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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 381 443
Rank change year-on-year -34 +62 +4
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 448 328 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.57% 6.60% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 237 217 215
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,750 £42,199
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,300 £115,000 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +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 5,229 4,973 6,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 10.06% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,654 2,887 3,908
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,420
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -59 364 £70,000 -3.45% 622
UK excluding London -103 200 £65,000 -10.34% 302
London -18 187 £77,500 -4.91% 391
Work from Home +40 176 £65,000 -7.14% 268
South East -17 64 £62,500 -19.35% 61
South West -33 46 £70,000 -24.32% 40
North of England -70 44 £70,000 +7.69% 73
North West -18 30 £71,250 +16.33% 43
Wales -62 16 £70,000 +16.67% 8
Midlands -88 15 £60,000 -17.24% 23
North East -59 13 £57,500 -8.00% 11
Scotland -9 11 £62,500 -16.11% 52
West Midlands -86 10 £50,000 -31.03% 14
East Midlands -35 5 £62,500 +12.11% 9
East of England -26 3 £86,250 +27.78% 30
Yorkshire -51 2 £70,000 -12.50% 19
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 16

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 (3.79%) Apache
2 8 (1.79%) Confluence
3 7 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.34%) nginx
5 5 (1.12%) IIS
5 5 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 319 (71.21%) AWS
2 192 (42.86%) GCP
3 152 (33.93%) Azure
4 101 (22.54%) Amazon EKS
5 80 (17.86%) SaaS
6 69 (15.40%) Datadog
7 68 (15.18%) GitHub
8 65 (14.51%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (12.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (8.71%) Serverless
13 38 (8.48%) OpenShift
14 33 (7.37%) Amazon S3
14 33 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
18 19 (4.24%) Azure AKS
18 19 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (10.04%) Firewall
2 15 (3.35%) DNS
2 15 (3.35%) VLAN
3 14 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 14 (3.13%) VPN
4 12 (2.68%) HTTP
5 10 (2.23%) SSH
6 8 (1.79%) BGP
7 7 (1.56%) OSPF
7 7 (1.56%) Unified Communications
7 7 (1.56%) WAN
8 6 (1.34%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.34%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (1.34%) IPFIX
8 6 (1.34%) LAN
8 6 (1.34%) Network Security
8 6 (1.34%) SNMP
8 6 (1.34%) WebEx
9 3 (0.67%) 4G
9 3 (0.67%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (16.74%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (8.93%) Elasticsearch
3 36 (8.04%) MySQL
4 35 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (5.80%) MongoDB
6 23 (5.13%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.35%) Redis
8 14 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.90%) InfluxDB
10 11 (2.46%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.01%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.01%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.56%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.89%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.67%) Big Data
14 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.67%) ZAP BI
15 2 (0.45%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 90 (20.09%) Jenkins
2 87 (19.42%) Git
3 86 (19.20%) GitLab
4 76 (16.96%) TeamCity
5 25 (5.58%) SonarQube
6 21 (4.69%) Cucumber
7 20 (4.46%) Selenium
8 19 (4.24%) JMeter
9 18 (4.02%) Gatling
10 17 (3.79%) Cypress.io
11 14 (3.13%) JIRA
12 13 (2.90%) LoadRunner
13 10 (2.23%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (2.23%) Postman
14 8 (1.79%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.79%) JUnit
14 8 (1.79%) Robot Framework
14 8 (1.79%) TestRail
15 6 (1.34%) Burp Suite
15 6 (1.34%) Maven
General
1 170 (37.95%) Finance
2 117 (26.12%) Banking
3 113 (25.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (21.88%) Law
5 94 (20.98%) Retail
6 87 (19.42%) Social Skills
7 60 (13.39%) Financial Institution
8 56 (12.50%) Back Office
9 51 (11.38%) Public Sector
10 42 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
11 17 (3.79%) Marketing
12 15 (3.35%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.56%) Legal
13 7 (1.56%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.67%) Military
16 2 (0.45%) Advertising
16 2 (0.45%) Billing
16 2 (0.45%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.22%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 87 (19.42%) Software Engineer
2 83 (18.53%) Senior
3 75 (16.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (10.49%) Lead
5 42 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (9.15%) Developer
7 40 (8.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 39 (8.71%) Site Engineer
9 38 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 37 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (5.80%) Lead Software Engineer
11 26 (5.80%) Team Leader
12 24 (5.36%) Administrator
13 23 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
