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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 414 501
Rank change year-on-year +46 +87 -33
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 415 223 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.54% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.22% 4.66% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 226 165 202
10th Percentile £45,163 £45,274 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +19.61%

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 4,503 4,787 9,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.25% 11.54% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,130 3,333 7,350
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,184 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -6.09%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +43 355 £70,079 -6.40% 136
Work from Home +101 193 £70,079 +5.78% 77
UK excluding London +12 190 £62,500 -3.85% 87
London +65 176 £82,500 -8.84% 65
North of England -43 58 £60,000 -14.29% 32
South West -21 48 £56,250 -13.46% 7
South East -15 38 £62,500 -19.35% 27
North East -22 23 £47,500 -22.45% 4
North West -31 22 £65,000 -10.34% 18
Midlands -53 16 £63,250 -2.69% 7
Scotland -19 15 £68,539 -27.85% 5
Yorkshire -45 13 £80,000 +6.85% 11
West Midlands -26 11 £55,200 -15.08% 6
East of England -23 8 £82,575 +43.61% 11
Wales -35 5 £70,079 +7.81% 1
East Midlands -50 5 £64,000 +55.15% 1
Northern Ireland -39 2 - - 1

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 21 (5.06%) Apache
2 16 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.69%) Confluence
5 4 (0.96%) IIS
6 3 (0.72%) nginx
6 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.96%) Weka
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 294 (70.84%) AWS
2 180 (43.37%) Azure
3 168 (40.48%) GCP
4 96 (23.13%) GitHub
5 95 (22.89%) Amazon EKS
6 81 (19.52%) GitHub Actions
7 76 (18.31%) Datadog
8 68 (16.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 60 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (13.01%) SaaS
11 53 (12.77%) Serverless
12 49 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (9.40%) OpenShift
14 30 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (6.99%) Amazon S3
16 27 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (5.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 21 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (5.06%) dbt
19 17 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (13.49%) Firewall
2 32 (7.71%) DNS
3 28 (6.75%) HTTP
4 20 (4.82%) TCP/IP
5 18 (4.34%) VPN
6 12 (2.89%) LAN
6 12 (2.89%) WAN
7 10 (2.41%) Broadband
7 10 (2.41%) VLAN
8 8 (1.93%) Unified Communications
8 8 (1.93%) WebEx
9 7 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.69%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (1.20%) BGP
10 5 (1.20%) DHCP
10 5 (1.20%) Network Security
10 5 (1.20%) SSL
11 4 (0.96%) MQTT
11 4 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (5.54%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (4.34%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.86%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.61%) InfluxDB
8 14 (3.37%) MySQL
9 12 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.69%) Redis
12 6 (1.45%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.96%) Big Data
13 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.48%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.48%) Looker
14 2 (0.48%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 108 (26.02%) Jenkins
2 94 (22.65%) GitLab
3 65 (15.66%) TeamCity
4 56 (13.49%) Git
5 38 (9.16%) Cucumber
6 26 (6.27%) JMeter
7 22 (5.30%) SonarQube
8 20 (4.82%) JIRA
8 20 (4.82%) Selenium
9 17 (4.10%) CircleCI
10 13 (3.13%) Bitbucket
10 13 (3.13%) Locust
11 12 (2.89%) Cypress.io
11 12 (2.89%) Robot Framework
11 12 (2.89%) TestRail
12 11 (2.65%) JUnit
13 9 (2.17%) LoadRunner
14 8 (1.93%) Gatling
15 5 (1.20%) Postman
15 5 (1.20%) REST Assured
General
1 126 (30.36%) Finance
2 107 (25.78%) Social Skills
3 79 (19.04%) Law
4 77 (18.55%) Banking
5 74 (17.83%) Retail
6 70 (16.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (10.12%) Back Office
8 40 (9.64%) Financial Institution
9 37 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
10 35 (8.43%) Telecoms
11 21 (5.06%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.69%) Marketing
13 6 (1.45%) Legal
14 5 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.96%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.72%) Investment Banking
17 1 (0.24%) Aviation
17 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
17 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (21.45%) Senior
2 79 (19.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (15.66%) Software Engineer
4 53 (12.77%) Lead
5 36 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (6.75%) Developer
9 24 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (5.78%) Java Engineer
10 20 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (4.58%) Java Software Engineer
11 19 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (4.34%) Software Developer
