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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 375 445
Rank change year-on-year -42 +70 -10
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 412 347 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.70% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.02% 6.24% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 238 231 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £40,808
25th Percentile £55,750 £63,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £87,188 £91,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,650 £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 5,871 5,561 7,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.53% 11.17% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,256 3,324 5,101
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.99%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -51 349 £70,000 -3.45% 319
UK excluding London -59 200 £65,000 -7.14% 154
Work from Home +43 165 £65,000 -7.14% 179
London -26 163 £82,500 - 211
South East -10 63 £62,500 -18.03% 30
South West -26 50 £65,000 -27.78% 25
North of England -42 44 £67,500 +5.88% 39
North West -13 29 £70,000 +16.67% 20
Midlands -91 19 £62,500 -13.79% 12
North East -46 14 £47,500 -20.83% 11
West Midlands -80 14 £62,500 -13.79% 7
Scotland -6 11 £62,500 -16.67% 25
Wales -54 10 £70,000 +33.18% 5
East Midlands -23 5 £64,000 +14.80% 5
East of England -30 2 £82,500 +22.22% 13
Yorkshire -43 1 £82,500 +6.54% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 15 (3.64%) Apache
2 11 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.18%) Confluence
4 7 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.46%) IIS
6 5 (1.21%) nginx
7 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 276 (66.99%) AWS
2 160 (38.83%) Azure
3 156 (37.86%) GCP
4 82 (19.90%) Datadog
5 62 (15.05%) GitHub
5 62 (15.05%) SaaS
6 60 (14.56%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (14.32%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (12.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (10.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (10.44%) Serverless
12 42 (10.19%) OpenShift
13 38 (9.22%) Amazon S3
14 31 (7.52%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (6.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 50 (12.14%) Firewall
2 20 (4.85%) VLAN
3 19 (4.61%) DNS
4 17 (4.13%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.16%) HTTP
6 12 (2.91%) WAN
7 11 (2.67%) LAN
7 11 (2.67%) Unified Communications
7 11 (2.67%) WebEx
8 10 (2.43%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (2.43%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (2.18%) Broadband
9 9 (2.18%) VPN
10 8 (1.94%) BGP
10 8 (1.94%) Network Security
11 7 (1.70%) OSPF
11 7 (1.70%) SSH
12 6 (1.46%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.46%) SNMP
13 5 (1.21%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.50%) Elasticsearch
3 29 (7.04%) MySQL
4 25 (6.07%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.88%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.16%) InfluxDB
6 13 (3.16%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.91%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.18%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.94%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.46%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.97%) ZAP BI
13 3 (0.73%) Big Data
13 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (21.84%) GitLab
2 79 (19.17%) Jenkins
3 73 (17.72%) Git
4 54 (13.11%) TeamCity
5 25 (6.07%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.58%) JMeter
7 22 (5.34%) Cucumber
8 16 (3.88%) JIRA
9 15 (3.64%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.64%) Selenium
10 13 (3.16%) Gatling
11 12 (2.91%) LoadRunner
12 11 (2.67%) Bitbucket
12 11 (2.67%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (1.94%) Postman
14 7 (1.70%) Robot Framework
14 7 (1.70%) TestRail
15 6 (1.46%) Burp Suite
15 6 (1.46%) CircleCI
15 6 (1.46%) JUnit
General
1 138 (33.50%) Finance
2 90 (21.84%) Banking
3 75 (18.20%) Law
4 74 (17.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (17.96%) Social Skills
5 66 (16.02%) Retail
6 42 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (10.19%) Public Sector
7 41 (9.95%) Financial Institution
8 38 (9.22%) Back Office
9 22 (5.34%) Telecoms
10 19 (4.61%) Marketing
11 7 (1.70%) Legal
11 7 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Military
14 2 (0.49%) Advertising
14 2 (0.49%) Billing
14 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (21.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (17.72%) Senior
3 62 (15.05%) Software Engineer
4 44 (10.68%) Lead
5 41 (9.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (8.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 32 (7.77%) Developer
8 32 (7.77%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (7.52%) Site Engineer
10 27 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.10%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (4.61%) Administrator
12 19 (4.61%) Team Leader
13 18 (4.37%) Systems Administrator
14 17 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (3.88%) Java Engineer
16 15 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
16 15 (3.64%) Software Team Leader
16 15 (3.64%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (14.32%) Elastic Stack
