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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 455 429
Rank change year-on-year +90 -26 +103
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 305 289 297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.20% 4.62% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 213 164 226
10th Percentile £47,617 £43,911 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £99,625 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -0.33%

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 4,235 6,250 7,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.24% 11.00% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,076 3,869 6,237
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,100 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,250 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £56,318
% change year-on-year -6.52% +2.10% -2.06%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 +67 240 £72,500 -1.02% 322
UK excluding London +67 143 £70,000 +3.70% 296
Work from Home +74 129 £67,500 -10.00% 181
London +66 113 £85,000 - 68
North of England +32 60 £63,750 -15.00% 76
North West +44 31 £62,500 -16.67% 41
Scotland +24 21 £72,289 +15.66% 22
Midlands +18 21 £72,500 +11.54% 45
West Midlands +41 19 £72,500 +11.54% 29
South East +18 19 £70,000 +3.70% 67
North East -17 16 £55,200 -9.88% 5
Yorkshire +2 13 £80,000 +0.63% 31
South West +3 12 £75,000 +15.38% 40
East of England +26 5 £67,500 +35.00% 41
Wales -8 4 £67,539 +3.91% 8
East Midlands -14 2 £54,600 +32.36% 13
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 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 16 (5.25%) Confluence
2 14 (4.59%) nginx
3 10 (3.28%) Apache
4 6 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.64%) IIS
6 2 (0.66%) CICS
6 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 208 (68.20%) AWS
2 144 (47.21%) Azure
3 82 (26.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 82 (26.89%) GCP
4 80 (26.23%) GitHub
5 63 (20.66%) GitHub Actions
6 56 (18.36%) Amazon EKS
7 53 (17.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 41 (13.44%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (13.11%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (12.79%) Datadog
11 34 (11.15%) Serverless
12 33 (10.82%) Amazon S3
13 29 (9.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (9.18%) SaaS
15 27 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (8.20%) Azure Monitor
16 25 (8.20%) OpenShift
17 23 (7.54%) Amazon ECS
17 23 (7.54%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.80%) Firewall
2 25 (8.20%) DNS
3 19 (6.23%) HTTP
4 12 (3.93%) FTP
5 11 (3.61%) SMTP
5 11 (3.61%) SSH
6 10 (3.28%) VPN
7 9 (2.95%) WAN
8 7 (2.30%) LAN
8 7 (2.30%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.30%) Wireless
9 6 (1.97%) BGP
9 6 (1.97%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (1.64%) Network Security
10 5 (1.64%) SSL
11 4 (1.31%) IMAP
11 4 (1.31%) MPLS
11 4 (1.31%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (1.31%) SAN
12 3 (0.98%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.80%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.85%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.59%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.61%) InfluxDB
5 9 (2.95%) MySQL
5 9 (2.95%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.95%) Redis
6 8 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.30%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.98%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.66%) Big Data
10 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.66%) Metadata
10 2 (0.66%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 102 (33.44%) Jenkins
2 74 (24.26%) GitLab
3 62 (20.33%) Git
4 45 (14.75%) JIRA
5 25 (8.20%) TeamCity
6 21 (6.89%) Cucumber
7 15 (4.92%) Bitbucket
8 13 (4.26%) Vagrant
9 11 (3.61%) Selenium
10 10 (3.28%) JMeter
11 9 (2.95%) JUnit
11 9 (2.95%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.95%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (2.62%) CircleCI
12 8 (2.62%) Locust
13 7 (2.30%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.97%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (1.97%) Robot Framework
14 6 (1.97%) TestRail
15 5 (1.64%) Cypress.io
General
1 96 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 81 (26.56%) Finance
3 27 (8.85%) Banking
4 21 (6.89%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (6.56%) Law
6 18 (5.90%) Retail
7 17 (5.57%) Back Office
8 15 (4.92%) Financial Institution
8 15 (4.92%) Telecoms
9 12 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.62%) Advertising
11 6 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.64%) Games
13 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.98%) Legal
15 2 (0.66%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.66%) Front Office
16 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 79 (25.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 67 (21.97%) Senior
3 37 (12.13%) Lead
4 34 (11.15%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (9.18%) Software Engineer
6 26 (8.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (7.54%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (5.90%) Developer
9 16 (5.25%) Development Engineer
9 16 (5.25%) Senior DevOps
9 16 (5.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.92%) Analyst
