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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 385 509
Rank change year-on-year -15 +124 -48
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 413 342 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.71% 0.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.57% 6.11% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 241 224 202
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,775
25th Percentile £55,725 £61,250 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,125 £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 5,453 5,594 9,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.59% 11.62% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,995 3,325 6,707
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,533 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +6.48% -9.28%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -25 362 £71,289 -1.67% 146
UK excluding London -45 191 £62,500 -10.71% 95
London -4 175 £82,500 - 69
Work from Home +76 169 £67,500 -3.57% 104
South East -8 55 £62,500 -16.67% 17
South West -9 53 £75,000 +15.38% 22
North of England -38 47 £57,500 -11.54% 28
North West -10 25 £70,000 +16.67% 21
Midlands -64 20 £64,000 -11.72% 10
North East -31 18 £47,500 -20.83% 2
West Midlands -58 14 £62,500 -13.79% 7
Wales -53 7 £70,000 +21.74% 1
East Midlands -22 6 £64,500 +12.17% 3
Scotland -12 4 £62,500 -34.21% 6
Yorkshire -37 4 £48,750 -34.89% 5
East of England -23 3 £80,150 +18.74% 6
Northern Ireland -59 2 - - 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 20 (4.84%) Apache
2 10 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.45%) Confluence
3 6 (1.45%) IIS
4 4 (0.97%) nginx
5 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.97%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 283 (68.52%) AWS
2 165 (39.95%) Azure
3 163 (39.47%) GCP
4 80 (19.37%) Amazon EKS
5 70 (16.95%) GitHub
6 68 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (16.46%) GitHub Actions
7 65 (15.74%) Datadog
8 56 (13.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 53 (12.83%) SaaS
9 53 (12.83%) Serverless
10 51 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (9.44%) Amazon S3
12 37 (8.96%) OpenShift
13 34 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (6.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 62 (15.01%) Firewall
2 25 (6.05%) DNS
3 24 (5.81%) TCP/IP
4 20 (4.84%) HTTP
5 19 (4.60%) VLAN
6 16 (3.87%) VPN
7 11 (2.66%) WAN
8 10 (2.42%) LAN
8 10 (2.42%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.42%) WebEx
9 9 (2.18%) Broadband
9 9 (2.18%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.18%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.94%) BGP
11 7 (1.69%) MQTT
11 7 (1.69%) Network Security
11 7 (1.69%) OSPF
12 6 (1.45%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.45%) SNMP
12 6 (1.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.51%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (5.81%) MySQL
4 22 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (4.36%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.63%) InfluxDB
7 13 (3.15%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.91%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.45%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.97%) Big Data
13 4 (0.97%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.48%) Looker
14 2 (0.48%) SQLPlus
15 1 (0.24%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 91 (22.03%) GitLab
1 91 (22.03%) Jenkins
2 66 (15.98%) TeamCity
3 64 (15.50%) Git
4 27 (6.54%) SonarQube
5 25 (6.05%) Cucumber
6 21 (5.08%) JMeter
7 14 (3.39%) CircleCI
8 13 (3.15%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.91%) JIRA
10 11 (2.66%) Cypress.io
10 11 (2.66%) Selenium
11 10 (2.42%) Gatling
11 10 (2.42%) LoadRunner
11 10 (2.42%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (1.94%) Robot Framework
12 8 (1.94%) TestRail
13 6 (1.45%) Burp Suite
13 6 (1.45%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.21%) Locust
General
1 123 (29.78%) Finance
2 90 (21.79%) Banking
3 84 (20.34%) Law
4 79 (19.13%) Retail
5 77 (18.64%) Social Skills
6 73 (17.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (10.41%) Financial Institution
8 40 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (9.69%) Back Office
9 38 (9.20%) Public Sector
10 29 (7.02%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.18%) Marketing
12 8 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.73%) Legal
15 2 (0.48%) Advertising
15 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.24%) Billing
16 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 90 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (19.13%) Senior
3 66 (15.98%) Software Engineer
4 42 (10.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 38 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
6 32 (7.75%) Lead
7 28 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (6.78%) Developer
8 21 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 20 (4.84%) Administrator
9 20 (4.84%) Java Engineer
9 20 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
10 19 (4.60%) Site Engineer
10 19 (4.60%) Systems Administrator
11 18 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
