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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 379 426
Rank change year-on-year -55 +47 +6
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 433 332 412
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.67% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.40% 6.70% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 232 217 213
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,750 £41,400
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £94,250
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 5,152 4,955 6,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 9.97% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,658 2,869 3,921
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% -1.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,625 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -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 10 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 10 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 -69 353 £70,000 -3.45% 324
UK excluding London -84 199 £65,000 -10.34% 184
London -29 174 £81,250 -1.52% 195
Work from Home +40 171 £65,000 -7.14% 161
South East +9 63 £62,500 -19.35% 42
South West -37 48 £75,000 -18.92% 20
North of England -56 40 £70,000 +9.80% 47
North West -14 28 £71,250 +18.75% 26
Midlands -85 17 £62,500 -13.79% 15
Wales -67 14 £70,000 +21.74% 4
Scotland -9 12 £62,500 - 32
West Midlands -70 12 £56,250 -22.41% 8
North East -50 11 £57,500 -4.17% 10
East Midlands -23 5 £64,000 +14.80% 7
East of England -27 4 £82,500 +22.22% 20
Yorkshire -55 1 £82,500 +3.13% 11
Northern Ireland - 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 18 (4.16%) Apache
2 9 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.39%) IIS
4 6 (1.39%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 298 (68.82%) AWS
2 173 (39.95%) GCP
3 155 (35.80%) Azure
4 79 (18.24%) Amazon EKS
5 77 (17.78%) Datadog
6 68 (15.70%) SaaS
7 61 (14.09%) GitHub
8 58 (13.39%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (12.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 50 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (10.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (9.70%) Serverless
13 40 (9.24%) OpenShift
14 39 (9.01%) Amazon S3
15 34 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (7.39%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
18 23 (5.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 19 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
20 16 (3.70%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (10.39%) Firewall
2 17 (3.93%) DNS
3 16 (3.70%) VLAN
4 14 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.00%) VPN
6 10 (2.31%) HTTP
6 10 (2.31%) SSH
7 8 (1.85%) BGP
7 8 (1.85%) WAN
8 7 (1.62%) Broadband
8 7 (1.62%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (1.62%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (1.62%) LAN
8 7 (1.62%) OSPF
8 7 (1.62%) Unified Communications
8 7 (1.62%) WebEx
9 6 (1.39%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.39%) Network Security
9 6 (1.39%) SNMP
10 3 (0.69%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.09%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.55%) MySQL
3 36 (8.31%) Elasticsearch
4 31 (7.16%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (5.54%) MongoDB
5 24 (5.54%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.23%) InfluxDB
7 12 (2.77%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.08%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.08%) Redis
9 9 (2.08%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.62%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.92%) Big Data
12 4 (0.92%) ZAP BI
13 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.46%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 88 (20.32%) GitLab
2 85 (19.63%) Jenkins
3 82 (18.94%) Git
4 61 (14.09%) TeamCity
5 26 (6.00%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.31%) Cucumber
7 22 (5.08%) Selenium
8 19 (4.39%) Cypress.io
8 19 (4.39%) JMeter
9 17 (3.93%) Gatling
10 15 (3.46%) JIRA
11 12 (2.77%) LoadRunner
12 11 (2.54%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (2.54%) Postman
13 9 (2.08%) Robot Framework
13 9 (2.08%) TestRail
14 8 (1.85%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.85%) JUnit
15 7 (1.62%) Burp Suite
15 7 (1.62%) REST Assured
General
1 158 (36.49%) Finance
2 102 (23.56%) Banking
3 89 (20.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (18.94%) Social Skills
5 80 (18.48%) Law
6 77 (17.78%) Retail
7 49 (11.32%) Financial Institution
8 47 (10.85%) Public Sector
9 45 (10.39%) Back Office
10 41 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (4.16%) Marketing
12 16 (3.70%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.62%) Legal
13 7 (1.62%) 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%) Games
16 2 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (18.48%) Senior
2 75 (17.32%) Software Engineer
3 72 (16.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (10.85%) Lead
5 46 (10.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (9.47%) Developer
6 41 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 41 (9.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 39 (9.01%) Site Engineer
