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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 376 419
Rank change year-on-year -47 +43 +26
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 423 333 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.37% 6.62% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 234 220 212
10th Percentile £47,500 £57,375 £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 £86,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £96,125
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 5,055 5,034 6,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.62% 10.06% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,616 2,952 4,324
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,875 £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 £57,500 £51,058 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.62% -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 27 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 27 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% 501
UK excluding London -83 193 £65,000 -10.34% 230
London -17 174 £82,500 - 340
Work from Home +44 171 £65,000 -7.14% 246
South East -4 59 £62,500 -19.35% 43
South West -31 46 £70,000 -24.32% 35
North of England -42 42 £70,000 +5.66% 62
North West -10 28 £71,250 +18.75% 37
Midlands -71 18 £63,250 -12.76% 16
North East -48 13 £52,500 -12.50% 8
West Midlands -76 13 £62,500 -13.79% 6
Scotland -6 12 £62,500 - 41
Wales -59 12 £70,000 +27.27% 5
East Midlands -19 5 £64,000 +14.80% 10
East of England -29 3 £82,500 +22.22% 17
Yorkshire -46 1 £82,500 +3.13% 17
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 13

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 (3.78%) Apache
2 9 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.89%) Confluence
4 6 (1.42%) IIS
5 5 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.18%) nginx
6 4 (0.95%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 287 (67.85%) AWS
2 168 (39.72%) GCP
3 156 (36.88%) Azure
4 84 (19.86%) Datadog
5 70 (16.55%) Amazon EKS
6 67 (15.84%) SaaS
7 63 (14.89%) GitHub
8 59 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (10.17%) Serverless
13 41 (9.69%) OpenShift
14 40 (9.46%) Amazon S3
15 33 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (7.57%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
18 24 (5.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 18 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
20 16 (3.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 45 (10.64%) Firewall
2 17 (4.02%) VLAN
3 16 (3.78%) DNS
4 14 (3.31%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.36%) VPN
6 9 (2.13%) WAN
7 8 (1.89%) BGP
7 8 (1.89%) Broadband
7 8 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (1.89%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (1.89%) HTTP
7 8 (1.89%) LAN
7 8 (1.89%) SSH
7 8 (1.89%) Unified Communications
7 8 (1.89%) WebEx
8 7 (1.65%) Network Security
8 7 (1.65%) OSPF
9 6 (1.42%) IPFIX
9 6 (1.42%) SNMP
10 3 (0.71%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.82%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.04%) Elasticsearch
3 33 (7.80%) MySQL
4 28 (6.62%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (5.20%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.73%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.07%) InfluxDB
8 12 (2.84%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.13%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.89%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.65%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.95%) Big Data
14 4 (0.95%) ZAP BI
15 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.71%) Redis
16 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
16 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 88 (20.80%) GitLab
2 81 (19.15%) Jenkins
3 75 (17.73%) Git
4 58 (13.71%) TeamCity
5 26 (6.15%) SonarQube
6 25 (5.91%) Cucumber
7 21 (4.96%) JMeter
8 19 (4.49%) Selenium
9 18 (4.26%) Cypress.io
10 16 (3.78%) Gatling
11 15 (3.55%) JIRA
12 11 (2.60%) LoadRunner
12 11 (2.60%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (2.60%) Postman
13 9 (2.13%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.89%) JUnit
14 8 (1.89%) Robot Framework
14 8 (1.89%) TestRail
15 7 (1.65%) Burp Suite
15 7 (1.65%) REST Assured
General
1 151 (35.70%) Finance
2 99 (23.40%) Banking
3 82 (19.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (19.15%) Social Skills
5 78 (18.44%) Law
6 72 (17.02%) Retail
7 47 (11.11%) Financial Institution
8 44 (10.40%) Public Sector
9 43 (10.17%) Back Office
10 41 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
11 19 (4.49%) Marketing
12 17 (4.02%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.65%) Legal
13 7 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Military
16 2 (0.47%) Advertising
16 2 (0.47%) Billing
16 2 (0.47%) Games
16 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (18.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (17.02%) Senior
3 71 (16.78%) Software Engineer
4 46 (10.87%) Lead
5 45 (10.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 39 (9.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 37 (8.75%) Site Engineer
8 36 (8.51%) Developer
9 35 (8.27%) Platform Engineer
10 30 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.20%) Lead Software Engineer
11 22 (5.20%) Team Leader
12 20 (4.73%) Administrator
13 19 (4.49%) Systems Administrator
