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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 380 442
Rank change year-on-year -41 +62 +3
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 420 351 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.70% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.14% 6.27% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 237 234 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £53,950 £40,808
25th Percentile £55,750 £61,750 £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 £91,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £99,550 £116,750 £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 5,880 5,596 7,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.55% 11.21% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,254 3,351 5,111
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,809 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% - -2.99%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,001 £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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -49 356 £70,000 -3.45% 317
UK excluding London -68 201 £65,000 -7.14% 156
Work from Home +57 171 £65,000 -7.14% 173
London -41 170 £82,500 - 206
South East -5 61 £62,500 -16.67% 29
South West -20 51 £65,000 -27.78% 26
North of England -43 45 £68,750 +10.00% 42
North West -7 30 £71,250 +18.75% 22
Midlands -76 19 £62,500 -13.79% 12
North East -46 14 £47,500 -20.83% 11
West Midlands -71 14 £62,500 -13.79% 7
Scotland -7 11 £62,500 -16.67% 25
Wales -47 11 £70,000 +33.18% 5
East Midlands -21 5 £64,000 +14.80% 5
East of England -31 2 £77,575 +14.93% 12
Yorkshire -51 1 £82,500 +10.19% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 (3.81%) Apache
2 11 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.14%) Confluence
4 7 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.43%) IIS
6 5 (1.19%) nginx
7 3 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 286 (68.10%) AWS
2 163 (38.81%) GCP
3 159 (37.86%) Azure
4 83 (19.76%) Datadog
5 66 (15.71%) Amazon EKS
6 64 (15.24%) GitHub
7 62 (14.76%) SaaS
8 60 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 45 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 45 (10.71%) Serverless
12 41 (9.76%) OpenShift
13 39 (9.29%) Amazon S3
14 32 (7.62%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 51 (12.14%) Firewall
2 20 (4.76%) DNS
2 20 (4.76%) VLAN
3 17 (4.05%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.10%) HTTP
5 12 (2.86%) WAN
6 11 (2.62%) LAN
6 11 (2.62%) Unified Communications
6 11 (2.62%) WebEx
7 10 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (2.38%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (2.38%) VPN
8 9 (2.14%) Broadband
9 8 (1.90%) BGP
9 8 (1.90%) Network Security
10 7 (1.67%) OSPF
10 7 (1.67%) SSH
11 6 (1.43%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.43%) SNMP
12 5 (1.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 29 (6.90%) MySQL
4 26 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (4.05%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.10%) InfluxDB
6 13 (3.10%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.90%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.43%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.95%) ZAP BI
13 3 (0.71%) Big Data
13 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.71%) Looker
14 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (21.90%) GitLab
2 79 (18.81%) Jenkins
3 74 (17.62%) Git
4 59 (14.05%) TeamCity
5 25 (5.95%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.48%) JMeter
7 22 (5.24%) Cucumber
8 16 (3.81%) JIRA
9 15 (3.57%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.57%) Selenium
10 13 (3.10%) Gatling
11 12 (2.86%) LoadRunner
12 11 (2.62%) Bitbucket
12 11 (2.62%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (1.90%) Postman
14 7 (1.67%) CircleCI
14 7 (1.67%) Robot Framework
14 7 (1.67%) TestRail
15 6 (1.43%) Burp Suite
15 6 (1.43%) REST Assured
General
1 144 (34.29%) Finance
2 96 (22.86%) Banking
3 81 (19.29%) Law
4 80 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 77 (18.33%) Social Skills
6 72 (17.14%) Retail
7 43 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (10.24%) Financial Institution
8 42 (10.00%) Public Sector
9 40 (9.52%) Back Office
10 22 (5.24%) Telecoms
11 19 (4.52%) Marketing
12 7 (1.67%) Legal
12 7 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.71%) Military
15 2 (0.48%) Advertising
15 2 (0.48%) Billing
15 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (21.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (17.14%) Senior
3 66 (15.71%) Software Engineer
4 44 (10.48%) Lead
5 42 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (7.86%) Developer
7 33 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
8 32 (7.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 30 (7.14%) Site Engineer
10 28 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.24%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (4.76%) Team Leader
13 19 (4.52%) Administrator
14 18 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (4.29%) Systems Administrator
15 17 (4.05%) Java Engineer
16 15 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 15 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
