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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 375 495
Rank change year-on-year -34 +120 -33
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 424 344 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.70% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.67% 6.09% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 246 225 203
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £40,896
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.64% - +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 5,530 5,647 9,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.60% 11.47% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,061 3,364 6,561
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,110 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,875 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +6.48% -10.00%

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 13 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 13 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 -10 371 £71,289 -1.67% 184
UK excluding London -48 195 £63,250 -9.64% 114
London -4 180 £82,500 - 101
Work from Home +74 175 £68,750 -1.79% 91
South East +2 58 £62,500 -15.25% 23
South West -13 53 £75,000 +15.38% 30
North of England -25 47 £57,500 -11.54% 31
North West -17 25 £71,250 +18.75% 23
Midlands -71 21 £64,000 -11.72% 10
North East -37 18 £47,500 -20.83% 3
West Midlands -63 15 £62,500 -13.79% 7
Wales -49 7 £70,000 +21.74% 1
East Midlands -27 6 £64,500 +12.17% 3
Scotland -15 4 £62,500 -34.21% 12
Yorkshire -43 4 £48,750 -34.89% 5
East of England -17 3 £80,150 +18.74% 5
Northern Ireland -58 2 - - 4

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 22 (5.19%) Apache
2 9 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.65%) IIS
4 6 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.42%) Confluence
5 5 (1.18%) nginx
6 3 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.94%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 288 (67.92%) AWS
2 171 (40.33%) Azure
2 171 (40.33%) GCP
3 81 (19.10%) Amazon EKS
4 71 (16.75%) GitHub
5 70 (16.51%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (16.27%) GitHub Actions
7 66 (15.57%) Datadog
8 55 (12.97%) SaaS
9 54 (12.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 53 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (12.03%) Serverless
12 39 (9.20%) OpenShift
13 37 (8.73%) Amazon S3
14 32 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (5.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
19 18 (4.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.33%) Firewall
2 25 (5.90%) DNS
3 24 (5.66%) TCP/IP
4 19 (4.48%) HTTP
4 19 (4.48%) VLAN
5 17 (4.01%) VPN
6 11 (2.59%) WAN
7 10 (2.36%) LAN
7 10 (2.36%) Unified Communications
7 10 (2.36%) WebEx
8 9 (2.12%) Broadband
8 9 (2.12%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (2.12%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (1.89%) BGP
10 7 (1.65%) MQTT
10 7 (1.65%) OSPF
11 6 (1.42%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.42%) Network Security
11 6 (1.42%) SNMP
11 6 (1.42%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (5.66%) MySQL
4 21 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (4.25%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.77%) InfluxDB
7 14 (3.30%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.83%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.12%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.89%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.94%) Big Data
12 4 (0.94%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.47%) Looker
13 2 (0.47%) SQLPlus
14 1 (0.24%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 95 (22.41%) Jenkins
2 94 (22.17%) GitLab
3 70 (16.51%) TeamCity
4 67 (15.80%) Git
5 28 (6.60%) SonarQube
6 26 (6.13%) Cucumber
7 21 (4.95%) JMeter
8 14 (3.30%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.83%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.83%) Cypress.io
9 12 (2.83%) JIRA
9 12 (2.83%) Selenium
10 11 (2.59%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (2.36%) Gatling
11 10 (2.36%) LoadRunner
12 9 (2.12%) Robot Framework
12 9 (2.12%) TestRail
13 6 (1.42%) Burp Suite
13 6 (1.42%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.18%) Locust
General
1 127 (29.95%) Finance
2 94 (22.17%) Banking
3 87 (20.52%) Law
4 82 (19.34%) Retail
5 80 (18.87%) Social Skills
6 77 (18.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (10.61%) Financial Institution
8 42 (9.91%) Back Office
9 41 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
10 37 (8.73%) Public Sector
11 29 (6.84%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.12%) Marketing
13 8 (1.89%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Legal
16 2 (0.47%) Advertising
16 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.24%) Billing
17 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 93 (21.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 77 (18.16%) Senior
3 70 (16.51%) Software Engineer
4 44 (10.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 38 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
7 35 (8.25%) Lead
8 28 (6.60%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (6.60%) Developer
9 21 (4.95%) Administrator
9 21 (4.95%) Java Engineer
9 21 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 20 (4.72%) Systems Administrator
