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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 379 522
Rank change year-on-year -28 +143 -47
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 406 340 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.71% 0.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.63% 6.12% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 234 222 203
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,800
25th Percentile £55,725 £61,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,039 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £87,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £112,375 £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 5,321 5,559 9,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.50% 11.67% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,891 3,292 6,769
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,125 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -7 355 £70,079 -3.34% 187
UK excluding London -51 188 £62,500 -10.71% 119
London -13 171 £82,500 - 90
Work from Home +73 168 £67,500 -3.57% 98
South East -13 53 £62,500 -16.67% 34
South West -20 53 £75,000 +15.38% 20
North of England -24 47 £57,500 -11.54% 34
North West -12 25 £68,750 +14.58% 25
Midlands -66 19 £64,000 -11.72% 13
North East -30 18 £47,500 -20.83% 3
West Midlands -68 13 £62,500 -13.79% 9
Wales -46 7 £70,000 +21.74% 2
East Midlands -16 6 £64,500 +12.17% 4
Scotland -10 4 £62,500 -34.21% 8
Yorkshire -35 4 £48,750 -34.89% 6
East of England -17 3 £80,150 +39.39% 6
Northern Ireland -48 2 - - 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 20 (4.93%) Apache
2 10 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.48%) Confluence
3 6 (1.48%) IIS
4 4 (0.99%) nginx
5 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.99%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 279 (68.72%) AWS
2 162 (39.90%) Azure
3 158 (38.92%) GCP
4 80 (19.70%) Amazon EKS
5 70 (17.24%) GitHub
6 68 (16.75%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (16.75%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (15.27%) Datadog
8 56 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 53 (13.05%) SaaS
10 52 (12.81%) Serverless
11 49 (12.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (9.11%) Amazon S3
12 37 (9.11%) OpenShift
13 32 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (5.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 23 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 60 (14.78%) Firewall
2 24 (5.91%) DNS
2 24 (5.91%) TCP/IP
3 20 (4.93%) HTTP
4 19 (4.68%) VLAN
5 16 (3.94%) VPN
6 11 (2.71%) WAN
7 10 (2.46%) LAN
7 10 (2.46%) Unified Communications
7 10 (2.46%) WebEx
8 9 (2.22%) Broadband
8 9 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (2.22%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (1.97%) BGP
10 7 (1.72%) MQTT
10 7 (1.72%) Network Security
10 7 (1.72%) OSPF
11 6 (1.48%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.48%) SNMP
12 5 (1.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (5.91%) MySQL
4 20 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (4.43%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.69%) InfluxDB
7 13 (3.20%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.96%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.22%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.99%) Big Data
11 4 (0.99%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.49%) Looker
12 2 (0.49%) SQLPlus
13 1 (0.25%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 92 (22.66%) GitLab
2 90 (22.17%) Jenkins
3 66 (16.26%) TeamCity
4 64 (15.76%) Git
5 27 (6.65%) SonarQube
6 25 (6.16%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.17%) JMeter
8 14 (3.45%) CircleCI
9 13 (3.20%) Bitbucket
10 12 (2.96%) JIRA
11 11 (2.71%) Cypress.io
11 11 (2.71%) Selenium
12 10 (2.46%) Gatling
12 10 (2.46%) LoadRunner
12 10 (2.46%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (1.97%) Robot Framework
13 8 (1.97%) TestRail
14 6 (1.48%) Burp Suite
14 6 (1.48%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.23%) Locust
General
1 122 (30.05%) Finance
2 88 (21.67%) Banking
3 84 (20.69%) Law
4 77 (18.97%) Retail
4 77 (18.97%) Social Skills
5 72 (17.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (10.59%) Financial Institution
7 40 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (9.85%) Back Office
8 38 (9.36%) Public Sector
9 30 (7.39%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.22%) Marketing
11 8 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Legal
14 2 (0.49%) Advertising
14 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.25%) Aviation
15 1 (0.25%) Billing
15 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 88 (21.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (19.46%) Senior
3 66 (16.26%) Software Engineer
4 42 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.36%) Platform Engineer
6 35 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 32 (7.88%) Lead
8 28 (6.90%) Developer
9 26 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 20 (4.93%) Administrator
11 20 (4.93%) Java Engineer
11 20 (4.93%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (4.68%) Site Engineer
12 19 (4.68%) Systems Administrator
13 18 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (4.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (4.43%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (16.75%) Elastic Stack