13 17 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 16 (3.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 15 (3.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 15 (3.61%) Site Engineer
16 14 (3.37%) Administrator
16 14 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (18.80%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (9.16%) Kafka
3 28 (6.75%) .NET
4 23 (5.54%) React
5 20 (4.82%) Spring
6 19 (4.58%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (4.58%) Spring Boot
7 17 (4.10%) OAuth
7 17 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (3.86%) Gherkin
8 16 (3.86%) Loki
9 15 (3.61%) pytest
10 12 (2.89%) Node.js
10 12 (2.89%) REST
11 10 (2.41%) ADO
11 10 (2.41%) Apache NiFi
11 10 (2.41%) Vue
12 9 (2.17%) Flask
12 9 (2.17%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 115 (27.71%) Cloud Native
2 47 (11.33%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.54%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (3.86%) Blog
6 12 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.65%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.41%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.17%) PKI
9 9 (2.17%) Replication
10 8 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.93%) FlexPod
10 8 (1.93%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.20%) IoT
12 4 (0.96%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 121 (29.16%) Linux
2 63 (15.18%) Windows
3 22 (5.30%) CentOS
4 12 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.89%) Unix
4 12 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.41%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.17%) VMS
7 3 (0.72%) Debian
7 3 (0.72%) SUSE
8 2 (0.48%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (76.87%) CI/CD
2 245 (59.04%) DevOps
3 220 (53.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 183 (44.10%) Containerisation
4 183 (44.10%) Observability
5 139 (33.49%) Test Automation
6 126 (30.36%) Agile
7 124 (29.88%) Problem-Solving
8 122 (29.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 119 (28.67%) Software Engineering
10 94 (22.65%) Deployment Automation
11 92 (22.17%) Microservices
12 86 (20.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 74 (17.83%) Platform Engineering
14 63 (15.18%) Clean Code
15 60 (14.46%) Continuous Deployment
16 59 (14.22%) Mentoring
17 56 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 53 (12.77%) High Availability
19 51 (12.29%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 236 (56.87%) Python
2 135 (32.53%) Bash
3 126 (30.36%) Java
4 58 (13.98%) JavaScript
5 57 (13.73%) PowerShell
6 51 (12.29%) Go
7 49 (11.81%) SQL
8 37 (8.92%) C#
9 26 (6.27%) TypeScript
10 18 (4.34%) C++
11 17 (4.10%) Rust
12 10 (2.41%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.93%) Bicep
13 8 (1.93%) Delphi
13 8 (1.93%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.72%) Elixir
15 3 (0.72%) Erlang
16 2 (0.48%) C
16 2 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.36%) Degree
3 33 (7.95%) DV Cleared
4 32 (7.71%) SC Cleared
5 30 (7.23%) AWS Certification
6 21 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 10 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.20%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.24%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.77%) QA
2 15 (3.61%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.61%) GDPR
3 13 (3.13%) WCAG
4 10 (2.41%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.41%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) GRC
7 2 (0.48%) SEPA
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 198 (47.71%) Docker
2 22 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.89%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.93%) KVM
5 7 (1.69%) iptables
5 7 (1.69%) vSphere
6 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.96%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.24%) pfSense
11 1 (0.24%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 304 (73.25%) Terraform
2 278 (66.99%) Kubernetes
3 212 (51.08%) Prometheus
4 147 (35.42%) Ansible
5 27 (6.51%) Kibana
6 16 (3.86%) Argo
6 16 (3.86%) Puppet
7 12 (2.89%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (2.89%) logstash
8 11 (2.65%) Istio
9 10 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (2.17%) Progress Chef
10 9 (2.17%) ZABBIX
11 8 (1.93%) Cisco CUCM
11 8 (1.93%) linkerd
11 8 (1.93%) Mesos
11 8 (1.93%) Nagios
11 8 (1.93%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.96%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.72%) Rancher
Vendors
1 49 (11.81%) Splunk
2 41 (9.88%) VMware
3 32 (7.71%) Microsoft
4 28 (6.75%) Red Hat
5 26 (6.27%) Dynatrace
6 15 (3.61%) Google
6 15 (3.61%) Oracle
7 13 (3.13%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.65%) AppDynamics
9 10 (2.41%) Cisco
9 10 (2.41%) SolarWinds
10 9 (2.17%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.69%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.45%) NetApp
12 6 (1.45%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.20%) Databricks
13 5 (1.20%) Rapid7
14 4 (0.96%) Cribl.io
14 4 (0.96%) PagerDuty
15 3 (0.72%) New Relic