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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 452 523
Rank change year-on-year +98 +71 -29
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 371 257 276
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.53% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.43% 4.47% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 224 155 181
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,832 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +14.42%

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 4,403 5,753 8,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.45% 11.77% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,056 3,558 6,939
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,196 £45,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -2.62%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +64 296 £70,542 +0.77% 140
Work from Home +112 175 £71,250 +3.64% 75
UK excluding London +27 160 £62,500 -3.85% 103
London +83 152 £82,500 -8.33% 64
North of England -32 59 £60,000 -19.86% 30
South West +1 30 £55,000 -15.38% 13
South East +14 27 £62,500 -7.41% 30
North West +1 25 £62,500 -16.67% 11
North East -23 21 £51,500 -10.43% 4
Scotland -1 19 £72,289 -9.64% 11
Yorkshire -23 13 £67,500 -9.84% 15
Midlands -14 12 £62,500 -3.85% 17
West Midlands +4 8 £55,200 -15.08% 15
East of England +12 7 £85,000 +70.00% 1
Wales -13 4 £62,639 -3.63% 1
East Midlands -22 4 £69,500 +68.48% 2
Northern Ireland -25 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 19 (5.12%) Apache
2 12 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.62%) Confluence
4 6 (1.62%) nginx
5 3 (0.81%) IIS
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) CICS
7 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.27%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.08%) Weka
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.27%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 269 (72.51%) AWS
2 172 (46.36%) Azure
3 150 (40.43%) GCP
4 101 (27.22%) GitHub
5 100 (26.95%) Amazon EKS
6 85 (22.91%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (21.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 58 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 56 (15.09%) Datadog
10 53 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (12.67%) Serverless
12 46 (12.40%) SaaS
13 28 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (6.74%) OpenShift
16 22 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (5.93%) Amazon S3
17 21 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (5.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 19 (5.12%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (10.78%) Firewall
2 25 (6.74%) DNS
3 21 (5.66%) HTTP
4 16 (4.31%) TCP/IP
4 16 (4.31%) VPN
5 9 (2.43%) WAN
6 8 (2.16%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.89%) LAN
7 7 (1.89%) SSL
7 7 (1.89%) Wireless
8 6 (1.62%) BGP
9 5 (1.35%) DHCP
9 5 (1.35%) MQTT
9 5 (1.35%) Network Security
9 5 (1.35%) VLAN
10 4 (1.08%) MPLS
11 3 (0.81%) SAN
12 2 (0.54%) OSPF
12 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.28%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.50%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.23%) MySQL
7 10 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.43%) InfluxDB
9 8 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.89%) Redis
11 6 (1.62%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.81%) Big Data
13 2 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.54%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.54%) Looker
13 2 (0.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 106 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 85 (22.91%) GitLab
3 56 (15.09%) TeamCity
4 53 (14.29%) Git
5 28 (7.55%) JIRA
6 25 (6.74%) Cucumber
7 17 (4.58%) Bitbucket
8 15 (4.04%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.77%) CircleCI
9 14 (3.77%) JMeter
9 14 (3.77%) Selenium
10 10 (2.70%) JUnit
11 8 (2.16%) Locust
11 8 (2.16%) Robot Framework
11 8 (2.16%) TestRail
12 7 (1.89%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.62%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.62%) MLflow
14 5 (1.35%) Maven
15 4 (1.08%) Gradle
General
1 116 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 114 (30.73%) Finance
3 64 (17.25%) Law
4 60 (16.17%) Banking
5 58 (15.63%) Retail
6 55 (14.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (9.43%) Back Office
8 33 (8.89%) Financial Institution
9 28 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
9 28 (7.55%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.77%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.16%) Advertising
12 5 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.81%) Legal
15 2 (0.54%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.27%) Aviation
16 1 (0.27%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (24.26%) Senior
2 78 (21.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (14.82%) Software Engineer
4 40 (10.78%) Lead
5 36 (9.70%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (6.47%) Developer
8 22 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (5.39%) Java Engineer
11 17 (4.58%) Applications Support
11 17 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.31%) Development Engineer
12 16 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