2 45 (11.08%) Kafka
3 29 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
4 23 (5.67%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (5.42%) Loki
6 19 (4.68%) Node.js
6 19 (4.68%) REST
7 17 (4.19%) React
8 16 (3.94%) .NET
9 14 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
9 14 (3.45%) Spring
9 14 (3.45%) YAML
10 13 (3.20%) Spring Boot
11 12 (2.96%) gRPC
11 12 (2.96%) OAuth
11 12 (2.96%) Playwright
12 11 (2.71%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.71%) Vue
13 10 (2.46%) ARM Templates
13 10 (2.46%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 125 (30.79%) Cloud Native
2 42 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 33 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (4.93%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.19%) Blog
7 12 (2.96%) Replication
8 11 (2.71%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.46%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.72%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.48%) PKI
14 5 (1.23%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
15 4 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
16 3 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
16 3 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 121 (29.80%) Linux
2 50 (12.32%) Windows
3 21 (5.17%) CentOS
4 12 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.46%) Unix
6 8 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.72%) VMS
8 4 (0.99%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.74%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (74.38%) CI/CD
2 236 (58.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 227 (55.91%) DevOps
4 171 (42.12%) Containerisation
5 170 (41.87%) Observability
6 141 (34.73%) Test Automation
7 131 (32.27%) Software Engineering
8 124 (30.54%) Agile
9 116 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 110 (27.09%) Deployment Automation
11 107 (26.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (23.65%) Microservices
13 79 (19.46%) Mentoring
13 79 (19.46%) Platform Engineering
14 78 (19.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 65 (16.01%) Continuous Deployment
16 61 (15.02%) Clean Code
17 56 (13.79%) AI
18 54 (13.30%) DevSecOps
19 52 (12.81%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 256 (63.05%) Python
2 169 (41.63%) Bash
3 128 (31.53%) Java
4 76 (18.72%) PowerShell
5 52 (12.81%) SQL
6 48 (11.82%) JavaScript
7 46 (11.33%) Go
8 36 (8.87%) C#
9 29 (7.14%) Rust
10 21 (5.17%) TypeScript
11 19 (4.68%) C++
12 10 (2.46%) Bicep
13 7 (1.72%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.48%) Google Apps Script
14 6 (1.48%) VBA
15 5 (1.23%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.74%) Ruby
17 2 (0.49%) VB
18 1 (0.25%) JCL
18 1 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 94 (23.15%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.61%) Degree
3 35 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.40%) AWS Certification
6 21 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.96%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.49%) CISSP
12 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.49%) ISEB
12 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.33%) QA
2 12 (2.96%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.71%) GDPR
4 10 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.46%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.22%) SLA
6 8 (1.97%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.48%) WCAG
8 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.49%) GRC
10 2 (0.49%) SEPA
11 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 184 (45.32%) Docker
2 25 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.71%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (2.46%) vSphere
5 9 (2.22%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.72%) iptables
7 6 (1.48%) KVM
7 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.23%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.99%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 298 (73.40%) Terraform
2 265 (65.27%) Kubernetes
3 223 (54.93%) Prometheus
4 160 (39.41%) Ansible
5 28 (6.90%) Kibana
6 27 (6.65%) Argo
7 24 (5.91%) Puppet
8 17 (4.19%) Nagios
9 16 (3.94%) logstash
10 15 (3.69%) Istio
11 10 (2.46%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.46%) Progress Chef
11 10 (2.46%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.97%) linkerd
13 8 (1.97%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.72%) Kustomize
15 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (1.48%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.23%) Mesos
Vendors
1 51 (12.56%) Splunk
2 45 (11.08%) Microsoft
3 40 (9.85%) VMware
4 31 (7.64%) Red Hat
5 25 (6.16%) Dynatrace
6 16 (3.94%) Google
7 11 (2.71%) Cisco
8 10 (2.46%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.46%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.46%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.22%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.97%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.97%) Oracle
11 7 (1.72%) NetApp
12 6 (1.48%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.23%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.23%) Tenable
14 4 (0.99%) Cribl.io
14 4 (0.99%) New Relic
14 4 (0.99%) PagerDuty