14 21 (4.69%) Software Team Leader
15 20 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
15 20 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 20 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (4.24%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (70.76%) Terraform
2 60 (13.39%) Elastic Stack
3 57 (12.72%) Kafka
4 39 (8.71%) OpenTelemetry
5 30 (6.70%) RabbitMQ
5 30 (6.70%) REST
6 29 (6.47%) RESTful
7 24 (5.36%) Spring
7 24 (5.36%) Spring Boot
8 23 (5.13%) Node.js
9 22 (4.91%) React
10 21 (4.69%) Loki
11 19 (4.24%) Playwright
12 18 (4.02%) pytest
13 17 (3.79%) Keycloak
14 16 (3.57%) .NET
15 15 (3.35%) Hibernate
15 15 (3.35%) JPA
16 14 (3.13%) gRPC
17 13 (2.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 65 (14.51%) Product Ownership
3 49 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (4.91%) Blog
6 20 (4.46%) Replication
7 17 (3.79%) Virtual Team
8 16 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (3.13%) Private Cloud
10 10 (2.23%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.56%) IoT
13 6 (1.34%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.34%) FlexPod
13 6 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.34%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 121 (27.01%) Linux
2 41 (9.15%) Windows
3 20 (4.46%) CentOS
4 14 (3.13%) Unix
5 10 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.56%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.12%) Android
8 5 (1.12%) VMS
9 4 (0.89%) Debian
9 4 (0.89%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.45%) Rocky
12 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (73.44%) CI/CD
2 246 (54.91%) DevOps
3 240 (53.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 235 (52.46%) Observability
5 162 (36.16%) Software Engineering
6 156 (34.82%) Test Automation
7 138 (30.80%) Agile
7 138 (30.80%) Containerisation
8 131 (29.24%) Deployment Automation
9 113 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (24.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (24.33%) Microservices
11 105 (23.44%) Mentoring
12 101 (22.54%) Platform Engineering
13 94 (20.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 90 (20.09%) AI
15 76 (16.96%) Continuous Deployment
16 72 (16.07%) Clean Code
17 68 (15.18%) GitOps
18 60 (13.39%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 266 (59.38%) Python
2 156 (34.82%) Bash
3 152 (33.93%) Java
4 82 (18.30%) PowerShell
5 60 (13.39%) SQL
6 46 (10.27%) JavaScript
7 43 (9.60%) Go
8 30 (6.70%) TypeScript
9 23 (5.13%) C#
10 21 (4.69%) Rust
11 16 (3.57%) C++
12 10 (2.23%) Bicep
12 10 (2.23%) Groovy
13 9 (2.01%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.56%) PHP
14 7 (1.56%) VBA
15 6 (1.34%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.89%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.89%) Scala
17 3 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 105 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.70%) Degree
4 26 (5.80%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.91%) AWS Certification
5 22 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.89%) CISSP
9 4 (0.89%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.67%) OCP
10 3 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.45%) CISM
11 2 (0.45%) GSEC
11 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (14.06%) QA
2 13 (2.90%) SLA
3 9 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.12%) WCAG
7 4 (0.89%) GDPR
8 3 (0.67%) NIST
8 3 (0.67%) PSD2
8 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 194 (43.30%) Docker
2 19 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.46%) Active Directory
5 9 (2.01%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.34%) vSphere
7 5 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.89%) KVM
8 4 (0.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.67%) iptables
9 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.45%) Xen
11 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 304 (67.86%) Kubernetes
2 249 (55.58%) Prometheus
3 140 (31.25%) Ansible
4 49 (10.94%) Argo
5 30 (6.70%) Kibana
6 26 (5.80%) Istio
7 17 (3.79%) logstash
7 17 (3.79%) Nagios
8 15 (3.35%) Puppet
9 13 (2.90%) Kustomize
10 12 (2.68%) linkerd
11 11 (2.46%) Rancher
12 9 (2.01%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.79%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.56%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.34%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (1.34%) Mesos
15 6 (1.34%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.12%) Cilium
17 4 (0.89%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 68 (15.18%) Splunk
2 49 (10.94%) Dynatrace
3 46 (10.27%) Microsoft
4 30 (6.70%) Red Hat
5 29 (6.47%) Google
5 29 (6.47%) VMware
6 19 (4.24%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.68%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.46%) Oracle
9 10 (2.23%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.23%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.79%) Databricks
11 7 (1.56%) Cisco
12 6 (1.34%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.34%) Informatica
12 6 (1.34%) New Relic
12 6 (1.34%) NVIDIA
12 6 (1.34%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.12%) NetApp
14 4 (0.89%) Tenable