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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 416 500
Rank change year-on-year +63 +84 -15
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 395 241 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.57% 0.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.92% 4.94% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 231 152 195
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,771 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £85,125 £91,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.77% -13.33% +20.00%

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 4,430 4,877 9,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.78% 11.48% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,051 3,446 7,216
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
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 23 March 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 March 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 +59 329 £70,079 -3.34% 136
Work from Home +108 180 £73,377 +10.76% 110
London +78 171 £82,500 -8.33% 56
UK excluding London -12 170 £61,250 -5.77% 104
North of England -64 53 £52,000 -28.28% 31
South West -1 36 £55,000 -15.38% 11
South East -3 36 £62,500 -16.67% 35
North East -37 23 £47,500 -22.45% 5
North West -24 18 £60,000 -20.00% 16
Scotland -10 15 £68,539 -27.85% 6
Midlands -53 15 £64,000 -1.54% 9
Yorkshire -39 12 £73,750 -1.50% 10
West Midlands -10 10 £62,500 -3.85% 8
East of England +1 8 £82,575 +43.61% 8
Wales -29 5 £70,079 +7.81% 3
East Midlands -40 5 £64,000 +55.15% 1
Northern Ireland -36 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 18 (4.56%) Apache
2 14 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.27%) Confluence
5 4 (1.01%) IIS
6 3 (0.76%) nginx
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.01%) Weka
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 283 (71.65%) AWS
2 179 (45.32%) Azure
3 163 (41.27%) GCP
4 105 (26.58%) GitHub
5 99 (25.06%) Amazon EKS
6 89 (22.53%) GitHub Actions
7 75 (18.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 73 (18.48%) Datadog
9 60 (15.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 58 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (14.68%) Serverless
11 53 (13.42%) SaaS
12 34 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (8.35%) OpenShift
14 31 (7.85%) Amazon S3
15 28 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 20 (5.06%) dbt
19 17 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.90%) Firewall
2 31 (7.85%) DNS
3 28 (7.09%) HTTP
4 19 (4.81%) TCP/IP
5 17 (4.30%) VPN
6 10 (2.53%) Broadband
7 9 (2.28%) LAN
7 9 (2.28%) WAN
8 7 (1.77%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (1.52%) Network Security
9 6 (1.52%) SSL
9 6 (1.52%) VLAN
10 5 (1.27%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.27%) WebEx
11 4 (1.01%) BGP
11 4 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (1.01%) DHCP
11 4 (1.01%) MQTT
11 4 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (6.08%) SQL Server
4 18 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (4.56%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 14 (3.54%) MySQL
7 10 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.53%) InfluxDB
8 8 (2.03%) Redis
9 4 (1.01%) Big Data
9 4 (1.01%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.51%) Looker
11 2 (0.51%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.51%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 108 (27.34%) Jenkins
2 96 (24.30%) GitLab
3 61 (15.44%) Git
4 59 (14.94%) TeamCity
5 31 (7.85%) Cucumber
6 24 (6.08%) JIRA
7 23 (5.82%) JMeter
8 18 (4.56%) CircleCI
9 16 (4.05%) Selenium
9 16 (4.05%) SonarQube
10 15 (3.80%) Bitbucket
11 12 (3.04%) Locust
12 10 (2.53%) JUnit
13 9 (2.28%) Cypress.io
13 9 (2.28%) Robot Framework
13 9 (2.28%) TestRail
14 7 (1.77%) Gatling
14 7 (1.77%) LoadRunner
15 5 (1.27%) MLflow
16 4 (1.01%) Postman
General
1 119 (30.13%) Finance
2 114 (28.86%) Social Skills
3 71 (17.97%) Law
4 70 (17.72%) Banking
5 65 (16.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (16.46%) Retail
6 38 (9.62%) Back Office
7 37 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (9.11%) Financial Institution
9 34 (8.61%) Telecoms
10 18 (4.56%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.27%) Legal
12 4 (1.01%) Advertising
12 4 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.01%) Marketing
13 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.25%) Front Office
15 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 88 (22.28%) Senior
2 86 (21.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 54 (13.67%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.41%) Lead
5 34 (8.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (8.10%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (7.34%) Developer
8 26 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
9 25 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (5.32%) Java Engineer
11 19 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
12 17 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (4.30%) Software Developer
