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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 451 522
Rank change year-on-year +101 +71 -24
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 376 239 299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.52% 0.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.62% 4.41% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 227 146 183
10th Percentile £44,000 £44,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £57,500 £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 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -3.85% -8.77% +17.77%

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 4,364 5,420 8,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.22% 11.70% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,009 3,464 7,050
10th Percentile £32,095 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,375 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -2.96%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +85 305 £70,079 +0.11% 207
Work from Home +98 174 £72,500 +7.41% 162
UK excluding London +8 163 £62,500 -3.85% 162
London +100 157 £82,500 -8.33% 66
North of England -27 59 £60,000 -19.86% 39
South West -5 31 £55,000 -15.38% 24
South East -1 29 £62,500 -7.41% 43
North West +2 23 £62,500 -16.67% 16
North East -23 23 £51,500 -15.92% 7
Scotland -7 17 £72,289 -23.91% 7
Midlands -16 13 £63,250 -2.69% 20
Yorkshire -30 13 £67,500 -9.84% 16
West Midlands -5 9 £58,850 -9.46% 15
East of England +4 7 £85,000 +70.00% 18
Wales -17 5 £70,079 +7.81% 9
East Midlands -29 4 £69,500 +68.48% 5
Northern Ireland -25 2 - - 5

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 (5.05%) Apache
2 14 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.93%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.60%) nginx
5 5 (1.33%) Confluence
6 3 (0.80%) IIS
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.27%) CICS
8 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.27%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.06%) Weka
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.27%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 273 (72.61%) AWS
2 174 (46.28%) Azure
3 154 (40.96%) GCP
4 100 (26.60%) GitHub
5 98 (26.06%) Amazon EKS
6 84 (22.34%) GitHub Actions
7 74 (19.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 60 (15.96%) Datadog
9 56 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 54 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (12.77%) SaaS
11 48 (12.77%) Serverless
12 28 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (7.18%) OpenShift
14 25 (6.65%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (5.85%) Amazon S3
16 19 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (5.05%) dbt
16 19 (5.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.44%) Firewall
2 27 (7.18%) DNS
3 24 (6.38%) HTTP
4 18 (4.79%) TCP/IP
5 16 (4.26%) VPN
6 10 (2.66%) WAN
7 8 (2.13%) LAN
7 8 (2.13%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (1.86%) SSL
8 7 (1.86%) Wireless
9 6 (1.60%) BGP
9 6 (1.60%) MQTT
9 6 (1.60%) VLAN
10 5 (1.33%) DHCP
10 5 (1.33%) Network Security
11 4 (1.06%) MPLS
12 3 (0.80%) SAN
12 3 (0.80%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.80%) WebEx
13 2 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.18%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (3.99%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.72%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.19%) MySQL
7 10 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.39%) InfluxDB
9 8 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.13%) Redis
10 6 (1.60%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.80%) Big Data
12 2 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.53%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.53%) Looker
12 2 (0.53%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 105 (27.93%) Jenkins
2 86 (22.87%) GitLab
3 56 (14.89%) Git
3 56 (14.89%) TeamCity
4 28 (7.45%) Cucumber
5 27 (7.18%) JIRA
6 18 (4.79%) JMeter
7 17 (4.52%) Bitbucket
8 15 (3.99%) CircleCI
8 15 (3.99%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.72%) Selenium
10 11 (2.93%) Locust
11 10 (2.66%) JUnit
12 8 (2.13%) Robot Framework
12 8 (2.13%) TestRail
13 7 (1.86%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.60%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.60%) MLflow
15 5 (1.33%) Maven
16 4 (1.06%) LoadRunner
General
1 117 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 114 (30.32%) Finance
3 66 (17.55%) Law
4 61 (16.22%) Banking
5 60 (15.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (15.69%) Retail
7 35 (9.31%) Back Office
8 33 (8.78%) Financial Institution
9 32 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
10 31 (8.24%) Telecoms
11 16 (4.26%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.86%) Advertising
13 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.80%) Legal
16 2 (0.53%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.53%) Marketing
17 1 (0.27%) Aviation
17 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (24.73%) Senior
2 81 (21.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (14.63%) Software Engineer
4 43 (11.44%) Lead
5 34 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
6 31 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (6.91%) Developer
8 23 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (5.85%) Java Engineer
