Grafana Job Trends

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 448 448
Rank change year-on-year +89 0 +74
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 303 271 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.50% 0.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.32% 4.55% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 210 155 204
10th Percentile £46,385 £44,247 £43,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £85,500 £85,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,500 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -0.33%

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 4,141 5,950 7,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.93% 10.96% 13.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,961 3,634 6,108
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,825 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,750 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,065 £59,738 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.17% +8.61% -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 7 January 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 7 January 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 +72 237 £75,000 - 214
UK excluding London +43 140 £67,500 - 196
Work from Home +66 133 £67,500 -10.00% 56
London +62 113 £82,500 -5.71% 49
North of England +15 59 £65,000 -13.33% 48
North West +36 29 £63,750 -15.00% 21
Scotland +15 22 £72,289 +15.66% 11
South East +3 16 £68,750 +1.85% 52
South West -1 16 £75,000 +15.38% 31
North East -16 16 £51,500 -8.85% 8
Midlands +13 15 £70,542 +8.53% 26
Yorkshire +1 14 £80,000 +8.11% 19
West Midlands +23 13 £72,500 +11.54% 9
East of England +20 7 £70,000 +40.00% 20
Wales -2 4 £67,539 +3.91% 8
East Midlands -4 2 £54,600 +32.36% 16
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 3

