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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 382 508
Rank change year-on-year -14 +126 -45
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 426 347 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.71% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.67% 6.17% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 248 228 204
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £40,941
25th Percentile £55,744 £61,250 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,039 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £109,250
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 5,551 5,621 9,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.64% 11.46% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,072 3,343 6,596
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £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 11 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 11 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 -11 373 £70,079 -3.34% 116
UK excluding London -37 197 £62,500 -10.71% 71
London 0 180 £82,500 - 60
Work from Home +67 176 £67,500 -3.57% 69
South East -8 58 £62,500 -16.67% 13
South West -12 55 £75,000 +15.38% 13
North of England -30 47 £57,500 -11.54% 25
North West -8 25 £70,000 +16.67% 18
Midlands -71 21 £64,000 -11.72% 8
North East -35 18 £47,500 -20.83% 3
West Midlands -60 15 £62,500 -13.79% 6
Wales -47 7 £70,000 +21.74% 1
East Midlands -26 6 £64,500 +12.17% 2
Scotland -16 4 £62,500 -34.21% 5
Yorkshire -35 4 £48,750 -34.89% 4
East of England -14 3 £80,150 +18.74% 5
Northern Ireland -61 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 22 (5.16%) Apache
2 9 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.64%) IIS
4 6 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.41%) Confluence
5 5 (1.17%) nginx
6 3 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.23%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.94%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.23%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 292 (68.54%) AWS
2 172 (40.38%) Azure
2 172 (40.38%) GCP
3 81 (19.01%) Amazon EKS
4 71 (16.67%) GitHub
5 70 (16.43%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (16.20%) GitHub Actions
7 66 (15.49%) Datadog
8 55 (12.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 55 (12.91%) SaaS
9 53 (12.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (12.21%) Serverless
11 39 (9.15%) OpenShift
12 38 (8.92%) Amazon S3
13 33 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (5.40%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
18 18 (4.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.26%) Firewall
2 26 (6.10%) DNS
3 24 (5.63%) TCP/IP
4 20 (4.69%) HTTP
5 19 (4.46%) VLAN
6 17 (3.99%) VPN
7 11 (2.58%) WAN
8 10 (2.35%) LAN
8 10 (2.35%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.35%) WebEx
9 9 (2.11%) Broadband
9 9 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.11%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.88%) BGP
11 7 (1.64%) MQTT
11 7 (1.64%) Network Security
11 7 (1.64%) OSPF
12 6 (1.41%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.41%) SNMP
12 6 (1.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.51%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (5.63%) MySQL
4 22 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.76%) InfluxDB
7 14 (3.29%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.11%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.64%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.94%) Big Data
12 4 (0.94%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.47%) Looker
13 2 (0.47%) SQLPlus
14 1 (0.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 96 (22.54%) Jenkins
2 94 (22.07%) GitLab
3 70 (16.43%) TeamCity
4 67 (15.73%) Git
5 28 (6.57%) SonarQube
6 26 (6.10%) Cucumber
7 21 (4.93%) JMeter
8 14 (3.29%) CircleCI
9 13 (3.05%) Bitbucket
10 12 (2.82%) Cypress.io
10 12 (2.82%) JIRA
10 12 (2.82%) Selenium
11 11 (2.58%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (2.35%) Gatling
12 10 (2.35%) LoadRunner
13 9 (2.11%) Robot Framework
13 9 (2.11%) TestRail
14 6 (1.41%) Burp Suite
14 6 (1.41%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.17%) Locust
General
1 127 (29.81%) Finance
2 94 (22.07%) Banking
3 87 (20.42%) Law
4 82 (19.25%) Retail
5 81 (19.01%) Social Skills
6 76 (17.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (10.56%) Financial Institution
8 42 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (9.86%) Back Office
9 38 (8.92%) Public Sector
10 29 (6.81%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.11%) Marketing
12 8 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.70%) Legal
15 2 (0.47%) Advertising
15 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.23%) Aviation
16 1 (0.23%) Billing
Job Titles
1 93 (21.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (18.54%) Senior
3 70 (16.43%) Software Engineer
4 44 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 38 (8.92%) Platform Engineer
7 35 (8.22%) Lead
8 28 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (6.57%) Developer
9 22 (5.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 21 (4.93%) Administrator
10 21 (4.93%) Java Engineer
