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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 385 514
Rank change year-on-year -20 +129 -37
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 404 326 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.72% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.83% 6.01% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 233 210 200
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,525
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,063 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -7.94% +5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +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 5,160 5,420 9,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.43% 11.96% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,747 3,184 6,916
10th Percentile £34,150 £33,163 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,621 £46,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,850 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +6.48% -9.28%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -9 356 £72,500 - 110
UK excluding London -45 188 £62,500 -10.71% 73
London -16 170 £82,500 - 57
Work from Home +73 167 £70,000 - 63
South West -8 55 £65,000 - 7
South East -13 50 £62,500 -19.35% 26
North of England -28 49 £57,500 -11.54% 24
North West -1 26 £67,500 +12.50% 17
North East -32 18 £47,500 -19.15% 2
Midlands -58 18 £64,000 -8.57% 5
West Midlands -58 12 £56,250 -22.41% 2
East Midlands -28 6 £64,500 +12.17% 3
Wales -48 6 £70,000 +21.74%
East of England -10 5 £85,000 +47.83% 5
Yorkshire -37 5 £52,500 -29.88% 5
Scotland -17 3 £62,500 -34.21% 6
Northern Ireland -35 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 20 (4.95%) Apache
2 11 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.73%) Confluence
4 6 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.99%) IIS
6 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.99%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 280 (69.31%) AWS
2 159 (39.36%) Azure
3 157 (38.86%) GCP
4 83 (20.54%) Amazon EKS
5 68 (16.83%) GitHub
6 66 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (16.09%) GitHub Actions
8 61 (15.10%) Datadog
9 59 (14.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 54 (13.37%) Serverless
11 53 (13.12%) SaaS
12 45 (11.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (9.16%) Amazon S3
14 36 (8.91%) OpenShift
15 32 (7.92%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
18 23 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
19 17 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
20 16 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (14.60%) Firewall
2 27 (6.68%) DNS
3 23 (5.69%) TCP/IP
4 22 (5.45%) HTTP
5 19 (4.70%) VLAN
6 16 (3.96%) VPN
7 11 (2.72%) WAN
8 10 (2.48%) LAN
8 10 (2.48%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.48%) WebEx
9 9 (2.23%) Broadband
9 9 (2.23%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.23%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.98%) BGP
11 7 (1.73%) MQTT
11 7 (1.73%) Network Security
11 7 (1.73%) OSPF
12 6 (1.49%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.49%) SNMP
13 4 (0.99%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.67%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (5.20%) MySQL
4 17 (4.21%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.71%) InfluxDB
6 12 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.97%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.98%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.99%) Big Data
9 4 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.99%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.50%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.50%) Looker
10 2 (0.50%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.25%) KDB
Development Applications
1 91 (22.52%) GitLab
2 88 (21.78%) Jenkins
3 66 (16.34%) TeamCity
4 61 (15.10%) Git
5 28 (6.93%) SonarQube
6 25 (6.19%) Cucumber
7 20 (4.95%) JMeter
8 14 (3.47%) CircleCI
9 13 (3.22%) JIRA
10 12 (2.97%) Bitbucket
10 12 (2.97%) Cypress.io
10 12 (2.97%) Selenium
11 10 (2.48%) Gatling
11 10 (2.48%) LoadRunner
12 8 (1.98%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (1.98%) Robot Framework
12 8 (1.98%) TestRail
13 6 (1.49%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.24%) Burp Suite
14 5 (1.24%) Locust
General
1 121 (29.95%) Finance
2 87 (21.53%) Banking
3 84 (20.79%) Law
4 78 (19.31%) Social Skills
5 77 (19.06%) Retail
6 72 (17.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (10.64%) Financial Institution
8 40 (9.90%) Back Office
9 37 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (9.16%) Public Sector
10 30 (7.43%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.23%) Marketing
12 8 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.74%) Legal
15 2 (0.50%) Advertising
15 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
16 1 (0.25%) Aviation
16 1 (0.25%) Games
16 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 85 (21.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (19.55%) Senior
3 66 (16.34%) Software Engineer
4 44 (10.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.41%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (8.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (8.17%) Lead
7 27 (6.68%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (6.68%) Developer
8 23 (5.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 21 (5.20%) Senior DevOps
9 21 (5.20%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (5.20%) Site Engineer