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 12 (3.96%) Confluence
2 10 (3.30%) Apache
2 10 (3.30%) nginx
3 8 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.66%) CICS
6 2 (0.66%) IIS
6 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 207 (68.32%) AWS
2 149 (49.17%) Azure
3 88 (29.04%) GCP
4 84 (27.72%) GitHub
5 77 (25.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 66 (21.78%) GitHub Actions
7 59 (19.47%) Amazon EKS
8 50 (16.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (14.19%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (13.53%) Datadog
11 40 (13.20%) Serverless
12 35 (11.55%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (9.57%) Amazon S3
13 29 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (9.24%) SaaS
15 24 (7.92%) OpenShift
15 24 (7.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (7.26%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (6.60%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.24%) Firewall
2 23 (7.59%) DNS
3 16 (5.28%) HTTP
4 10 (3.30%) VPN
5 9 (2.97%) WAN
6 8 (2.64%) FTP
6 8 (2.64%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.31%) LAN
7 7 (2.31%) SMTP
7 7 (2.31%) SSH
7 7 (2.31%) SSL
7 7 (2.31%) Wireless
8 6 (1.98%) BGP
8 6 (1.98%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (1.65%) DHCP
10 4 (1.32%) IMAP
10 4 (1.32%) MPLS
10 4 (1.32%) Network Security
10 4 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.99%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.56%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.25%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.63%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (3.30%) InfluxDB
6 9 (2.97%) MySQL
6 9 (2.97%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.97%) Redis
7 7 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.98%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.99%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.66%) Big Data
10 2 (0.66%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.66%) Metadata
10 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 99 (32.67%) Jenkins
2 78 (25.74%) GitLab
3 53 (17.49%) Git
4 39 (12.87%) JIRA
5 24 (7.92%) TeamCity
6 21 (6.93%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.62%) Bitbucket
8 13 (4.29%) Selenium
9 11 (3.63%) JMeter
9 11 (3.63%) JUnit
10 10 (3.30%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.64%) Locust
12 7 (2.31%) CircleCI
12 7 (2.31%) Cypress.io
12 7 (2.31%) Vagrant
13 6 (1.98%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.98%) Robot Framework
13 6 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.98%) TestRail
14 5 (1.65%) MLflow
General
1 92 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 80 (26.40%) Finance
3 25 (8.25%) Banking
4 21 (6.93%) Law
5 20 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (5.94%) Retail
7 17 (5.61%) Back Office
7 17 (5.61%) Telecoms
8 16 (5.28%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.95%) Financial Institution
10 13 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.64%) Advertising
12 4 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.99%) Games
13 3 (0.99%) Legal
14 2 (0.66%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.66%) Front Office
15 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (25.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 68 (22.44%) Senior
3 37 (12.21%) Lead
4 32 (10.56%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (9.24%) Software Engineer
6 27 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (6.27%) Developer
9 18 (5.94%) Lead DevOps
10 17 (5.61%) Development Engineer
10 17 (5.61%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (5.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (5.28%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.95%) Applications Support
13 14 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (3.63%) Analyst
15 11 (3.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.63%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (19.80%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (10.56%) .NET
3 16 (5.28%) Kafka
3 16 (5.28%) Spring
4 15 (4.95%) React
4 15 (4.95%) Spring Boot
5 14 (4.62%) ADO
6 12 (3.96%) Node.js
6 12 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (3.63%) AWS CDK
7 11 (3.63%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (3.30%) Django
8 10 (3.30%) Gherkin
8 10 (3.30%) Loki
9 9 (2.97%) Flask
9 9 (2.97%) pytest
10 7 (2.31%) JWT
10 7 (2.31%) OAuth
10 7 (2.31%) REST
11 6 (1.98%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.90%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.98%) Replication
9 5 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.65%) IoT
9 5 (1.65%) PKI
10 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.66%) Blog
12 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.66%) MPEG
12 2 (0.66%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.66%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 116 (38.28%) Linux
2 59 (19.47%) Windows
3 17 (5.61%) Unix
4 12 (3.96%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.30%) VMS
6 8 (2.64%) CentOS
7 7 (2.31%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.65%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.99%) Debian
10 3 (0.99%) SUSE
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (78.22%) CI/CD
2 209 (68.98%) DevOps
3 151 (49.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 140 (46.20%) Observability
5 121 (39.93%) Containerisation
6 84 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (27.06%) Agile
8 78 (25.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 69 (22.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (21.12%) Platform Engineering
10 64 (21.12%) Test Automation
11 51 (16.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 48 (15.84%) Incident Response
13 46 (15.18%) Software Engineering
14 44 (14.52%) Microservices
15 40 (13.20%) Deployment Automation
16 36 (11.88%) Cloud Security
16 36 (11.88%) High Availability
16 36 (11.88%) Mentoring
17 31 (10.23%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 173 (57.10%) Python
2 82 (27.06%) Bash
3 69 (22.77%) Java
4 48 (15.84%) PowerShell
5 44 (14.52%) SQL
6 40 (13.20%) JavaScript
7 31 (10.23%) Go
8 25 (8.25%) C#
9 17 (5.61%) Bicep
9 17 (5.61%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.97%) Groovy
11 8 (2.64%) C++
11 8 (2.64%) Delphi
12 5 (1.65%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.65%) Perl
12 5 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.32%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (1.32%) Ruby
14 3 (0.99%) PHP
15 2 (0.66%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 74 (24.42%) Security Cleared
2 49 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 46 (15.18%) Degree
4 28 (9.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (8.58%) AWS Certification
6 24 (7.92%) DV Cleared
7 17 (5.61%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.32%) MCP
11 3 (0.99%) CCNA
11 3 (0.99%) CCNP
11 3 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.19%) QA
2 7 (2.31%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.31%) WCAG
3 6 (1.98%) GDPR
4 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 162 (53.47%) Docker
2 11 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.32%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.32%) Dovecot
4 4 (1.32%) KVM
4 4 (1.32%) Postfix
4 4 (1.32%) Squid
5 2 (0.66%) iptables
5 2 (0.66%) NFS
5 2 (0.66%) RACF
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) pfSense
6 1 (0.33%) vCloud
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 208 (68.65%) Terraform
2 207 (68.32%) Kubernetes
3 184 (60.73%) Prometheus
4 102 (33.66%) Ansible
5 21 (6.93%) Argo
6 14 (4.62%) Kibana
7 11 (3.63%) Control-M
7 11 (3.63%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (2.31%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.98%) Nessus
10 5 (1.65%) logstash
11 4 (1.32%) Istio
11 4 (1.32%) linkerd
11 4 (1.32%) Mesos
11 4 (1.32%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.32%) Puppet
12 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.99%) Rancher
12 3 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (15.51%) Splunk
2 20 (6.60%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.28%) Oracle
3 16 (5.28%) VMware
4 15 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.29%) Google
5 13 (4.29%) SolarWinds
6 10 (3.30%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.97%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.64%) Cisco
8 8 (2.64%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.64%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.65%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.32%) Databricks
10 4 (1.32%) F5
10 4 (1.32%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.32%) Sonatype
11 3 (0.99%) Arista
11 3 (0.99%) New Relic
11 3 (0.99%) Zscaler