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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 381 436
Rank change year-on-year -51 +55 -8
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 432 330 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.67% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.39% 6.68% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 234 215 213
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,500 £41,400
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £94,250
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 5,146 4,938 6,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.58% 9.96% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,661 2,857 3,901
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% -1.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -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 9 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 9 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 -56 353 £70,000 -3.45% 479
UK excluding London -86 199 £65,000 -10.34% 208
London -25 174 £82,500 - 334
Work from Home +43 169 £65,000 -7.14% 204
South East +2 65 £62,500 -19.35% 40
South West -29 47 £75,000 -18.92% 29
North of England -62 39 £70,000 +12.00% 53
North West -14 28 £71,250 +18.75% 33
Midlands -89 17 £62,500 -13.79% 17
Wales -62 14 £70,000 +21.74% 3
Scotland -8 12 £62,500 - 38
West Midlands -75 12 £56,250 -22.41% 9
North East -56 10 £57,500 -4.17% 8
East Midlands -32 5 £64,000 +14.80% 8
East of England -34 4 £82,500 +22.22% 19
Yorkshire -56 1 £82,500 +3.13% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10

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 (3.94%) Apache
2 9 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.39%) IIS
4 6 (1.39%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 295 (68.29%) AWS
2 173 (40.05%) GCP
3 158 (36.57%) Azure
4 80 (18.52%) Datadog
5 78 (18.06%) Amazon EKS
6 67 (15.51%) SaaS
7 63 (14.58%) GitHub
8 60 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (13.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (10.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (9.95%) Serverless
13 42 (9.72%) OpenShift
14 39 (9.03%) Amazon S3
15 34 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (7.18%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
18 23 (5.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 19 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
20 16 (3.70%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (10.42%) Firewall
2 17 (3.94%) DNS
3 16 (3.70%) VLAN
4 14 (3.24%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.01%) VPN
6 10 (2.31%) HTTP
6 10 (2.31%) SSH
7 8 (1.85%) BGP
7 8 (1.85%) WAN
8 7 (1.62%) Broadband
8 7 (1.62%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (1.62%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (1.62%) LAN
8 7 (1.62%) OSPF
8 7 (1.62%) Unified Communications
8 7 (1.62%) WebEx
9 6 (1.39%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.39%) Network Security
9 6 (1.39%) SNMP
10 3 (0.69%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (8.33%) MySQL
3 35 (8.10%) Elasticsearch
4 30 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (5.79%) NoSQL
6 24 (5.56%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.24%) InfluxDB
8 12 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.08%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.85%) Redis
11 8 (1.85%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.62%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.93%) Big Data
13 4 (0.93%) ZAP BI
14 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.46%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 90 (20.83%) GitLab
2 85 (19.68%) Jenkins
3 84 (19.44%) Git
4 61 (14.12%) TeamCity
5 25 (5.79%) SonarQube
6 22 (5.09%) Cucumber
6 22 (5.09%) Selenium
7 19 (4.40%) Cypress.io
7 19 (4.40%) JMeter
8 17 (3.94%) Gatling
9 15 (3.47%) JIRA
10 12 (2.78%) LoadRunner
11 11 (2.55%) Octopus Deploy
11 11 (2.55%) Postman
12 9 (2.08%) Robot Framework
12 9 (2.08%) TestRail
13 8 (1.85%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.85%) JUnit
14 7 (1.62%) Burp Suite
14 7 (1.62%) REST Assured
General
1 156 (36.11%) Finance
2 102 (23.61%) Banking
3 88 (20.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 83 (19.21%) Social Skills
5 79 (18.29%) Law
6 76 (17.59%) Retail
7 49 (11.34%) Financial Institution
8 47 (10.88%) Public Sector
9 45 (10.42%) Back Office
10 42 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (4.17%) Marketing
12 16 (3.70%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.62%) Legal
13 7 (1.62%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.69%) Military
16 2 (0.46%) Advertising
16 2 (0.46%) Billing
16 2 (0.46%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (18.29%) Senior
2 75 (17.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 74 (17.13%) Software Engineer
4 47 (10.88%) Lead
5 46 (10.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 40 (9.26%) Developer
7 40 (9.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 38 (8.80%) Site Engineer
9 35 (8.10%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (5.56%) Team Leader
12 23 (5.32%) Administrator
12 23 (5.32%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (5.09%) Systems Administrator
14 18 (4.17%) DevOps Administrator
14 18 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (4.17%) Software Team Leader
