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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 384 472
Rank change year-on-year -34 +88 -19
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 413 346 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.70% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.42% 6.16% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 251 231 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £60,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.86% - +7.69%

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 5,567 5,615 8,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.55% 11.44% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,106 3,338 6,007
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,063 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,221 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.49% +4.04% -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 23 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 23 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 -39 360 £70,000 -3.45% 181
UK excluding London -48 197 £64,500 -7.86% 104
Work from Home +60 170 £65,000 -7.14% 86
London -18 169 £82,500 - 111
South East +4 60 £62,500 -16.67% 18
North of England -24 50 £60,000 -7.69% 28
South West -12 49 £65,000 -18.75% 15
North West +3 30 £71,250 +18.75% 20
Midlands -70 20 £63,250 -12.76% 12
North East -39 17 £47,500 -20.83% 1
West Midlands -70 15 £62,500 -13.79% 11
Wales -48 9 £70,000 +33.18% 3
East Midlands -26 5 £64,000 +14.80% 1
Scotland -4 4 £62,500 -34.21% 20
East of England -7 3 £80,150 +18.74% 8
Yorkshire -41 3 £52,500 -29.88% 7
Northern Ireland -68 2 - - 2

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 (4.12%) Apache
2 9 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.69%) Confluence
3 7 (1.69%) IIS
4 6 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.21%) nginx
6 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 277 (67.07%) AWS
2 164 (39.71%) Azure
3 163 (39.47%) GCP
4 70 (16.95%) Datadog
5 68 (16.46%) Amazon EKS
6 66 (15.98%) GitHub
7 64 (15.50%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (15.50%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (13.80%) SaaS
9 52 (12.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (12.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (12.35%) Serverless
11 38 (9.20%) OpenShift
12 37 (8.96%) Amazon S3
13 34 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 26 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (14.29%) Firewall
2 24 (5.81%) DNS
3 23 (5.57%) TCP/IP
4 19 (4.60%) VLAN
5 18 (4.36%) HTTP
6 13 (3.15%) VPN
7 11 (2.66%) WAN
8 10 (2.42%) LAN
8 10 (2.42%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.42%) WebEx
9 9 (2.18%) Broadband
9 9 (2.18%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.18%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.94%) BGP
10 8 (1.94%) Network Security
11 7 (1.69%) MQTT
11 7 (1.69%) OSPF
11 7 (1.69%) SSH
12 6 (1.45%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.99%) Elasticsearch
3 25 (6.05%) MySQL
4 23 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.39%) InfluxDB
6 14 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.91%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.94%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.21%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.73%) Big Data
12 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.48%) Looker
12 2 (0.48%) Redis
12 2 (0.48%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 92 (22.28%) GitLab
2 85 (20.58%) Jenkins
3 69 (16.71%) Git
4 61 (14.77%) TeamCity
5 24 (5.81%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.57%) Cucumber
7 22 (5.33%) JMeter
8 14 (3.39%) JIRA
9 12 (2.91%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.91%) CircleCI
10 11 (2.66%) Cypress.io
10 11 (2.66%) Gatling
10 11 (2.66%) LoadRunner
10 11 (2.66%) Octopus Deploy
10 11 (2.66%) Selenium
11 7 (1.69%) Robot Framework
11 7 (1.69%) TestRail
12 6 (1.45%) Burp Suite
12 6 (1.45%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.21%) Artifactory
General
1 125 (30.27%) Finance
2 93 (22.52%) Banking
3 78 (18.89%) Law
4 75 (18.16%) Social Skills
5 74 (17.92%) Retail
6 72 (17.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (10.41%) Financial Institution
9 40 (9.69%) Back Office
9 40 (9.69%) Public Sector
10 27 (6.54%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.18%) Marketing
12 8 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.97%) Legal
15 2 (0.48%) Advertising
15 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.24%) Billing
16 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 97 (23.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 74 (17.92%) Senior
3 64 (15.50%) Software Engineer
4 44 (10.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 35 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (7.99%) Lead
8 29 (7.02%) Developer
9 25 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 22 (5.33%) Site Engineer
12 21 (5.08%) Administrator
13 20 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (4.84%) Systems Administrator
14 19 (4.60%) Java Engineer
15 18 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
15 18 (4.36%) Team Leader
