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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 383 535
Rank change year-on-year -5 +152 -55
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 395 321 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.72% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.92% 5.98% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 233 206 200
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,525
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year - -7.94% +5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,688 £89,063
90th Percentile £97,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +7.69%

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 4,987 5,372 9,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.32% 12.01% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,608 3,133 6,962
10th Percentile £34,472 £33,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,250 £44,801
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,625
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -7.60%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -7 353 £72,500 - 78
UK excluding London -35 184 £62,500 -10.71% 68
London -2 170 £82,500 +3.13% 31
Work from Home +79 161 £70,000 - 50
South West -14 52 £65,000 - 5
South East +1 49 £62,500 -19.35% 20
North of England -26 49 £52,500 -19.23% 16
North West +11 24 £67,500 +12.50% 13
North East -32 19 £47,500 -19.15% 1
Midlands -61 18 £64,000 -8.57% 6
West Midlands -56 12 £56,250 -22.41% 2
East Midlands -21 6 £64,500 +12.17% 4
Yorkshire -41 6 £66,250 -11.51% 2
East of England -13 5 £85,000 +47.83% 6
Wales -48 5 £70,000 +21.74% 1
Scotland -11 4 £62,500 -34.21% 6
Northern Ireland -32 2 - - 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 18 (4.56%) Apache
2 12 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.77%) Confluence
4 6 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.76%) IIS
5 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.01%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 271 (68.61%) AWS
2 160 (40.51%) Azure
3 151 (38.23%) GCP
4 79 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 69 (17.47%) GitHub
6 67 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (16.46%) GitHub Actions
8 61 (15.44%) Datadog
9 59 (14.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 54 (13.67%) Serverless
11 49 (12.41%) SaaS
12 42 (10.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (9.11%) Amazon S3
14 34 (8.61%) OpenShift
15 31 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
18 21 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
19 17 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
20 16 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (14.94%) Firewall
2 29 (7.34%) DNS
3 24 (6.08%) TCP/IP
4 23 (5.82%) HTTP
5 19 (4.81%) VLAN
6 16 (4.05%) VPN
7 11 (2.78%) WAN
8 10 (2.53%) LAN
8 10 (2.53%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.53%) WebEx
9 9 (2.28%) Broadband
9 9 (2.28%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.28%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (2.03%) BGP
11 7 (1.77%) MQTT
11 7 (1.77%) Network Security
11 7 (1.77%) OSPF
12 6 (1.52%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.52%) SNMP
13 5 (1.27%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.09%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (4.56%) MySQL
5 16 (4.05%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.54%) InfluxDB
7 12 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.04%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.77%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.01%) Big Data
11 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.76%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.51%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.51%) Looker
13 2 (0.51%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 89 (22.53%) GitLab
2 86 (21.77%) Jenkins
3 61 (15.44%) TeamCity
4 55 (13.92%) Git
5 27 (6.84%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.82%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.32%) JMeter
8 14 (3.54%) CircleCI
9 13 (3.29%) JIRA
10 12 (3.04%) Bitbucket
10 12 (3.04%) Cypress.io
10 12 (3.04%) Selenium
11 11 (2.78%) LoadRunner
12 10 (2.53%) Gatling
13 7 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.77%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.77%) TestRail
14 6 (1.52%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.27%) Burp Suite
15 5 (1.27%) Locust
General
1 113 (28.61%) Finance
2 80 (20.25%) Law
3 79 (20.00%) Banking
4 77 (19.49%) Social Skills
5 72 (18.23%) Retail
6 67 (16.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (9.87%) Financial Institution
8 36 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (9.11%) Back Office
8 36 (9.11%) Public Sector
9 31 (7.85%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.28%) Marketing
11 8 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Legal
14 2 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.25%) Aviation
15 1 (0.25%) Games
15 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 86 (21.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (20.51%) Senior
3 60 (15.19%) Software Engineer
4 41 (10.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (8.35%) Lead
7 30 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (6.84%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (6.08%) Developer
10 22 (5.57%) Senior DevOps
