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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 379 437
Rank change year-on-year -37 +58 -12
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 419 339 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.68% 0.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.07% 6.20% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 235 225 204
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,500 £40,941
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.30%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £116,500 £102,500
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 5,927 5,465 7,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.52% 10.95% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,278 3,276 4,978
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,445 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -0.91% -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 19 August 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 August 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 -41 350 £70,000 -3.45% 274
UK excluding London -62 193 £65,000 -10.34% 129
London -18 173 £82,500 - 186
Work from Home +60 166 £65,000 -7.14% 121
South East -4 61 £62,500 -19.35% 34
South West -22 46 £70,000 -22.22% 23
North of England -34 43 £68,750 +7.84% 27
North West -9 28 £71,250 +18.75% 16
Midlands -81 18 £63,250 -12.76% 8
North East -45 14 £47,500 -20.83% 5
West Midlands -70 13 £62,500 -13.79% 3
Scotland -17 12 £62,500 -34.21% 20
Wales -56 10 £70,000 +21.74% 3
East Midlands -18 5 £64,000 +14.80% 5
East of England -27 2 £82,500 +22.22% 9
Yorkshire -34 1 £82,500 +3.13% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 16 (3.82%) Apache
2 11 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.91%) Confluence
4 7 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.43%) IIS
6 5 (1.19%) nginx
7 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 279 (66.59%) AWS
2 164 (39.14%) GCP
3 161 (38.42%) Azure
4 84 (20.05%) Datadog
5 64 (15.27%) SaaS
6 63 (15.04%) Amazon EKS
6 63 (15.04%) GitHub
7 59 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (12.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 44 (10.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (10.02%) OpenShift
11 42 (10.02%) Serverless
12 38 (9.07%) Amazon S3
13 31 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (7.16%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (5.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (3.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.22%) Firewall
2 18 (4.30%) VLAN
3 17 (4.06%) DNS
4 15 (3.58%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.39%) HTTP
5 10 (2.39%) WAN
6 9 (2.15%) Broadband
6 9 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (2.15%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (2.15%) LAN
6 9 (2.15%) Unified Communications
6 9 (2.15%) VPN
6 9 (2.15%) WebEx
7 8 (1.91%) BGP
8 7 (1.67%) Network Security
8 7 (1.67%) OSPF
8 7 (1.67%) SSH
9 6 (1.43%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.43%) SNMP
10 4 (0.95%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (7.16%) MySQL
4 26 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.53%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.58%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.86%) InfluxDB
7 12 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.15%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.43%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.95%) Big Data
11 4 (0.95%) ZAP BI
12 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.72%) Redis
13 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 91 (21.72%) GitLab
2 81 (19.33%) Jenkins
3 73 (17.42%) Git
4 55 (13.13%) TeamCity
5 26 (6.21%) SonarQube
6 24 (5.73%) Cucumber
7 22 (5.25%) JMeter
8 18 (4.30%) Cypress.io
8 18 (4.30%) Selenium
9 17 (4.06%) Gatling
10 15 (3.58%) JIRA
11 12 (2.86%) LoadRunner
12 11 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (2.63%) Postman
13 9 (2.15%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.67%) Burp Suite
14 7 (1.67%) JUnit
14 7 (1.67%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.67%) Robot Framework
14 7 (1.67%) TestRail
General
1 145 (34.61%) Finance
2 93 (22.20%) Banking
3 82 (19.57%) Social Skills
4 78 (18.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (18.14%) Law
6 68 (16.23%) Retail
7 44 (10.50%) Financial Institution
8 43 (10.26%) Public Sector
9 42 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
10 40 (9.55%) Back Office
11 20 (4.77%) Marketing
12 19 (4.53%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.67%) Legal
13 7 (1.67%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Military
16 2 (0.48%) Advertising
16 2 (0.48%) Billing
16 2 (0.48%) Games
16 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (19.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (17.42%) Senior
3 67 (15.99%) Software Engineer
4 44 (10.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 44 (10.50%) Lead
5 38 (9.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 35 (8.35%) Platform Engineer
6 35 (8.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 33 (7.88%) Developer
7 33 (7.88%) Site Engineer
8 29 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (5.01%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (4.77%) Team Leader