10 15 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 15 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (4.92%) Lead DevOps
11 14 (4.59%) Applications Support
12 13 (4.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (3.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (19.34%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (10.49%) .NET
3 16 (5.25%) Kafka
4 15 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (4.92%) React
5 14 (4.59%) Node.js
5 14 (4.59%) Spring
6 13 (4.26%) ADO
6 13 (4.26%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.93%) Loki
7 12 (3.93%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (3.28%) AWS CDK
8 10 (3.28%) Django
8 10 (3.28%) Gherkin
9 9 (2.95%) Flask
9 9 (2.95%) pytest
10 8 (2.62%) ARM Templates
11 7 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.97%) OAuth
12 6 (1.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (19.34%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.18%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.28%) Replication
7 9 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.64%) IoT
8 5 (1.64%) PKI
9 3 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.66%) Blog
10 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.66%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.66%) MPEG
10 2 (0.66%) NHS
10 2 (0.66%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 129 (42.30%) Linux
2 62 (20.33%) Windows
3 20 (6.56%) Unix
4 16 (5.25%) VMS
5 13 (4.26%) Ubuntu
6 11 (3.61%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (2.62%) CentOS
8 6 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.31%) Debian
9 4 (1.31%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.98%) SUSE
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (73.77%) CI/CD
2 206 (67.54%) DevOps
3 146 (47.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (42.30%) Observability
5 116 (38.03%) Containerisation
6 80 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (25.57%) Agile
8 72 (23.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 67 (21.97%) Platform Engineering
10 66 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (20.00%) Test Automation
12 51 (16.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 48 (15.74%) Incident Response
14 45 (14.75%) Microservices
15 42 (13.77%) Software Engineering
16 40 (13.11%) Cloud Security
16 40 (13.11%) Mentoring
17 39 (12.79%) Configuration Management
18 36 (11.80%) Deployment Automation
19 34 (11.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 183 (60.00%) Python
2 82 (26.89%) Bash
3 72 (23.61%) Java
4 60 (19.67%) PowerShell
5 45 (14.75%) SQL
6 41 (13.44%) JavaScript
7 30 (9.84%) Go
8 27 (8.85%) C#
9 18 (5.90%) Bicep
10 17 (5.57%) TypeScript
11 16 (5.25%) Groovy
12 9 (2.95%) Perl
13 8 (2.62%) Delphi
14 7 (2.30%) C++
15 6 (1.97%) Ruby
16 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
16 5 (1.64%) Shell Script
17 4 (1.31%) Google Apps Script
18 3 (0.98%) PHP
19 2 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 79 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 49 (16.07%) Degree
4 30 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (8.52%) AWS Certification
6 22 (7.21%) DV Cleared
7 20 (6.56%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.31%) CCNA
10 3 (0.98%) CCNP
10 3 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.66%) MCP
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.10%) QA
2 7 (2.30%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.30%) WCAG
3 6 (1.97%) GDPR
4 4 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 163 (53.44%) Docker
2 15 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.62%) DFS Replication
5 4 (1.31%) Dovecot
5 4 (1.31%) KVM
5 4 (1.31%) Postfix
5 4 (1.31%) Squid
5 4 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.98%) vSphere
7 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.66%) iptables
7 2 (0.66%) NFS
7 2 (0.66%) RACF
8 1 (0.33%) pfSense
8 1 (0.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 203 (66.56%) Kubernetes
1 203 (66.56%) Terraform
2 183 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 103 (33.77%) Ansible
4 21 (6.89%) Argo
5 12 (3.93%) Control-M
5 12 (3.93%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (2.95%) Kibana
6 9 (2.95%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.97%) Nessus
8 5 (1.64%) Istio
8 5 (1.64%) linkerd
8 5 (1.64%) logstash
8 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.64%) Puppet
9 4 (1.31%) Mesos
9 4 (1.31%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.98%) Nagios
10 3 (0.98%) Rancher
10 3 (0.98%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (15.41%) Splunk
2 23 (7.54%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.89%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.25%) VMware
5 15 (4.92%) Oracle
6 14 (4.59%) SolarWinds
7 13 (4.26%) Google
8 9 (2.95%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.95%) Cisco
8 9 (2.95%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.95%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.62%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.62%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.64%) F5
10 5 (1.64%) Sonatype
11 4 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (0.98%) Arista
12 3 (0.98%) Juniper
12 3 (0.98%) Meraki
12 3 (0.98%) New Relic