10 22 (5.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 20 (5.06%) Java Engineer
11 20 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (5.06%) Site Engineer
12 19 (4.81%) Administrator
13 18 (4.56%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (4.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.56%) Systems Administrator
14 17 (4.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 16 (4.05%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.20%) Elastic Stack
2 43 (10.89%) Kafka
3 26 (6.58%) OpenTelemetry
4 20 (5.06%) Loki
4 20 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
5 18 (4.56%) Node.js
5 18 (4.56%) REST
6 17 (4.30%) React
7 16 (4.05%) .NET
8 14 (3.54%) Spring
9 13 (3.29%) OAuth
9 13 (3.29%) Spring Boot
10 12 (3.04%) Apache NiFi
10 12 (3.04%) gRPC
10 12 (3.04%) YAML
11 11 (2.78%) Playwright
12 10 (2.53%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.53%) Vue
12 10 (2.53%) XMPP
13 8 (2.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (30.63%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.86%) Product Ownership
3 29 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (5.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (5.06%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.05%) Blog
7 13 (3.29%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.78%) Replication
9 10 (2.53%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.52%) PKI
11 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.27%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.01%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 112 (28.35%) Linux
2 52 (13.16%) Windows
3 19 (4.81%) CentOS
4 13 (3.29%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.77%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.77%) VMS
7 6 (1.52%) Unix
8 4 (1.01%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.76%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (75.44%) CI/CD
2 231 (58.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 224 (56.71%) DevOps
4 170 (43.04%) Observability
5 166 (42.03%) Containerisation
6 132 (33.42%) Test Automation
7 124 (31.39%) Software Engineering
8 121 (30.63%) Agile
9 109 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
10 104 (26.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (25.57%) Deployment Automation
12 86 (21.77%) Microservices
13 81 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 75 (18.99%) Platform Engineering
15 69 (17.47%) Mentoring
16 58 (14.68%) Clean Code
17 57 (14.43%) AI
17 57 (14.43%) Continuous Deployment
17 57 (14.43%) DevSecOps
18 53 (13.42%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 246 (62.28%) Python
2 162 (41.01%) Bash
3 119 (30.13%) Java
4 69 (17.47%) PowerShell
5 50 (12.66%) SQL
6 47 (11.90%) Go
7 45 (11.39%) JavaScript
8 35 (8.86%) C#
9 29 (7.34%) Rust
10 19 (4.81%) TypeScript
11 18 (4.56%) C++
12 9 (2.28%) Bicep
13 8 (2.03%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.52%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (1.27%) VBA
16 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.76%) Elixir
17 3 (0.76%) Erlang
17 3 (0.76%) Ruby
18 2 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 87 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.63%) Degree
3 35 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.34%) DV Cleared
5 28 (7.09%) AWS Certification
6 20 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.04%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.51%) CISSP
13 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.62%) QA
2 12 (3.04%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.78%) GDPR
4 10 (2.53%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.28%) SLA
6 8 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.52%) WCAG
8 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.51%) GRC
10 2 (0.51%) SEPA
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 176 (44.56%) Docker
2 24 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.53%) Virtual Servers
3 10 (2.53%) vSphere
4 7 (1.77%) iptables
4 7 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.52%) KVM
5 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.01%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 291 (73.67%) Terraform
2 257 (65.06%) Kubernetes
3 223 (56.46%) Prometheus
4 153 (38.73%) Ansible
5 29 (7.34%) Kibana
6 25 (6.33%) Argo
7 22 (5.57%) Puppet
8 16 (4.05%) Nagios
9 15 (3.80%) Istio
10 13 (3.29%) logstash
11 10 (2.53%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.53%) Progress Chef
11 10 (2.53%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.28%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (2.03%) linkerd
13 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (2.03%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.77%) Kustomize
15 5 (1.27%) Mesos
15 5 (1.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (12.66%) Splunk
2 42 (10.63%) Microsoft
3 41 (10.38%) VMware
4 29 (7.34%) Red Hat
5 24 (6.08%) Dynatrace
6 18 (4.56%) Google
7 11 (2.78%) Cisco
8 10 (2.53%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.53%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.28%) AppDynamics
9 9 (2.28%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.03%) Oracle
10 8 (2.03%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.77%) NetApp
11 7 (1.77%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.27%) Tenable
13 4 (1.01%) Cribl.io
13 4 (1.01%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.01%) Veracode