11 18 (4.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (4.36%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (16.46%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (11.38%) Kafka
3 29 (7.02%) OpenTelemetry
4 23 (5.57%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (5.33%) Loki
6 19 (4.60%) Node.js
6 19 (4.60%) REST
7 17 (4.12%) React
8 15 (3.63%) .NET
8 15 (3.63%) YAML
9 14 (3.39%) Apache NiFi
9 14 (3.39%) Spring
10 13 (3.15%) Spring Boot
11 12 (2.91%) gRPC
11 12 (2.91%) OAuth
11 12 (2.91%) Playwright
12 11 (2.66%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.66%) Vue
13 10 (2.42%) RESTful
13 10 (2.42%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 128 (30.99%) Cloud Native
2 42 (10.17%) Product Ownership
3 33 (7.99%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (4.84%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.12%) Blog
7 12 (2.91%) Replication
8 11 (2.66%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.42%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.42%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.45%) PKI
14 5 (1.21%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.21%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
15 3 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 124 (30.02%) Linux
2 50 (12.11%) Windows
3 21 (5.08%) CentOS
4 13 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.66%) Unix
6 9 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.94%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.69%) VMS
9 4 (0.97%) Debian
9 4 (0.97%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (74.09%) CI/CD
2 238 (57.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 233 (56.42%) DevOps
4 174 (42.13%) Observability
5 173 (41.89%) Containerisation
6 141 (34.14%) Test Automation
7 133 (32.20%) Software Engineering
8 124 (30.02%) Agile
9 119 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
10 110 (26.63%) Deployment Automation
11 108 (26.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 97 (23.49%) Microservices
13 80 (19.37%) Platform Engineering
14 79 (19.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 78 (18.89%) Mentoring
16 65 (15.74%) Continuous Deployment
17 61 (14.77%) Clean Code
18 56 (13.56%) AI
19 54 (13.08%) DevSecOps
19 54 (13.08%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 262 (63.44%) Python
2 172 (41.65%) Bash
3 130 (31.48%) Java
4 76 (18.40%) PowerShell
5 52 (12.59%) SQL
6 49 (11.86%) JavaScript
7 47 (11.38%) Go
8 37 (8.96%) C#
9 29 (7.02%) Rust
10 21 (5.08%) TypeScript
11 19 (4.60%) C++
12 10 (2.42%) Bicep
13 7 (1.69%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.45%) Google Apps Script
14 6 (1.45%) VBA
15 5 (1.21%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.73%) Ruby
17 2 (0.48%) PHP
17 2 (0.48%) VB
18 1 (0.24%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 94 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.44%) Degree
3 35 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.02%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.30%) AWS Certification
6 21 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.91%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CISSP
12 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.48%) ISEB
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.14%) QA
2 13 (3.15%) GDPR
2 13 (3.15%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.91%) SOC 2
4 11 (2.66%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.18%) SLA
6 8 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.45%) WCAG
8 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.48%) GRC
10 2 (0.48%) PSD2
10 2 (0.48%) SEPA
11 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 188 (45.52%) Docker
2 25 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.66%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (2.42%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.42%) vSphere
5 7 (1.69%) iptables
6 6 (1.45%) KVM
6 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.21%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.97%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
9 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 302 (73.12%) Terraform
2 270 (65.38%) Kubernetes
3 230 (55.69%) Prometheus
4 161 (38.98%) Ansible
5 28 (6.78%) Argo
6 27 (6.54%) Kibana
7 24 (5.81%) Puppet
8 17 (4.12%) Nagios
9 16 (3.87%) Istio
9 16 (3.87%) logstash
10 11 (2.66%) ZABBIX
11 10 (2.42%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.42%) Progress Chef
12 9 (2.18%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.94%) Kustomize
13 8 (1.94%) linkerd
13 8 (1.94%) Proxmox
14 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (1.45%) vCenter Server
15 5 (1.21%) Mesos
Vendors
1 51 (12.35%) Splunk
2 47 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 40 (9.69%) VMware
4 32 (7.75%) Red Hat
5 25 (6.05%) Dynatrace
6 18 (4.36%) Google
7 11 (2.66%) Cisco
8 10 (2.42%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.42%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.18%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.94%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.94%) NetApp
10 8 (1.94%) Oracle
11 6 (1.45%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.21%) New Relic
12 5 (1.21%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.21%) Tenable
13 4 (0.97%) Cribl.io
13 4 (0.97%) Informatica