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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 374 458
Rank change year-on-year -43 +84 -6
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 406 346 418
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.70% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.15% 6.18% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 244 231 202
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £40,081
25th Percentile £55,544 £61,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 5,677 5,598 7,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.58% 11.35% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,161 3,327 5,537
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,750 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 29 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 29 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 -39 351 £70,000 -3.45% 198
UK excluding London -56 199 £65,000 -7.14% 103
Work from Home +44 165 £65,000 -7.14% 109
London -17 161 £82,500 - 124
South East -7 63 £62,500 -16.67% 19
South West -14 49 £65,000 - 19
North of England -30 49 £63,750 -1.92% 28
North West -10 31 £70,000 +16.67% 18
Midlands -78 19 £62,500 -13.79% 12
North East -38 16 £47,500 -20.83% 3
West Midlands -71 15 £62,500 -13.79% 10
Wales -53 9 £70,000 +33.18% 4
Scotland -8 7 £62,500 -34.21% 14
East Midlands -27 4 £64,500 +15.70% 2
East of England -25 2 £77,575 +14.93% 6
Yorkshire -41 2 £67,500 -9.84% 7
Northern Ireland -70 1 - - 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 16 (3.94%) Apache
2 10 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.72%) Confluence
4 6 (1.48%) IIS
5 5 (1.23%) nginx
6 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 271 (66.75%) AWS
2 164 (40.39%) Azure
3 157 (38.67%) GCP
4 73 (17.98%) Datadog
5 65 (16.01%) GitHub
6 64 (15.76%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (15.27%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (14.04%) SaaS
10 53 (13.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (11.58%) Serverless
12 39 (9.61%) OpenShift
13 37 (9.11%) Amazon S3
14 32 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (6.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 25 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
18 17 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (13.79%) Firewall
2 22 (5.42%) DNS
3 21 (5.17%) TCP/IP
4 19 (4.68%) VLAN
5 17 (4.19%) HTTP
6 12 (2.96%) VPN
7 11 (2.71%) WAN
8 10 (2.46%) LAN
8 10 (2.46%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.46%) WebEx
9 9 (2.22%) Broadband
9 9 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.22%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.97%) BGP
11 7 (1.72%) MQTT
11 7 (1.72%) Network Security
11 7 (1.72%) OSPF
11 7 (1.72%) SSH
12 6 (1.48%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.48%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.61%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.37%) Elasticsearch
3 27 (6.65%) MySQL
4 24 (5.91%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (4.19%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.45%) InfluxDB
6 14 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.97%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.74%) Big Data
13 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.49%) Looker
13 2 (0.49%) Redis
13 2 (0.49%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 91 (22.41%) GitLab
2 80 (19.70%) Jenkins
3 72 (17.73%) Git
4 57 (14.04%) TeamCity
5 24 (5.91%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.67%) JMeter
7 22 (5.42%) Cucumber
8 14 (3.45%) JIRA
9 12 (2.96%) Cypress.io
9 12 (2.96%) Gatling
9 12 (2.96%) LoadRunner
9 12 (2.96%) Selenium
10 11 (2.71%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.71%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (2.22%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.72%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.72%) TestRail
13 6 (1.48%) Burp Suite
13 6 (1.48%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.23%) Postman
General
1 128 (31.53%) Finance
2 89 (21.92%) Banking
3 77 (18.97%) Law
4 73 (17.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 71 (17.49%) Social Skills
6 69 (17.00%) Retail
7 42 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (10.10%) Financial Institution
9 40 (9.85%) Public Sector
10 38 (9.36%) Back Office
11 25 (6.16%) Telecoms
12 13 (3.20%) Marketing
13 8 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.23%) Legal
15 2 (0.49%) Advertising
15 2 (0.49%) Billing
15 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 93 (22.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (17.49%) Senior
3 61 (15.02%) Software Engineer
4 40 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 36 (8.87%) Lead
7 34 (8.37%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (7.14%) Developer
9 25 (6.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 24 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
11 23 (5.67%) Site Engineer
12 20 (4.93%) Administrator
13 19 (4.68%) Systems Administrator
14 18 (4.43%) Java Engineer
14 18 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
14 18 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (4.43%) Team Leader