11 19 (4.48%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
11 19 (4.48%) Site Engineer
11 19 (4.48%) Team Leader
12 18 (4.25%) AWS DevOps
12 18 (4.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (16.75%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (11.08%) Kafka
3 30 (7.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 23 (5.42%) Loki
4 23 (5.42%) RabbitMQ
5 19 (4.48%) Node.js
5 19 (4.48%) REST
6 18 (4.25%) React
7 16 (3.77%) .NET
8 15 (3.54%) Apache NiFi
8 15 (3.54%) Spring
8 15 (3.54%) YAML
9 14 (3.30%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.07%) Playwright
11 12 (2.83%) gRPC
11 12 (2.83%) OAuth
11 12 (2.83%) Vue
12 11 (2.59%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.59%) ARM Templates
12 11 (2.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 133 (31.37%) Cloud Native
2 45 (10.61%) Product Ownership
3 33 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (4.72%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.25%) Blog
7 12 (2.83%) Replication
8 11 (2.59%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.36%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.65%) PKI
12 7 (1.65%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 129 (30.42%) Linux
2 53 (12.50%) Windows
3 22 (5.19%) CentOS
4 14 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.59%) Unix
6 10 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.36%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.89%) VMS
8 5 (1.18%) Debian
9 4 (0.94%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.47%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (74.29%) CI/CD
2 244 (57.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 239 (56.37%) DevOps
4 179 (42.22%) Observability
5 176 (41.51%) Containerisation
6 144 (33.96%) Test Automation
7 136 (32.08%) Software Engineering
8 127 (29.95%) Agile
9 124 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
10 116 (27.36%) Deployment Automation
11 109 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (24.06%) Microservices
13 83 (19.58%) Platform Engineering
14 81 (19.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 79 (18.63%) Mentoring
16 69 (16.27%) Continuous Deployment
17 63 (14.86%) Clean Code
18 57 (13.44%) AI
18 57 (13.44%) Infrastructure Automation
19 54 (12.74%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 270 (63.68%) Python
2 174 (41.04%) Bash
3 136 (32.08%) Java
4 78 (18.40%) PowerShell
5 56 (13.21%) SQL
6 53 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 48 (11.32%) Go
8 39 (9.20%) C#
9 29 (6.84%) Rust
10 22 (5.19%) TypeScript
11 20 (4.72%) C++
12 11 (2.59%) Bicep
13 7 (1.65%) Google Apps Script
13 7 (1.65%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.42%) VBA
15 5 (1.18%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.71%) PHP
16 3 (0.71%) Ruby
17 2 (0.47%) VB
18 1 (0.24%) C
Qualifications
1 97 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 38 (8.96%) Degree
3 34 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.60%) DV Cleared
5 25 (5.90%) AWS Certification
6 21 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.83%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.94%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.47%) CISSP
12 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.47%) ISEB
12 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.32%) QA
2 14 (3.30%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.07%) GDPR
4 12 (2.83%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.12%) SLA
6 8 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.42%) WCAG
8 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.47%) GRC
10 2 (0.47%) PSD2
10 2 (0.47%) SEPA
11 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 191 (45.05%) Docker
2 27 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.83%) Active Directory
5 11 (2.59%) Virtual Servers
6 10 (2.36%) vSphere
7 7 (1.65%) KVM
8 6 (1.42%) iptables
8 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (1.18%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.94%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.47%) Xen
12 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 310 (73.11%) Terraform
2 279 (65.80%) Kubernetes
3 233 (54.95%) Prometheus
4 165 (38.92%) Ansible
5 31 (7.31%) Argo
6 29 (6.84%) Kibana
7 23 (5.42%) Puppet
8 18 (4.25%) Istio
8 18 (4.25%) logstash
9 17 (4.01%) Nagios
10 12 (2.83%) ZABBIX
11 10 (2.36%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.36%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (2.12%) Kustomize
12 9 (2.12%) linkerd
12 9 (2.12%) Progress Chef
13 8 (1.89%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (1.65%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.42%) Mesos
Vendors
1 52 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 51 (12.03%) Splunk
3 42 (9.91%) VMware
4 34 (8.02%) Red Hat
5 26 (6.13%) Dynatrace
6 22 (5.19%) Google
7 11 (2.59%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.59%) Cisco
8 10 (2.36%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.36%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.12%) NetApp
9 9 (2.12%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.89%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.89%) Oracle
11 6 (1.42%) Informatica
11 6 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.18%) New Relic
12 5 (1.18%) Tenable
13 4 (0.94%) Cribl.io
13 4 (0.94%) PagerDuty