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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 453 432
Rank change year-on-year +93 -21 +103
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 313 291 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.31% 4.63% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 219 167 226
10th Percentile £47,617 £43,911 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £102,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -0.33%

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 4,281 6,288 7,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.29% 10.97% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,116 3,909 6,210
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,235
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £83,063 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £56,318
% change year-on-year -6.52% +2.10% -2.06%

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 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 17 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 +65 248 £72,500 -2.03% 117
UK excluding London +43 148 £70,000 +3.70% 96
Work from Home +85 130 £67,500 -10.00% 66
London +62 116 £85,000 -1.45% 48
North of England +24 61 £62,500 -16.67% 33
North West +48 32 £62,500 -16.67% 15
Midlands +31 25 £72,500 +11.54% 8
West Midlands +37 23 £72,500 +11.54% 7
Scotland +20 21 £72,289 +15.66% 9
South East +20 21 £70,000 +3.70% 25
North East -17 16 £55,200 -9.88% 4
Yorkshire +1 13 £80,000 +0.63% 15
South West -9 12 £75,000 +15.38% 18
East of England +23 5 £67,500 +35.00% 3
Wales -4 4 £67,539 +3.91% 2
East Midlands -3 2 £54,600 +32.36% 1
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 20 (6.39%) Confluence
2 15 (4.79%) nginx
3 10 (3.19%) Apache
4 6 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.60%) IIS
6 2 (0.64%) CICS
6 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.64%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 214 (68.37%) AWS
2 148 (47.28%) Azure
3 88 (28.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 81 (25.88%) GCP
5 79 (25.24%) GitHub
6 62 (19.81%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (17.25%) Amazon EKS
7 54 (17.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (14.38%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (12.46%) Datadog
11 36 (11.50%) Amazon S3
12 35 (11.18%) Serverless
13 34 (10.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (8.95%) SaaS
15 26 (8.31%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (8.31%) Azure Monitor
16 25 (7.99%) OpenShift
17 23 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
17 23 (7.35%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (13.10%) Firewall
2 29 (9.27%) DNS
3 23 (7.35%) HTTP
4 16 (5.11%) FTP
5 15 (4.79%) SMTP
5 15 (4.79%) SSH
6 10 (3.19%) VPN
7 9 (2.88%) WAN
8 7 (2.24%) LAN
8 7 (2.24%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.24%) Wireless
9 6 (1.92%) BGP
9 6 (1.92%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (1.60%) IMAP
10 5 (1.60%) Network Security
10 5 (1.60%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (1.60%) SSL
11 4 (1.28%) MPLS
11 4 (1.28%) SAN
11 4 (1.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.78%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.63%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.15%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.51%) InfluxDB
6 9 (2.88%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.88%) Redis
7 8 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (2.56%) MySQL
8 7 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.96%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.96%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.64%) Big Data
11 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.64%) Metadata
11 2 (0.64%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 109 (34.82%) Jenkins
2 77 (24.60%) GitLab
3 66 (21.09%) Git
4 49 (15.65%) JIRA
5 24 (7.67%) TeamCity
6 21 (6.71%) Cucumber
7 17 (5.43%) Vagrant
8 15 (4.79%) Bitbucket
9 13 (4.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (3.51%) Selenium
11 10 (3.19%) JMeter
12 9 (2.88%) CircleCI
12 9 (2.88%) JUnit
12 9 (2.88%) SonarQube
13 8 (2.56%) Locust
14 7 (2.24%) Artifactory
15 6 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (1.92%) Robot Framework
15 6 (1.92%) TestRail
16 5 (1.60%) Cypress.io
General
1 99 (31.63%) Social Skills
2 83 (26.52%) Finance
3 26 (8.31%) Banking
4 23 (7.35%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.07%) Law
6 17 (5.43%) Back Office
7 16 (5.11%) Retail
8 15 (4.79%) Financial Institution
8 15 (4.79%) Telecoms
9 12 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.56%) Advertising
12 5 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.60%) Games
13 4 (1.28%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.96%) Legal
15 2 (0.64%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.64%) Front Office
16 1 (0.32%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 86 (27.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 66 (21.09%) Senior
3 37 (11.82%) Lead
3 37 (11.82%) Platform Engineer
4 28 (8.95%) Software Engineer
5 26 (8.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (5.75%) Developer
8 16 (5.11%) Analyst
8 16 (5.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.11%) Development Engineer
8 16 (5.11%) Senior DevOps
