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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 386 534
Rank change year-on-year -10 +148 -53
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 396 325 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.72% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.87% 6.04% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 232 209 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,563 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £113,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +6.06%

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 5,034 5,381 9,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.35% 11.99% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,653 3,147 6,932
10th Percentile £34,000 £33,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,250 £44,250
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 £87,500 £83,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 20 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 20 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 -22 353 £72,500 - 85
UK excluding London -28 184 £62,500 -10.71% 74
London -3 169 £82,500 +3.13% 35
Work from Home +79 162 £70,000 - 53
South West -14 53 £65,000 - 5
South East -7 50 £62,500 -19.35% 22
North of England -16 48 £55,000 -15.38% 19
North West +4 24 £67,500 +12.50% 16
North East -35 18 £47,500 -19.15% 1
Midlands -62 18 £64,000 -5.19% 7
West Midlands -57 12 £56,250 -22.41% 2
East Midlands -29 6 £64,500 +12.17% 5
Yorkshire -44 6 £66,250 -11.51% 2
East of England -9 5 £85,000 +47.83% 6
Wales -48 5 £70,000 +21.74%
Scotland -14 3 £62,500 -34.21% 7
Northern Ireland -31 2 - - 10

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 19 (4.80%) Apache
2 12 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.02%) Confluence
4 6 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.01%) IIS
6 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.51%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.01%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 271 (68.43%) AWS
2 157 (39.65%) Azure
3 150 (37.88%) GCP
4 80 (20.20%) Amazon EKS
5 67 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (16.92%) GitHub
6 63 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
7 61 (15.40%) Datadog
8 59 (14.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 55 (13.89%) Serverless
10 50 (12.63%) SaaS
11 42 (10.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (9.34%) Amazon S3
13 34 (8.59%) OpenShift
14 32 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
18 18 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (14.90%) Firewall
2 28 (7.07%) DNS
3 23 (5.81%) TCP/IP
4 22 (5.56%) HTTP
5 19 (4.80%) VLAN
6 16 (4.04%) VPN
7 11 (2.78%) WAN
8 10 (2.53%) LAN
8 10 (2.53%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.53%) WebEx
9 9 (2.27%) Broadband
9 9 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.27%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (2.02%) BGP
11 7 (1.77%) MQTT
11 7 (1.77%) Network Security
11 7 (1.77%) OSPF
12 6 (1.52%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.52%) SNMP
13 5 (1.26%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (4.55%) MySQL
5 16 (4.04%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.54%) InfluxDB
7 13 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (3.28%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.77%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.01%) Big Data
11 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.76%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.51%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.51%) Looker
13 2 (0.51%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 90 (22.73%) GitLab
2 86 (21.72%) Jenkins
3 62 (15.66%) TeamCity
4 55 (13.89%) Git
5 28 (7.07%) SonarQube
6 24 (6.06%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.30%) JMeter
8 14 (3.54%) CircleCI
8 14 (3.54%) JIRA
9 12 (3.03%) Bitbucket
9 12 (3.03%) Cypress.io
9 12 (3.03%) Selenium
10 11 (2.78%) LoadRunner
11 10 (2.53%) Gatling
12 8 (2.02%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.77%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.77%) TestRail
14 6 (1.52%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.26%) Burp Suite
15 5 (1.26%) Locust
General
1 115 (29.04%) Finance
2 81 (20.45%) Banking
3 80 (20.20%) Law
4 78 (19.70%) Social Skills
5 73 (18.43%) Retail
6 68 (17.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (10.10%) Financial Institution
8 37 (9.34%) Back Office
9 36 (9.09%) Public Sector
10 35 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
11 30 (7.58%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.27%) Marketing
13 8 (2.02%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.76%) Legal
16 2 (0.51%) Advertising
16 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
17 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
17 1 (0.25%) Aviation
17 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 86 (21.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 78 (19.70%) Senior
3 61 (15.40%) Software Engineer
4 42 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.60%) Platform Engineer
6 34 (8.59%) Lead
7 30 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (6.06%) Developer
10 23 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 22 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
12 21 (5.30%) Site Engineer
13 20 (5.05%) Java Engineer
