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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 375 504
Rank change year-on-year -21 +129 -38
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 416 340 426
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.69% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.57% 6.06% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 244 222 204
10th Percentile £46,625 £52,500 £40,941
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £106,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% - +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 5,498 5,612 9,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.56% 11.42% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,047 3,341 6,566
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,147 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,618 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +6.48% -10.00%

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 15 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 15 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 -18 365 £70,079 -3.34% 277
UK excluding London -44 194 £64,000 -8.57% 248
London -19 176 £82,500 - 83
Work from Home +63 173 £65,000 -7.14% 232
South East 0 58 £62,500 -15.25% 47
South West -16 51 £75,000 +15.38% 34
North of England -29 47 £60,000 -7.69% 62
North West -8 27 £71,250 +18.75% 37
Midlands -68 21 £64,000 -11.72% 33
North East -44 17 £47,500 -20.83% 10
West Midlands -68 15 £62,500 -13.79% 21
Wales -52 8 £70,000 +27.27% 9
East Midlands -22 6 £64,500 +15.70% 12
Scotland -6 4 £62,500 -34.21% 29
East of England -20 3 £80,150 +18.74% 30
Yorkshire -41 3 £52,500 -27.52% 15
Northern Ireland -57 2 - - 9

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 19 (4.57%) Apache
2 9 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.68%) IIS
4 6 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.44%) Confluence
5 5 (1.20%) nginx
6 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 282 (67.79%) AWS
2 167 (40.14%) Azure
3 166 (39.90%) GCP
4 80 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
5 69 (16.59%) GitHub
6 67 (16.11%) GitHub Actions
7 66 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (15.87%) Datadog
8 56 (13.46%) SaaS
9 54 (12.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 52 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 50 (12.02%) Serverless
12 37 (8.89%) Amazon S3
12 37 (8.89%) OpenShift
13 32 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 23 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (4.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 62 (14.90%) Firewall
2 23 (5.53%) DNS
2 23 (5.53%) TCP/IP
3 19 (4.57%) VLAN
4 17 (4.09%) HTTP
4 17 (4.09%) VPN
5 11 (2.64%) WAN
6 10 (2.40%) LAN
6 10 (2.40%) Unified Communications
6 10 (2.40%) WebEx
7 9 (2.16%) Broadband
7 9 (2.16%) Cisco ASA
7 9 (2.16%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (1.92%) BGP
9 7 (1.68%) MQTT
9 7 (1.68%) Network Security
9 7 (1.68%) OSPF
9 7 (1.68%) SSH
10 6 (1.44%) IPFIX
10 6 (1.44%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.45%) Elasticsearch
3 25 (6.01%) MySQL
4 20 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.57%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.61%) InfluxDB
7 14 (3.37%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.40%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.92%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.72%) Big Data
14 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.48%) Looker
14 2 (0.48%) SQLPlus
15 1 (0.24%) KDB
Development Applications
1 91 (21.88%) GitLab
2 89 (21.39%) Jenkins
3 68 (16.35%) TeamCity
4 66 (15.87%) Git
5 26 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 24 (5.77%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.05%) JMeter
8 13 (3.13%) CircleCI
8 13 (3.13%) JIRA
9 12 (2.88%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.88%) Cypress.io
9 12 (2.88%) Selenium
10 11 (2.64%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (2.40%) Gatling
11 10 (2.40%) LoadRunner
12 8 (1.92%) Robot Framework
12 8 (1.92%) TestRail
13 6 (1.44%) Burp Suite
13 6 (1.44%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.20%) Locust
General
1 122 (29.33%) Finance
2 94 (22.60%) Banking
3 84 (20.19%) Law
4 81 (19.47%) Retail
5 77 (18.51%) Social Skills
6 76 (18.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (10.82%) Financial Institution
8 43 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (10.10%) Back Office
10 38 (9.13%) Public Sector
11 27 (6.49%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.16%) Marketing
13 8 (1.92%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Legal
16 2 (0.48%) Advertising
16 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.24%) Billing
17 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 93 (22.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 77 (18.51%) Senior
3 70 (16.83%) Software Engineer
4 42 (10.10%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 36 (8.65%) Platform Engineer
7 35 (8.41%) Lead
8 27 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
9 26 (6.25%) Developer
10 22 (5.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 21 (5.05%) Administrator
11 21 (5.05%) Java Engineer
