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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 375 433
Rank change year-on-year -54 +58 +4
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 434 324 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.66% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.48% 6.62% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 231 213 210
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,250 £41,998
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £86,875
90th Percentile £100,750 £115,000 £95,750
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 5,119 4,895 6,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.49% 9.96% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,615 2,820 3,876
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,803 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,063
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -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 15 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 15 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 -58 354 £70,000 -3.45% 720
UK excluding London -74 196 £65,000 -10.34% 349
London -5 179 £80,000 -1.54% 461
Work from Home +41 172 £65,000 -7.14% 319
South East -10 63 £62,500 -19.35% 74
South West -37 47 £70,000 -24.32% 41
North of England -56 42 £70,000 +9.80% 92
North West -20 30 £71,250 +16.33% 55
Midlands -90 15 £61,250 -15.52% 21
Wales -63 14 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Scotland -12 11 £62,500 - 59
North East -52 11 £57,500 -4.17% 14
West Midlands -81 10 £50,000 -31.03% 12
East Midlands -27 5 £64,000 +14.80% 9
East of England -28 3 £86,250 +27.78% 32
Yorkshire -53 1 £82,500 +3.13% 24
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 22

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 (3.92%) Apache
2 8 (1.84%) Confluence
3 7 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.38%) IIS
4 6 (1.38%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.15%) nginx
6 4 (0.92%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 307 (70.74%) AWS
2 185 (42.63%) GCP
3 149 (34.33%) Azure
4 92 (21.20%) Amazon EKS
5 73 (16.82%) SaaS
6 71 (16.36%) Datadog
7 63 (14.52%) GitHub
8 60 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (11.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (10.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (8.76%) OpenShift
12 38 (8.76%) Serverless
13 32 (7.37%) Amazon S3
14 31 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (3.69%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (10.14%) Firewall
2 16 (3.69%) VLAN
3 15 (3.46%) DNS
4 14 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.76%) VPN
6 10 (2.30%) HTTP
6 10 (2.30%) SSH
7 8 (1.84%) BGP
7 8 (1.84%) WAN
8 7 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (1.61%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (1.61%) LAN
8 7 (1.61%) OSPF
8 7 (1.61%) Unified Communications
8 7 (1.61%) WebEx
9 6 (1.38%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.38%) Network Security
9 6 (1.38%) SNMP
10 3 (0.69%) DHCP
10 3 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.90%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.06%) Elasticsearch
3 34 (7.83%) MySQL
4 32 (7.37%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (5.53%) MongoDB
6 23 (5.30%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.00%) InfluxDB
8 12 (2.76%) Redis
8 12 (2.76%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (2.07%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.07%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.61%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.69%) Big Data
13 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.69%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 87 (20.05%) Jenkins
2 86 (19.82%) GitLab
3 83 (19.12%) Git
4 71 (16.36%) TeamCity
5 25 (5.76%) SonarQube
6 21 (4.84%) Cucumber
7 20 (4.61%) Selenium
8 17 (3.92%) Cypress.io
8 17 (3.92%) JMeter
9 16 (3.69%) Gatling
10 14 (3.23%) JIRA
11 11 (2.53%) LoadRunner
12 10 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (2.30%) Postman
13 8 (1.84%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.84%) JUnit
13 8 (1.84%) Robot Framework
13 8 (1.84%) TestRail
14 6 (1.38%) Burp Suite
14 6 (1.38%) Maven
General
1 164 (37.79%) Finance
2 112 (25.81%) Banking
3 103 (23.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 93 (21.43%) Law
5 90 (20.74%) Retail
6 84 (19.35%) Social Skills
7 55 (12.67%) Financial Institution
8 51 (11.75%) Back Office
9 46 (10.60%) Public Sector
10 41 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (4.15%) Marketing
12 16 (3.69%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.61%) Legal
13 7 (1.61%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.69%) Military
16 2 (0.46%) Advertising
16 2 (0.46%) Billing
16 2 (0.46%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 83 (19.12%) Software Engineer
2 81 (18.66%) Senior
3 73 (16.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (10.37%) Lead
5 43 (9.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 40 (9.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 39 (8.99%) Developer
7 39 (8.99%) Site Engineer
8 35 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.76%) Team Leader
11 24 (5.53%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (5.30%) Administrator
