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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 387 456
Rank change year-on-year -27 +69 -17
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 470 323 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.65% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.85% 6.52% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 251 214 210
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +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 5,308 4,952 6,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 10.02% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,687 2,864 3,827
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,821 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 September 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 September 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 -39 383 £70,000 -3.45% 633
UK excluding London -94 204 £65,000 -10.34% 305
London +12 202 £80,000 -1.84% 408
Work from Home +57 195 £65,000 -7.14% 276
South East -21 65 £62,500 -18.03% 64
South West -32 48 £75,000 -18.92% 40
North of England -66 45 £70,000 +9.80% 74
North West -24 31 £71,250 +14.00% 44
Wales -57 16 £70,000 +12.00% 10
Midlands -83 15 £60,000 -17.24% 24
North East -63 13 £57,500 -4.17% 8
Scotland -6 11 £62,500 -16.11% 43
West Midlands -86 10 £50,000 -31.03% 14
East Midlands -31 5 £62,500 +12.11% 10
East of England -20 3 £86,250 +25.45% 27
Yorkshire -43 3 £57,500 -28.13% 23
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 25

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 17 (3.62%) Apache
2 10 (2.13%) Confluence
3 7 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.49%) nginx
4 5 (1.06%) IIS
4 5 (1.06%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 329 (70.00%) AWS
2 200 (42.55%) GCP
3 160 (34.04%) Azure
4 108 (22.98%) Amazon EKS
5 90 (19.15%) SaaS
6 80 (17.02%) GitHub
7 70 (14.89%) Datadog
7 70 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
8 58 (12.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 58 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (8.94%) Serverless
11 38 (8.09%) OpenShift
12 34 (7.23%) Amazon S3
13 32 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
16 23 (4.89%) Entra ID
17 22 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (10.43%) Firewall
2 20 (4.26%) VPN
3 17 (3.62%) VLAN
4 16 (3.40%) TCP/IP
5 15 (3.19%) DNS
6 13 (2.77%) HTTP
7 10 (2.13%) BGP
7 10 (2.13%) SSH
8 9 (1.91%) Network Security
9 8 (1.70%) WAN
10 7 (1.49%) LAN
10 7 (1.49%) OSPF
10 7 (1.49%) Unified Communications
11 6 (1.28%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.28%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (1.28%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.28%) SNMP
11 6 (1.28%) WebEx
12 3 (0.64%) DHCP
12 3 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (17.45%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
3 38 (8.09%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (7.87%) MySQL
5 26 (5.53%) MongoDB
6 23 (4.89%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.83%) Redis
8 14 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.77%) InfluxDB
10 12 (2.55%) SQL Server
11 11 (2.34%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.91%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.49%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.85%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.64%) Big Data
15 3 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.64%) Metadata
15 3 (0.64%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.43%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 92 (19.57%) Jenkins
2 90 (19.15%) GitLab
3 87 (18.51%) Git
4 82 (17.45%) TeamCity
5 25 (5.32%) SonarQube
6 20 (4.26%) Cucumber
6 20 (4.26%) Selenium
7 19 (4.04%) JMeter
8 18 (3.83%) Gatling
9 16 (3.40%) Cypress.io
10 15 (3.19%) JIRA
11 14 (2.98%) LoadRunner
12 10 (2.13%) Postman
13 9 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (1.70%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.70%) JUnit
14 8 (1.70%) Robot Framework
14 8 (1.70%) TestRail
15 7 (1.49%) Artifactory
16 6 (1.28%) Maven
General
1 180 (38.30%) Finance
2 122 (25.96%) Banking
3 120 (25.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (22.13%) Law
5 100 (21.28%) Retail
6 99 (21.06%) Social Skills
7 66 (14.04%) Financial Institution
8 62 (13.19%) Back Office
9 61 (12.98%) Public Sector
10 46 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
11 17 (3.62%) Marketing
12 15 (3.19%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.28%) Legal
13 6 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.06%) Police
15 3 (0.64%) Military
16 2 (0.43%) Advertising
16 2 (0.43%) Billing
16 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (19.57%) Senior
2 89 (18.94%) Software Engineer
3 76 (16.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (10.43%) Lead
5 42 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 42 (8.94%) Developer
6 40 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 40 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 39 (8.30%) Site Engineer
8 37 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
9 36 (7.66%) AWS Engineer
10 28 (5.96%) Lead Software Engineer
11 27 (5.74%) Team Leader
12 26 (5.53%) Administrator
13 23 (4.89%) Systems Administrator
14 22 (4.68%) Software Team Leader
15 20 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
15 20 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 19 (4.04%) DevOps Administrator