11 21 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (4.81%) Site Engineer
12 20 (4.81%) Systems Administrator
13 19 (4.57%) Lead Software Engineer
13 19 (4.57%) Team Leader
14 18 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.87%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (11.30%) Kafka
3 29 (6.97%) OpenTelemetry
4 23 (5.53%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (5.29%) Loki
6 19 (4.57%) Node.js
7 18 (4.33%) REST
8 17 (4.09%) React
9 16 (3.85%) Spring
9 16 (3.85%) YAML
10 15 (3.61%) .NET
10 15 (3.61%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
11 13 (3.13%) Playwright
12 12 (2.88%) gRPC
12 12 (2.88%) OAuth
12 12 (2.88%) RESTful
13 11 (2.64%) ARM Templates
14 10 (2.40%) Vue
14 10 (2.40%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 131 (31.49%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.06%) Product Ownership
3 34 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.05%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.09%) Blog
6 12 (2.88%) Replication
7 11 (2.64%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.40%) FlexPod
8 10 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.92%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.44%) PKI
13 5 (1.20%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.96%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 125 (30.05%) Linux
2 50 (12.02%) Windows
3 21 (5.05%) CentOS
4 14 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.88%) Unix
6 10 (2.40%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (1.92%) VMS
9 5 (1.20%) Debian
10 4 (0.96%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.48%) Rocky
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (74.04%) CI/CD
2 238 (57.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 237 (56.97%) DevOps
4 180 (43.27%) Observability
5 175 (42.07%) Containerisation
6 139 (33.41%) Test Automation
7 138 (33.17%) Software Engineering
8 124 (29.81%) Agile
9 122 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
10 115 (27.64%) Deployment Automation
11 108 (25.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (24.52%) Microservices
13 81 (19.47%) Mentoring
14 80 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 79 (18.99%) Platform Engineering
16 68 (16.35%) Continuous Deployment
17 62 (14.90%) Clean Code
18 59 (14.18%) AI
19 55 (13.22%) Infrastructure Automation
20 53 (12.74%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 265 (63.70%) Python
2 168 (40.38%) Bash
3 134 (32.21%) Java
4 78 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 57 (13.70%) SQL
6 49 (11.78%) JavaScript
7 46 (11.06%) Go
8 38 (9.13%) C#
9 30 (7.21%) Rust
10 20 (4.81%) TypeScript
11 19 (4.57%) C++
12 11 (2.64%) Bicep
13 7 (1.68%) VBA
14 6 (1.44%) Google Apps Script
14 6 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.72%) PHP
16 3 (0.72%) Ruby
17 2 (0.48%) VB
18 1 (0.24%) JCL
Qualifications
1 89 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.13%) Degree
3 33 (7.93%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 23 (5.53%) DV Cleared
6 22 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.64%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.48%) CISSP
11 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.48%) ISEB
11 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.78%) QA
2 14 (3.37%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.13%) GDPR
4 12 (2.88%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.16%) SLA
6 8 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.44%) WCAG
8 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.48%) GRC
10 2 (0.48%) PSD2
10 2 (0.48%) SEPA
11 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 189 (45.43%) Docker
2 26 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.88%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.88%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (2.40%) vSphere
6 6 (1.44%) iptables
6 6 (1.44%) KVM
6 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.48%) Xen
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 300 (72.12%) Terraform
2 272 (65.38%) Kubernetes
3 230 (55.29%) Prometheus
4 156 (37.50%) Ansible
5 30 (7.21%) Argo
6 27 (6.49%) Kibana
7 20 (4.81%) Puppet
8 17 (4.09%) Istio
8 17 (4.09%) logstash
8 17 (4.09%) Nagios
9 10 (2.40%) Cisco CUCM
9 10 (2.40%) ZABBIX
10 9 (2.16%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (2.16%) Kustomize
11 8 (1.92%) linkerd
11 8 (1.92%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.68%) Progress Chef
12 7 (1.68%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (1.20%) Mesos
Vendors
1 54 (12.98%) Splunk
2 52 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 39 (9.38%) VMware
4 33 (7.93%) Red Hat
5 26 (6.25%) Dynatrace
6 21 (5.05%) Google
7 11 (2.64%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.64%) Cisco
8 10 (2.40%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.40%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.16%) AppDynamics
9 9 (2.16%) NetApp
9 9 (2.16%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.92%) Oracle
10 8 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.44%) Informatica
11 6 (1.44%) New Relic
12 5 (1.20%) Tenable
13 4 (0.96%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.96%) SolarWinds