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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 373 448
Rank change year-on-year -48 +75 +1
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 419 351 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.71% 0.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.25% 6.29% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 242 235 200
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,975
25th Percentile £55,731 £61,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +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 5,782 5,584 7,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.58% 11.26% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,212 3,328 5,215
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,373 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.36% -5.22%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 August 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 August 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 -32 359 £70,000 -3.45% 350
UK excluding London -60 204 £65,000 -7.14% 170
Work from Home +58 171 £65,000 -7.14% 171
London -24 167 £82,500 - 222
South East -2 62 £62,500 -16.67% 34
South West -10 53 £65,000 -18.75% 31
North of England -36 47 £67,500 +3.85% 45
North West -3 31 £70,000 +16.67% 24
Midlands -82 20 £62,500 -13.79% 15
North East -40 15 £47,500 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -76 15 £62,500 -13.79% 11
Wales -47 10 £70,000 +33.18% 5
Scotland -12 9 £62,500 -34.21% 22
East Midlands -18 5 £64,500 +15.70% 4
East of England -27 2 £77,575 +14.93% 14
Yorkshire -47 1 £82,500 +10.19% 15
Northern Ireland -77 1 - - 6

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 16 (3.82%) Apache
2 11 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.91%) Confluence
4 6 (1.43%) IIS
5 5 (1.19%) nginx
6 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 282 (67.30%) AWS
2 164 (39.14%) Azure
3 163 (38.90%) GCP
4 80 (19.09%) Datadog
5 66 (15.75%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (15.75%) GitHub
6 63 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (15.04%) GitHub Actions
7 61 (14.56%) SaaS
8 54 (12.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 44 (10.50%) Serverless
11 42 (10.02%) OpenShift
12 37 (8.83%) Amazon S3
13 31 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 54 (12.89%) Firewall
2 21 (5.01%) DNS
3 20 (4.77%) VLAN
4 19 (4.53%) TCP/IP
5 15 (3.58%) HTTP
6 12 (2.86%) WAN
7 11 (2.63%) LAN
7 11 (2.63%) Unified Communications
7 11 (2.63%) VPN
7 11 (2.63%) WebEx
8 10 (2.39%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (2.39%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (2.15%) Broadband
10 8 (1.91%) BGP
10 8 (1.91%) Network Security
11 7 (1.67%) OSPF
11 7 (1.67%) SSH
12 6 (1.43%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.43%) MQTT
12 6 (1.43%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.35%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (6.68%) MySQL
4 25 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.82%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.34%) InfluxDB
7 13 (3.10%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.39%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.91%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.19%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.95%) ZAP BI
14 3 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.72%) Big Data
14 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (21.96%) GitLab
2 81 (19.33%) Jenkins
3 72 (17.18%) Git
4 59 (14.08%) TeamCity
5 25 (5.97%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.49%) JMeter
7 22 (5.25%) Cucumber
8 15 (3.58%) Cypress.io
8 15 (3.58%) JIRA
8 15 (3.58%) Selenium
9 13 (3.10%) Gatling
10 12 (2.86%) LoadRunner
11 11 (2.63%) Bitbucket
11 11 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (1.91%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.91%) Postman
13 7 (1.67%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.67%) TestRail
14 6 (1.43%) Burp Suite
14 6 (1.43%) JUnit
General
1 139 (33.17%) Finance
2 94 (22.43%) Banking
3 81 (19.33%) Law
4 79 (18.85%) Social Skills
5 78 (18.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 72 (17.18%) Retail
7 43 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (10.26%) Financial Institution
8 41 (9.79%) Public Sector
9 40 (9.55%) Back Office
10 24 (5.73%) Telecoms
11 17 (4.06%) Marketing
12 7 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.43%) Legal
14 5 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Military
16 2 (0.48%) Advertising
16 2 (0.48%) Billing
16 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (21.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (17.42%) Senior
3 65 (15.51%) Software Engineer
4 41 (9.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (9.79%) Lead
5 40 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.88%) Platform Engineer
7 31 (7.40%) Developer
8 30 (7.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 28 (6.68%) Site Engineer
10 26 (6.21%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.01%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (4.77%) Administrator
13 19 (4.53%) Systems Administrator
13 19 (4.53%) Team Leader
14 18 (4.30%) Java Engineer
14 18 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (3.82%) Test Engineer
