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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 478 427
Rank change year-on-year +133 -51 +112
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 340 299 297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.62% 4.45% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 230 172 236
10th Percentile £51,000 £43,911 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,310 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +14.62% -16.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £92,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -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 4,462 6,720 8,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.40% 9.78% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,165 4,062 6,555
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,502 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,563 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,250 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +114 281 £72,500 +3.57% 144
UK excluding London +107 171 £70,000 +3.70% 117
London +84 133 £80,500 -5.29% 54
Work from Home +74 115 £67,500 -10.00% 84
North of England +34 59 £60,000 -20.00% 23
Midlands +75 41 £72,500 +11.54% 18
West Midlands +80 36 £72,500 +11.54% 15
North West +63 31 £62,500 -16.67% 15
South East +44 29 £70,000 +3.70% 38
Scotland +45 28 £72,289 +15.66% 9
North East -6 16 £57,600 -5.96% 3
Yorkshire +19 12 £75,000 -11.76% 5
South West +4 9 £72,500 +11.54% 19
East Midlands +21 5 £55,200 +38.00% 3
Wales +4 4 £67,539 +3.91% 1
East of England +24 2 £68,750 +37.50% 7
Northern Ireland +6 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 33 (9.71%) Confluence
2 15 (4.41%) nginx
3 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.76%) Apache
4 6 (1.76%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.47%) IIS
6 2 (0.59%) CICS
6 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.29%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 235 (69.12%) AWS
2 144 (42.35%) Azure
3 100 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 76 (22.35%) GCP
5 71 (20.88%) GitHub
6 59 (17.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (16.18%) Amazon EC2
7 55 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
8 51 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (14.41%) Amazon S3
10 46 (13.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 40 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (10.59%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (10.59%) Datadog
13 35 (10.29%) Serverless
14 34 (10.00%) AWS KMS
15 32 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (8.82%) Amazon ELB
17 29 (8.53%) SaaS
18 27 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 54 (15.88%) Firewall
2 32 (9.41%) DNS
3 27 (7.94%) HTTP
4 20 (5.88%) FTP
5 19 (5.59%) SMTP
5 19 (5.59%) SSH
6 9 (2.65%) WAN
7 8 (2.35%) VPN
8 7 (2.06%) LAN
8 7 (2.06%) SAN
8 7 (2.06%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.06%) Wireless
9 6 (1.76%) BGP
9 6 (1.76%) IMAP
9 6 (1.76%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (1.47%) Network Security
11 4 (1.18%) MPLS
11 4 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.18%) SSL
11 4 (1.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (14.12%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (7.94%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.71%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.65%) Redis
7 8 (2.35%) InfluxDB
7 8 (2.35%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.06%) MySQL
9 5 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.88%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.59%) Big Data
12 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.59%) Metadata
12 2 (0.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 127 (37.35%) Jenkins
2 76 (22.35%) Git
3 75 (22.06%) GitLab
4 65 (19.12%) JIRA
5 30 (8.82%) Vagrant
6 21 (6.18%) TeamCity
7 17 (5.00%) Cucumber
8 16 (4.71%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (2.94%) JUnit
10 10 (2.94%) Selenium
11 9 (2.65%) JMeter
12 8 (2.35%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.35%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
13 7 (2.06%) CircleCI
13 7 (2.06%) Locust
14 4 (1.18%) Robot Framework
14 4 (1.18%) TestRail
15 3 (0.88%) Spinnaker
General
1 106 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 100 (29.41%) Finance
3 44 (12.94%) Law
4 39 (11.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 30 (8.82%) Banking
7 19 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.71%) Back Office
9 15 (4.41%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.12%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.12%) Retail
11 13 (3.82%) Marketing
12 11 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.94%) Legal
14 9 (2.65%) Advertising
15 6 (1.76%) Games
16 4 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.59%) Agriculture
17 2 (0.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 92 (27.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 74 (21.76%) Senior
3 36 (10.59%) Software Engineer
4 35 (10.29%) Lead
5 34 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (9.71%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (7.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 21 (6.18%) Analyst
9 20 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.29%) Senior DevOps