13 22 (5.07%) Systems Administrator
14 20 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (4.38%) Java Engineer
15 19 (4.38%) Software Team Leader
16 18 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
16 18 (4.15%) DevOps Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (70.28%) Terraform
2 58 (13.36%) Elastic Stack
3 53 (12.21%) Kafka
4 40 (9.22%) OpenTelemetry
5 29 (6.68%) RabbitMQ
5 29 (6.68%) REST
6 27 (6.22%) RESTful
7 23 (5.30%) Node.js
8 22 (5.07%) React
8 22 (5.07%) Spring
8 22 (5.07%) Spring Boot
9 21 (4.84%) Loki
10 19 (4.38%) Playwright
11 18 (4.15%) pytest
12 17 (3.92%) .NET
13 14 (3.23%) Keycloak
13 14 (3.23%) YAML
14 13 (3.00%) gRPC
14 13 (3.00%) Hibernate
14 13 (3.00%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 155 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 60 (13.82%) Product Ownership
3 44 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.07%) Blog
5 20 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (4.15%) Replication
7 17 (3.92%) Onboarding
8 15 (3.46%) Virtual Team
9 14 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (3.00%) Private Cloud
11 12 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (2.30%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.61%) FlexPod
14 7 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
15 6 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.38%) IoT
15 6 (1.38%) PKI
15 6 (1.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (28.11%) Linux
2 43 (9.91%) Windows
3 21 (4.84%) CentOS
4 14 (3.23%) Unix
5 11 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.38%) VMS
8 5 (1.15%) Android
8 5 (1.15%) Debian
9 4 (0.92%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.46%) Rocky
12 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (72.12%) CI/CD
2 236 (54.38%) DevOps
3 235 (54.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 229 (52.76%) Observability
5 157 (36.18%) Software Engineering
6 148 (34.10%) Test Automation
7 136 (31.34%) Containerisation
8 128 (29.49%) Agile
9 124 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
10 111 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
11 107 (24.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (23.96%) Microservices
13 100 (23.04%) Mentoring
14 94 (21.66%) Platform Engineering
14 94 (21.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 88 (20.28%) AI
16 73 (16.82%) Continuous Deployment
17 69 (15.90%) Clean Code
18 65 (14.98%) GitOps
19 56 (12.90%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 258 (59.45%) Python
2 150 (34.56%) Bash
3 145 (33.41%) Java
4 80 (18.43%) PowerShell
5 56 (12.90%) SQL
6 45 (10.37%) JavaScript
7 42 (9.68%) Go
8 28 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 24 (5.53%) C#
10 21 (4.84%) Rust
11 16 (3.69%) C++
12 9 (2.07%) Bicep
12 9 (2.07%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.61%) Groovy
13 7 (1.61%) PHP
13 7 (1.61%) VBA
14 6 (1.38%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.92%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.92%) Scala
16 3 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 100 (23.04%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.91%) Degree
4 26 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 22 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.84%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.92%) CISSP
10 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.69%) OCP
11 3 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.46%) CISM
12 2 (0.46%) ISEB
12 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (14.06%) QA
2 13 (3.00%) SLA
3 9 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.84%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.15%) GDPR
6 5 (1.15%) WCAG
7 4 (0.92%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.69%) NIST
8 3 (0.69%) PSD2
9 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 188 (43.32%) Docker
2 19 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.53%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (1.61%) vSphere
7 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.92%) KVM
8 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.69%) iptables
10 2 (0.46%) Xen
11 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 291 (67.05%) Kubernetes
2 238 (54.84%) Prometheus
3 138 (31.80%) Ansible
4 48 (11.06%) Argo
5 28 (6.45%) Kibana
6 26 (5.99%) Istio
7 17 (3.92%) logstash
7 17 (3.92%) Nagios
8 16 (3.69%) Puppet
9 13 (3.00%) Kustomize
10 12 (2.76%) linkerd
11 9 (2.07%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (1.84%) Rancher
12 8 (1.84%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.61%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (1.61%) Proxmox
14 6 (1.38%) Mesos
14 6 (1.38%) vCenter Server
15 5 (1.15%) Cilium
16 4 (0.92%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 66 (15.21%) Splunk
2 47 (10.83%) Microsoft
3 46 (10.60%) Dynatrace
4 31 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 29 (6.68%) Google
5 29 (6.68%) VMware
6 16 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.53%) Oracle
8 10 (2.30%) AppDynamics
8 10 (2.30%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.30%) Rapid7
9 8 (1.84%) Cisco
10 7 (1.61%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.38%) Informatica
11 6 (1.38%) NetApp
11 6 (1.38%) New Relic
11 6 (1.38%) NVIDIA
12 5 (1.15%) Databricks
13 4 (0.92%) Veracode