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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 386 473
Rank change year-on-year -31 +87 -38
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 485 327 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.03% 6.52% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 258 219 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,456
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,500 £57,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,225 £115,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +8.00%

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 5,373 5,013 6,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.55% 10.11% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,702 2,857 3,762
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -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 2 October 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 October 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 -46 393 £70,000 -3.45% 766
London +13 215 £82,500 - 461
Work from Home +66 202 £65,000 -7.14% 318
UK excluding London -96 202 £65,000 -10.34% 386
South East -18 68 £62,500 -16.67% 89
South West -29 45 £70,000 -24.32% 55
North of England -67 43 £70,000 +12.00% 97
North West -29 31 £71,250 +16.33% 57
Wales -62 17 £66,000 +5.60% 11
Midlands -91 14 £61,250 -15.52% 35
North East -57 12 £57,500 -4.17% 11
Scotland -6 11 £62,500 -16.11% 44
West Midlands -85 9 £55,000 -24.14% 22
East Midlands -38 5 £62,500 +12.11% 13
East of England -39 3 £86,250 +25.45% 35
Yorkshire -40 3 £57,500 -28.13% 29
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 21

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 17 (3.51%) Apache
2 11 (2.27%) Confluence
3 8 (1.65%) nginx
4 7 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.03%) IIS
6 4 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 339 (69.90%) AWS
2 211 (43.51%) GCP
3 161 (33.20%) Azure
4 116 (23.92%) Amazon EKS
5 94 (19.38%) SaaS
6 86 (17.73%) GitHub
7 75 (15.46%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (14.43%) Datadog
9 61 (12.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 57 (11.75%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (10.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (8.66%) Serverless
13 38 (7.84%) OpenShift
14 34 (7.01%) Amazon S3
15 32 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (5.57%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (4.74%) Entra ID
19 22 (4.54%) Amazon EC2
19 22 (4.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (10.31%) Firewall
2 25 (5.15%) VPN
3 19 (3.92%) TCP/IP
4 16 (3.30%) VLAN
5 15 (3.09%) DNS
6 13 (2.68%) BGP
6 13 (2.68%) HTTP
7 11 (2.27%) Network Security
8 9 (1.86%) SSH
9 7 (1.44%) OSPF
10 6 (1.24%) IPFIX
10 6 (1.24%) SNMP
10 6 (1.24%) Unified Communications
10 6 (1.24%) WAN
11 5 (1.03%) LAN
12 4 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.82%) WebEx
13 3 (0.62%) 5G
13 3 (0.62%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (19.18%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (8.66%) Elasticsearch
3 41 (8.45%) Amazon RDS
4 40 (8.25%) MySQL
5 27 (5.57%) MongoDB
6 25 (5.15%) NoSQL
7 21 (4.33%) Redis
8 14 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (2.47%) InfluxDB
10 12 (2.47%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.47%) SQL Server
11 9 (1.86%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.44%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.03%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.82%) Metadata
15 3 (0.62%) Big Data
15 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.62%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.41%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 93 (19.18%) GitLab
1 93 (19.18%) Jenkins
2 92 (18.97%) Git
3 88 (18.14%) TeamCity
4 24 (4.95%) SonarQube
5 19 (3.92%) Selenium
6 18 (3.71%) Cucumber
7 17 (3.51%) Gatling
7 17 (3.51%) JMeter
8 16 (3.30%) JIRA
9 15 (3.09%) Cypress.io
10 13 (2.68%) LoadRunner
11 9 (1.86%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (1.86%) Postman
12 8 (1.65%) Artifactory
12 8 (1.65%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.65%) JUnit
12 8 (1.65%) Robot Framework
12 8 (1.65%) TestRail
13 6 (1.24%) Maven
General
1 188 (38.76%) Finance
2 126 (25.98%) Banking
3 125 (25.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (22.27%) Law
5 105 (21.65%) Social Skills
6 103 (21.24%) Retail
7 70 (14.43%) Financial Institution
8 66 (13.61%) Back Office
9 62 (12.78%) Public Sector
10 50 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (3.09%) Marketing
12 13 (2.68%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.24%) Legal
14 5 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.03%) Police
15 3 (0.62%) Military
16 2 (0.41%) Advertising
16 2 (0.41%) Billing
16 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (20.21%) Senior
2 92 (18.97%) Software Engineer
3 78 (16.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (10.52%) Lead
5 45 (9.28%) Developer
6 44 (9.07%) Cloud Engineer
7 40 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 40 (8.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 39 (8.04%) Site Engineer
9 36 (7.42%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (7.42%) Platform Engineer
10 30 (6.19%) Administrator
10 30 (6.19%) Lead Software Engineer
11 27 (5.57%) Team Leader
12 24 (4.95%) Systems Administrator
13 23 (4.74%) Software Team Leader
14 21 (4.33%) DevOps Administrator
