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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 376 435
Rank change year-on-year -52 +59 -2
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 429 332 428
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.66% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.46% 6.61% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 236 218 215
10th Percentile £47,500 £57,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,750 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +3.85%

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 5,069 5,021 6,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.61% 10.04% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,622 2,940 4,189
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £51,058 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.64% -7.17% -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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -58 355 £70,000 -3.45% 515
UK excluding London -71 198 £65,000 -10.34% 244
London -16 175 £80,000 -3.03% 349
Work from Home +64 171 £65,000 -7.14% 245
South East -11 62 £62,500 -19.35% 42
South West -30 49 £70,000 -24.32% 31
North of England -43 42 £70,000 +5.66% 65
North West -16 28 £71,250 +18.75% 38
Midlands -85 17 £62,500 -13.79% 22
North East -49 13 £52,500 -12.50% 11
Scotland -17 12 £62,500 - 43
Wales -60 12 £70,000 +21.74% 5
West Midlands -66 12 £56,250 -22.41% 11
East Midlands -19 5 £64,000 +14.80% 11
East of England -20 3 £82,500 +22.22% 20
Yorkshire -48 1 £82,500 +3.13% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 18

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 (3.96%) Apache
2 9 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.86%) Confluence
4 6 (1.40%) IIS
5 5 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.17%) nginx
6 4 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 293 (68.30%) AWS
2 170 (39.63%) GCP
3 156 (36.36%) Azure
4 79 (18.41%) Datadog
5 76 (17.72%) Amazon EKS
6 64 (14.92%) SaaS
7 63 (14.69%) GitHub
8 60 (13.99%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (10.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (10.26%) Serverless
13 42 (9.79%) OpenShift
14 40 (9.32%) Amazon S3
15 35 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
18 24 (5.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 18 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
20 16 (3.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 47 (10.96%) Firewall
2 17 (3.96%) VLAN
3 16 (3.73%) DNS
4 14 (3.26%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.80%) VPN
6 9 (2.10%) HTTP
6 9 (2.10%) WAN
7 8 (1.86%) BGP
7 8 (1.86%) Broadband
7 8 (1.86%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (1.86%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (1.86%) LAN
7 8 (1.86%) SSH
7 8 (1.86%) Unified Communications
7 8 (1.86%) WebEx
8 7 (1.63%) Network Security
8 7 (1.63%) OSPF
9 6 (1.40%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.40%) SNMP
10 3 (0.70%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
3 33 (7.69%) MySQL
4 31 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (4.90%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.66%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.26%) InfluxDB
8 12 (2.80%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.10%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.63%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.40%) Redis
14 4 (0.93%) Big Data
14 4 (0.93%) ZAP BI
15 3 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
16 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
16 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 88 (20.51%) GitLab
2 86 (20.05%) Jenkins
3 79 (18.41%) Git
4 59 (13.75%) TeamCity
5 26 (6.06%) SonarQube
6 22 (5.13%) Cucumber
7 20 (4.66%) Selenium
8 19 (4.43%) Cypress.io
8 19 (4.43%) JMeter
9 17 (3.96%) Gatling
10 15 (3.50%) JIRA
11 12 (2.80%) LoadRunner
12 11 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (2.56%) Postman
13 9 (2.10%) Bitbucket
13 9 (2.10%) Robot Framework
13 9 (2.10%) TestRail
14 8 (1.86%) JUnit
15 7 (1.63%) Burp Suite
15 7 (1.63%) REST Assured
General
1 154 (35.90%) Finance
2 99 (23.08%) Banking
3 84 (19.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (19.11%) Social Skills
5 79 (18.41%) Law
6 75 (17.48%) Retail
7 47 (10.96%) Financial Institution
8 45 (10.49%) Public Sector
9 43 (10.02%) Back Office
10 40 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
11 19 (4.43%) Marketing
12 17 (3.96%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.63%) Legal
13 7 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.70%) Military
16 2 (0.47%) Advertising
16 2 (0.47%) Billing
16 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 76 (17.72%) Senior
3 72 (16.78%) Software Engineer
4 46 (10.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 45 (10.49%) Lead
6 42 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 39 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 37 (8.62%) Site Engineer
9 36 (8.39%) Developer
10 35 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
11 32 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (5.36%) Team Leader
13 22 (5.13%) Administrator
