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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 453 530
Rank change year-on-year +93 +77 -24
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 343 257 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.51% 0.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.08% 4.46% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 214 148 187
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,862 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,310 £74,435 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% -0.75% -
75th Percentile £85,188 £87,500 £93,125
90th Percentile £98,375 £101,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.19% +8.00% +1.07%

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 4,246 5,759 8,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.49% 11.44% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,951 3,519 7,090
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,200 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,125 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -2.62%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +59 267 £74,750 -0.16% 135
Work from Home +100 156 £72,500 +3.57% 82
UK excluding London +17 146 £64,000 -5.19% 104
London +82 139 £82,500 -2.94% 64
North of England -11 56 £60,000 -19.93% 30
South West -10 24 £65,000 - 12
North West +23 23 £62,500 -16.67% 15
South East +5 23 £67,500 -6.90% 32
Scotland 0 20 £72,289 -31.15% 12
North East -20 20 £51,500 -10.43% 2
Yorkshire -19 13 £67,500 -9.84% 13
Midlands -1 11 £64,000 -1.54% 15
West Midlands +14 7 £55,200 -15.08% 14
East of England +19 6 £85,000 +70.00% 1
Wales -7 4 £67,539 +3.91% 3
East Midlands -18 4 £69,500 +68.48% 2
Northern Ireland -18 2 - -

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 18 (5.25%) Apache
2 11 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.04%) nginx
5 5 (1.46%) Confluence
6 3 (0.87%) IIS
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.29%) CICS
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.29%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.17%) Weka
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.29%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 242 (70.55%) AWS
2 168 (48.98%) Azure
3 129 (37.61%) GCP
4 98 (28.57%) GitHub
5 86 (25.07%) Amazon EKS
6 82 (23.91%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (22.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 56 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (14.87%) Datadog
11 43 (12.54%) Serverless
12 38 (11.08%) SaaS
13 26 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (7.00%) OpenShift
16 23 (6.71%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (6.12%) Amazon S3
17 21 (6.12%) Azure AKS
18 20 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
19 19 (5.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (10.20%) Firewall
2 23 (6.71%) DNS
3 19 (5.54%) HTTP
4 14 (4.08%) TCP/IP
4 14 (4.08%) VPN
5 8 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (2.04%) SSL
6 7 (2.04%) WAN
6 7 (2.04%) Wireless
7 6 (1.75%) BGP
8 5 (1.46%) DHCP
8 5 (1.46%) LAN
9 4 (1.17%) MPLS
9 4 (1.17%) MQTT
9 4 (1.17%) Network Security
10 3 (0.87%) SAN
10 3 (0.87%) VLAN
11 2 (0.58%) FTP
11 2 (0.58%) OSPF
11 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.87%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (3.50%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.50%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (3.21%) MySQL
6 8 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.33%) InfluxDB
6 8 (2.33%) Redis
7 5 (1.46%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.87%) Big Data
9 2 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.58%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.58%) Metadata
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.58%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 105 (30.61%) Jenkins
2 81 (23.62%) GitLab
3 50 (14.58%) Git
4 43 (12.54%) TeamCity
5 27 (7.87%) JIRA
6 25 (7.29%) Cucumber
7 15 (4.37%) Bitbucket
7 15 (4.37%) SonarQube
8 14 (4.08%) Selenium
9 13 (3.79%) CircleCI
10 12 (3.50%) JMeter
11 11 (3.21%) JUnit
12 8 (2.33%) Locust
12 8 (2.33%) Robot Framework
12 8 (2.33%) TestRail
13 7 (2.04%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.75%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.75%) MLflow
15 5 (1.46%) Gradle
16 4 (1.17%) Maven
General
1 110 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 97 (28.28%) Finance
3 47 (13.70%) Law
4 43 (12.54%) Banking
5 41 (11.95%) Retail
6 39 (11.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (7.87%) Back Office
8 25 (7.29%) Financial Institution
8 25 (7.29%) Telecoms
9 23 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (3.50%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.33%) Advertising
12 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Legal
14 2 (0.58%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.29%) Aviation
15 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (25.07%) Senior
2 72 (20.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (12.83%) Software Engineer
4 36 (10.50%) Platform Engineer
5 34 (9.91%) Lead
6 33 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (6.71%) Developer
8 22 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (5.54%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (4.96%) Applications Support