14 21 (4.33%) Java Engineer
15 20 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
15 20 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (69.69%) Terraform
2 66 (13.61%) Elastic Stack
3 57 (11.75%) Kafka
4 43 (8.87%) OpenTelemetry
5 38 (7.84%) REST
6 36 (7.42%) RESTful
7 31 (6.39%) RabbitMQ
8 26 (5.36%) Spring
8 26 (5.36%) Spring Boot
9 22 (4.54%) Node.js
10 21 (4.33%) Loki
10 21 (4.33%) React
11 18 (3.71%) .NET
12 17 (3.51%) Hibernate
12 17 (3.51%) Keycloak
12 17 (3.51%) Playwright
12 17 (3.51%) pytest
13 16 (3.30%) GraphQL
13 16 (3.30%) JPA
14 14 (2.89%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 174 (35.88%) Cloud Native
2 68 (14.02%) Product Ownership
3 65 (13.40%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (6.60%) Blog
5 25 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (4.54%) Replication
7 19 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (3.51%) Virtual Team
9 16 (3.30%) Private Cloud
10 15 (3.09%) Onboarding
11 14 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (2.89%) Management Information System
12 11 (2.27%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.44%) PKI
14 6 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.24%) IoT
14 6 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 126 (25.98%) Linux
2 41 (8.45%) Windows
3 18 (3.71%) CentOS
3 18 (3.71%) Unix
4 9 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.24%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.03%) Android
6 5 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.62%) Debian
7 3 (0.62%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.62%) VMS
8 2 (0.41%) Rocky
9 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (73.61%) CI/CD
2 266 (54.85%) DevOps
3 259 (53.40%) Observability
4 250 (51.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 171 (35.26%) Software Engineering
6 166 (34.23%) Test Automation
7 144 (29.69%) Containerisation
8 143 (29.48%) Agile
8 143 (29.48%) Deployment Automation
9 126 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
10 125 (25.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 122 (25.15%) Microservices
12 116 (23.92%) Mentoring
13 102 (21.03%) Platform Engineering
14 101 (20.82%) AI
15 94 (19.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 80 (16.49%) Continuous Deployment
17 79 (16.29%) Clean Code
18 78 (16.08%) Fintech
19 68 (14.02%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 279 (57.53%) Python
2 166 (34.23%) Java
3 160 (32.99%) Bash
4 82 (16.91%) PowerShell
5 77 (15.88%) SQL
6 49 (10.10%) Go
7 45 (9.28%) JavaScript
8 31 (6.39%) TypeScript
9 25 (5.15%) C#
10 21 (4.33%) Rust
11 16 (3.30%) Bicep
11 16 (3.30%) C++
12 10 (2.06%) Groovy
13 9 (1.86%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.44%) PHP
14 7 (1.44%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.44%) VBA
15 4 (0.82%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.82%) Scala
16 3 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 117 (24.12%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.19%) Degree
4 26 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 23 (4.74%) AWS Certification
6 22 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.71%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.44%) CISSP
10 5 (1.03%) CISM
11 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.62%) CCSP
12 3 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.62%) OCP
12 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.16%) QA
2 13 (2.68%) SLA
3 12 (2.47%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.86%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.65%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.24%) NIST
7 3 (0.62%) GDPR
7 3 (0.62%) PSD2
7 3 (0.62%) WCAG
8 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 197 (40.62%) Docker
2 18 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.06%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.03%) vSphere
7 4 (0.82%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.82%) KVM
8 3 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.41%) iptables
9 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.41%) Xen
10 1 (0.21%) Firmware
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 327 (67.42%) Kubernetes
2 262 (54.02%) Prometheus
3 141 (29.07%) Ansible
4 51 (10.52%) Argo
5 31 (6.39%) Kibana
6 25 (5.15%) Istio
7 18 (3.71%) Nagios
8 17 (3.51%) logstash
9 15 (3.09%) Puppet
10 13 (2.68%) Kustomize
11 12 (2.47%) linkerd
12 11 (2.27%) Rancher
13 9 (1.86%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.86%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.44%) Cilium
15 6 (1.24%) Mesos
15 6 (1.24%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.24%) ZABBIX
16 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
17 4 (0.82%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 68 (14.02%) Splunk
2 60 (12.37%) Dynatrace
3 50 (10.31%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.22%) Google
5 29 (5.98%) Red Hat
6 28 (5.77%) VMware
7 20 (4.12%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.68%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.47%) Oracle
10 10 (2.06%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.86%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.65%) Databricks
13 6 (1.24%) Cisco
13 6 (1.24%) Informatica
13 6 (1.24%) New Relic
13 6 (1.24%) NVIDIA
14 5 (1.03%) Fortinet
15 4 (0.82%) NetApp
15 4 (0.82%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.82%) Solace