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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 455 529
Rank change year-on-year +96 +74 0
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 342 252 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.49% 0.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.01% 4.38% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 215 144 190
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,344 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% - -
75th Percentile £85,500 £87,500 £90,938
90th Percentile £103,250 £103,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -

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 4,268 5,757 8,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.61% 11.28% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,970 3,531 7,072
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £33,185
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £101,250
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 4 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 4 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 +71 265 £74,750 -0.33% 140
Work from Home +99 158 £70,000 -6.67% 78
UK excluding London +22 144 £65,000 -3.70% 105
London +87 138 £82,500 -2.94% 73
North of England -8 57 £60,000 -20.00% 28
North West +19 25 £62,500 -16.67% 14
South West -2 24 £65,000 - 13
South East +13 21 £67,500 -10.00% 33
Scotland -4 20 £72,289 - 14
North East -24 19 £51,500 -10.43% 2
Yorkshire -5 13 £67,500 -12.34% 12
Midlands -4 10 £67,271 +3.49% 12
West Midlands +20 7 £70,542 +8.53% 10
East of England +18 6 £85,000 +70.00% 3
Wales -13 4 £67,539 +3.91% 3
East Midlands -6 3 £64,000 +55.15% 2
Northern Ireland -15 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 (5.26%) Apache
2 9 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.05%) nginx
4 6 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.75%) Confluence
5 3 (0.88%) IIS
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) CICS
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.29%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Weka
2 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 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%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.29%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 241 (70.47%) AWS
2 164 (47.95%) Azure
3 125 (36.55%) GCP
4 97 (28.36%) GitHub
5 87 (25.44%) Amazon EKS
6 80 (23.39%) GitHub Actions
7 79 (23.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 56 (16.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (14.04%) Datadog
11 46 (13.45%) Serverless
12 38 (11.11%) SaaS
13 29 (8.48%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (7.60%) OpenShift
15 25 (7.31%) Amazon S3
16 23 (6.73%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (6.43%) Amazon ECS
17 22 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 21 (6.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.65%) Firewall
2 25 (7.31%) DNS
3 18 (5.26%) HTTP
4 15 (4.39%) VPN
5 14 (4.09%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.34%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (2.34%) SSL
6 8 (2.34%) WAN
7 7 (2.05%) Wireless
8 6 (1.75%) BGP
8 6 (1.75%) LAN
9 5 (1.46%) DHCP
10 4 (1.17%) MPLS
10 4 (1.17%) Network Security
11 3 (0.88%) FTP
11 3 (0.88%) MQTT
11 3 (0.88%) SAN
11 3 (0.88%) VLAN
12 2 (0.58%) OSPF
12 2 (0.58%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (7.60%) SQL Server
3 24 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (3.22%) MySQL
5 11 (3.22%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.34%) InfluxDB
7 8 (2.34%) Redis
8 5 (1.46%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.88%) Big Data
9 3 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.58%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.58%) Metadata
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.58%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 108 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 81 (23.68%) GitLab
3 51 (14.91%) Git
4 44 (12.87%) TeamCity
5 28 (8.19%) JIRA
6 25 (7.31%) Cucumber
7 15 (4.39%) Bitbucket
7 15 (4.39%) SonarQube
8 14 (4.09%) Selenium
9 12 (3.51%) CircleCI
10 11 (3.22%) JMeter
10 11 (3.22%) JUnit
11 8 (2.34%) Cypress.io
11 8 (2.34%) Locust
11 8 (2.34%) Robot Framework
11 8 (2.34%) TestRail
12 6 (1.75%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.75%) MLflow
13 5 (1.46%) Gradle
14 4 (1.17%) Maven
General
1 108 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 96 (28.07%) Finance
3 45 (13.16%) Law
4 44 (12.87%) Banking
5 40 (11.70%) Retail
6 38 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (7.89%) Back Office
8 25 (7.31%) Financial Institution
9 23 (6.73%) Telecoms
10 20 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (3.51%) Public Sector
12 8 (2.34%) Advertising
13 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.88%) Legal
15 2 (0.58%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.29%) Aviation
16 1 (0.29%) Front Office
16 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 84 (24.56%) Senior
2 73 (21.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (13.16%) Software Engineer
4 36 (10.53%) Lead
4 36 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
5 34 (9.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (6.73%) Developer
