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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 384 513
Rank change year-on-year -9 +129 -28
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 393 317 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.71% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.91% 5.92% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 231 204 199
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,300
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £111,250 £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 4,971 5,359 9,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.33% 12.02% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,585 3,126 6,929
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,188 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,743 £46,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -7.60%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -15 350 £72,500 - 158
UK excluding London -27 182 £62,500 -10.71% 103
London -4 169 £82,500 +1.54% 78
Work from Home +77 162 £70,000 - 83
South West -10 51 £65,000 - 8
South East 0 49 £62,500 -19.35% 29
North of England -17 49 £52,500 -19.23% 29
North West +7 24 £67,500 +12.50% 22
North East -29 19 £47,500 -19.15% 2
Midlands -46 17 £64,000 -5.19% 11
West Midlands -57 12 £56,250 -22.41% 5
Yorkshire -42 6 £66,250 -11.51% 5
East of England -14 5 £85,000 +47.83% 7
East Midlands -20 5 £64,000 +11.30% 6
Wales -47 5 £70,000 +21.74% 2
Scotland -21 4 £62,500 -34.21% 12
Northern Ireland -32 2 - - 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 17 (4.33%) Apache
2 12 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.78%) Confluence
4 6 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.76%) IIS
5 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.02%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 269 (68.45%) AWS
2 159 (40.46%) Azure
3 150 (38.17%) GCP
4 81 (20.61%) Amazon EKS
5 69 (17.56%) GitHub
6 67 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (16.54%) GitHub Actions
8 60 (15.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 60 (15.27%) Datadog
9 56 (14.25%) Serverless
10 49 (12.47%) SaaS
11 41 (10.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (9.41%) Amazon S3
13 33 (8.40%) OpenShift
14 32 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
18 18 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
19 15 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 58 (14.76%) Firewall
2 29 (7.38%) DNS
3 24 (6.11%) TCP/IP
4 23 (5.85%) HTTP
5 18 (4.58%) VLAN
6 15 (3.82%) VPN
7 11 (2.80%) WAN
8 10 (2.54%) LAN
8 10 (2.54%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.54%) WebEx
9 9 (2.29%) Broadband
9 9 (2.29%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.29%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (2.04%) BGP
11 7 (1.78%) MQTT
11 7 (1.78%) Network Security
11 7 (1.78%) OSPF
12 6 (1.53%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.53%) SNMP
13 5 (1.27%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.87%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (4.83%) MySQL
5 16 (4.07%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.56%) InfluxDB
7 13 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 12 (3.05%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.78%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.02%) Big Data
10 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.76%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.51%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.51%) Looker
12 2 (0.51%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 88 (22.39%) GitLab
2 85 (21.63%) Jenkins
3 61 (15.52%) TeamCity
4 54 (13.74%) Git
5 26 (6.62%) SonarQube
6 22 (5.60%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.34%) JMeter
8 14 (3.56%) CircleCI
9 13 (3.31%) JIRA
10 12 (3.05%) Bitbucket
10 12 (3.05%) Cypress.io
10 12 (3.05%) Selenium
11 11 (2.80%) LoadRunner
12 10 (2.54%) Gatling
13 7 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.78%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.78%) TestRail
14 6 (1.53%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.27%) Burp Suite
15 5 (1.27%) Locust
General
1 113 (28.75%) Finance
2 81 (20.61%) Law
3 80 (20.36%) Banking
4 77 (19.59%) Social Skills
5 74 (18.83%) Retail
6 68 (17.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (9.92%) Financial Institution
8 36 (9.16%) Back Office
8 36 (9.16%) Public Sector
9 35 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
10 31 (7.89%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.29%) Marketing
12 7 (1.78%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.76%) Legal
15 2 (0.51%) Advertising
15 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
16 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.25%) Aviation
16 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 86 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 82 (20.87%) Senior
3 59 (15.01%) Software Engineer
4 40 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 37 (9.41%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (8.40%) Lead
7 29 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (7.12%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (6.11%) Developer