16 15 (3.58%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (14.80%) Elastic Stack
2 48 (11.46%) Kafka
3 31 (7.40%) OpenTelemetry
4 27 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (5.25%) Node.js
5 22 (5.25%) React
6 21 (5.01%) Loki
6 21 (5.01%) REST
7 19 (4.53%) Spring
8 18 (4.30%) RESTful
8 18 (4.30%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.82%) .NET
10 15 (3.58%) pytest
10 15 (3.58%) YAML
11 14 (3.34%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.10%) Playwright
13 11 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (2.63%) ARM Templates
13 11 (2.63%) gRPC
13 11 (2.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 128 (30.55%) Cloud Native
2 47 (11.22%) Product Ownership
3 35 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.25%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.10%) Blog
6 13 (3.10%) Replication
7 11 (2.63%) FlexPod
7 11 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.67%) PKI
10 7 (1.67%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.19%) IoT
12 5 (1.19%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.95%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 119 (28.40%) Linux
2 46 (10.98%) Windows
3 21 (5.01%) CentOS
4 15 (3.58%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.86%) Unix
6 7 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.43%) VMS
8 5 (1.19%) Debian
9 4 (0.95%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.48%) Android
10 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.48%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (72.08%) CI/CD
2 241 (57.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 235 (56.09%) DevOps
4 202 (48.21%) Observability
5 167 (39.86%) Containerisation
6 140 (33.41%) Software Engineering
7 137 (32.70%) Test Automation
8 123 (29.36%) Agile
9 115 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
10 113 (26.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 110 (26.25%) Deployment Automation
12 95 (22.67%) Microservices
13 90 (21.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 85 (20.29%) Platform Engineering
15 82 (19.57%) Mentoring
16 66 (15.75%) AI
17 61 (14.56%) Continuous Deployment
18 55 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 54 (12.89%) Clean Code
20 50 (11.93%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 269 (64.20%) Python
2 158 (37.71%) Bash
3 126 (30.07%) Java
4 81 (19.33%) PowerShell
5 55 (13.13%) SQL
6 47 (11.22%) JavaScript
7 44 (10.50%) Go
8 34 (8.11%) C#
9 24 (5.73%) Rust
10 23 (5.49%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.82%) C++
12 10 (2.39%) Bicep
13 7 (1.67%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.67%) VBA
14 6 (1.43%) PHP
15 5 (1.19%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.48%) Ruby
17 2 (0.48%) Swift
18 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 86 (20.53%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.59%) Degree
3 34 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.25%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.72%) OCP
11 3 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CISSP
12 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.48%) ISEB
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.41%) QA
2 13 (3.10%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.10%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.63%) GDPR
4 10 (2.39%) SLA
5 9 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.15%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.67%) WCAG
7 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.95%) NIST
8 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.72%) PSD2
9 2 (0.48%) GRC
9 2 (0.48%) SEPA
10 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 197 (47.02%) Docker
2 24 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.10%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (2.63%) vSphere
5 10 (2.39%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.19%) iptables
7 5 (1.19%) KVM
7 5 (1.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.48%) Xen
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 296 (70.64%) Terraform
2 270 (64.44%) Kubernetes
3 231 (55.13%) Prometheus
4 146 (34.84%) Ansible
5 35 (8.35%) Argo
6 27 (6.44%) Kibana
7 21 (5.01%) Istio
8 18 (4.30%) Nagios
9 17 (4.06%) Puppet
10 16 (3.82%) logstash
11 11 (2.63%) Cisco CUCM
12 10 (2.39%) Kustomize
13 9 (2.15%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (2.15%) linkerd
14 8 (1.91%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.43%) Progress Chef
15 6 (1.43%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.19%) Mesos
16 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
17 4 (0.95%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 60 (14.32%) Splunk
2 52 (12.41%) Microsoft
3 37 (8.83%) Dynatrace
3 37 (8.83%) Red Hat
4 31 (7.40%) VMware
5 25 (5.97%) Google
6 12 (2.86%) Cisco
7 11 (2.63%) AppDynamics
7 11 (2.63%) Fortinet
7 11 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.63%) Rapid7
8 10 (2.39%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.39%) NetApp
8 10 (2.39%) Oracle
9 9 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.67%) New Relic
11 6 (1.43%) Informatica
12 5 (1.19%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.95%) Databricks
13 4 (0.95%) Veracode