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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 387 470
Rank change year-on-year -9 +83 -12
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 418 340 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.69% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.50% 6.08% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 249 226 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% - +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 5,573 5,593 8,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.56% 11.37% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,117 3,324 6,052
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,125 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,443 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.10% +4.44% -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 22 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 22 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 -16 366 £70,000 -3.45% 175
UK excluding London -54 196 £64,000 -8.57% 93
London -12 175 £82,500 - 116
Work from Home +74 174 £65,000 -7.14% 89
South East -3 60 £62,500 -16.67% 22
North of England -20 50 £60,000 -7.69% 24
South West -19 49 £65,000 - 14
North West 0 30 £71,250 +18.75% 14
Midlands -63 20 £63,250 -12.76% 9
North East -37 17 £47,500 -20.83% 3
West Midlands -56 15 £62,500 -13.79% 8
Wales -55 8 £70,000 +33.18% 2
East Midlands -24 5 £64,000 +14.80% 1
Scotland -6 4 £62,500 -34.21% 15
East of England -6 3 £80,150 +18.74% 7
Yorkshire -49 3 £52,500 -29.88% 7
Northern Ireland -65 2 - - 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 18 (4.31%) Apache
2 9 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.67%) Confluence
3 7 (1.67%) IIS
4 6 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.20%) nginx
6 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 282 (67.46%) AWS
2 169 (40.43%) GCP
3 165 (39.47%) Azure
4 75 (17.94%) Amazon EKS
5 69 (16.51%) Datadog
6 65 (15.55%) GitHub
7 64 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
9 60 (14.35%) SaaS
10 53 (12.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 50 (11.96%) Serverless
13 38 (9.09%) OpenShift
14 37 (8.85%) Amazon S3
15 33 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (6.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 26 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
18 25 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
19 17 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
19 17 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 60 (14.35%) Firewall
2 24 (5.74%) DNS
3 23 (5.50%) TCP/IP
4 19 (4.55%) VLAN
5 18 (4.31%) HTTP
6 14 (3.35%) VPN
7 11 (2.63%) WAN
8 10 (2.39%) LAN
8 10 (2.39%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.39%) WebEx
9 9 (2.15%) Broadband
9 9 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.15%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.91%) BGP
10 8 (1.91%) Network Security
11 7 (1.67%) MQTT
11 7 (1.67%) OSPF
11 7 (1.67%) SSH
12 6 (1.44%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.44%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.13%) Elasticsearch
3 26 (6.22%) MySQL
4 22 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.35%) InfluxDB
6 14 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.63%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.91%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.72%) Big Data
12 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.48%) Looker
12 2 (0.48%) Redis
12 2 (0.48%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 93 (22.25%) GitLab
2 85 (20.33%) Jenkins
3 69 (16.51%) Git
4 67 (16.03%) TeamCity
5 24 (5.74%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.50%) Cucumber
7 22 (5.26%) JMeter
8 14 (3.35%) JIRA
9 12 (2.87%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.87%) CircleCI
10 11 (2.63%) Cypress.io
10 11 (2.63%) Gatling
10 11 (2.63%) LoadRunner
10 11 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
10 11 (2.63%) Selenium
11 7 (1.67%) Robot Framework
11 7 (1.67%) TestRail
12 6 (1.44%) Burp Suite
12 6 (1.44%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.20%) Locust
General
1 128 (30.62%) Finance
2 98 (23.44%) Banking
3 84 (20.10%) Law
4 80 (19.14%) Retail
5 78 (18.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 76 (18.18%) Social Skills
7 46 (11.00%) Financial Institution
8 43 (10.29%) Back Office
9 42 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
10 39 (9.33%) Public Sector
11 27 (6.46%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.15%) Marketing
13 8 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.96%) Legal
16 2 (0.48%) Advertising
16 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.24%) Aviation
17 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 97 (23.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (17.94%) Senior
3 69 (16.51%) Software Engineer
4 44 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 35 (8.37%) Platform Engineer
7 34 (8.13%) Lead
8 27 (6.46%) Developer
9 26 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (5.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 21 (5.02%) Administrator
11 21 (5.02%) Java Engineer
11 21 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (5.02%) Site Engineer
12 20 (4.78%) Systems Administrator
