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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 385 430
Rank change year-on-year -38 +45 +1
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 418 336 436
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.67% 0.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.31% 6.64% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 233 221 212
10th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £101,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +3.85%

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 5,029 5,057 6,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.64% 10.10% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,600 2,965 4,332
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.73% -7.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £51,058 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.66% -7.17% -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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -46 349 £70,000 -3.45% 105
UK excluding London -74 191 £65,000 -10.34% 81
London -12 174 £81,250 -1.52% 45
Work from Home +53 168 £65,000 -7.14% 60
South East -6 60 £62,500 -19.35% 25
South West -27 46 £70,000 -24.32% 8
North of England -34 42 £70,000 +5.66% 26
North West -12 28 £71,250 +18.75% 14
Midlands -81 18 £63,250 -12.76% 6
North East -44 13 £52,500 -12.50% 5
West Midlands -61 13 £62,500 -13.79% 3
Scotland -7 12 £62,500 -34.21% 7
Wales -54 10 £70,000 +27.27% 4
East Midlands -22 5 £64,000 +14.80% 3
East of England -28 2 £82,500 +22.22% 5
Yorkshire -36 1 £82,500 +3.13% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 16 (3.83%) Apache
2 10 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.91%) Confluence
4 6 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.44%) IIS
5 5 (1.20%) nginx
6 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 282 (67.46%) AWS
2 163 (39.00%) GCP
3 156 (37.32%) Azure
4 84 (20.10%) Datadog
5 66 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
6 64 (15.31%) SaaS
7 63 (15.07%) GitHub
8 59 (14.11%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (12.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (10.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (10.29%) Serverless
12 40 (9.57%) Amazon S3
12 40 (9.57%) OpenShift
13 33 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (7.42%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (3.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 46 (11.00%) Firewall
2 18 (4.31%) VLAN
3 15 (3.59%) DNS
4 13 (3.11%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.39%) VPN
5 10 (2.39%) WAN
6 9 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (2.15%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (2.15%) LAN
6 9 (2.15%) Unified Communications
6 9 (2.15%) WebEx
7 8 (1.91%) BGP
7 8 (1.91%) Broadband
7 8 (1.91%) HTTP
8 7 (1.67%) Network Security
8 7 (1.67%) OSPF
8 7 (1.67%) SSH
9 6 (1.44%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.44%) SNMP
10 4 (0.96%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.37%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (7.18%) MySQL
4 27 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.07%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.87%) InfluxDB
7 12 (2.87%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.15%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.91%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.67%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.96%) Big Data
13 4 (0.96%) ZAP BI
14 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.72%) Redis
15 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 88 (21.05%) GitLab
2 78 (18.66%) Jenkins
3 73 (17.46%) Git
4 55 (13.16%) TeamCity
5 26 (6.22%) SonarQube
6 25 (5.98%) Cucumber
7 22 (5.26%) JMeter
8 18 (4.31%) Cypress.io
8 18 (4.31%) Selenium
9 17 (4.07%) Gatling
10 15 (3.59%) JIRA
11 12 (2.87%) LoadRunner
12 11 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (2.63%) Postman
13 9 (2.15%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.91%) JUnit
15 7 (1.67%) Burp Suite
15 7 (1.67%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.67%) Robot Framework
15 7 (1.67%) TestRail
General
1 148 (35.41%) Finance
2 94 (22.49%) Banking
3 81 (19.38%) Social Skills
4 79 (18.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (17.70%) Law
6 69 (16.51%) Retail
7 44 (10.53%) Financial Institution
7 44 (10.53%) Public Sector
8 40 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (9.57%) Back Office
9 20 (4.78%) Marketing
10 17 (4.07%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.67%) Legal
11 7 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Military
14 2 (0.48%) Advertising
14 2 (0.48%) Billing
14 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (17.22%) Senior
3 68 (16.27%) Software Engineer
4 45 (10.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 44 (10.53%) Lead
6 40 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 38 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 36 (8.61%) Site Engineer
9 35 (8.37%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (8.13%) Developer
11 30 (7.18%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (5.02%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (4.78%) Administrator
13 20 (4.78%) Team Leader