9 22 (5.85%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (4.52%) Applications Support
10 17 (4.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (4.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 16 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
11 16 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.99%) Software Developer
13 14 (3.72%) Development Engineer
14 13 (3.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (20.74%) Elastic Stack
2 33 (8.78%) Kafka
3 28 (7.45%) .NET
4 22 (5.85%) Spring
5 21 (5.59%) Spring Boot
6 20 (5.32%) React
7 16 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
8 13 (3.46%) Gherkin
9 12 (3.19%) OAuth
9 12 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (2.93%) ADO
10 11 (2.93%) AWS CDK
10 11 (2.93%) Loki
11 10 (2.66%) Node.js
11 10 (2.66%) pytest
12 9 (2.39%) Django
12 9 (2.39%) Flask
12 9 (2.39%) REST
13 8 (2.13%) JWT
13 8 (2.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 101 (26.86%) Cloud Native
2 41 (10.90%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.99%) Blog
6 13 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.66%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.13%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.86%) PKI
10 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.33%) IoT
10 5 (1.33%) Replication
11 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.80%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.80%) FlexPod
12 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
13 2 (0.53%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 126 (33.51%) Linux
2 64 (17.02%) Windows
3 16 (4.26%) Unix
4 13 (3.46%) CentOS
5 9 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.39%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.39%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.33%) VMS
7 3 (0.80%) SUSE
8 1 (0.27%) Debian
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (78.99%) CI/CD
2 235 (62.50%) DevOps
3 197 (52.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 165 (43.88%) Containerisation
5 163 (43.35%) Observability
6 114 (30.32%) Test Automation
7 108 (28.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 108 (28.72%) Problem-Solving
8 102 (27.13%) Agile
9 92 (24.47%) Software Engineering
10 84 (22.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 83 (22.07%) Deployment Automation
12 79 (21.01%) Microservices
13 67 (17.82%) Platform Engineering
14 56 (14.89%) High Availability
15 55 (14.63%) Clean Code
16 54 (14.36%) Mentoring
17 52 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 49 (13.03%) Continuous Deployment
19 47 (12.50%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 206 (54.79%) Python
2 114 (30.32%) Bash
3 111 (29.52%) Java
4 49 (13.03%) PowerShell
5 48 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 47 (12.50%) Go
7 44 (11.70%) SQL
8 27 (7.18%) C#
9 25 (6.65%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.46%) Bicep
10 13 (3.46%) Rust
11 11 (2.93%) C++
12 8 (2.13%) Delphi
12 8 (2.13%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.60%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (1.33%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.80%) Elixir
15 3 (0.80%) Erlang
16 2 (0.53%) Perl
16 2 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 52 (13.83%) Degree
3 42 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.98%) AWS Certification
4 30 (7.98%) DV Cleared
5 29 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.27%) HNC
12 1 (0.27%) HND
12 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (13.03%) QA
2 11 (2.93%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.93%) GDPR
3 10 (2.66%) WCAG
4 8 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.60%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.53%) GRC
8 2 (0.53%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 177 (47.07%) Docker
2 14 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.66%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.60%) KVM
5 5 (1.33%) vSphere
6 4 (1.06%) iptables
6 4 (1.06%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.53%) NFS
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.27%) pfSense
9 1 (0.27%) RACF
9 1 (0.27%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 283 (75.27%) Terraform
2 265 (70.48%) Kubernetes
3 205 (54.52%) Prometheus
4 134 (35.64%) Ansible
5 22 (5.85%) Argo
5 22 (5.85%) Kibana
6 13 (3.46%) Docker Swarm
7 11 (2.93%) Puppet
8 9 (2.39%) Control-M
8 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.13%) Istio
9 8 (2.13%) linkerd
9 8 (2.13%) logstash
9 8 (2.13%) Mesos
9 8 (2.13%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.60%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.60%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.33%) Nagios
12 3 (0.80%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.80%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (12.23%) Splunk
2 32 (8.51%) VMware
3 23 (6.12%) Microsoft
4 21 (5.59%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.26%) Oracle
5 16 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.99%) Google
7 11 (2.93%) SolarWinds
8 9 (2.39%) AppDynamics
8 9 (2.39%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.86%) Cisco
11 5 (1.33%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.33%) Databricks
12 4 (1.06%) Cribl.io
12 4 (1.06%) F5
12 4 (1.06%) New Relic
12 4 (1.06%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.06%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.80%) Rapid7