13 18 (4.31%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (4.31%) Team Leader
14 17 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
2 48 (11.48%) Kafka
3 29 (6.94%) OpenTelemetry
4 25 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (5.26%) Loki
6 19 (4.55%) Node.js
6 19 (4.55%) React
7 17 (4.07%) REST
8 16 (3.83%) YAML
9 15 (3.59%) Spring
10 14 (3.35%) RESTful
10 14 (3.35%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.11%) .NET
12 12 (2.87%) Apache NiFi
12 12 (2.87%) gRPC
12 12 (2.87%) Playwright
13 11 (2.63%) ARM Templates
13 11 (2.63%) OAuth
14 10 (2.39%) AngularJS
14 10 (2.39%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 134 (32.06%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.00%) Product Ownership
3 34 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 20 (4.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (4.07%) Blog
7 12 (2.87%) Replication
8 10 (2.39%) FlexPod
8 10 (2.39%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.15%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.91%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.44%) PKI
13 5 (1.20%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.96%) IoT
15 3 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 122 (29.19%) Linux
2 47 (11.24%) Windows
3 21 (5.02%) CentOS
4 14 (3.35%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.87%) Unix
6 8 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.91%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.67%) VMS
8 5 (1.20%) Debian
9 4 (0.96%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.48%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Android
11 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (74.64%) CI/CD
2 240 (57.42%) DevOps
3 236 (56.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 185 (44.26%) Observability
5 174 (41.63%) Containerisation
6 142 (33.97%) Software Engineering
7 138 (33.01%) Test Automation
8 121 (28.95%) Agile
9 118 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (27.99%) Deployment Automation
11 106 (25.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (24.16%) Microservices
13 85 (20.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 82 (19.62%) Mentoring
15 81 (19.38%) Platform Engineering
16 68 (16.27%) Continuous Deployment
17 63 (15.07%) Clean Code
18 60 (14.35%) AI
19 52 (12.44%) Fintech
19 52 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 266 (63.64%) Python
2 168 (40.19%) Bash
3 131 (31.34%) Java
4 76 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 57 (13.64%) SQL
6 46 (11.00%) Go
6 46 (11.00%) JavaScript
7 36 (8.61%) C#
8 29 (6.94%) Rust
9 21 (5.02%) TypeScript
10 17 (4.07%) C++
11 10 (2.39%) Bicep
12 7 (1.67%) VBA
13 6 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.20%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (1.20%) PHP
14 5 (1.20%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.72%) Ruby
16 2 (0.48%) VB
17 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 85 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.09%) Degree
3 32 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.50%) DV Cleared
5 22 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (5.02%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.48%) CISSP
13 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.48%) ISEB
13 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.96%) QA
2 16 (3.83%) PCI DSS
3 14 (3.35%) GDPR
4 13 (3.11%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.87%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.15%) SLA
7 8 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.44%) WCAG
9 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.72%) PSD2
11 2 (0.48%) GRC
11 2 (0.48%) SEPA
12 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 194 (46.41%) Docker
2 24 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.87%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (2.63%) Active Directory
6 10 (2.39%) vSphere
7 6 (1.44%) iptables
7 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.20%) KVM
8 5 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.48%) Xen
10 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 299 (71.53%) Terraform
2 274 (65.55%) Kubernetes
3 234 (55.98%) Prometheus
4 152 (36.36%) Ansible
5 31 (7.42%) Argo
6 26 (6.22%) Kibana
7 19 (4.55%) Istio
7 19 (4.55%) Nagios
7 19 (4.55%) Puppet
8 16 (3.83%) logstash
9 10 (2.39%) Cisco CUCM
9 10 (2.39%) Kustomize
10 9 (2.15%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (2.15%) linkerd
11 8 (1.91%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.67%) Progress Chef
13 6 (1.44%) Proxmox
13 6 (1.44%) vCenter Server
14 5 (1.20%) Mesos
14 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 53 (12.68%) Splunk
2 50 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 34 (8.13%) Red Hat
4 33 (7.89%) VMware
5 27 (6.46%) Dynatrace
6 22 (5.26%) Google
7 11 (2.63%) Cisco
7 11 (2.63%) Rapid7
8 10 (2.39%) AppDynamics
8 10 (2.39%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.39%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.39%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.15%) NetApp
9 9 (2.15%) Oracle
10 8 (1.91%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.44%) Informatica
11 6 (1.44%) New Relic
12 5 (1.20%) Tenable
13 4 (0.96%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.96%) SolarWinds