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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 380 464
Rank change year-on-year -30 +84 -36
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 481 326 334
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.98% 6.51% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 255 217 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,456
25th Percentile £56,875 £61,500 £57,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,450 £115,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +5.88%

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 5,356 5,006 6,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.54% 10.12% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,683 2,856 3,735
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,623 £39,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.50% -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -38 391 £70,000 -3.45% 743
London +16 212 £82,500 - 458
UK excluding London -94 203 £65,000 -10.34% 365
Work from Home +57 200 £65,000 -7.14% 301
South East -29 67 £62,500 -16.67% 82
South West -34 46 £70,000 -24.32% 54
North of England -75 44 £68,750 +10.00% 94
North West -26 31 £71,250 +14.00% 56
Wales -59 17 £66,000 +5.60% 14
Midlands -86 14 £61,250 -15.52% 33
North East -61 12 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Scotland -1 11 £62,500 -16.11% 41
West Midlands -89 9 £55,000 -24.14% 18
East Midlands -33 5 £62,500 +12.11% 15
East of England -27 3 £86,250 +25.45% 30
Yorkshire -42 3 £57,500 -28.13% 29
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 19

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 (3.53%) Apache
2 11 (2.29%) Confluence
3 7 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.46%) nginx
4 5 (1.04%) IIS
5 4 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 338 (70.27%) AWS
2 209 (43.45%) GCP
3 162 (33.68%) Azure
4 114 (23.70%) Amazon EKS
5 92 (19.13%) SaaS
6 86 (17.88%) GitHub
7 75 (15.59%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (14.55%) Datadog
9 60 (12.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 57 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (10.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (8.94%) Serverless
13 38 (7.90%) OpenShift
14 34 (7.07%) Amazon S3
15 32 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
16 30 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (4.78%) Entra ID
19 22 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
19 22 (4.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.60%) Firewall
2 24 (4.99%) VPN
3 18 (3.74%) TCP/IP
4 17 (3.53%) VLAN
5 15 (3.12%) DNS
6 13 (2.70%) HTTP
7 12 (2.49%) BGP
8 10 (2.08%) Network Security
8 10 (2.08%) SSH
9 7 (1.46%) OSPF
9 7 (1.46%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.46%) WAN
10 6 (1.25%) IPFIX
10 6 (1.25%) LAN
10 6 (1.25%) SNMP
11 5 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.04%) WebEx
12 3 (0.62%) 4G
12 3 (0.62%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (18.71%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (8.52%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (8.32%) Elasticsearch
4 38 (7.90%) MySQL
5 27 (5.61%) MongoDB
6 25 (5.20%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.74%) Redis
8 14 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.70%) InfluxDB
10 12 (2.49%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.49%) SQL Server
11 9 (1.87%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.46%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.04%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.83%) Metadata
15 3 (0.62%) Big Data
15 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.62%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.42%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 93 (19.33%) Jenkins
2 92 (19.13%) GitLab
3 89 (18.50%) Git
4 86 (17.88%) TeamCity
5 24 (4.99%) SonarQube
6 19 (3.95%) Selenium
7 18 (3.74%) Cucumber
8 17 (3.53%) Gatling
8 17 (3.53%) JMeter
9 16 (3.33%) JIRA
10 15 (3.12%) Cypress.io
11 13 (2.70%) LoadRunner
12 9 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (1.87%) Postman
13 8 (1.66%) Artifactory
13 8 (1.66%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.66%) JUnit
13 8 (1.66%) Robot Framework
13 8 (1.66%) TestRail
14 6 (1.25%) Maven
General
1 184 (38.25%) Finance
2 126 (26.20%) Banking
3 124 (25.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (22.45%) Law
5 103 (21.41%) Retail
5 103 (21.41%) Social Skills
6 68 (14.14%) Financial Institution
7 64 (13.31%) Back Office
8 62 (12.89%) Public Sector
9 48 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (3.33%) Marketing
11 14 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.25%) Legal
12 6 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Police
14 3 (0.62%) Military
15 2 (0.42%) Advertising
15 2 (0.42%) Billing
15 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (19.75%) Senior
2 91 (18.92%) Software Engineer
3 77 (16.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (10.40%) Lead
5 45 (9.36%) Developer
6 43 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 40 (8.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 40 (8.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 39 (8.11%) Site Engineer
9 36 (7.48%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (7.48%) Platform Engineer
10 29 (6.03%) Lead Software Engineer
11 28 (5.82%) Administrator
12 26 (5.41%) Team Leader
