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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 451 519
Rank change year-on-year +104 +68 -14
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 362 258 275
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.52% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.33% 4.48% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 218 152 185
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,771 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,750 £104,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +13.20%

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 4,344 5,753 8,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.51% 11.56% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,006 3,541 7,016
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,875 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -2.65%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +83 286 £72,500 +3.57% 139
Work from Home +119 170 £70,000 - 81
UK excluding London +12 153 £62,500 -3.85% 100
London +95 150 £82,500 -2.94% 68
North of England -8 57 £60,000 -19.86% 29
South West -7 28 £56,250 -13.46% 12
South East +24 24 £65,000 -5.45% 29
North West +12 24 £63,750 -15.00% 15
Scotland -3 20 £72,289 -9.64% 11
North East -23 20 £51,500 -10.43% 2
Yorkshire -22 13 £67,500 -9.84% 12
Midlands -2 12 £62,500 -3.85% 15
West Midlands +7 8 £55,200 -15.08% 14
East of England +13 7 £85,000 +70.00% 1
East Midlands -15 4 £69,500 +68.48% 2
Wales -10 3 £62,639 -3.63% 3
Northern Ireland -19 2 - -

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 (5.25%) Apache
2 12 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.49%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.66%) nginx
5 5 (1.38%) Confluence
6 3 (0.83%) IIS
7 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.28%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.28%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.10%) Weka
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.28%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 260 (71.82%) AWS
2 171 (47.24%) Azure
3 143 (39.50%) GCP
4 100 (27.62%) GitHub
5 97 (26.80%) Amazon EKS
6 84 (23.20%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (21.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 59 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (15.19%) Datadog
10 52 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (12.98%) Serverless
12 44 (12.15%) SaaS
13 28 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (7.18%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (6.63%) OpenShift
16 22 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (6.08%) Amazon S3
16 22 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (5.52%) Azure AKS
17 20 (5.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.67%) Firewall
2 23 (6.35%) DNS
3 18 (4.97%) HTTP
4 15 (4.14%) VPN
5 14 (3.87%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.21%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.93%) SSL
7 7 (1.93%) WAN
7 7 (1.93%) Wireless
8 6 (1.66%) BGP
9 5 (1.38%) DHCP
9 5 (1.38%) LAN
9 5 (1.38%) Network Security
10 4 (1.10%) MPLS
10 4 (1.10%) MQTT
11 3 (0.83%) SAN
11 3 (0.83%) VLAN
12 2 (0.55%) OSPF
12 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.46%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.59%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.59%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.31%) MySQL
6 10 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (2.49%) InfluxDB
8 8 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.21%) Redis
9 6 (1.66%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.83%) Big Data
11 2 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.55%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.55%) Metadata
11 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.55%) PostHog
11 2 (0.55%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 106 (29.28%) Jenkins
2 83 (22.93%) GitLab
3 53 (14.64%) TeamCity
4 52 (14.36%) Git
5 27 (7.46%) JIRA
6 25 (6.91%) Cucumber
7 17 (4.70%) Bitbucket
8 15 (4.14%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.87%) CircleCI
9 14 (3.87%) Selenium
10 12 (3.31%) JMeter
11 10 (2.76%) JUnit
12 8 (2.21%) Locust
12 8 (2.21%) Robot Framework
12 8 (2.21%) TestRail
13 7 (1.93%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.66%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.66%) MLflow
15 5 (1.38%) Maven
16 4 (1.10%) Gradle
General
1 117 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 112 (30.94%) Finance
3 58 (16.02%) Law
4 55 (15.19%) Banking
5 52 (14.36%) Retail
6 50 (13.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (9.12%) Back Office
8 31 (8.56%) Financial Institution
9 26 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
10 25 (6.91%) Telecoms
11 12 (3.31%) Public Sector
12 8 (2.21%) Advertising
13 5 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.83%) Legal
16 2 (0.55%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.28%) Aviation
17 1 (0.28%) Health Technology
17 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (24.31%) Senior
2 76 (20.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 53 (14.64%) Software Engineer
4 39 (10.77%) Lead
5 36 (9.94%) Platform Engineer