15 15 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (68.98%) Terraform
2 57 (13.19%) Elastic Stack
3 53 (12.27%) Kafka
4 39 (9.03%) OpenTelemetry
5 32 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
6 29 (6.71%) REST
7 28 (6.48%) RESTful
8 23 (5.32%) Loki
8 23 (5.32%) Node.js
9 22 (5.09%) Spring
9 22 (5.09%) Spring Boot
10 21 (4.86%) Playwright
10 21 (4.86%) React
11 20 (4.63%) pytest
12 18 (4.17%) .NET
13 15 (3.47%) YAML
14 13 (3.01%) Hibernate
14 13 (3.01%) JPA
15 12 (2.78%) gRPC
16 11 (2.55%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 142 (32.87%) Cloud Native
2 57 (13.19%) Product Ownership
3 41 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.94%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.47%) Blog
6 15 (3.47%) Virtual Team
7 14 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.01%) Replication
9 12 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.78%) Private Cloud
10 10 (2.31%) Mobile App
11 9 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.62%) FlexPod
12 7 (1.62%) PKI
12 7 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (1.39%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.39%) IoT
13 6 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (29.17%) Linux
2 45 (10.42%) Windows
3 23 (5.32%) CentOS
4 14 (3.24%) Unix
5 11 (2.55%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.62%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.39%) VMS
8 5 (1.16%) Android
8 5 (1.16%) Debian
8 5 (1.16%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.46%) Rocky
11 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (70.83%) CI/CD
2 242 (56.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 235 (54.40%) DevOps
4 231 (53.47%) Observability
5 157 (36.34%) Software Engineering
6 145 (33.56%) Containerisation
7 142 (32.87%) Test Automation
8 129 (29.86%) Agile
9 118 (27.31%) Deployment Automation
10 113 (26.16%) Problem-Solving
11 109 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (23.61%) Microservices
13 97 (22.45%) Mentoring
14 94 (21.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 93 (21.53%) Platform Engineering
16 82 (18.98%) AI
17 65 (15.05%) Continuous Deployment
18 64 (14.81%) GitOps
19 60 (13.89%) Clean Code
20 55 (12.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 265 (61.34%) Python
2 151 (34.95%) Bash
3 135 (31.25%) Java
4 81 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 58 (13.43%) SQL
6 47 (10.88%) JavaScript
7 40 (9.26%) Go
8 32 (7.41%) C#
9 25 (5.79%) TypeScript
10 20 (4.63%) Rust
11 16 (3.70%) C++
12 10 (2.31%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.08%) Bicep
14 8 (1.85%) PHP
15 7 (1.62%) VBA
16 6 (1.39%) Shell Script
17 5 (1.16%) Google Apps Script
18 4 (0.93%) Groovy
18 4 (0.93%) Scala
19 3 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 97 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 43 (9.95%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.64%) Degree
4 24 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.86%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.93%) CISSP
10 4 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.69%) OCP
11 3 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.46%) CISM
12 2 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.46%) GSEC
12 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (14.58%) QA
2 13 (3.01%) SLA
3 11 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.31%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.62%) GDPR
7 6 (1.39%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.39%) WCAG
8 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.69%) NIST
8 3 (0.69%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 194 (44.91%) Docker
2 21 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.55%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.31%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (1.62%) vSphere
7 5 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.16%) KVM
7 5 (1.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.69%) iptables
10 2 (0.46%) Xen
11 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 282 (65.28%) Kubernetes
2 233 (53.94%) Prometheus
3 141 (32.64%) Ansible
4 43 (9.95%) Argo
5 27 (6.25%) Kibana
6 25 (5.79%) Istio
7 18 (4.17%) Nagios
8 17 (3.94%) logstash
9 16 (3.70%) Puppet
10 13 (3.01%) Kustomize
11 11 (2.55%) linkerd
12 8 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (1.85%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.62%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (1.62%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.39%) Proxmox
15 5 (1.16%) Cilium
15 5 (1.16%) HP Fortify
15 5 (1.16%) Mesos
15 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (15.74%) Splunk
2 48 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 45 (10.42%) Dynatrace
4 35 (8.10%) Red Hat
5 30 (6.94%) Google
5 30 (6.94%) VMware
6 13 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.55%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.55%) Oracle
7 11 (2.55%) Rapid7
8 10 (2.31%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.85%) Cisco
10 7 (1.62%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.62%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.39%) Informatica
11 6 (1.39%) NetApp
11 6 (1.39%) New Relic
11 6 (1.39%) NVIDIA
12 5 (1.16%) Databricks
12 5 (1.16%) Veracode