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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 456 532
Rank change year-on-year +104 +76 -18
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 343 258 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.51% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.08% 4.48% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 214 149 187
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,991 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.17% -
75th Percentile £85,188 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £99,625 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 4,245 5,763 8,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.52% 11.37% 11.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,950 3,537 7,119
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,965 £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 £83,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.42% +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 7 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 7 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 +67 266 £74,750 -0.25% 136
Work from Home +95 157 £71,250 +1.79% 77
UK excluding London +23 144 £62,500 -7.41% 105
London +91 140 £82,500 -2.94% 63
North of England -18 56 £60,000 -19.93% 29
South West -4 24 £65,000 - 11
North West +26 23 £62,500 -16.67% 16
South East +5 22 £65,000 -10.34% 31
Scotland +3 20 £72,289 -31.15% 14
North East -23 20 £51,500 -10.43% 2
Yorkshire -15 13 £67,500 -9.84% 11
Midlands -5 10 £59,600 -8.31% 16
West Midlands +15 7 £55,200 -15.08% 14
East of England +23 6 £85,000 +70.00% 2
Wales -2 4 £67,539 +3.91% 3
East Midlands -15 3 £64,000 +55.15% 2
Northern Ireland -21 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
1 241 (70.26%) AWS
2 167 (48.69%) Azure
3 128 (37.32%) 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 50 (14.58%) 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%) Network Security
10 3 (0.87%) MQTT
10 3 (0.87%) SAN
10 3 (0.87%) VLAN
11 2 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
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 13 (3.79%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.50%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (3.21%) MySQL
7 8 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.33%) InfluxDB
7 8 (2.33%) Redis
8 5 (1.46%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.87%) Big Data
10 2 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.58%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.58%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 105 (30.61%) Jenkins
2 80 (23.32%) GitLab
3 49 (14.29%) 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 98 (28.57%) 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%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (25.36%) Senior
2 71 (20.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (12.83%) Software Engineer
4 36 (10.50%) Platform Engineer
5 35 (10.20%) Lead
6 34 (9.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (6.71%) Developer
8 21 (6.12%) 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%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) Java Software Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.50%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (20.70%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (9.04%) .NET
3 23 (6.71%) 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
10 9 (2.62%) REST
11 8 (2.33%) JWT
11 8 (2.33%) OAuth
11 8 (2.33%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 84 (24.49%) Cloud Native
2 36 (10.50%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.92%) Blog
5 10 (2.92%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.04%) PKI
7 7 (2.04%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.46%) IoT
9 3 (0.87%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.87%) Replication
9 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.58%) NHS
10 2 (0.58%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.58%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 126 (36.73%) Linux
2 65 (18.95%) 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
2 220 (64.14%) DevOps
3 181 (52.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (44.02%) Observability
5 142 (41.40%) Containerisation
6 104 (30.32%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (27.41%) Test Automation
8 93 (27.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 85 (24.78%) Agile
10 80 (23.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 73 (21.28%) Software Engineering
12 69 (20.12%) Platform Engineering
13 64 (18.66%) Deployment Automation
14 62 (18.08%) Microservices
15 50 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 49 (14.29%) High Availability
17 48 (13.99%) Incident Response
18 44 (12.83%) Mentoring
19 42 (12.24%) Clean Code
20 40 (11.66%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 193 (56.27%) Python
2 103 (30.03%) Bash
3 90 (26.24%) Java
4 47 (13.70%) JavaScript
5 46 (13.41%) PowerShell
6 45 (13.12%) Go
7 43 (12.54%) SQL
8 26 (7.58%) C#
9 22 (6.41%) TypeScript
10 17 (4.96%) Bicep
11 11 (3.21%) C++
12 9 (2.62%) 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%) Perl
17 2 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 48 (13.99%) 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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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
13 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.54%) 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
1 163 (47.52%) 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
1 256 (74.64%) Terraform
2 243 (70.85%) Kubernetes
3 193 (56.27%) 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 20 (5.83%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.37%) Oracle
5 14 (4.08%) Dynatrace
6 13 (3.79%) Google
7 11 (3.21%) Red Hat
7 11 (3.21%) SolarWinds
8 9 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.33%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.75%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.46%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.46%) Cisco
11 5 (1.46%) Databricks
12 4 (1.17%) Cribl.io
12 4 (1.17%) F5
13 3 (0.87%) New Relic
13 3 (0.87%) Okta
13 3 (0.87%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.87%) Zscaler