10 20 (4.95%) Administrator
10 20 (4.95%) Java Engineer
11 19 (4.70%) Systems Administrator
12 18 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
12 18 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (4.46%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.34%) Elastic Stack
2 44 (10.89%) Kafka
3 28 (6.93%) OpenTelemetry
4 22 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (5.20%) Loki
6 20 (4.95%) REST
7 19 (4.70%) Node.js
8 17 (4.21%) React
9 15 (3.71%) .NET
10 14 (3.47%) Apache NiFi
10 14 (3.47%) Spring
11 13 (3.22%) OAuth
11 13 (3.22%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.22%) YAML
12 12 (2.97%) gRPC
12 12 (2.97%) Playwright
13 11 (2.72%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.72%) Vue
14 10 (2.48%) XMPP
15 9 (2.23%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 124 (30.69%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.65%) Product Ownership
3 31 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (4.70%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.21%) Blog
7 12 (2.97%) Private Cloud
7 12 (2.97%) Replication
8 10 (2.48%) FlexPod
8 10 (2.48%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.49%) PKI
11 6 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.24%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.24%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.99%) Blockchain
14 3 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 119 (29.46%) Linux
2 53 (13.12%) Windows
3 21 (5.20%) CentOS
4 13 (3.22%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.98%) Unix
6 7 (1.73%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.73%) VMS
7 4 (0.99%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.74%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 233 (57.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 226 (55.94%) DevOps
4 170 (42.08%) Observability
5 168 (41.58%) Containerisation
6 139 (34.41%) Test Automation
7 130 (32.18%) Software Engineering
8 123 (30.45%) Agile
9 111 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (26.98%) Deployment Automation
11 104 (25.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (23.27%) Microservices
13 80 (19.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 78 (19.31%) Mentoring
15 76 (18.81%) Platform Engineering
16 63 (15.59%) Continuous Deployment
17 61 (15.10%) Clean Code
18 56 (13.86%) AI
19 55 (13.61%) DevSecOps
20 54 (13.37%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 253 (62.62%) Python
2 168 (41.58%) Bash
3 126 (31.19%) Java
4 72 (17.82%) PowerShell
5 50 (12.38%) SQL
6 47 (11.63%) JavaScript
7 46 (11.39%) Go
8 35 (8.66%) C#
9 28 (6.93%) Rust
10 21 (5.20%) TypeScript
11 18 (4.46%) C++
12 9 (2.23%) Bicep
13 8 (1.98%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.49%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (1.24%) VBA
16 4 (0.99%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.74%) Elixir
17 3 (0.74%) Erlang
17 3 (0.74%) Ruby
18 2 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 93 (23.02%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.90%) Degree
3 37 (9.16%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.43%) DV Cleared
5 27 (6.68%) AWS Certification
6 20 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.97%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.74%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.50%) CISSP
13 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.15%) QA
2 12 (2.97%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.72%) GDPR
4 10 (2.48%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.23%) SLA
6 8 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.49%) WCAG
8 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.50%) GRC
10 2 (0.50%) SEPA
11 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 180 (44.55%) Docker
2 25 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.48%) Virtual Servers
3 10 (2.48%) vSphere
4 9 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.73%) iptables
6 6 (1.49%) KVM
6 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.24%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.99%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 298 (73.76%) Terraform
2 263 (65.10%) Kubernetes
3 222 (54.95%) Prometheus
4 158 (39.11%) Ansible
5 30 (7.43%) Kibana
6 26 (6.44%) Argo
7 23 (5.69%) Puppet
8 17 (4.21%) Nagios
9 16 (3.96%) logstash
10 15 (3.71%) Istio
11 10 (2.48%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.48%) Progress Chef
11 10 (2.48%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.23%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.98%) linkerd
13 8 (1.98%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.73%) Kustomize
14 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (1.49%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.24%) Mesos
Vendors
1 51 (12.62%) Splunk
2 43 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 41 (10.15%) VMware
4 31 (7.67%) Red Hat
5 25 (6.19%) Dynatrace
6 17 (4.21%) Google
7 11 (2.72%) Cisco
8 10 (2.48%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.48%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.48%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.23%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.98%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.98%) Oracle
11 7 (1.73%) NetApp
11 7 (1.73%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.24%) Tenable
13 4 (0.99%) Cribl.io
13 4 (0.99%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.99%) Veracode