14 17 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (3.78%) Software Team Leader
16 15 (3.55%) DevOps Administrator
16 15 (3.55%) Linux Administrator
16 15 (3.55%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (69.03%) Terraform
2 54 (12.77%) Elastic Stack
3 47 (11.11%) Kafka
4 38 (8.98%) OpenTelemetry
5 29 (6.86%) RabbitMQ
6 26 (6.15%) REST
7 24 (5.67%) Node.js
7 24 (5.67%) RESTful
8 22 (5.20%) Loki
9 21 (4.96%) React
10 19 (4.49%) Playwright
10 19 (4.49%) Spring
10 19 (4.49%) Spring Boot
11 18 (4.26%) .NET
12 17 (4.02%) pytest
13 15 (3.55%) YAML
14 11 (2.60%) AngularJS
14 11 (2.60%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (2.60%) gRPC
14 11 (2.60%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 135 (31.91%) Cloud Native
2 52 (12.29%) Product Ownership
3 38 (8.98%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (3.31%) Blog
7 13 (3.07%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.84%) Replication
8 12 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.36%) Mobile App
10 9 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (2.13%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.89%) FlexPod
11 8 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.65%) PKI
13 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.42%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 122 (28.84%) Linux
2 45 (10.64%) Windows
3 22 (5.20%) CentOS
4 12 (2.84%) Unix
4 12 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.42%) VMS
7 5 (1.18%) Android
7 5 (1.18%) Debian
7 5 (1.18%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.47%) Rocky
10 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (69.50%) CI/CD
2 239 (56.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 229 (54.14%) DevOps
4 226 (53.43%) Observability
5 151 (35.70%) Software Engineering
6 148 (34.99%) Containerisation
7 135 (31.91%) Test Automation
8 120 (28.37%) Agile
9 117 (27.66%) Deployment Automation
10 112 (26.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 111 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
12 99 (23.40%) Microservices
13 93 (21.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 92 (21.75%) Mentoring
14 92 (21.75%) Platform Engineering
15 76 (17.97%) AI
16 62 (14.66%) Continuous Deployment
16 62 (14.66%) GitOps
17 57 (13.48%) Clean Code
18 55 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 263 (62.17%) Python
2 146 (34.52%) Bash
3 132 (31.21%) Java
4 81 (19.15%) PowerShell
5 56 (13.24%) SQL
6 44 (10.40%) JavaScript
7 40 (9.46%) Go
8 33 (7.80%) C#
9 24 (5.67%) TypeScript
10 20 (4.73%) Rust
11 16 (3.78%) C++
12 10 (2.36%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.13%) Bicep
14 8 (1.89%) PHP
15 7 (1.65%) VBA
16 5 (1.18%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.95%) Scala
17 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.71%) Swift
19 2 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.51%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.80%) Degree
4 23 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (5.44%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.73%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.95%) CISSP
9 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.71%) OCP
10 3 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.47%) CISM
11 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.47%) GSEC
11 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (14.42%) QA
2 14 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.07%) SLA
4 11 (2.60%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.13%) WCAG
6 8 (1.89%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.89%) GDPR
7 7 (1.65%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.71%) NIST
8 3 (0.71%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 190 (44.92%) Docker
2 21 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.60%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.60%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.89%) vSphere
6 5 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.18%) KVM
6 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (1.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.95%) iptables
8 2 (0.47%) Xen
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 272 (64.30%) Kubernetes
2 223 (52.72%) Prometheus
3 140 (33.10%) Ansible
4 41 (9.69%) Argo
5 24 (5.67%) Kibana
6 23 (5.44%) Istio
7 18 (4.26%) Nagios
8 16 (3.78%) logstash
8 16 (3.78%) Puppet
9 12 (2.84%) Kustomize
10 10 (2.36%) linkerd
11 8 (1.89%) Cisco CUCM
11 8 (1.89%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.65%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (1.42%) vCenter Server
14 5 (1.18%) Cilium
14 5 (1.18%) HP Fortify
14 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (1.18%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.95%) Mesos
Vendors
1 66 (15.60%) Splunk
2 49 (11.58%) Microsoft
3 42 (9.93%) Dynatrace
4 34 (8.04%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.09%) Google
6 28 (6.62%) VMware
7 11 (2.60%) Oracle
7 11 (2.60%) Rapid7
8 10 (2.36%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.36%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.13%) AppDynamics
9 9 (2.13%) Cisco
10 8 (1.89%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.89%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.65%) NetApp
12 6 (1.42%) Informatica
12 6 (1.42%) New Relic
12 6 (1.42%) NVIDIA
13 5 (1.18%) Databricks
13 5 (1.18%) Veracode