7 21 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
8 20 (5.85%) Senior DevOps
9 17 (4.97%) Applications Support
9 17 (4.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 17 (4.97%) Development Engineer
9 17 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (4.68%) Java Engineer
10 16 (4.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.80%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
11 13 (3.80%) Software Developer
12 12 (3.51%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (9.36%) .NET
3 21 (6.14%) Kafka
4 18 (5.26%) React
5 16 (4.68%) Spring
6 15 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (4.39%) Spring Boot
7 14 (4.09%) ADO
8 13 (3.80%) AWS CDK
9 11 (3.22%) Node.js
10 10 (2.92%) Django
10 10 (2.92%) Gherkin
10 10 (2.92%) Loki
10 10 (2.92%) pytest
11 9 (2.63%) Flask
11 9 (2.63%) REST
12 8 (2.34%) JWT
12 8 (2.34%) OAuth
12 8 (2.34%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 83 (24.27%) Cloud Native
2 36 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.92%) Blog
6 10 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.05%) PKI
9 6 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.46%) IoT
11 3 (0.88%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.88%) Replication
11 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.58%) MPEG
12 2 (0.58%) NHS
12 2 (0.58%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 128 (37.43%) Linux
2 66 (19.30%) Windows
3 16 (4.68%) Unix
4 12 (3.51%) CentOS
5 11 (3.22%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.05%) VMS
8 5 (1.46%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.88%) SUSE
10 2 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.58%) Debian
11 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (78.36%) CI/CD
2 221 (64.62%) DevOps
3 178 (52.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (43.27%) Observability
5 140 (40.94%) Containerisation
6 105 (30.70%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (26.32%) Test Automation
8 88 (25.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 81 (23.68%) Agile
10 78 (22.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 74 (21.64%) Software Engineering
12 70 (20.47%) Platform Engineering
13 64 (18.71%) Deployment Automation
14 62 (18.13%) Microservices
15 50 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 47 (13.74%) High Availability
17 46 (13.45%) Incident Response
17 46 (13.45%) Mentoring
18 42 (12.28%) Clean Code
19 38 (11.11%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 191 (55.85%) Python
2 102 (29.82%) Bash
3 91 (26.61%) Java
4 48 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 45 (13.16%) PowerShell
6 44 (12.87%) Go
7 42 (12.28%) SQL
8 27 (7.89%) C#
9 23 (6.73%) TypeScript
10 17 (4.97%) Bicep
11 11 (3.22%) C++
12 9 (2.63%) Rust
13 8 (2.34%) Delphi
13 8 (2.34%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.75%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (1.46%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.88%) Elixir
16 3 (0.88%) Erlang
16 3 (0.88%) Perl
17 2 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 84 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 47 (13.74%) Degree
2 47 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.65%) AWS Certification
4 30 (8.77%) DV Cleared
5 27 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.88%) CCNP
10 3 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.88%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.57%) QA
2 9 (2.63%) GDPR
3 7 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.05%) WCAG
4 4 (1.17%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 166 (48.54%) Docker
2 11 (3.22%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.75%) KVM
4 4 (1.17%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.88%) iptables
5 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.58%) NFS
6 2 (0.58%) vSphere
7 1 (0.29%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.29%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.29%) pfSense
7 1 (0.29%) Postfix
7 1 (0.29%) RACF
7 1 (0.29%) Squid
7 1 (0.29%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 253 (73.98%) Terraform
2 242 (70.76%) Kubernetes
3 193 (56.43%) Prometheus
4 123 (35.96%) Ansible
5 22 (6.43%) Argo
6 19 (5.56%) Kibana
7 12 (3.51%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (3.22%) Puppet
9 9 (2.63%) Control-M
9 9 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (2.63%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.34%) logstash
11 7 (2.05%) Istio
11 7 (2.05%) linkerd
11 7 (2.05%) Mesos
11 7 (2.05%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.46%) Nagios
12 5 (1.46%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 46 (13.45%) Splunk
2 27 (7.89%) VMware
3 20 (5.85%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.39%) Oracle
5 13 (3.80%) Google
6 12 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 12 (3.51%) SolarWinds
7 11 (3.22%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.92%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.05%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.75%) Cisco
10 6 (1.75%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.46%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.46%) Databricks
12 4 (1.17%) Cribl.io
12 4 (1.17%) F5
13 3 (0.88%) New Relic
13 3 (0.88%) Okta
13 3 (0.88%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.88%) Zscaler