8 16 (5.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 15 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.79%) Lead DevOps
10 14 (4.47%) Applications Support
11 13 (4.15%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 12 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.83%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (19.49%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (9.90%) .NET
3 16 (5.11%) Kafka
4 15 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
5 14 (4.47%) Node.js
5 14 (4.47%) React
5 14 (4.47%) Spring
6 13 (4.15%) ADO
6 13 (4.15%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.83%) Loki
7 12 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (3.19%) Django
8 10 (3.19%) Gherkin
9 9 (2.88%) AWS CDK
9 9 (2.88%) Flask
9 9 (2.88%) pytest
10 8 (2.56%) ARM Templates
11 7 (2.24%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.92%) LDAP
12 6 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.95%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.79%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.15%) Replication
5 11 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.19%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.60%) IoT
9 5 (1.60%) PKI
10 4 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.64%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.64%) MPEG
12 2 (0.64%) NHS
12 2 (0.64%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 135 (43.13%) Linux
2 66 (21.09%) Windows
3 20 (6.39%) Unix
3 20 (6.39%) VMS
4 15 (4.79%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (4.79%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.56%) CentOS
6 6 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.60%) Debian
7 5 (1.60%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.96%) SUSE
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (73.48%) CI/CD
2 214 (68.37%) DevOps
3 150 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (42.17%) Observability
5 118 (37.70%) Containerisation
6 82 (26.20%) Agile
7 79 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (23.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 69 (22.04%) Platform Engineering
10 66 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (19.17%) Test Automation
12 52 (16.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 48 (15.34%) Incident Response
14 46 (14.70%) Configuration Management
15 45 (14.38%) Microservices
16 44 (14.06%) Cloud Security
17 42 (13.42%) Software Engineering
18 40 (12.78%) Mentoring
19 36 (11.50%) High Availability
20 34 (10.86%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 192 (61.34%) Python
2 86 (27.48%) Bash
3 74 (23.64%) Java
4 66 (21.09%) PowerShell
5 46 (14.70%) SQL
6 40 (12.78%) JavaScript
7 32 (10.22%) Go
8 26 (8.31%) C#
9 20 (6.39%) Groovy
10 18 (5.75%) Bicep
11 16 (5.11%) TypeScript
12 12 (3.83%) Perl
13 8 (2.56%) Delphi
14 7 (2.24%) C++
15 6 (1.92%) Ruby
16 5 (1.60%) Kotlin
16 5 (1.60%) Shell Script
17 4 (1.28%) Google Apps Script
18 3 (0.96%) PHP
19 2 (0.64%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 81 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 56 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 53 (16.93%) Degree
4 31 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (9.27%) AWS Certification
6 24 (7.67%) Azure Certification
7 22 (7.03%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.28%) CCNA
10 4 (1.28%) CCNP
10 4 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.64%) MCP
13 1 (0.32%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (14.38%) QA
2 7 (2.24%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.24%) WCAG
3 6 (1.92%) GDPR
4 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.96%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 170 (54.31%) Docker
2 18 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.51%) DFS Replication
4 9 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.60%) Dovecot
5 5 (1.60%) Postfix
5 5 (1.60%) Squid
6 4 (1.28%) KVM
6 4 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.96%) vSphere
8 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.64%) iptables
8 2 (0.64%) NFS
8 2 (0.64%) RACF
9 1 (0.32%) pfSense
9 1 (0.32%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 207 (66.13%) Terraform
2 205 (65.50%) Kubernetes
3 193 (61.66%) Prometheus
4 106 (33.87%) Ansible
5 21 (6.71%) Argo
6 12 (3.83%) Control-M
6 12 (3.83%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (3.19%) Kibana
8 9 (2.88%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.24%) Nessus
10 5 (1.60%) Istio
10 5 (1.60%) linkerd
10 5 (1.60%) logstash
10 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.60%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.60%) Puppet
11 4 (1.28%) Mesos
12 3 (0.96%) Nagios
12 3 (0.96%) Rancher
12 3 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (15.65%) Splunk
2 25 (7.99%) ServiceNow
3 24 (7.67%) Microsoft
4 16 (5.11%) VMware
5 15 (4.79%) Oracle
5 15 (4.79%) SolarWinds
6 13 (4.15%) Google
7 10 (3.19%) Cisco
8 9 (2.88%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.88%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.88%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.56%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.56%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.60%) F5
10 5 (1.60%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (1.60%) Sonatype
11 3 (0.96%) Arista
11 3 (0.96%) Juniper
11 3 (0.96%) Meraki
11 3 (0.96%) New Relic