16 17 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
16 17 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 17 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.98%) Elastic Stack
2 49 (11.86%) Kafka
3 31 (7.51%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (6.30%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (5.33%) Loki
6 20 (4.84%) Node.js
7 18 (4.36%) React
8 17 (4.12%) REST
9 16 (3.87%) Spring
9 16 (3.87%) YAML
10 15 (3.63%) RESTful
10 15 (3.63%) Spring Boot
11 12 (2.91%) .NET
11 12 (2.91%) Apache NiFi
11 12 (2.91%) gRPC
11 12 (2.91%) Playwright
12 11 (2.66%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.66%) ARM Templates
12 11 (2.66%) OAuth
13 10 (2.42%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 128 (30.99%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.14%) Product Ownership
3 34 (8.23%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.33%) Onboarding
5 20 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (3.39%) Blog
7 12 (2.91%) Replication
8 10 (2.42%) FlexPod
8 10 (2.42%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.18%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.18%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.69%) PKI
12 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.21%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 121 (29.30%) Linux
2 46 (11.14%) Windows
3 20 (4.84%) CentOS
4 14 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.91%) Unix
6 8 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.69%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.45%) VMS
9 5 (1.21%) Debian
10 4 (0.97%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.48%) Rocky
12 1 (0.24%) Android
12 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (74.33%) CI/CD
2 239 (57.87%) DevOps
3 237 (57.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 187 (45.28%) Observability
5 173 (41.89%) Containerisation
6 137 (33.17%) Software Engineering
7 133 (32.20%) Test Automation
8 121 (29.30%) Agile
9 118 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 111 (26.88%) Deployment Automation
11 105 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (23.97%) Microservices
13 87 (21.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 82 (19.85%) Mentoring
15 80 (19.37%) Platform Engineering
16 62 (15.01%) Continuous Deployment
17 60 (14.53%) AI
18 57 (13.80%) Clean Code
19 51 (12.35%) Infrastructure Automation
19 51 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 266 (64.41%) Python
2 168 (40.68%) Bash
3 126 (30.51%) Java
4 77 (18.64%) PowerShell
5 57 (13.80%) SQL
6 46 (11.14%) Go
7 45 (10.90%) JavaScript
8 35 (8.47%) C#
9 29 (7.02%) Rust
10 21 (5.08%) TypeScript
11 17 (4.12%) C++
12 10 (2.42%) Bicep
13 7 (1.69%) VBA
14 6 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (1.21%) PHP
15 5 (1.21%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.73%) Ruby
17 2 (0.48%) VB
18 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 84 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.20%) Degree
3 32 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.08%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CISSP
12 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.48%) ISEB
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.86%) QA
2 16 (3.87%) PCI DSS
3 14 (3.39%) GDPR
4 13 (3.15%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.91%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.18%) SLA
7 8 (1.94%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.45%) WCAG
9 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.73%) PSD2
11 2 (0.48%) GRC
11 2 (0.48%) SEPA
12 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 194 (46.97%) Docker
2 24 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.91%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (2.42%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.42%) vSphere
6 6 (1.45%) iptables
6 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.21%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.21%) KVM
7 5 (1.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.48%) Xen
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 294 (71.19%) Terraform
2 268 (64.89%) Kubernetes
3 235 (56.90%) Prometheus
4 151 (36.56%) Ansible
5 30 (7.26%) Argo
6 26 (6.30%) Kibana
7 19 (4.60%) Puppet
8 18 (4.36%) Istio
8 18 (4.36%) Nagios
9 16 (3.87%) logstash
10 10 (2.42%) Cisco CUCM
10 10 (2.42%) Kustomize
11 8 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (1.94%) linkerd
11 8 (1.94%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.69%) Progress Chef
13 6 (1.45%) Proxmox
13 6 (1.45%) vCenter Server
14 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.97%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 53 (12.83%) Splunk
2 50 (12.11%) Microsoft
3 33 (7.99%) Red Hat
3 33 (7.99%) VMware
4 28 (6.78%) Dynatrace
5 22 (5.33%) Google
6 11 (2.66%) Cisco
7 10 (2.42%) AppDynamics
7 10 (2.42%) Atlassian
7 10 (2.42%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.42%) Palo Alto
7 10 (2.42%) Rapid7
8 9 (2.18%) NetApp
8 9 (2.18%) Oracle
9 8 (1.94%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.45%) Informatica
10 6 (1.45%) New Relic
11 5 (1.21%) Tenable
12 4 (0.97%) PagerDuty
12 4 (0.97%) SolarWinds