14 19 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
15 17 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (3.59%) Java Engineer
16 15 (3.59%) Linux Administrator
16 15 (3.59%) Linux Systems Administrator
16 15 (3.59%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (69.14%) Terraform
2 52 (12.44%) Elastic Stack
3 47 (11.24%) Kafka
4 37 (8.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 26 (6.22%) RabbitMQ
6 25 (5.98%) REST
7 24 (5.74%) Node.js
8 23 (5.50%) Loki
9 22 (5.26%) React
9 22 (5.26%) RESTful
10 18 (4.31%) .NET
10 18 (4.31%) Playwright
10 18 (4.31%) Spring
10 18 (4.31%) Spring Boot
11 16 (3.83%) pytest
12 15 (3.59%) YAML
13 11 (2.63%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (2.63%) gRPC
14 10 (2.39%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 129 (30.86%) Cloud Native
2 48 (11.48%) Product Ownership
3 36 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.11%) Blog
7 12 (2.87%) Replication
8 11 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 10 (2.39%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.15%) FlexPod
10 9 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (2.15%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.67%) PKI
13 6 (1.44%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 121 (28.95%) Linux
2 45 (10.77%) Windows
3 21 (5.02%) CentOS
4 13 (3.11%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.87%) Unix
6 7 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.44%) VMS
8 5 (1.20%) Android
8 5 (1.20%) Debian
8 5 (1.20%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.48%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (69.14%) CI/CD
2 237 (56.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 224 (53.59%) Observability
4 222 (53.11%) DevOps
5 146 (34.93%) Containerisation
6 145 (34.69%) Software Engineering
7 132 (31.58%) Test Automation
8 118 (28.23%) Agile
9 114 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
10 111 (26.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 109 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
12 95 (22.73%) Microservices
13 93 (22.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 91 (21.77%) Platform Engineering
15 85 (20.33%) Mentoring
16 75 (17.94%) AI
17 62 (14.83%) GitOps
18 59 (14.11%) Continuous Deployment
19 55 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 54 (12.92%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 264 (63.16%) Python
2 144 (34.45%) Bash
3 126 (30.14%) Java
4 80 (19.14%) PowerShell
5 55 (13.16%) SQL
6 44 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 40 (9.57%) Go
8 33 (7.89%) C#
9 24 (5.74%) TypeScript
10 22 (5.26%) Rust
11 16 (3.83%) C++
12 10 (2.39%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.15%) Bicep
14 8 (1.91%) PHP
15 7 (1.67%) VBA
16 5 (1.20%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.96%) Scala
18 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.72%) Swift
19 2 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 37 (8.85%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.13%) Degree
4 23 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 20 (4.78%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.39%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.96%) CISSP
10 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.72%) OCP
11 3 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CISM
12 2 (0.48%) GSEC
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (14.11%) QA
2 14 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.11%) SLA
4 11 (2.63%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.15%) WCAG
6 8 (1.91%) GDPR
7 7 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.72%) NIST
8 3 (0.72%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 188 (44.98%) Docker
2 22 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.87%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (2.63%) Active Directory
6 9 (2.15%) vSphere
7 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.20%) KVM
8 5 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.96%) iptables
10 2 (0.48%) Xen
11 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 266 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 221 (52.87%) Prometheus
3 141 (33.73%) Ansible
4 41 (9.81%) Argo
5 25 (5.98%) Kibana
6 23 (5.50%) Istio
7 18 (4.31%) Nagios
8 16 (3.83%) logstash
8 16 (3.83%) Puppet
9 12 (2.87%) Kustomize
10 10 (2.39%) linkerd
11 9 (2.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (1.91%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (1.44%) vCenter Server
15 5 (1.20%) Cilium
15 5 (1.20%) HP Fortify
15 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (1.20%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.96%) Mesos
Vendors
1 64 (15.31%) Splunk
2 50 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 43 (10.29%) Dynatrace
4 33 (7.89%) Red Hat
5 31 (7.42%) Google
6 29 (6.94%) VMware
7 11 (2.63%) Oracle
7 11 (2.63%) Rapid7
8 10 (2.39%) AppDynamics
8 10 (2.39%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.39%) Cisco
8 10 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.15%) Fortinet
9 9 (2.15%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.91%) NetApp
11 6 (1.44%) Informatica
11 6 (1.44%) New Relic
11 6 (1.44%) NVIDIA
12 5 (1.20%) Databricks
12 5 (1.20%) Veracode