13 20 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (4.80%) Administrator
15 18 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
15 18 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
16 17 (4.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 17 (4.29%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.16%) Elastic Stack
2 43 (10.86%) Kafka
3 26 (6.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 21 (5.30%) Loki
5 20 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
6 18 (4.55%) Node.js
6 18 (4.55%) REST
7 17 (4.29%) React
8 16 (4.04%) .NET
9 14 (3.54%) Spring
10 13 (3.28%) Apache NiFi
10 13 (3.28%) OAuth
10 13 (3.28%) Spring Boot
11 12 (3.03%) gRPC
11 12 (3.03%) YAML
12 11 (2.78%) Playwright
13 10 (2.53%) AngularJS
13 10 (2.53%) Vue
13 10 (2.53%) XMPP
14 8 (2.02%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (30.56%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.84%) Product Ownership
3 29 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (4.80%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.04%) Blog
7 13 (3.28%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.78%) Replication
9 10 (2.53%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.52%) PKI
11 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.26%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.01%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 114 (28.79%) Linux
2 54 (13.64%) Windows
3 19 (4.80%) CentOS
4 14 (3.54%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.77%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.77%) VMS
7 6 (1.52%) Unix
8 4 (1.01%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.76%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 230 (58.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 223 (56.31%) DevOps
4 170 (42.93%) Observability
5 165 (41.67%) Containerisation
6 134 (33.84%) Test Automation
7 123 (31.06%) Agile
7 123 (31.06%) Software Engineering
8 107 (27.02%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (26.26%) Deployment Automation
10 102 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (22.73%) Microservices
12 80 (20.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 74 (18.69%) Platform Engineering
14 70 (17.68%) Mentoring
15 59 (14.90%) Continuous Deployment
16 57 (14.39%) Clean Code
17 56 (14.14%) AI
17 56 (14.14%) DevSecOps
18 54 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 246 (62.12%) Python
2 162 (40.91%) Bash
3 120 (30.30%) Java
4 71 (17.93%) PowerShell
5 51 (12.88%) SQL
6 44 (11.11%) Go
6 44 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 36 (9.09%) C#
8 27 (6.82%) Rust
9 19 (4.80%) TypeScript
10 16 (4.04%) C++
11 10 (2.53%) Bicep
12 8 (2.02%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.52%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (1.26%) VBA
15 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.76%) Elixir
16 3 (0.76%) Erlang
16 3 (0.76%) Ruby
17 2 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 89 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.10%) Degree
3 36 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.58%) DV Cleared
5 28 (7.07%) AWS Certification
6 20 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.51%) CISSP
13 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.60%) QA
2 12 (3.03%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.78%) GDPR
4 10 (2.53%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.27%) SLA
6 8 (2.02%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.52%) WCAG
8 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.51%) GRC
10 2 (0.51%) SEPA
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 177 (44.70%) Docker
2 24 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.78%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.53%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (2.53%) vSphere
5 8 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.77%) iptables
7 6 (1.52%) KVM
7 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.26%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.01%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 290 (73.23%) Terraform
2 258 (65.15%) Kubernetes
3 221 (55.81%) Prometheus
4 154 (38.89%) Ansible
5 30 (7.58%) Kibana
6 25 (6.31%) Argo
7 22 (5.56%) Puppet
8 16 (4.04%) Nagios
9 15 (3.79%) Istio
10 14 (3.54%) logstash
11 10 (2.53%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.53%) Progress Chef
11 10 (2.53%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.27%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (2.02%) linkerd
13 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (2.02%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.77%) Kustomize
15 5 (1.26%) Mesos
15 5 (1.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (12.63%) Splunk
2 43 (10.86%) Microsoft
3 41 (10.35%) VMware
4 29 (7.32%) Red Hat
5 26 (6.57%) Dynatrace
6 18 (4.55%) Google
7 11 (2.78%) Cisco
8 10 (2.53%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.53%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.27%) AppDynamics
9 9 (2.27%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.02%) Oracle
10 8 (2.02%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.77%) NetApp
11 7 (1.77%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.26%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.26%) Tenable
13 4 (1.01%) Cribl.io
13 4 (1.01%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.01%) Veracode