13 22 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (4.90%) Systems Administrator
15 18 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
16 17 (3.96%) DevOps Administrator
16 17 (3.96%) Software Team Leader
17 15 (3.50%) Java Engineer
17 15 (3.50%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (69.00%) Terraform
2 58 (13.52%) Elastic Stack
3 49 (11.42%) Kafka
4 39 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
5 28 (6.53%) RabbitMQ
6 26 (6.06%) REST
7 24 (5.59%) Node.js
7 24 (5.59%) RESTful
8 23 (5.36%) Loki
9 22 (5.13%) React
10 20 (4.66%) Playwright
10 20 (4.66%) Spring
10 20 (4.66%) Spring Boot
11 18 (4.20%) .NET
11 18 (4.20%) pytest
12 15 (3.50%) YAML
13 11 (2.56%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.56%) Hibernate
13 11 (2.56%) JPA
13 11 (2.56%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 138 (32.17%) Cloud Native
2 53 (12.35%) Product Ownership
3 39 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (4.20%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.50%) Blog
6 15 (3.50%) Replication
7 13 (3.03%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.56%) Private Cloud
10 10 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.33%) Mobile App
11 9 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.86%) FlexPod
12 8 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
13 7 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (1.63%) PKI
14 6 (1.40%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 126 (29.37%) Linux
2 46 (10.72%) Windows
3 23 (5.36%) CentOS
4 13 (3.03%) Unix
5 12 (2.80%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.40%) VMS
8 5 (1.17%) Android
8 5 (1.17%) Debian
8 5 (1.17%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.47%) Rocky
11 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (69.70%) CI/CD
2 241 (56.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 229 (53.38%) DevOps
3 229 (53.38%) Observability
4 152 (35.43%) Software Engineering
5 145 (33.80%) Containerisation
6 137 (31.93%) Test Automation
7 124 (28.90%) Agile
8 115 (26.81%) Deployment Automation
9 110 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (25.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (22.84%) Microservices
12 95 (22.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 93 (21.68%) Mentoring
14 92 (21.45%) Platform Engineering
15 79 (18.41%) AI
16 64 (14.92%) GitOps
17 63 (14.69%) Continuous Deployment
18 58 (13.52%) Clean Code
19 55 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 267 (62.24%) Python
2 151 (35.20%) Bash
3 131 (30.54%) Java
4 81 (18.88%) PowerShell
5 55 (12.82%) SQL
6 45 (10.49%) JavaScript
7 41 (9.56%) Go
8 33 (7.69%) C#
9 25 (5.83%) TypeScript
10 20 (4.66%) Rust
11 16 (3.73%) C++
12 10 (2.33%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.10%) Bicep
14 8 (1.86%) PHP
15 7 (1.63%) VBA
16 5 (1.17%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.93%) Groovy
17 4 (0.93%) Scala
17 4 (0.93%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 96 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.69%) Degree
4 24 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.13%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.93%) CISSP
10 4 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.70%) OCP
11 3 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.47%) CISM
12 2 (0.47%) ISEB
12 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (13.75%) QA
2 13 (3.03%) SLA
3 11 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.86%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.63%) GDPR
7 6 (1.40%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.40%) WCAG
8 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.70%) NIST
8 3 (0.70%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 191 (44.52%) Docker
2 22 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.86%) vSphere
6 5 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.17%) KVM
6 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (1.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.93%) iptables
8 2 (0.47%) Xen
9 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 277 (64.57%) Kubernetes
2 230 (53.61%) Prometheus
3 144 (33.57%) Ansible
4 43 (10.02%) Argo
5 26 (6.06%) Kibana
6 25 (5.83%) Istio
7 18 (4.20%) Nagios
8 17 (3.96%) logstash
8 17 (3.96%) Puppet
9 13 (3.03%) Kustomize
10 11 (2.56%) linkerd
11 8 (1.86%) Cisco CUCM
11 8 (1.86%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (1.86%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.63%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.40%) Proxmox
14 5 (1.17%) Cilium
14 5 (1.17%) HP Fortify
14 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (1.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 67 (15.62%) Splunk
2 49 (11.42%) Microsoft
3 45 (10.49%) Dynatrace
4 35 (8.16%) Red Hat
5 31 (7.23%) VMware
6 30 (6.99%) Google
7 13 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.56%) Atlassian
8 11 (2.56%) Oracle
8 11 (2.56%) Rapid7
9 10 (2.33%) AppDynamics
10 9 (2.10%) Cisco
11 8 (1.86%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.86%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.63%) NetApp
13 6 (1.40%) Informatica
13 6 (1.40%) New Relic
13 6 (1.40%) NVIDIA
14 5 (1.17%) Databricks
14 5 (1.17%) Veracode