16 15 (3.57%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (11.19%) Kafka
3 33 (7.86%) OpenTelemetry
4 28 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 23 (5.48%) Node.js
5 23 (5.48%) React
6 22 (5.24%) REST
7 21 (5.00%) Loki
8 20 (4.76%) RESTful
9 18 (4.29%) Spring
10 17 (4.05%) .NET
10 17 (4.05%) Spring Boot
11 15 (3.57%) pytest
11 15 (3.57%) YAML
12 13 (3.10%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.10%) Playwright
13 11 (2.62%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (2.62%) gRPC
13 11 (2.62%) OAuth
13 11 (2.62%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 129 (30.71%) Cloud Native
2 47 (11.19%) Product Ownership
3 37 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (3.33%) Blog
7 13 (3.10%) Replication
8 11 (2.62%) FlexPod
8 11 (2.62%) Video Conferencing
9 10 (2.38%) Virtual Team
10 9 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.67%) PKI
13 6 (1.43%) IoT
13 6 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.43%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 119 (28.33%) Linux
2 45 (10.71%) Windows
3 21 (5.00%) CentOS
4 14 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.86%) Unix
6 7 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.43%) VMS
8 5 (1.19%) Debian
9 4 (0.95%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.71%) Android
10 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.48%) Rocky
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (70.95%) CI/CD
2 240 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 231 (55.00%) DevOps
4 207 (49.29%) Observability
5 160 (38.10%) Containerisation
6 141 (33.57%) Software Engineering
7 136 (32.38%) Test Automation
8 118 (28.10%) Agile
9 114 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
10 113 (26.90%) Deployment Automation
11 110 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (22.86%) Microservices
13 91 (21.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 88 (20.95%) Platform Engineering
15 85 (20.24%) Mentoring
16 65 (15.48%) AI
17 62 (14.76%) Continuous Deployment
18 58 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 54 (12.86%) Clean Code
19 54 (12.86%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 268 (63.81%) Python
2 152 (36.19%) Bash
3 126 (30.00%) Java
4 81 (19.29%) PowerShell
5 55 (13.10%) SQL
6 48 (11.43%) JavaScript
7 42 (10.00%) Go
8 34 (8.10%) C#
9 26 (6.19%) TypeScript
10 23 (5.48%) Rust
11 16 (3.81%) C++
12 9 (2.14%) Bicep
13 8 (1.90%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.67%) PHP
14 7 (1.67%) VBA
15 5 (1.19%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.71%) Swift
18 2 (0.48%) Ruby
19 1 (0.24%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 86 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.10%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.86%) Degree
4 22 (5.24%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.52%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.38%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.71%) OCP
12 3 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.48%) CISSP
13 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.48%) ISEB
13 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.62%) QA
2 13 (3.10%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.62%) GDPR
3 11 (2.62%) SLA
4 9 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.14%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.67%) WCAG
6 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.95%) NIST
7 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.71%) PSD2
8 2 (0.48%) GRC
8 2 (0.48%) SEPA
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 197 (46.90%) Docker
2 24 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.10%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (2.62%) vSphere
5 10 (2.38%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.19%) iptables
7 5 (1.19%) KVM
7 5 (1.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.48%) Xen
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 295 (70.24%) Terraform
2 269 (64.05%) Kubernetes
3 225 (53.57%) Prometheus
4 146 (34.76%) Ansible
5 37 (8.81%) Argo
6 27 (6.43%) Kibana
7 21 (5.00%) Istio
8 18 (4.29%) Nagios
9 17 (4.05%) Puppet
10 16 (3.81%) logstash
11 11 (2.62%) Cisco CUCM
12 10 (2.38%) Kustomize
13 9 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (2.14%) linkerd
14 8 (1.90%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.43%) Progress Chef
15 6 (1.43%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.19%) Mesos
16 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
17 4 (0.95%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 62 (14.76%) Splunk
2 51 (12.14%) Microsoft
3 40 (9.52%) Dynatrace
4 36 (8.57%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.14%) VMware
6 25 (5.95%) Google
7 12 (2.86%) Cisco
8 11 (2.62%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.62%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.62%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.62%) Rapid7
9 10 (2.38%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.38%) NetApp
9 10 (2.38%) ServiceNow
10 9 (2.14%) Oracle
11 7 (1.67%) New Relic
12 6 (1.43%) Informatica
12 6 (1.43%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.95%) Databricks
13 4 (0.95%) Veracode