10 17 (4.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.96%) Development Engineer
10 17 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (4.96%) Java Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) Java Software Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (20.70%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (9.04%) .NET
3 24 (7.00%) Kafka
4 18 (5.25%) Spring
5 17 (4.96%) React
5 17 (4.96%) Spring Boot
6 15 (4.37%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (4.08%) ADO
8 11 (3.21%) AWS CDK
8 11 (3.21%) Node.js
9 10 (2.92%) Django
9 10 (2.92%) Gherkin
9 10 (2.92%) Loki
9 10 (2.92%) pytest
10 9 (2.62%) Flask
11 8 (2.33%) JWT
11 8 (2.33%) OAuth
11 8 (2.33%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.33%) REST
12 7 (2.04%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 84 (24.49%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.79%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.92%) Blog
6 10 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.04%) PKI
8 7 (2.04%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.46%) IoT
10 3 (0.87%) Blockchain
10 3 (0.87%) Replication
10 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.58%) MPEG
11 2 (0.58%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.58%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 125 (36.44%) Linux
2 64 (18.66%) Windows
3 16 (4.66%) Unix
4 12 (3.50%) CentOS
5 11 (3.21%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.75%) VMS
7 6 (1.75%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.87%) SUSE
9 2 (0.58%) Debian
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (78.72%) CI/CD
2 219 (63.85%) DevOps
3 181 (52.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 152 (44.31%) Observability
5 144 (41.98%) Containerisation
6 104 (30.32%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (27.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 93 (27.11%) Test Automation
8 86 (25.07%) Agile
9 81 (23.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 73 (21.28%) Software Engineering
11 69 (20.12%) Platform Engineering
12 65 (18.95%) Deployment Automation
13 62 (18.08%) Microservices
14 49 (14.29%) High Availability
14 49 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 47 (13.70%) Incident Response
16 45 (13.12%) Mentoring
17 42 (12.24%) Clean Code
18 41 (11.95%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 194 (56.56%) Python
2 103 (30.03%) Bash
3 90 (26.24%) Java
4 47 (13.70%) JavaScript
5 46 (13.41%) PowerShell
6 44 (12.83%) Go
7 42 (12.24%) SQL
8 26 (7.58%) C#
9 22 (6.41%) TypeScript
10 17 (4.96%) Bicep
11 11 (3.21%) C++
12 10 (2.92%) Rust
13 8 (2.33%) Delphi
13 8 (2.33%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.75%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (1.17%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.87%) Elixir
16 3 (0.87%) Erlang
17 2 (0.58%) Ruby
17 2 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 82 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 49 (14.29%) Degree
3 45 (13.12%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.33%) AWS Certification
5 29 (8.45%) DV Cleared
6 27 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.37%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.87%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.58%) CCNP
12 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.83%) QA
2 9 (2.62%) GDPR
3 7 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.04%) WCAG
4 5 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.17%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 164 (47.81%) Docker
2 11 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.92%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.75%) KVM
5 4 (1.17%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.87%) iptables
6 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.58%) NFS
7 2 (0.58%) vSphere
8 1 (0.29%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.29%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.29%) pfSense
8 1 (0.29%) Postfix
8 1 (0.29%) RACF
8 1 (0.29%) Squid
8 1 (0.29%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 257 (74.93%) Terraform
2 242 (70.55%) Kubernetes
3 194 (56.56%) Prometheus
4 125 (36.44%) Ansible
5 22 (6.41%) Argo
6 19 (5.54%) Kibana
7 11 (3.21%) Docker Swarm
7 11 (3.21%) Puppet
8 9 (2.62%) Control-M
8 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.33%) logstash
9 8 (2.33%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.04%) Istio
10 7 (2.04%) linkerd
10 7 (2.04%) Mesos
10 7 (2.04%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.75%) Proxmox
12 5 (1.46%) Nagios
13 3 (0.87%) Nessus
13 3 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (12.83%) Splunk
2 28 (8.16%) VMware
3 21 (6.12%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.37%) Oracle
5 14 (4.08%) Dynatrace
6 13 (3.79%) Google
7 12 (3.50%) SolarWinds
8 11 (3.21%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.62%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.33%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.75%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.46%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.46%) Cisco
12 5 (1.46%) Databricks
13 4 (1.17%) Cribl.io
13 4 (1.17%) F5
14 3 (0.87%) New Relic
14 3 (0.87%) Okta
14 3 (0.87%) OneLogin
14 3 (0.87%) Zscaler