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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 470 433
Rank change year-on-year +113 -37 +107
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 324 303 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.47% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.46% 4.61% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 225 176 233
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,206 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £73,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% +4.64% -9.68%
75th Percentile £85,250 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £118,000 £91,250 £108,700
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 4,343 6,574 7,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.02% 10.14% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,096 3,994 6,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,589 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,165
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.59% +0.29%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +105 262 £72,500 +3.57% 122
UK excluding London +68 159 £70,000 +3.70% 104
London +75 125 £80,500 -5.29% 44
Work from Home +75 119 £67,500 -10.00% 73
North of England +24 60 £62,500 -16.67% 27
Midlands +59 35 £72,500 +11.54% 15
North West +56 31 £62,500 -16.67% 13
West Midlands +73 30 £72,500 +11.54% 14
Scotland +33 26 £72,289 +15.66% 10
South East +33 23 £70,000 +3.70% 25
North East -8 16 £55,200 -9.88% 4
Yorkshire +12 13 £80,000 -5.88% 10
South West -3 10 £90,000 +38.46% 22
East Midlands +13 5 £55,200 +35.46% 1
Wales +3 4 £67,539 +3.91% 2
East of England +20 2 £68,750 +37.50% 4
Northern Ireland -3 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 27 (8.33%) Confluence
2 15 (4.63%) nginx
3 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.16%) Apache
5 6 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.85%) IIS
6 5 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.62%) CICS
7 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 217 (66.98%) AWS
2 142 (43.83%) Azure
3 93 (28.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 75 (23.15%) GitHub
5 70 (21.60%) GCP
6 58 (17.90%) GitHub Actions
7 56 (17.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (15.43%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (15.12%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (13.58%) Amazon S3
11 41 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (11.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 36 (11.11%) Datadog
14 35 (10.80%) Serverless
15 28 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (8.64%) SaaS
16 27 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
17 26 (8.02%) AWS KMS
18 25 (7.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (15.12%) Firewall
2 30 (9.26%) DNS
3 24 (7.41%) HTTP
4 18 (5.56%) FTP
5 17 (5.25%) SMTP
5 17 (5.25%) SSH
6 9 (2.78%) VPN
6 9 (2.78%) WAN
7 7 (2.16%) LAN
7 7 (2.16%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.16%) Wireless
8 6 (1.85%) BGP
8 6 (1.85%) SAN
9 5 (1.54%) IMAP
9 5 (1.54%) Network Security
9 5 (1.54%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.23%) MPLS
10 4 (1.23%) SSL
10 4 (1.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.58%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.25%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.09%) InfluxDB
7 9 (2.78%) Redis
8 8 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.16%) MySQL
10 5 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.93%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.62%) Big Data
12 2 (0.62%) DB2
12 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 120 (37.04%) Jenkins
2 75 (23.15%) GitLab
3 73 (22.53%) Git
4 57 (17.59%) JIRA
5 24 (7.41%) Vagrant
6 21 (6.48%) TeamCity
7 18 (5.56%) Cucumber
8 16 (4.94%) Bitbucket
9 13 (4.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (3.40%) Selenium
11 10 (3.09%) JMeter
11 10 (3.09%) JUnit
12 8 (2.47%) Locust
12 8 (2.47%) SonarQube
13 7 (2.16%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.16%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (1.85%) CircleCI
15 5 (1.54%) Robot Framework
15 5 (1.54%) TestRail
16 3 (0.93%) Gradle
General
1 97 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 88 (27.16%) Finance
3 32 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 30 (9.26%) Law
6 27 (8.33%) Banking
7 18 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.94%) Back Office
9 15 (4.63%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.32%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.32%) Retail
11 9 (2.78%) Marketing
11 9 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.47%) Advertising
13 5 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.54%) Games
14 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.93%) Legal
16 2 (0.62%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 89 (27.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (20.06%) Senior
3 36 (11.11%) Lead
4 33 (10.19%) Platform Engineer
5 32 (9.88%) Software Engineer
6 27 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
7 22 (6.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (6.48%) Analyst
