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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 376 516
Rank change year-on-year -27 +140 -55
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 422 344 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.71% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.67% 6.12% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 244 226 205
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,850
25th Percentile £55,725 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +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 5,504 5,621 9,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.63% 11.53% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,026 3,351 6,714
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +6.48% -9.28%

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 9 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 9 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 -12 371 £70,079 -3.34% 116
UK excluding London -47 194 £62,500 -10.71% 73
London +5 181 £82,500 - 60
Work from Home +76 173 £67,500 -3.57% 69
South West -10 55 £75,000 +15.38% 11
South East -18 55 £62,500 -16.67% 14
North of England -33 47 £57,500 -11.54% 24
North West -5 25 £70,000 +16.67% 18
Midlands -68 21 £64,000 -11.72% 9
North East -30 18 £47,500 -20.83% 2
West Midlands -65 15 £62,500 -13.79% 6
Wales -50 7 £70,000 +21.74% 1
East Midlands -25 6 £64,500 +12.17% 3
Scotland -15 4 £62,500 -34.21% 7
Yorkshire -43 4 £48,750 -34.89% 4
East of England -16 3 £80,150 +18.74% 5
Northern Ireland -61 2 - - 4

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 22 (5.21%) Apache
2 10 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.42%) Confluence
3 6 (1.42%) IIS
4 4 (0.95%) nginx
5 3 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.95%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 291 (68.96%) AWS
2 169 (40.05%) Azure
2 169 (40.05%) GCP
3 81 (19.19%) Amazon EKS
4 71 (16.82%) GitHub
5 69 (16.35%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (15.64%) Datadog
8 56 (13.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 54 (12.80%) SaaS
10 53 (12.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (12.56%) Serverless
11 39 (9.24%) Amazon S3
11 39 (9.24%) OpenShift
12 34 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (6.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (4.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 63 (14.93%) Firewall
2 25 (5.92%) DNS
3 24 (5.69%) TCP/IP
4 20 (4.74%) HTTP
5 19 (4.50%) VLAN
6 17 (4.03%) VPN
7 11 (2.61%) WAN
8 10 (2.37%) LAN
8 10 (2.37%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.37%) WebEx
9 9 (2.13%) Broadband
9 9 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.90%) BGP
11 7 (1.66%) MQTT
11 7 (1.66%) Network Security
11 7 (1.66%) OSPF
12 6 (1.42%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.42%) SNMP
12 6 (1.42%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (5.69%) MySQL
4 22 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.79%) InfluxDB
7 13 (3.08%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.84%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.13%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.66%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.95%) Big Data
13 4 (0.95%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.47%) Looker
14 2 (0.47%) SQLPlus
15 1 (0.24%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 94 (22.27%) GitLab
1 94 (22.27%) Jenkins
2 69 (16.35%) TeamCity
3 67 (15.88%) Git
4 28 (6.64%) SonarQube
5 26 (6.16%) Cucumber
6 21 (4.98%) JMeter
7 14 (3.32%) CircleCI
8 13 (3.08%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.84%) Cypress.io
9 12 (2.84%) JIRA
9 12 (2.84%) Selenium
10 10 (2.37%) Gatling
10 10 (2.37%) LoadRunner
10 10 (2.37%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (2.13%) Robot Framework
11 9 (2.13%) TestRail
12 6 (1.42%) Burp Suite
12 6 (1.42%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.18%) Locust
General
1 126 (29.86%) Finance
2 93 (22.04%) Banking
3 86 (20.38%) Law
4 81 (19.19%) Retail
5 80 (18.96%) Social Skills
6 75 (17.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (10.43%) Financial Institution
8 42 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (9.72%) Back Office
10 38 (9.00%) Public Sector
11 29 (6.87%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.13%) Marketing
13 8 (1.90%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Legal
16 2 (0.47%) Advertising
16 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.24%) Billing
17 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 91 (21.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (18.72%) Senior
3 69 (16.35%) Software Engineer
4 44 (10.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 38 (9.00%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (7.82%) Lead
8 28 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (6.64%) Developer
9 22 (5.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 21 (4.98%) Java Engineer
10 21 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (4.74%) Administrator
