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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 410 489
Rank change year-on-year +57 +79 -7
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 413 221 431
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.17% 4.62% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 223 165 201
10th Percentile £45,380 £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 £102,500
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 4,506 4,782 9,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.23% 11.50% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,130 3,338 7,351
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,301 £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 17 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 17 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 +42 354 £70,079 -6.40% 151
Work from Home +106 194 £70,079 +5.78% 80
UK excluding London +9 190 £62,500 -3.85% 98
London +62 175 £82,500 -8.84% 72
North of England -37 58 £60,000 -14.29% 34
South West -8 48 £57,500 -11.54% 7
South East -9 38 £62,500 -19.35% 28
North East -24 23 £47,500 -22.45% 4
North West -21 22 £65,000 -10.34% 19
Midlands -62 16 £63,250 -2.69% 9
Scotland -19 15 £68,539 -27.85% 7
Yorkshire -51 13 £80,000 +6.85% 12
West Midlands -36 11 £55,200 -15.08% 8
East of England -18 8 £82,575 +43.61% 14
Wales -35 5 £70,079 +7.81% 2
East Midlands -45 5 £64,000 +55.15% 1
Northern Ireland -35 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 (5.08%) Apache
2 16 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.45%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) IIS
5 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.48%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.97%) 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%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 293 (70.94%) AWS
2 178 (43.10%) Azure
3 168 (40.68%) GCP
4 96 (23.24%) GitHub
5 94 (22.76%) Amazon EKS
6 81 (19.61%) GitHub Actions
7 76 (18.40%) Datadog
8 68 (16.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 60 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (13.08%) SaaS
11 52 (12.59%) Serverless
12 49 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (9.44%) OpenShift
14 30 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (7.02%) Amazon S3
16 26 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 21 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (5.08%) dbt
19 18 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (13.80%) Firewall
2 32 (7.75%) DNS
3 28 (6.78%) HTTP
4 20 (4.84%) TCP/IP
5 18 (4.36%) VPN
6 13 (3.15%) LAN
6 13 (3.15%) WAN
7 11 (2.66%) VLAN
8 10 (2.42%) Broadband
9 9 (2.18%) Unified Communications
9 9 (2.18%) WebEx
10 8 (1.94%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (1.94%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (1.21%) BGP
12 5 (1.21%) DHCP
12 5 (1.21%) Network Security
12 5 (1.21%) SSL
13 4 (0.97%) MQTT
13 4 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (4.36%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.87%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.63%) InfluxDB
8 14 (3.39%) MySQL
9 12 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.69%) Redis
12 6 (1.45%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.97%) Big Data
13 4 (0.97%) 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%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 107 (25.91%) Jenkins
2 93 (22.52%) GitLab
3 65 (15.74%) TeamCity
4 56 (13.56%) Git
5 38 (9.20%) Cucumber
6 26 (6.30%) JMeter
7 22 (5.33%) SonarQube
8 20 (4.84%) Selenium
9 19 (4.60%) JIRA
10 17 (4.12%) CircleCI
11 13 (3.15%) Locust
12 12 (2.91%) Bitbucket
12 12 (2.91%) Cypress.io
12 12 (2.91%) Robot Framework
12 12 (2.91%) TestRail
13 11 (2.66%) JUnit
14 9 (2.18%) LoadRunner
15 8 (1.94%) Gatling
16 5 (1.21%) Postman
16 5 (1.21%) REST Assured
General
1 126 (30.51%) Finance
2 105 (25.42%) Social Skills
3 79 (19.13%) Law
4 78 (18.89%) Banking
5 75 (18.16%) Retail
6 70 (16.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (10.17%) Back Office
8 40 (9.69%) Financial Institution
9 37 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
10 36 (8.72%) Telecoms
11 21 (5.08%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.94%) Marketing
13 6 (1.45%) Legal
14 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.97%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.97%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.73%) Investment Banking
17 1 (0.24%) Aviation
17 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
17 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (21.55%) Senior
2 79 (19.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (15.74%) Software Engineer
4 53 (12.83%) Lead
5 36 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (7.26%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (6.30%) Developer
9 24 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (5.81%) Java Engineer
10 20 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (4.60%) Java Software Engineer
11 19 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
12 17 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.12%) Software Developer