13 16 (4.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 16 (4.05%) Java Software Engineer
14 14 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (3.29%) Applications Support
15 13 (3.29%) Development Engineer
15 13 (3.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (20.25%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (8.86%) Kafka
3 28 (7.09%) .NET
4 21 (5.32%) Spring
5 20 (5.06%) React
5 20 (5.06%) Spring Boot
6 19 (4.81%) OpenTelemetry
7 17 (4.30%) OAuth
8 16 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (3.80%) Gherkin
10 13 (3.29%) Loki
10 13 (3.29%) pytest
11 11 (2.78%) AWS CDK
11 11 (2.78%) Node.js
11 11 (2.78%) REST
12 10 (2.53%) ADO
13 9 (2.28%) Django
13 9 (2.28%) Flask
13 9 (2.28%) JWT
13 9 (2.28%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 104 (26.33%) Cloud Native
2 42 (10.63%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.80%) Blog
4 15 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.28%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.28%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.03%) PKI
7 8 (2.03%) Replication
8 6 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.27%) FlexPod
9 5 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.01%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.76%) IoT
11 3 (0.76%) NHS
11 3 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 128 (32.41%) Linux
2 64 (16.20%) Windows
3 17 (4.30%) CentOS
4 15 (3.80%) Unix
5 10 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.52%) VMS
8 3 (0.76%) SUSE
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (78.23%) CI/CD
2 242 (61.27%) DevOps
3 212 (53.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 178 (45.06%) Containerisation
5 174 (44.05%) Observability
6 128 (32.41%) Test Automation
7 119 (30.13%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (28.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 111 (28.10%) Agile
10 106 (26.84%) Software Engineering
11 87 (22.03%) Microservices
12 84 (21.27%) Deployment Automation
12 84 (21.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 68 (17.22%) Platform Engineering
14 58 (14.68%) Clean Code
14 58 (14.68%) High Availability
15 56 (14.18%) Mentoring
16 52 (13.16%) Continuous Deployment
16 52 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 50 (12.66%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 223 (56.46%) Python
2 130 (32.91%) Bash
3 114 (28.86%) Java
4 52 (13.16%) PowerShell
5 51 (12.91%) Go
6 48 (12.15%) JavaScript
7 46 (11.65%) SQL
8 37 (9.37%) C#
9 24 (6.08%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.29%) Rust
11 12 (3.04%) C++
12 10 (2.53%) Bicep
13 9 (2.28%) Kotlin
14 8 (2.03%) Delphi
15 7 (1.77%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.76%) Elixir
17 3 (0.76%) Erlang
18 2 (0.51%) PHP
18 2 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 77 (19.49%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.90%) Degree
3 36 (9.11%) SC Cleared
4 32 (8.10%) AWS Certification
5 31 (7.85%) DV Cleared
6 24 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.01%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.25%) CCNP
14 1 (0.25%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.42%) QA
2 15 (3.80%) GDPR
3 14 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.04%) WCAG
5 10 (2.53%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.28%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.77%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.51%) GRC
9 2 (0.51%) SEPA
10 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 187 (47.34%) Docker
2 17 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.28%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.77%) KVM
5 6 (1.52%) vSphere
6 5 (1.27%) iptables
7 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.01%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.25%) pfSense
8 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.25%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 295 (74.68%) Terraform
2 271 (68.61%) Kubernetes
3 210 (53.16%) Prometheus
4 141 (35.70%) Ansible
5 21 (5.32%) Kibana
6 17 (4.30%) Argo
7 13 (3.29%) Puppet
8 12 (3.04%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (2.28%) Istio
9 9 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (2.28%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.03%) linkerd
10 8 (2.03%) Mesos
11 7 (1.77%) logstash
11 7 (1.77%) Nagios
11 7 (1.77%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.77%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.52%) Control-M
13 5 (1.27%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.76%) Rancher
Vendors
1 48 (12.15%) Splunk
2 35 (8.86%) VMware
3 27 (6.84%) Dynatrace
4 24 (6.08%) Microsoft
5 23 (5.82%) Red Hat
6 16 (4.05%) Oracle
7 15 (3.80%) Google
8 12 (3.04%) AppDynamics
9 10 (2.53%) Fortinet
9 10 (2.53%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.77%) Cisco
11 6 (1.52%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.27%) Databricks
12 5 (1.27%) NetApp
12 5 (1.27%) Rapid7
13 4 (1.01%) Cribl.io
13 4 (1.01%) New Relic
13 4 (1.01%) PagerDuty