10 21 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (4.69%) Site Engineer
11 20 (4.69%) Systems Administrator
12 19 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (4.46%) Team Leader
13 18 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (11.03%) Kafka
3 30 (7.04%) OpenTelemetry
4 23 (5.40%) Loki
4 23 (5.40%) RabbitMQ
5 19 (4.46%) Node.js
5 19 (4.46%) REST
6 18 (4.23%) React
7 16 (3.76%) .NET
8 15 (3.52%) Apache NiFi
8 15 (3.52%) Spring
8 15 (3.52%) YAML
9 14 (3.29%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.05%) Playwright
11 12 (2.82%) gRPC
11 12 (2.82%) OAuth
11 12 (2.82%) Vue
12 11 (2.58%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.58%) ARM Templates
12 11 (2.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 134 (31.46%) Cloud Native
2 45 (10.56%) Product Ownership
3 33 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (4.69%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.23%) Blog
7 12 (2.82%) Replication
8 11 (2.58%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.35%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.64%) PKI
12 7 (1.64%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 130 (30.52%) Linux
2 55 (12.91%) Windows
3 22 (5.16%) CentOS
4 14 (3.29%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.58%) Unix
6 10 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.88%) VMS
8 5 (1.17%) Debian
9 4 (0.94%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.47%) Rocky
11 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (74.18%) CI/CD
2 244 (57.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 241 (56.57%) DevOps
4 178 (41.78%) Observability
5 177 (41.55%) Containerisation
6 144 (33.80%) Test Automation
7 137 (32.16%) Software Engineering
8 127 (29.81%) Agile
9 124 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
10 116 (27.23%) Deployment Automation
11 110 (25.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (23.94%) Microservices
13 82 (19.25%) Platform Engineering
14 81 (19.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 80 (18.78%) Mentoring
16 69 (16.20%) Continuous Deployment
17 64 (15.02%) Clean Code
18 58 (13.62%) AI
19 57 (13.38%) Infrastructure Automation
20 55 (12.91%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 270 (63.38%) Python
2 175 (41.08%) Bash
3 137 (32.16%) Java
4 79 (18.54%) PowerShell
5 55 (12.91%) SQL
6 53 (12.44%) JavaScript
7 48 (11.27%) Go
8 39 (9.15%) C#
9 30 (7.04%) Rust
10 22 (5.16%) TypeScript
11 21 (4.93%) C++
12 11 (2.58%) Bicep
13 8 (1.88%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.64%) Google Apps Script
15 6 (1.41%) VBA
16 5 (1.17%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.70%) PHP
17 3 (0.70%) Ruby
18 2 (0.47%) VB
19 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 98 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.15%) Degree
3 35 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.81%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.10%) AWS Certification
6 21 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.94%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.47%) CISSP
11 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.47%) ISEB
11 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.27%) QA
2 14 (3.29%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.05%) GDPR
4 12 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.82%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.11%) SLA
6 8 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.41%) WCAG
8 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.47%) GRC
10 2 (0.47%) PSD2
10 2 (0.47%) SEPA
11 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 193 (45.31%) Docker
2 27 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.82%) Active Directory
5 11 (2.58%) Virtual Servers
6 10 (2.35%) vSphere
7 7 (1.64%) iptables
7 7 (1.64%) KVM
8 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (1.17%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.94%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.47%) Xen
12 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 312 (73.24%) Terraform
2 279 (65.49%) Kubernetes
3 236 (55.40%) Prometheus
4 167 (39.20%) Ansible
5 31 (7.28%) Argo
6 29 (6.81%) Kibana
7 24 (5.63%) Puppet
8 18 (4.23%) Istio
8 18 (4.23%) logstash
9 17 (3.99%) Nagios
10 12 (2.82%) ZABBIX
11 10 (2.35%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.35%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (2.35%) Progress Chef
12 9 (2.11%) Kustomize
12 9 (2.11%) linkerd
13 8 (1.88%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (1.64%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.41%) Mesos
Vendors
1 52 (12.21%) Splunk
2 51 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 42 (9.86%) VMware
4 34 (7.98%) Red Hat
5 26 (6.10%) Dynatrace
6 21 (4.93%) Google
7 11 (2.58%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.58%) Cisco
8 10 (2.35%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.11%) NetApp
9 9 (2.11%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.88%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.88%) Oracle
11 6 (1.41%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.17%) Informatica
12 5 (1.17%) New Relic
12 5 (1.17%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.17%) Tenable
13 4 (0.94%) Cribl.io