13 16 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 15 (3.63%) Site Engineer
15 14 (3.39%) Administrator
15 14 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (18.89%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (9.20%) Kafka
3 28 (6.78%) .NET
4 22 (5.33%) React
5 20 (4.84%) Spring
6 19 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (4.60%) Spring Boot
7 17 (4.12%) OAuth
7 17 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (3.87%) Gherkin
8 16 (3.87%) Loki
9 15 (3.63%) pytest
10 12 (2.91%) REST
11 11 (2.66%) Node.js
12 10 (2.42%) ADO
12 10 (2.42%) Apache NiFi
12 10 (2.42%) Vue
13 9 (2.18%) JWT
13 9 (2.18%) OAuth2
13 9 (2.18%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 115 (27.85%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.14%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.87%) Blog
7 12 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.66%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.42%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.18%) FlexPod
10 9 (2.18%) PKI
10 9 (2.18%) Replication
10 9 (2.18%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.94%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.21%) IoT
13 4 (0.97%) Blockchain
13 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 121 (29.30%) Linux
2 63 (15.25%) Windows
3 22 (5.33%) CentOS
4 12 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.66%) Unix
6 10 (2.42%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.18%) VMS
8 3 (0.73%) Debian
8 3 (0.73%) SUSE
9 2 (0.48%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (76.51%) CI/CD
2 244 (59.08%) DevOps
3 219 (53.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 183 (44.31%) Observability
5 182 (44.07%) Containerisation
6 139 (33.66%) Test Automation
7 124 (30.02%) Agile
8 123 (29.78%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (29.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 119 (28.81%) Software Engineering
11 94 (22.76%) Deployment Automation
12 92 (22.28%) Microservices
13 86 (20.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 74 (17.92%) Platform Engineering
15 63 (15.25%) Clean Code
16 60 (14.53%) Continuous Deployment
17 59 (14.29%) Mentoring
18 56 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 53 (12.83%) High Availability
20 51 (12.35%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 236 (57.14%) Python
2 134 (32.45%) Bash
3 126 (30.51%) Java
4 58 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 57 (13.80%) PowerShell
6 51 (12.35%) Go
7 48 (11.62%) SQL
8 37 (8.96%) C#
9 26 (6.30%) TypeScript
10 18 (4.36%) C++
11 17 (4.12%) Rust
12 10 (2.42%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.94%) Bicep
13 8 (1.94%) Delphi
13 8 (1.94%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.73%) Elixir
15 3 (0.73%) Erlang
16 2 (0.48%) C
16 2 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 82 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.41%) Degree
3 33 (7.99%) DV Cleared
4 30 (7.26%) AWS Certification
4 30 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 10 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.21%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.83%) QA
2 15 (3.63%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.63%) GDPR
3 13 (3.15%) WCAG
4 10 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.42%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.18%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.97%) 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 (47.94%) Docker
2 22 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.91%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.94%) KVM
5 7 (1.69%) iptables
5 7 (1.69%) vSphere
6 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.97%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.24%) pfSense
11 1 (0.24%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 303 (73.37%) Terraform
2 278 (67.31%) Kubernetes
3 211 (51.09%) Prometheus
4 147 (35.59%) Ansible
5 27 (6.54%) Kibana
6 16 (3.87%) Argo
7 15 (3.63%) Puppet
8 12 (2.91%) Docker Swarm
8 12 (2.91%) logstash
9 11 (2.66%) Istio
10 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (2.18%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (2.18%) Progress Chef
12 8 (1.94%) linkerd
12 8 (1.94%) Mesos
12 8 (1.94%) Nagios
12 8 (1.94%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.94%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.97%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.73%) Rancher
Vendors
1 50 (12.11%) Splunk
2 41 (9.93%) VMware
3 33 (7.99%) Microsoft
4 28 (6.78%) Red Hat
5 26 (6.30%) Dynatrace
6 15 (3.63%) Google
7 14 (3.39%) Fortinet
7 14 (3.39%) Oracle
8 11 (2.66%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.66%) Cisco
9 10 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.42%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.69%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.45%) NetApp
11 6 (1.45%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.21%) Databricks
12 5 (1.21%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.97%) Cribl.io
13 4 (0.97%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.73%) New Relic