) 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%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.66%) Blog
12 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.66%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.66%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 116 (38.03%) Linux
2 62 (20.33%) Windows
3 16 (5.25%) Unix
4 12 (3.93%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.28%) VMS
6 8 (2.62%) CentOS
7 7 (2.30%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.64%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.98%) Debian
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
1 238 (78.03%) CI/CD
2 211 (69.18%) DevOps
3 154 (50.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (46.89%) Observability
5 121 (39.67%) Containerisation
6 87 (28.52%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (26.89%) Agile
8 77 (25.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 72 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (21.64%) Platform Engineering
11 65 (21.31%) Test Automation
12 51 (16.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 49 (16.07%) Software Engineering
14 47 (15.41%) Incident Response
15 45 (14.75%) Microservices
16 42 (13.77%) Deployment Automation
17 37 (12.13%) Cloud Security
17 37 (12.13%) High Availability
17 37 (12.13%) Mentoring
18 32 (10.49%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 172 (56.39%) Python
2 83 (27.21%) Bash
3 69 (22.62%) Java
4 48 (15.74%) PowerShell
5 44 (14.43%) SQL
6 38 (12.46%) JavaScript
7 32 (10.49%) Go
8 24 (7.87%) C#
9 17 (5.57%) Bicep
10 16 (5.25%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.62%) C++
11 8 (2.62%) Delphi
11 8 (2.62%) Groovy
12 6 (1.97%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.64%) Perl
13 5 (1.64%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.31%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.98%) Elixir
15 3 (0.98%) PHP
15 3 (0.98%) Rust
Qualifications
1 76 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 50 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.74%) Degree
4 28 (9.18%) AWS Certification
4 28 (9.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (8.52%) DV Cleared
6 17 (5.57%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.64%) MCP
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.98%) CCNP
10 3 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.66%) CCNA
11 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.44%) 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
1 162 (53.11%) Docker
2 11 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.31%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.31%) Dovecot
4 4 (1.31%) KVM
4 4 (1.31%) Postfix
4 4 (1.31%) Squid
5 3 (0.98%) iptables
6 2 (0.66%) NFS
6 2 (0.66%) RACF
6 2 (0.66%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.33%) pfSense
7 1 (0.33%) vCloud
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 213 (69.84%) Terraform
2 209 (68.52%) Kubernetes
3 185 (60.66%) Prometheus
4 102 (33.44%) Ansible
5 22 (7.21%) Argo
6 15 (4.92%) Kibana
7 12 (3.93%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (3.28%) Control-M
9 8 (2.62%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.97%) Nessus
12 5 (1.64%) Istio
12 5 (1.64%) linkerd
12 5 (1.64%) logstash
12 5 (1.64%) Mesos
12 5 (1.64%) Puppet
13 4 (1.31%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.98%) Rancher
14 3 (0.98%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (15.41%) Splunk
2 20 (6.56%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.25%) Oracle
3 16 (5.25%) VMware
4 15 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.59%) SolarWinds
6 12 (3.93%) Google
7 10 (3.28%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.62%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.62%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.30%) Cisco
9 7 (2.30%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.64%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.64%) Databricks
11 4 (1.31%) F5
11 4 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (0.98%) Arista
12 3 (0.98%) New Relic
12 3 (0.98%) Sonatype
12 3 (0.98%) Zscaler