12 16 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (4.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 15 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.77%) Software Developer
15 13 (3.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (20.22%) Elastic Stack
2 30 (8.09%) .NET
3 28 (7.55%) Kafka
4 20 (5.39%) Spring
5 19 (5.12%) React
5 19 (5.12%) Spring Boot
6 16 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (3.50%) ADO
8 11 (2.96%) AWS CDK
8 11 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (2.70%) Gherkin
9 10 (2.70%) Loki
9 10 (2.70%) Node.js
9 10 (2.70%) OAuth
9 10 (2.70%) pytest
10 9 (2.43%) Django
10 9 (2.43%) Flask
10 9 (2.43%) REST
11 8 (2.16%) JWT
11 8 (2.16%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 100 (26.95%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.32%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.12%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.04%) Blog
6 13 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.70%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.16%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.89%) PKI
11 5 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.35%) IoT
12 4 (1.08%) Replication
13 3 (0.81%) Blockchain
13 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.54%) FlexPod
14 2 (0.54%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 127 (34.23%) Linux
2 65 (17.52%) Windows
3 16 (4.31%) Unix
4 13 (3.50%) CentOS
5 10 (2.70%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (2.16%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.35%) VMS
9 3 (0.81%) SUSE
10 2 (0.54%) Debian
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (78.71%) CI/CD
2 233 (62.80%) DevOps
3 189 (50.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 159 (42.86%) Observability
5 157 (42.32%) Containerisation
6 108 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
6 108 (29.11%) Test Automation
7 103 (27.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 98 (26.42%) Agile
9 89 (23.99%) Software Engineering
10 84 (22.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 79 (21.29%) Deployment Automation
12 76 (20.49%) Microservices
13 69 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
14 55 (14.82%) Clean Code
15 53 (14.29%) High Availability
16 52 (14.02%) Mentoring
17 51 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 48 (12.94%) Continuous Deployment
19 46 (12.40%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 201 (54.18%) Python
2 111 (29.92%) Bash
3 107 (28.84%) Java
4 49 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 48 (12.94%) PowerShell
6 46 (12.40%) Go
7 42 (11.32%) SQL
8 26 (7.01%) C#
9 24 (6.47%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.04%) Bicep
11 11 (2.96%) C++
11 11 (2.96%) Rust
12 8 (2.16%) Delphi
12 8 (2.16%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.62%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (1.35%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.81%) Elixir
15 3 (0.81%) Erlang
16 2 (0.54%) Perl
16 2 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.48%) Degree
3 44 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 32 (8.63%) AWS Certification
5 31 (8.36%) DV Cleared
6 28 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.27%) HNC
13 1 (0.27%) HND
13 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.40%) QA
2 11 (2.96%) GDPR
3 8 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.89%) WCAG
5 6 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.35%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 172 (46.36%) Docker
2 13 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.62%) KVM
5 4 (1.08%) iptables
5 4 (1.08%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.08%) vSphere
6 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.54%) NFS
8 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.27%) pfSense
8 1 (0.27%) RACF
8 1 (0.27%) vCloud
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 280 (75.47%) Terraform
2 263 (70.89%) Kubernetes
3 202 (54.45%) Prometheus
4 134 (36.12%) Ansible
5 22 (5.93%) Argo
6 21 (5.66%) Kibana
7 12 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (3.23%) Puppet
8 9 (2.43%) Control-M
8 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.43%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.16%) Istio
9 8 (2.16%) linkerd
9 8 (2.16%) logstash
9 8 (2.16%) Mesos
10 6 (1.62%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.62%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.35%) Nagios
12 3 (0.81%) Rancher
12 3 (0.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (12.67%) Splunk
2 31 (8.36%) VMware
3 22 (5.93%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.85%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.31%) Oracle
6 14 (3.77%) Google
6 14 (3.77%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.96%) SolarWinds
8 9 (2.43%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.16%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.16%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.62%) Cisco
11 5 (1.35%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.35%) Databricks
12 4 (1.08%) Cribl.io
12 4 (1.08%) F5
12 4 (1.08%) New Relic
12 4 (1.08%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.81%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.81%) Rapid7