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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 368 447
Rank change year-on-year -45 +79 +6
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 413 348 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.70% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.17% 6.21% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 243 233 205
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,700 £40,323
25th Percentile £55,738 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +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 5,761 5,603 7,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.60% 11.34% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,214 3,335 5,514
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £34,575
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,870 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% +4.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 31 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 31 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 -39 356 £70,000 -3.45% 212
UK excluding London -52 200 £65,000 -7.14% 108
Work from Home +61 168 £65,000 -7.14% 110
London -22 167 £82,500 - 133
South East -10 62 £62,500 -16.67% 23
South West -16 51 £65,000 - 17
North of England -25 47 £67,500 +3.85% 29
North West +7 31 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Midlands -84 19 £62,500 -13.79% 11
North East -37 15 £47,500 -20.83% 2
West Midlands -64 15 £62,500 -13.79% 9
Wales -54 10 £70,000 +33.18% 4
Scotland -11 8 £62,500 -34.21% 14
East Midlands -23 4 £64,500 +15.70% 2
East of England -21 2 £77,575 +14.93% 8
Yorkshire -46 1 £82,500 +10.19% 10
Northern Ireland -66 1 - - 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 16 (3.87%) Apache
2 10 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.94%) Confluence
4 7 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.45%) IIS
6 5 (1.21%) nginx
7 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 277 (67.07%) AWS
2 162 (39.23%) Azure
3 161 (38.98%) GCP
4 79 (19.13%) Datadog
5 63 (15.25%) Amazon EKS
6 62 (15.01%) GitHub
7 61 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 59 (14.29%) SaaS
9 52 (12.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (11.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 46 (11.14%) Serverless
12 40 (9.69%) OpenShift
13 36 (8.72%) Amazon S3
14 31 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (6.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (4.36%) Azure Monitor
18 18 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 54 (13.08%) Firewall
2 20 (4.84%) DNS
2 20 (4.84%) VLAN
3 19 (4.60%) TCP/IP
4 15 (3.63%) HTTP
5 12 (2.91%) WAN
6 11 (2.66%) LAN
6 11 (2.66%) Unified Communications
6 11 (2.66%) VPN
6 11 (2.66%) WebEx
7 10 (2.42%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (2.42%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (2.18%) Broadband
9 8 (1.94%) BGP
9 8 (1.94%) Network Security
10 7 (1.69%) OSPF
10 7 (1.69%) SSH
11 6 (1.45%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.45%) MQTT
11 6 (1.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.47%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (6.78%) MySQL
4 24 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.39%) InfluxDB
7 13 (3.15%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.91%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.42%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.94%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.21%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.73%) Big Data
14 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.48%) Looker
14 2 (0.48%) Redis
14 2 (0.48%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 91 (22.03%) GitLab
2 78 (18.89%) Jenkins
3 72 (17.43%) Git
4 57 (13.80%) TeamCity
5 24 (5.81%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.57%) JMeter
7 22 (5.33%) Cucumber
8 15 (3.63%) JIRA
9 13 (3.15%) Cypress.io
9 13 (3.15%) Gatling
9 13 (3.15%) Selenium
10 12 (2.91%) LoadRunner
11 11 (2.66%) Bitbucket
11 11 (2.66%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (2.18%) CircleCI
13 7 (1.69%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.69%) TestRail
14 6 (1.45%) Burp Suite
14 6 (1.45%) Postman
14 6 (1.45%) REST Assured
General
1 135 (32.69%) Finance
2 92 (22.28%) Banking
3 78 (18.89%) Social Skills
4 76 (18.40%) Law
5 74 (17.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 69 (16.71%) Retail
7 43 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (9.93%) Financial Institution
8 41 (9.93%) Public Sector
9 38 (9.20%) Back Office
10 24 (5.81%) Telecoms
11 15 (3.63%) Marketing
12 8 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.45%) Legal
14 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.48%) Advertising
15 2 (0.48%) Billing
15 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 92 (22.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (17.19%) Senior
3 62 (15.01%) Software Engineer
4 42 (10.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 38 (9.20%) Lead
7 33 (7.99%) Platform Engineer
8 30 (7.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 29 (7.02%) Developer
10 28 (6.78%) Site Engineer
11 27 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (4.84%) Administrator
13 19 (4.60%) Lead Software Engineer
13 19 (4.60%) Systems Administrator