10 22 (5.60%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (5.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 20 (5.09%) Java Engineer
12 20 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (4.83%) Administrator
13 19 (4.83%) Site Engineer
14 18 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (4.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.58%) Systems Administrator
15 17 (4.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 16 (4.07%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.78%) Elastic Stack
2 43 (10.94%) Kafka
3 26 (6.62%) OpenTelemetry
4 20 (5.09%) Loki
5 19 (4.83%) RabbitMQ
5 19 (4.83%) REST
6 18 (4.58%) .NET
6 18 (4.58%) Node.js
6 18 (4.58%) React
7 14 (3.56%) OAuth
7 14 (3.56%) Spring
8 13 (3.31%) Spring Boot
9 12 (3.05%) gRPC
9 12 (3.05%) YAML
10 11 (2.80%) Apache NiFi
10 11 (2.80%) Playwright
11 10 (2.54%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.54%) XMPP
12 9 (2.29%) AWS CDK
12 9 (2.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 123 (31.30%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 30 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (4.83%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.33%) Blog
7 13 (3.31%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.80%) Replication
9 10 (2.54%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.54%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.27%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.27%) PKI
12 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.02%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 109 (27.74%) Linux
2 51 (12.98%) Windows
3 19 (4.83%) CentOS
4 12 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.78%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.78%) VMS
7 6 (1.53%) Unix
8 4 (1.02%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.76%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (76.08%) CI/CD
2 228 (58.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 222 (56.49%) DevOps
4 170 (43.26%) Observability
5 164 (41.73%) Containerisation
6 133 (33.84%) Test Automation
7 121 (30.79%) Software Engineering
8 120 (30.53%) Agile
9 108 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
10 104 (26.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 103 (26.21%) Deployment Automation
12 88 (22.39%) Microservices
13 79 (20.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 74 (18.83%) Platform Engineering
15 69 (17.56%) Mentoring
16 59 (15.01%) Clean Code
17 58 (14.76%) Continuous Deployment
18 57 (14.50%) AI
19 56 (14.25%) DevSecOps
20 53 (13.49%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 241 (61.32%) Python
2 159 (40.46%) Bash
3 117 (29.77%) Java
4 67 (17.05%) PowerShell
5 51 (12.98%) SQL
6 46 (11.70%) Go
7 44 (11.20%) JavaScript
8 35 (8.91%) C#
9 27 (6.87%) Rust
10 19 (4.83%) TypeScript
11 16 (4.07%) C++
12 9 (2.29%) Bicep
13 7 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.27%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.02%) VBA
16 3 (0.76%) Elixir
16 3 (0.76%) Erlang
16 3 (0.76%) Ruby
17 2 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 85 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.43%) Degree
3 35 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.38%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.62%) AWS Certification
6 19 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.92%) QA
2 12 (3.05%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.80%) GDPR
4 10 (2.54%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.29%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.04%) SLA
7 6 (1.53%) WCAG
8 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.51%) GRC
9 2 (0.51%) SEPA
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 174 (44.27%) Docker
2 22 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.54%) vSphere
4 9 (2.29%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (1.78%) iptables
5 7 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.27%) KVM
8 4 (1.02%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.02%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 288 (73.28%) Terraform
2 255 (64.89%) Kubernetes
3 221 (56.23%) Prometheus
4 149 (37.91%) Ansible
5 29 (7.38%) Kibana
6 25 (6.36%) Argo
7 22 (5.60%) Puppet
8 16 (4.07%) Nagios
9 15 (3.82%) Istio
10 12 (3.05%) logstash
11 10 (2.54%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.54%) Progress Chef
11 10 (2.54%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.29%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (2.04%) linkerd
13 8 (2.04%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.78%) Kustomize
14 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (1.27%) Mesos
15 5 (1.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (12.47%) Splunk
2 41 (10.43%) Microsoft
3 39 (9.92%) VMware
4 29 (7.38%) Red Hat
5 23 (5.85%) Dynatrace
6 17 (4.33%) Google
7 11 (2.80%) Cisco
8 10 (2.54%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.54%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.29%) AppDynamics
9 9 (2.29%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.04%) Oracle
10 8 (2.04%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.78%) NetApp
11 7 (1.78%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.27%) Tenable
13 4 (1.02%) Cribl.io
13 4 (1.02%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.02%) Veracode