2 45 (10.92%) Kafka
3 34 (8.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (6.31%) RabbitMQ
5 23 (5.58%) Node.js
6 22 (5.34%) Loki
6 22 (5.34%) React
7 21 (5.10%) REST
8 20 (4.85%) RESTful
9 18 (4.37%) .NET
9 18 (4.37%) Spring
10 17 (4.13%) Spring Boot
11 15 (3.64%) pytest
11 15 (3.64%) YAML
12 13 (3.16%) Playwright
13 12 (2.91%) AngularJS
14 11 (2.67%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (2.67%) gRPC
14 11 (2.67%) OAuth
14 11 (2.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 124 (30.10%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.17%) Product Ownership
3 36 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.34%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.16%) Replication
7 11 (2.67%) Blog
7 11 (2.67%) FlexPod
7 11 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
8 10 (2.43%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.70%) PKI
12 6 (1.46%) IoT
12 6 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.46%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.97%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 120 (29.13%) Linux
2 46 (11.17%) Windows
3 21 (5.10%) CentOS
4 14 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.91%) Unix
6 7 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.70%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.46%) VMS
8 5 (1.21%) Debian
9 4 (0.97%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.73%) Android
10 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.49%) Rocky
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (70.39%) CI/CD
2 239 (58.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 227 (55.10%) DevOps
4 207 (50.24%) Observability
5 156 (37.86%) Containerisation
6 137 (33.25%) Software Engineering
7 128 (31.07%) Test Automation
8 113 (27.43%) Agile
9 111 (26.94%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (26.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 108 (26.21%) Deployment Automation
12 94 (22.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 93 (22.57%) Microservices
14 87 (21.12%) Platform Engineering
15 83 (20.15%) Mentoring
16 64 (15.53%) AI
17 57 (13.83%) Continuous Deployment
18 56 (13.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 55 (13.35%) GitOps
20 50 (12.14%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 264 (64.08%) Python
2 150 (36.41%) Bash
3 122 (29.61%) Java
4 81 (19.66%) PowerShell
5 54 (13.11%) SQL
6 46 (11.17%) JavaScript
7 41 (9.95%) Go
8 34 (8.25%) C#
9 25 (6.07%) TypeScript
10 23 (5.58%) Rust
11 16 (3.88%) C++
12 9 (2.18%) Bicep
13 8 (1.94%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.94%) PHP
14 7 (1.70%) VBA
15 5 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.73%) Swift
18 2 (0.49%) Ruby
19 1 (0.24%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 85 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 35 (8.50%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.77%) Degree
4 21 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.61%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.43%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.73%) OCP
12 3 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.49%) CISSP
13 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.49%) ISEB
13 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.62%) QA
2 12 (2.91%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.67%) SLA
4 10 (2.43%) GDPR
5 9 (2.18%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.94%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.70%) WCAG
8 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.97%) NIST
9 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.73%) PSD2
10 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 192 (46.60%) Docker
2 24 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.16%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (2.67%) vSphere
6 10 (2.43%) Active Directory
7 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.21%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.21%) iptables
8 5 (1.21%) KVM
8 5 (1.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.49%) Xen
10 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 286 (69.42%) Terraform
2 263 (63.83%) Kubernetes
3 225 (54.61%) Prometheus
4 143 (34.71%) Ansible
5 38 (9.22%) Argo
6 27 (6.55%) Kibana
7 20 (4.85%) Istio
8 18 (4.37%) Nagios
9 17 (4.13%) Puppet
10 16 (3.88%) logstash
11 11 (2.67%) Cisco CUCM
11 11 (2.67%) Kustomize
12 8 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (1.94%) linkerd
12 8 (1.94%) ZABBIX
13 6 (1.46%) Progress Chef
13 6 (1.46%) vCenter Server
14 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.97%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.97%) Mesos
Vendors
1 62 (15.05%) Splunk
2 51 (12.38%) Microsoft
3 40 (9.71%) Dynatrace
4 36 (8.74%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.28%) VMware
6 25 (6.07%) Google
7 12 (2.91%) Cisco
8 11 (2.67%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.67%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.67%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.67%) Rapid7
9 10 (2.43%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.43%) NetApp
9 10 (2.43%) ServiceNow
10 9 (2.18%) Oracle
11 6 (1.46%) Informatica
11 6 (1.46%) New Relic
11 6 (1.46%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.97%) Databricks
12 4 (0.97%) Veracode