8 35 (8.08%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (7.16%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (5.54%) Team Leader
11 23 (5.31%) Administrator
11 23 (5.31%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (5.08%) Systems Administrator
13 18 (4.16%) DevOps Administrator
13 18 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (4.16%) Software Team Leader
14 15 (3.46%) Linux Administrator
14 15 (3.46%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (68.59%) Terraform
2 57 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
3 52 (12.01%) Kafka
4 40 (9.24%) OpenTelemetry
5 30 (6.93%) RabbitMQ
6 29 (6.70%) REST
7 28 (6.47%) RESTful
8 23 (5.31%) Loki
8 23 (5.31%) Node.js
9 22 (5.08%) Spring
9 22 (5.08%) Spring Boot
10 21 (4.85%) Playwright
10 21 (4.85%) React
11 20 (4.62%) pytest
12 18 (4.16%) .NET
13 15 (3.46%) YAML
14 13 (3.00%) Hibernate
14 13 (3.00%) JPA
15 12 (2.77%) Apache NiFi
15 12 (2.77%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 144 (33.26%) Cloud Native
2 58 (13.39%) Product Ownership
3 43 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.93%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.70%) Blog
7 15 (3.46%) Virtual Team
8 14 (3.23%) Replication
8 14 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.77%) Private Cloud
10 10 (2.31%) Mobile App
11 9 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.62%) FlexPod
12 7 (1.62%) PKI
12 7 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.39%) IoT
13 6 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (29.10%) Linux
2 45 (10.39%) Windows
3 23 (5.31%) CentOS
4 14 (3.23%) Unix
5 11 (2.54%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.62%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.39%) VMS
8 5 (1.15%) Android
8 5 (1.15%) Debian
8 5 (1.15%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.46%) Rocky
11 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (70.67%) CI/CD
2 240 (55.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 235 (54.27%) DevOps
4 232 (53.58%) Observability
5 157 (36.26%) Software Engineering
6 143 (33.03%) Containerisation
6 143 (33.03%) Test Automation
7 130 (30.02%) Agile
8 118 (27.25%) Deployment Automation
9 112 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (24.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (23.33%) Microservices
12 97 (22.40%) Mentoring
13 95 (21.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 94 (21.71%) Platform Engineering
15 83 (19.17%) AI
16 65 (15.01%) Continuous Deployment
17 64 (14.78%) GitOps
18 61 (14.09%) Clean Code
19 55 (12.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 266 (61.43%) Python
2 149 (34.41%) Bash
3 137 (31.64%) Java
4 79 (18.24%) PowerShell
5 58 (13.39%) SQL
6 48 (11.09%) JavaScript
7 40 (9.24%) Go
8 32 (7.39%) C#
9 27 (6.24%) TypeScript
10 21 (4.85%) Rust
11 17 (3.93%) C++
12 10 (2.31%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.08%) Bicep
14 8 (1.85%) PHP
15 7 (1.62%) VBA
16 6 (1.39%) Shell Script
17 5 (1.15%) Google Apps Script
18 4 (0.92%) Groovy
18 4 (0.92%) Scala
19 3 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 98 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 43 (9.93%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.62%) Degree
4 24 (5.54%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.08%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.92%) CISSP
10 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.69%) OCP
11 3 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.46%) CISM
12 2 (0.46%) GSEC
12 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (14.78%) QA
2 13 (3.00%) SLA
3 11 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.39%) GDPR
6 6 (1.39%) WCAG
7 5 (1.15%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.69%) NIST
8 3 (0.69%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 191 (44.11%) Docker
2 21 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.54%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.31%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (1.62%) vSphere
7 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.15%) KVM
7 5 (1.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.69%) iptables
10 2 (0.46%) Xen
11 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 281 (64.90%) Kubernetes
2 232 (53.58%) Prometheus
3 141 (32.56%) Ansible
4 43 (9.93%) Argo
5 29 (6.70%) Kibana
6 25 (5.77%) Istio
7 18 (4.16%) logstash
7 18 (4.16%) Nagios
8 16 (3.70%) Puppet
9 13 (3.00%) Kustomize
10 11 (2.54%) linkerd
11 8 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (1.85%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.62%) Cisco CUCM
12 7 (1.62%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.39%) Proxmox
14 5 (1.15%) Cilium
14 5 (1.15%) HP Fortify
14 5 (1.15%) Mesos
14 5 (1.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 68 (15.70%) Splunk
2 48 (11.09%) Microsoft
3 43 (9.93%) Dynatrace
4 33 (7.62%) Red Hat
5 30 (6.93%) Google
5 30 (6.93%) VMware
6 13 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.54%) AppDynamics
7 11 (2.54%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.54%) Oracle
7 11 (2.54%) Rapid7
8 8 (1.85%) Cisco
9 7 (1.62%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.62%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.39%) Informatica
10 6 (1.39%) NetApp
10 6 (1.39%) New Relic
10 6 (1.39%) NVIDIA
11 5 (1.15%) Databricks
11 5 (1.15%) Veracode