10 18 (5.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.29%) Support Engineer
11 17 (5.00%) Applications Support
11 17 (5.00%) Developer
12 16 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.71%) Site Engineer
13 14 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (4.12%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (7.94%) .NET
3 19 (5.59%) Kafka
4 17 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 15 (4.41%) Node.js
5 15 (4.41%) Spring
6 13 (3.82%) React
6 13 (3.82%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.53%) AWS CDK
7 12 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (3.24%) Django
8 11 (3.24%) Loki
9 10 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (2.94%) Flask
10 9 (2.65%) ADO
11 8 (2.35%) pytest
11 8 (2.35%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.06%) Hugging Face
12 7 (2.06%) LangChain
12 7 (2.06%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.76%) Replication
4 12 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.24%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.35%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.47%) IoT
9 5 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.18%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.59%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.59%) MPEG
12 2 (0.59%) NHS
12 2 (0.59%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 145 (42.65%) Linux
2 75 (22.06%) Windows
3 33 (9.71%) VMS
4 25 (7.35%) Unix
5 19 (5.59%) Amazon Linux
6 18 (5.29%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.76%) Debian
8 6 (1.76%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.18%) CentOS
10 3 (0.88%) Android
11 2 (0.59%) AIX
11 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.59%) SUSE
11 2 (0.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (67.94%) CI/CD
2 217 (63.82%) DevOps
3 141 (41.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (38.82%) Observability
5 109 (32.06%) Containerisation
6 83 (24.41%) Agile
7 78 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (21.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 67 (19.71%) Platform Engineering
10 62 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (17.06%) Software Engineering
12 55 (16.18%) Cloud Security
12 55 (16.18%) Configuration Management
12 55 (16.18%) Test Automation
13 54 (15.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 53 (15.59%) Microservices
15 50 (14.71%) Change Management
16 48 (14.12%) Computer Science
17 46 (13.53%) High Availability
18 43 (12.65%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 206 (60.59%) Python
2 89 (26.18%) Java
3 81 (23.82%) Bash
4 80 (23.53%) PowerShell
5 58 (17.06%) SQL
6 39 (11.47%) Go
7 33 (9.71%) Groovy
7 33 (9.71%) JavaScript
8 21 (6.18%) C#
9 17 (5.00%) Bicep
10 14 (4.12%) Perl
11 13 (3.82%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.82%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.35%) Delphi
13 6 (1.76%) Ruby
14 5 (1.47%) C++
15 4 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.88%) PHP
17 2 (0.59%) Korn
17 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 70 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 69 (20.29%) Degree
4 45 (13.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (8.82%) AWS Certification
6 28 (8.24%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.82%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.82%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.18%) CCNA
10 4 (1.18%) CCNP
11 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.88%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.59%) QA
2 7 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.06%) WCAG
3 6 (1.76%) GDPR
4 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 163 (47.94%) Docker
2 27 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.18%) DFS Replication
4 9 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.76%) Dovecot
6 6 (1.76%) Postfix
6 6 (1.76%) Squid
7 4 (1.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.59%) KVM
8 2 (0.59%) NFS
8 2 (0.59%) RACF
8 2 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.29%) iptables
9 1 (0.29%) pfSense
9 1 (0.29%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 215 (63.24%) Prometheus
1 215 (63.24%) Terraform
2 200 (58.82%) Kubernetes
3 104 (30.59%) Ansible
4 16 (4.71%) Argo
5 13 (3.82%) Control-M
6 10 (2.94%) Kibana
6 10 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.65%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (2.35%) Nessus
9 6 (1.76%) logstash
9 6 (1.76%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.47%) Puppet
10 5 (1.47%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.18%) Nagios
12 3 (0.88%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.88%) Netcool
12 3 (0.88%) Netcool/OMNIbus
12 3 (0.88%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (19.12%) Splunk
2 43 (12.65%) ServiceNow
3 28 (8.24%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.18%) Oracle
5 20 (5.88%) Dynatrace
6 17 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 16 (4.71%) VMware
8 13 (3.82%) Atlassian
9 12 (3.53%) Google
9 12 (3.53%) Juniper
10 10 (2.94%) Cisco
11 9 (2.65%) AppDynamics
11 9 (2.65%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.65%) Red Hat
12 8 (2.35%) IBM
13 7 (2.06%) OpenAI
14 6 (1.76%) Jaspersoft
15 5 (1.47%) F5
15 5 (1.47%) Sonatype
16 3 (0.88%) New Relic