9 18 (5.56%) Developer
9 18 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 17 (5.25%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (5.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.94%) Applications Support
12 14 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.01%) Java Engineer
13 13 (4.01%) Support Analyst
14 12 (3.70%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (18.83%) Elastic Stack
2 28 (8.64%) .NET
3 18 (5.56%) Kafka
4 15 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (4.63%) Spring
5 14 (4.32%) Node.js
5 14 (4.32%) React
6 13 (4.01%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (4.01%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.40%) ADO
7 11 (3.40%) Django
7 11 (3.40%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (3.40%) Loki
8 10 (3.09%) AWS CDK
8 10 (3.09%) Flask
9 9 (2.78%) pytest
10 8 (2.47%) Gherkin
11 7 (2.16%) ARM Templates
12 6 (1.85%) REST
12 6 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.56%) Replication
4 13 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.54%) IoT
9 4 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.23%) PKI
10 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.93%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.62%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.62%) NHS
11 2 (0.62%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.62%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 145 (44.75%) Linux
2 70 (21.60%) Windows
3 28 (8.64%) VMS
4 26 (8.02%) Unix
5 17 (5.25%) Amazon Linux
6 16 (4.94%) Ubuntu
7 11 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.85%) CentOS
8 6 (1.85%) Windows Server
9 5 (1.54%) Debian
10 3 (0.93%) SUSE
11 2 (0.62%) AIX
11 2 (0.62%) Android
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.62%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 212 (65.43%) DevOps
3 141 (43.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (38.58%) Observability
5 110 (33.95%) Containerisation
6 83 (25.62%) Agile
7 77 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (21.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 64 (19.75%) Platform Engineering
10 58 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (16.98%) Test Automation
12 53 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 52 (16.05%) Configuration Management
14 51 (15.74%) Software Engineering
15 48 (14.81%) Microservices
16 44 (13.58%) Cloud Security
17 42 (12.96%) Mentoring
18 41 (12.65%) Incident Response
19 39 (12.04%) High Availability
20 38 (11.73%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 200 (61.73%) Python
2 84 (25.93%) Bash
3 83 (25.62%) Java
4 73 (22.53%) PowerShell
5 54 (16.67%) SQL
6 37 (11.42%) JavaScript
7 35 (10.80%) Go
8 27 (8.33%) Groovy
9 22 (6.79%) C#
10 17 (5.25%) Bicep
11 14 (4.32%) Perl
11 14 (4.32%) TypeScript
12 10 (3.09%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.47%) Delphi
14 6 (1.85%) C++
14 6 (1.85%) Ruby
15 4 (1.23%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.93%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.93%) PHP
17 2 (0.62%) Korn
Qualifications
1 85 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 65 (20.06%) SC Cleared
3 59 (18.21%) Degree
4 36 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (8.64%) AWS Certification
6 26 (8.02%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.25%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.23%) CCNA
11 4 (1.23%) CCNP
12 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.35%) QA
2 7 (2.16%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.16%) WCAG
3 6 (1.85%) GDPR
4 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 171 (52.78%) Docker
2 24 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.94%) DFS Replication
4 10 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.54%) Dovecot
6 5 (1.54%) Postfix
6 5 (1.54%) Squid
7 3 (0.93%) KVM
7 3 (0.93%) vSphere
8 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.62%) iptables
8 2 (0.62%) NFS
8 2 (0.62%) RACF
8 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.31%) pfSense
9 1 (0.31%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 207 (63.89%) Terraform
2 203 (62.65%) Kubernetes
3 201 (62.04%) Prometheus
4 106 (32.72%) Ansible
5 19 (5.86%) Argo
6 12 (3.70%) Control-M
7 10 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (3.09%) Kibana
7 10 (3.09%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.16%) Nessus
9 6 (1.85%) logstash
10 5 (1.54%) Nagios
10 5 (1.54%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.54%) Puppet
10 5 (1.54%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.93%) Istio
12 3 (0.93%) linkerd
12 3 (0.93%) Rancher
13 2 (0.62%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 58 (17.90%) Splunk
2 35 (10.80%) ServiceNow
3 28 (8.64%) Microsoft
4 20 (6.17%) Oracle
5 19 (5.86%) VMware
6 17 (5.25%) Dynatrace
7 15 (4.63%) SolarWinds
8 13 (4.01%) Atlassian
9 12 (3.70%) Google
9 12 (3.70%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.09%) Cisco
11 9 (2.78%) Fortinet
12 8 (2.47%) AppDynamics
12 8 (2.47%) Juniper
13 7 (2.16%) IBM
14 5 (1.54%) F5
14 5 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
14 5 (1.54%) Sonatype
15 3 (0.93%) Arista
15 3 (0.93%) Cribl.io