15 17 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
15 17 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.52%) Elastic Stack
2 49 (12.07%) Kafka
3 30 (7.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (6.40%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (5.17%) Loki
6 20 (4.93%) Node.js
7 18 (4.43%) REST
8 17 (4.19%) Spring
9 16 (3.94%) React
9 16 (3.94%) RESTful
9 16 (3.94%) Spring Boot
10 15 (3.69%) YAML
11 13 (3.20%) .NET
12 12 (2.96%) AngularJS
12 12 (2.96%) Playwright
12 12 (2.96%) pytest
13 11 (2.71%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (2.71%) ARM Templates
13 11 (2.71%) gRPC
13 11 (2.71%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 125 (30.79%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.33%) Product Ownership
3 35 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (2.96%) Blog
6 12 (2.96%) Replication
7 10 (2.46%) FlexPod
7 10 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.97%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.72%) PKI
11 6 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.99%) IoT
13 3 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 117 (28.82%) Linux
2 45 (11.08%) Windows
3 20 (4.93%) CentOS
4 14 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.96%) Unix
6 7 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.48%) VMS
8 5 (1.23%) Debian
9 4 (0.99%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.49%) Rocky
11 1 (0.25%) Android
11 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (73.15%) CI/CD
2 234 (57.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 233 (57.39%) DevOps
4 191 (47.04%) Observability
5 168 (41.38%) Containerisation
6 131 (32.27%) Software Engineering
6 131 (32.27%) Test Automation
7 121 (29.80%) Agile
8 114 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (26.35%) Deployment Automation
10 106 (26.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (23.15%) Microservices
12 88 (21.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 83 (20.44%) Platform Engineering
14 78 (19.21%) Mentoring
15 62 (15.27%) AI
16 59 (14.53%) Continuous Deployment
17 53 (13.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 52 (12.81%) Clean Code
19 50 (12.32%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 262 (64.53%) Python
2 160 (39.41%) Bash
3 121 (29.80%) Java
4 75 (18.47%) PowerShell
5 56 (13.79%) SQL
6 44 (10.84%) Go
6 44 (10.84%) JavaScript
7 34 (8.37%) C#
8 26 (6.40%) Rust
9 20 (4.93%) TypeScript
10 16 (3.94%) C++
11 10 (2.46%) Bicep
12 7 (1.72%) VBA
13 6 (1.48%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.23%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (1.23%) PHP
15 4 (0.99%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.49%) Ruby
16 2 (0.49%) VB
17 1 (0.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 86 (21.18%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.87%) Degree
3 34 (8.37%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.42%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.68%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.99%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.49%) CISSP
13 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.49%) ISEB
13 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.32%) QA
2 14 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.20%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.96%) GDPR
5 10 (2.46%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.22%) SLA
7 8 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.48%) WCAG
9 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.74%) PSD2
11 2 (0.49%) GRC
11 2 (0.49%) NIST
11 2 (0.49%) SEPA
12 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 192 (47.29%) Docker
2 23 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.96%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (2.46%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.46%) vSphere
6 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.23%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.23%) iptables
7 5 (1.23%) KVM
7 5 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.49%) Xen
9 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 287 (70.69%) Terraform
2 264 (65.02%) Kubernetes
3 231 (56.90%) Prometheus
4 144 (35.47%) Ansible
5 34 (8.37%) Argo
6 27 (6.65%) Kibana
7 20 (4.93%) Istio
8 18 (4.43%) Puppet
9 17 (4.19%) Nagios
10 16 (3.94%) logstash
11 10 (2.46%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.46%) Kustomize
12 9 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (2.22%) linkerd
13 8 (1.97%) ZABBIX
14 6 (1.48%) Progress Chef
14 6 (1.48%) vCenter Server
15 5 (1.23%) Mesos
15 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (1.23%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 56 (13.79%) Splunk
2 51 (12.56%) Microsoft
3 34 (8.37%) Red Hat
4 31 (7.64%) VMware
5 30 (7.39%) Dynatrace
6 24 (5.91%) Google
7 11 (2.71%) AppDynamics
7 11 (2.71%) Cisco
8 10 (2.46%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.46%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.46%) Rapid7
9 9 (2.22%) NetApp
9 9 (2.22%) Oracle
10 8 (1.97%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.72%) New Relic
12 6 (1.48%) Informatica
13 5 (1.23%) Tenable
14 4 (0.99%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.99%) Veracode