14 18 (4.36%) Java Engineer
14 18 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (4.36%) Team Leader
15 16 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
15 16 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (3.87%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (14.77%) Elastic Stack
2 48 (11.62%) Kafka
3 31 (7.51%) OpenTelemetry
4 27 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (5.08%) Loki
6 20 (4.84%) Node.js
6 20 (4.84%) React
7 19 (4.60%) REST
8 18 (4.36%) Spring
9 17 (4.12%) Spring Boot
10 16 (3.87%) RESTful
11 15 (3.63%) YAML
12 13 (3.15%) .NET
12 13 (3.15%) Playwright
13 12 (2.91%) AngularJS
13 12 (2.91%) pytest
14 11 (2.66%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (2.66%) ARM Templates
14 11 (2.66%) gRPC
14 11 (2.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 123 (29.78%) Cloud Native
2 45 (10.90%) Product Ownership
3 35 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.33%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.15%) Blog
6 13 (3.15%) Replication
7 11 (2.66%) FlexPod
7 11 (2.66%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.18%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.69%) PKI
10 7 (1.69%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.21%) IoT
12 5 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.97%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 119 (28.81%) Linux
2 46 (11.14%) Windows
3 21 (5.08%) CentOS
4 15 (3.63%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.91%) Unix
6 7 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.45%) VMS
8 5 (1.21%) Debian
9 4 (0.97%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.48%) Android
10 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.48%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (71.91%) CI/CD
2 238 (57.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 232 (56.17%) DevOps
4 198 (47.94%) Observability
5 166 (40.19%) Containerisation
6 136 (32.93%) Software Engineering
7 132 (31.96%) Test Automation
8 121 (29.30%) Agile
9 116 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
10 110 (26.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 109 (26.39%) Deployment Automation
12 93 (22.52%) Microservices
13 90 (21.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 85 (20.58%) Platform Engineering
15 79 (19.13%) Mentoring
16 65 (15.74%) AI
17 59 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
18 56 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 52 (12.59%) Clean Code
20 50 (12.11%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 265 (64.16%) Python
2 158 (38.26%) Bash
3 122 (29.54%) Java
4 80 (19.37%) PowerShell
5 55 (13.32%) SQL
6 45 (10.90%) JavaScript
7 42 (10.17%) Go
8 34 (8.23%) C#
9 25 (6.05%) Rust
10 23 (5.57%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.87%) C++
12 10 (2.42%) Bicep
13 7 (1.69%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.69%) VBA
14 6 (1.45%) PHP
15 5 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.48%) Ruby
17 2 (0.48%) Swift
18 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 85 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.23%) Degree
3 33 (7.99%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.36%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.48%) CISSP
13 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.48%) ISEB
13 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.35%) QA
2 14 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.91%) GDPR
5 10 (2.42%) SLA
5 10 (2.42%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.18%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.69%) WCAG
8 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.73%) PSD2
10 2 (0.48%) GRC
10 2 (0.48%) NIST
10 2 (0.48%) SEPA
11 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 194 (46.97%) Docker
2 24 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.15%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (2.66%) vSphere
5 10 (2.42%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.21%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.21%) iptables
7 5 (1.21%) KVM
7 5 (1.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.48%) Xen
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 291 (70.46%) Terraform
2 264 (63.92%) Kubernetes
3 229 (55.45%) Prometheus
4 147 (35.59%) Ansible
5 34 (8.23%) Argo
6 27 (6.54%) Kibana
7 20 (4.84%) Istio
8 18 (4.36%) Nagios
8 18 (4.36%) Puppet
9 16 (3.87%) logstash
10 11 (2.66%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.42%) Kustomize
12 9 (2.18%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (2.18%) linkerd
13 8 (1.94%) ZABBIX
14 6 (1.45%) Progress Chef
14 6 (1.45%) vCenter Server
15 5 (1.21%) Mesos
15 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.97%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 58 (14.04%) Splunk
2 52 (12.59%) Microsoft
3 35 (8.47%) Dynatrace
3 35 (8.47%) Red Hat
4 31 (7.51%) VMware
5 25 (6.05%) Google
6 12 (2.91%) Cisco
7 11 (2.66%) AppDynamics
7 11 (2.66%) Fortinet
7 11 (2.66%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.66%) Rapid7
8 10 (2.42%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.42%) NetApp
9 9 (2.18%) Oracle
10 8 (1.94%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.69%) New Relic
12 6 (1.45%) Informatica
13 5 (1.21%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.21%) Tenable
14 4 (0.97%) Veracode