13 25 (5.20%) Systems Administrator
14 22 (4.57%) Software Team Leader
15 21 (4.37%) DevOps Administrator
15 21 (4.37%) Java Engineer
16 20 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (4.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (70.06%) Terraform
2 65 (13.51%) Elastic Stack
3 57 (11.85%) Kafka
4 43 (8.94%) OpenTelemetry
5 38 (7.90%) REST
6 36 (7.48%) RESTful
7 31 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
8 26 (5.41%) Spring
8 26 (5.41%) Spring Boot
9 22 (4.57%) Node.js
10 21 (4.37%) Loki
10 21 (4.37%) React
11 18 (3.74%) .NET
12 17 (3.53%) Hibernate
12 17 (3.53%) Keycloak
12 17 (3.53%) Playwright
12 17 (3.53%) pytest
13 16 (3.33%) GraphQL
13 16 (3.33%) JPA
14 14 (2.91%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 172 (35.76%) Cloud Native
2 67 (13.93%) Product Ownership
3 64 (13.31%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (6.44%) Blog
5 26 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (4.78%) Replication
7 19 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (3.53%) Virtual Team
9 16 (3.33%) Onboarding
9 16 (3.33%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.70%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.29%) Mobile App
12 10 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.46%) IoT
13 7 (1.46%) PKI
14 6 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 123 (25.57%) Linux
2 41 (8.52%) Windows
3 18 (3.74%) CentOS
3 18 (3.74%) Unix
4 9 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.46%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.04%) Android
6 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.62%) Debian
7 3 (0.62%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.62%) VMS
8 2 (0.42%) Rocky
9 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (73.60%) CI/CD
2 264 (54.89%) DevOps
3 255 (53.01%) Observability
4 250 (51.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 170 (35.34%) Software Engineering
6 164 (34.10%) Test Automation
7 145 (30.15%) Containerisation
8 142 (29.52%) Agile
9 141 (29.31%) Deployment Automation
10 123 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
11 120 (24.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 120 (24.95%) Microservices
12 115 (23.91%) Mentoring
13 102 (21.21%) AI
14 101 (21.00%) Platform Engineering
15 94 (19.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 79 (16.42%) Continuous Deployment
17 78 (16.22%) Clean Code
18 73 (15.18%) Fintech
19 68 (14.14%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 278 (57.80%) Python
2 164 (34.10%) Java
3 160 (33.26%) Bash
4 82 (17.05%) PowerShell
5 73 (15.18%) SQL
6 48 (9.98%) Go
7 45 (9.36%) JavaScript
8 31 (6.44%) TypeScript
9 25 (5.20%) C#
10 21 (4.37%) Rust
11 16 (3.33%) Bicep
11 16 (3.33%) C++
12 10 (2.08%) Groovy
13 9 (1.87%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.46%) PHP
14 7 (1.46%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.46%) VBA
15 4 (0.83%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.83%) Scala
16 3 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 116 (24.12%) Security Cleared
2 63 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.24%) Degree
4 26 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 23 (4.78%) AWS Certification
6 22 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.74%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.25%) CISSP
11 4 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.83%) CISM
11 4 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.62%) OCP
12 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.42%) GSEC
13 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.27%) QA
2 13 (2.70%) SLA
3 11 (2.29%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.66%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.46%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.04%) NIST
8 3 (0.62%) GDPR
8 3 (0.62%) PSD2
8 3 (0.62%) WCAG
9 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 198 (41.16%) Docker
2 18 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.08%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.04%) vSphere
7 4 (0.83%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.83%) KVM
8 3 (0.62%) iptables
8 3 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.42%) Xen
10 1 (0.21%) Firmware
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 326 (67.78%) Kubernetes
2 261 (54.26%) Prometheus
3 141 (29.31%) Ansible
4 51 (10.60%) Argo
5 31 (6.44%) Kibana
6 25 (5.20%) Istio
7 17 (3.53%) logstash
7 17 (3.53%) Nagios
8 15 (3.12%) Puppet
9 13 (2.70%) Kustomize
10 12 (2.49%) linkerd
11 11 (2.29%) Rancher
12 9 (1.87%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (1.87%) Proxmox
13 6 (1.25%) Cilium
13 6 (1.25%) Mesos
13 6 (1.25%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.25%) ZABBIX
14 5 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 69 (14.35%) Splunk
2 60 (12.47%) Dynatrace
3 52 (10.81%) Microsoft
4 34 (7.07%) Google
5 29 (6.03%) Red Hat
6 28 (5.82%) VMware
7 20 (4.16%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.70%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.49%) Oracle
10 10 (2.08%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.87%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.66%) Databricks
13 7 (1.46%) Cisco
14 6 (1.25%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.25%) Informatica
14 6 (1.25%) New Relic
14 6 (1.25%) NVIDIA
15 5 (1.04%) Palo Alto
16 4 (0.83%) NetApp
16 4 (0.83%) Solace