11 19 (4.53%) Administrator
12 18 (4.30%) Systems Administrator
13 17 (4.06%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (3.82%) Java Engineer
15 15 (3.58%) Linux Administrator
15 15 (3.58%) Linux Systems Administrator
15 15 (3.58%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (13.37%) Elastic Stack
2 48 (11.46%) Kafka
3 36 (8.59%) OpenTelemetry
4 27 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
5 24 (5.73%) REST
6 23 (5.49%) Loki
6 23 (5.49%) Node.js
7 22 (5.25%) React
8 21 (5.01%) RESTful
9 18 (4.30%) .NET
9 18 (4.30%) Playwright
9 18 (4.30%) Spring
9 18 (4.30%) Spring Boot
10 16 (3.82%) pytest
11 15 (3.58%) YAML
12 11 (2.63%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
12 11 (2.63%) gRPC
13 10 (2.39%) ARM Templates
13 10 (2.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 130 (31.03%) Cloud Native
2 48 (11.46%) Product Ownership
3 36 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (4.77%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (2.86%) Blog
6 12 (2.86%) Replication
7 11 (2.63%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.39%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.15%) FlexPod
9 9 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.91%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.67%) PKI
12 6 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 121 (28.88%) Linux
2 45 (10.74%) Windows
3 21 (5.01%) CentOS
4 13 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.86%) Unix
6 7 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.43%) VMS
8 5 (1.19%) Android
8 5 (1.19%) Debian
8 5 (1.19%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.48%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (69.93%) CI/CD
2 241 (57.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 227 (54.18%) DevOps
4 221 (52.74%) Observability
5 153 (36.52%) Containerisation
6 146 (34.84%) Software Engineering
7 133 (31.74%) Test Automation
8 117 (27.92%) Agile
9 113 (26.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (26.73%) Deployment Automation
10 112 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
11 96 (22.91%) Microservices
12 93 (22.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 90 (21.48%) Platform Engineering
14 87 (20.76%) Mentoring
15 74 (17.66%) AI
16 59 (14.08%) Continuous Deployment
16 59 (14.08%) GitOps
17 55 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 52 (12.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 266 (63.48%) Python
2 149 (35.56%) Bash
3 126 (30.07%) Java
4 80 (19.09%) PowerShell
5 57 (13.60%) SQL
6 44 (10.50%) JavaScript
7 42 (10.02%) Go
8 34 (8.11%) C#
9 23 (5.49%) TypeScript
10 22 (5.25%) Rust
11 16 (3.82%) C++
12 9 (2.15%) Bicep
12 9 (2.15%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.91%) PHP
14 7 (1.67%) VBA
15 5 (1.19%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.72%) Swift
17 2 (0.48%) Ruby
17 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 87 (20.76%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.59%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.11%) Degree
4 23 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.25%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.39%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.95%) CISSP
10 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.72%) OCP
11 3 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CISM
12 2 (0.48%) GSEC
12 2 (0.48%) ISEB
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (14.08%) QA
2 13 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.86%) SLA
4 10 (2.39%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.15%) GDPR
5 9 (2.15%) WCAG
6 8 (1.91%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.72%) NIST
7 3 (0.72%) PSD2
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 193 (46.06%) Docker
2 22 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (2.63%) Active Directory
6 9 (2.15%) vSphere
7 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.19%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.19%) KVM
8 5 (1.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.95%) iptables
10 2 (0.48%) Xen
11 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 290 (69.21%) Terraform
2 269 (64.20%) Kubernetes
3 226 (53.94%) Prometheus
4 141 (33.65%) Ansible
5 41 (9.79%) Argo
6 25 (5.97%) Kibana
7 23 (5.49%) Istio
8 18 (4.30%) Nagios
9 16 (3.82%) logstash
9 16 (3.82%) Puppet
10 12 (2.86%) Kustomize
11 10 (2.39%) linkerd
12 9 (2.15%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (1.91%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.91%) ZABBIX
14 6 (1.43%) vCenter Server
15 5 (1.19%) Cilium
15 5 (1.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (1.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 63 (15.04%) Splunk
2 50 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 42 (10.02%) Dynatrace
4 35 (8.35%) Red Hat
5 31 (7.40%) Google
6 28 (6.68%) VMware
7 11 (2.63%) Rapid7
8 10 (2.39%) AppDynamics
8 10 (2.39%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.39%) Cisco
8 10 (2.39%) Oracle
8 10 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.15%) Fortinet
9 9 (2.15%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.91%) NetApp
11 6 (1.43%) Informatica
11 6 (1.43%) New Relic
11 6 (1.43%) NVIDIA
12 5 (1.19%) Databricks
12 5 (1.19%) Veracode