11 20 (4.74%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (4.74%) Site Engineer
12 19 (4.50%) Systems Administrator
13 18 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (4.27%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (16.82%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (11.14%) Kafka
3 29 (6.87%) OpenTelemetry
4 23 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (5.21%) Loki
6 19 (4.50%) Node.js
6 19 (4.50%) REST
7 18 (4.27%) React
8 15 (3.55%) .NET
8 15 (3.55%) Apache NiFi
8 15 (3.55%) Spring
8 15 (3.55%) YAML
9 14 (3.32%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.08%) Playwright
11 12 (2.84%) gRPC
11 12 (2.84%) OAuth
11 12 (2.84%) Vue
12 11 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.61%) RESTful
13 10 (2.37%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 131 (31.04%) Cloud Native
2 44 (10.43%) Product Ownership
3 33 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (4.74%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.27%) Blog
7 12 (2.84%) Replication
8 11 (2.61%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.37%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.37%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.66%) PKI
12 7 (1.66%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 128 (30.33%) Linux
2 53 (12.56%) Windows
3 22 (5.21%) CentOS
4 13 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.61%) Unix
6 9 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.90%) VMS
8 4 (0.95%) Debian
8 4 (0.95%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (73.93%) CI/CD
2 243 (57.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 236 (55.92%) DevOps
4 177 (41.94%) Containerisation
5 176 (41.71%) Observability
6 144 (34.12%) Test Automation
7 136 (32.23%) Software Engineering
8 127 (30.09%) Agile
9 124 (29.38%) Problem-Solving
10 114 (27.01%) Deployment Automation
11 108 (25.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (23.46%) Microservices
13 81 (19.19%) Platform Engineering
14 80 (18.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 79 (18.72%) Mentoring
16 67 (15.88%) Continuous Deployment
17 63 (14.93%) Clean Code
18 59 (13.98%) AI
19 55 (13.03%) DevSecOps
19 55 (13.03%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 269 (63.74%) Python
2 174 (41.23%) Bash
3 135 (31.99%) Java
4 78 (18.48%) PowerShell
5 54 (12.80%) SQL
6 53 (12.56%) JavaScript
7 48 (11.37%) Go
8 38 (9.00%) C#
9 30 (7.11%) Rust
10 22 (5.21%) TypeScript
11 21 (4.98%) C++
12 10 (2.37%) Bicep
13 8 (1.90%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.66%) Google Apps Script
15 6 (1.42%) VBA
16 5 (1.18%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.71%) Ruby
18 2 (0.47%) PHP
18 2 (0.47%) VB
19 1 (0.24%) C
Qualifications
1 98 (23.22%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.24%) Degree
3 35 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.87%) DV Cleared
5 27 (6.40%) AWS Certification
6 21 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.47%) CISSP
11 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.47%) ISEB
11 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.14%) QA
2 13 (3.08%) GDPR
2 13 (3.08%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.84%) SOC 2
4 9 (2.13%) SLA
5 8 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.42%) WCAG
7 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.47%) GRC
9 2 (0.47%) PSD2
9 2 (0.47%) SEPA
10 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 192 (45.50%) Docker
2 27 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.61%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (2.37%) vSphere
6 7 (1.66%) iptables
6 7 (1.66%) KVM
7 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.18%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.95%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.95%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.24%) Firmware
10 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 309 (73.22%) Terraform
2 275 (65.17%) Kubernetes
3 233 (55.21%) Prometheus
4 165 (39.10%) Ansible
5 29 (6.87%) Argo
5 29 (6.87%) Kibana
6 24 (5.69%) Puppet
7 18 (4.27%) logstash
8 17 (4.03%) Istio
8 17 (4.03%) Nagios
9 11 (2.61%) ZABBIX
10 10 (2.37%) Cisco CUCM
10 10 (2.37%) Docker Swarm
10 10 (2.37%) Progress Chef
11 9 (2.13%) linkerd
12 8 (1.90%) Kustomize
12 8 (1.90%) Proxmox
13 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (1.66%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.42%) Mesos
Vendors
1 52 (12.32%) Splunk
2 49 (11.61%) Microsoft
3 42 (9.95%) VMware
4 33 (7.82%) Red Hat
5 26 (6.16%) Dynatrace
6 19 (4.50%) Google
7 11 (2.61%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.61%) Cisco
8 10 (2.37%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.37%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.13%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.90%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.90%) NetApp
10 8 (1.90%) Oracle
11 6 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.18%) Informatica
12 5 (1.18%) New Relic
12 5 (1.18%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.18%) Tenable
13 4 (0.95%) Cribl.io