16 19 (4.04%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (70.43%) Terraform
2 64 (13.62%) Elastic Stack
3 56 (11.91%) Kafka
4 41 (8.72%) OpenTelemetry
5 35 (7.45%) REST
6 32 (6.81%) RESTful
7 30 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
8 24 (5.11%) Spring
8 24 (5.11%) Spring Boot
9 23 (4.89%) Node.js
10 22 (4.68%) React
11 21 (4.47%) Loki
12 18 (3.83%) Playwright
13 17 (3.62%) .NET
13 17 (3.62%) Keycloak
13 17 (3.62%) pytest
14 15 (3.19%) Hibernate
14 15 (3.19%) JPA
15 13 (2.77%) GraphQL
15 13 (2.77%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 166 (35.32%) Cloud Native
2 66 (14.04%) Product Ownership
3 57 (12.13%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (5.53%) Blog
5 25 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (4.89%) Replication
7 18 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.62%) Onboarding
9 16 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (3.40%) Virtual Team
10 14 (2.98%) Private Cloud
11 12 (2.55%) Management Information System
12 11 (2.34%) Mobile App
13 10 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.49%) IoT
14 7 (1.49%) PKI
14 7 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
15 6 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (1.28%) FlexPod
15 6 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 125 (26.60%) Linux
2 42 (8.94%) Windows
3 19 (4.04%) CentOS
4 17 (3.62%) Unix
5 10 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.06%) Android
8 5 (1.06%) VMS
9 4 (0.85%) Debian
9 4 (0.85%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.43%) Rocky
12 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (73.40%) CI/CD
2 259 (55.11%) DevOps
3 249 (52.98%) Observability
4 248 (52.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 167 (35.53%) Software Engineering
6 161 (34.26%) Test Automation
7 142 (30.21%) Agile
8 141 (30.00%) Containerisation
9 139 (29.57%) Deployment Automation
10 120 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 119 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
12 117 (24.89%) Microservices
13 111 (23.62%) Mentoring
14 102 (21.70%) Platform Engineering
15 97 (20.64%) AI
16 94 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 77 (16.38%) Continuous Deployment
18 75 (15.96%) Clean Code
19 68 (14.47%) GitOps
20 67 (14.26%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 272 (57.87%) Python
2 159 (33.83%) Java
3 158 (33.62%) Bash
4 82 (17.45%) PowerShell
5 69 (14.68%) SQL
6 46 (9.79%) JavaScript
7 44 (9.36%) Go
8 30 (6.38%) TypeScript
9 24 (5.11%) C#
10 21 (4.47%) Rust
11 16 (3.40%) Bicep
11 16 (3.40%) C++
12 10 (2.13%) Groovy
13 9 (1.91%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.49%) PHP
14 7 (1.49%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.49%) VBA
15 4 (0.85%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.85%) Scala
16 3 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 115 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 62 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.38%) Degree
4 26 (5.53%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.68%) AWS Certification
5 22 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.83%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.06%) CISSP
10 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.64%) CISM
11 3 (0.64%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.64%) OCP
11 3 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.43%) GSEC
12 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.77%) QA
2 13 (2.77%) SLA
3 9 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.91%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.91%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.06%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.85%) NIST
5 4 (0.85%) WCAG
6 3 (0.64%) GDPR
6 3 (0.64%) PSD2
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 196 (41.70%) Docker
2 18 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.34%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.28%) vSphere
7 4 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.85%) KVM
7 4 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.64%) iptables
8 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.43%) Xen
10 1 (0.21%) Firmware
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 315 (67.02%) Kubernetes
2 255 (54.26%) Prometheus
3 140 (29.79%) Ansible
4 50 (10.64%) Argo
5 31 (6.60%) Kibana
6 25 (5.32%) Istio
7 17 (3.62%) logstash
7 17 (3.62%) Nagios
8 16 (3.40%) Puppet
9 13 (2.77%) Kustomize
10 12 (2.55%) linkerd
11 11 (2.34%) Rancher
12 9 (1.91%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.70%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.49%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.28%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (1.28%) Mesos
15 6 (1.28%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.06%) Cilium
16 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (14.47%) Splunk
2 58 (12.34%) Dynatrace
3 53 (11.28%) Microsoft
4 32 (6.81%) Google
5 29 (6.17%) Red Hat
6 28 (5.96%) VMware
7 19 (4.04%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.77%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.55%) Oracle
10 10 (2.13%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.91%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.70%) Cisco
12 8 (1.70%) Databricks
13 7 (1.49%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.28%) Informatica
14 6 (1.28%) New Relic
14 6 (1.28%) NVIDIA
14 6 (1.28%) Palo Alto
15 5 (1.06%) NetApp
16 4 (0.85%) Veracode