6 34 (9.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (6.91%) Developer
8 22 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (5.52%) Java Engineer
9 20 (5.52%) Senior DevOps
10 19 (5.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (4.70%) Applications Support
11 17 (4.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.70%) Development Engineer
12 16 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
13 15 (4.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (3.87%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 14 (3.87%) Software Developer
15 13 (3.59%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (20.44%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (8.56%) .NET
3 27 (7.46%) Kafka
4 20 (5.52%) Spring
5 19 (5.25%) React
5 19 (5.25%) Spring Boot
6 16 (4.42%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (3.87%) ADO
8 11 (3.04%) AWS CDK
8 11 (3.04%) Node.js
9 10 (2.76%) Django
9 10 (2.76%) Gherkin
9 10 (2.76%) Loki
9 10 (2.76%) pytest
9 10 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (2.76%) REST
10 9 (2.49%) Flask
10 9 (2.49%) OAuth
11 8 (2.21%) JWT
11 8 (2.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 96 (26.52%) Cloud Native
2 41 (11.33%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.97%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.87%) Blog
6 13 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.76%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.93%) PKI
9 7 (1.93%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.38%) IoT
11 3 (0.83%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.55%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.55%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.55%) Replication
12 2 (0.55%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 126 (34.81%) Linux
2 65 (17.96%) Windows
3 16 (4.42%) Unix
4 13 (3.59%) CentOS
5 10 (2.76%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.93%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.38%) VMS
9 3 (0.83%) SUSE
10 2 (0.55%) Debian
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (79.28%) CI/CD
2 230 (63.54%) DevOps
3 186 (51.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (43.37%) Observability
5 154 (42.54%) Containerisation
6 109 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (29.28%) Test Automation
8 102 (28.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 96 (26.52%) Agile
10 87 (24.03%) Software Engineering
11 82 (22.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 76 (20.99%) Deployment Automation
13 72 (19.89%) Microservices
14 70 (19.34%) Platform Engineering
15 52 (14.36%) Clean Code
16 51 (14.09%) High Availability
16 51 (14.09%) Mentoring
17 50 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 47 (12.98%) Incident Response
19 45 (12.43%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 199 (54.97%) Python
2 108 (29.83%) Bash
3 103 (28.45%) Java
4 50 (13.81%) JavaScript
5 49 (13.54%) PowerShell
6 43 (11.88%) Go
6 43 (11.88%) SQL
7 26 (7.18%) C#
8 23 (6.35%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.70%) Bicep
10 11 (3.04%) C++
11 10 (2.76%) Rust
12 8 (2.21%) Delphi
12 8 (2.21%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.66%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.83%) Elixir
15 3 (0.83%) Erlang
16 2 (0.55%) Ruby
16 2 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (22.93%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.81%) Degree
3 44 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 32 (8.84%) AWS Certification
5 30 (8.29%) DV Cleared
6 29 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.87%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.98%) QA
2 11 (3.04%) GDPR
3 8 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.93%) WCAG
5 6 (1.66%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.38%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 173 (47.79%) Docker
2 11 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.66%) KVM
5 4 (1.10%) iptables
5 4 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.55%) NFS
7 2 (0.55%) vSphere
8 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.28%) pfSense
8 1 (0.28%) RACF
8 1 (0.28%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 272 (75.14%) Terraform
2 260 (71.82%) Kubernetes
3 198 (54.70%) Prometheus
4 129 (35.64%) Ansible
5 22 (6.08%) Argo
6 20 (5.52%) Kibana
7 12 (3.31%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (3.31%) Puppet
8 9 (2.49%) Control-M
8 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.49%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.21%) Istio
9 8 (2.21%) linkerd
9 8 (2.21%) logstash
9 8 (2.21%) Mesos
10 6 (1.66%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.38%) Nagios
11 5 (1.38%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 45 (12.43%) Splunk
2 28 (7.73%) VMware
3 21 (5.80%) Microsoft
4 16 (4.42%) Dynatrace
4 16 (4.42%) Oracle
5 13 (3.59%) Google
5 13 (3.59%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.04%) SolarWinds
7 8 (2.21%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.66%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.38%) Databricks
10 4 (1.10%) Cisco
10 4 (1.10%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.10%) F5
10 4 (1.10%) New Relic
11 3 (0.83%) Okta
11 3 (0.83%) OneLogin
11 3 (0.83%) Zscaler