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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 374 458
Rank change year-on-year -48 +84 -6
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 413 346 418
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.70% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.21% 6.18% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 245 231 202
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £40,081
25th Percentile £55,725 £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 5,730 5,598 7,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.60% 11.35% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 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 30 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 30 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 -40 356 £70,000 -3.45% 197
UK excluding London -57 202 £65,000 -7.14% 102
Work from Home +44 169 £65,000 -7.14% 104
London -22 164 £82,500 - 123
South East -3 64 £62,500 -16.67% 20
South West -18 50 £65,000 - 16
North of England -30 49 £63,750 -1.92% 27
North West +2 31 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Midlands -75 19 £62,500 -13.79% 12
North East -38 16 £47,500 -20.83% 2
West Midlands -66 15 £62,500 -13.79% 10
Wales -56 9 £70,000 +33.18% 4
Scotland -6 8 £62,500 -34.21% 14
East Midlands -21 4 £64,500 +15.70% 2
East of England -29 2 £77,575 +14.93% 8
Yorkshire -41 2 £67,500 -9.84% 8
Northern Ireland -68 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 (3.87%) Apache
2 10 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.94%) Confluence
4 7 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.45%) IIS
6 5 (1.21%) nginx
7 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 278 (67.31%) AWS
2 164 (39.71%) Azure
3 160 (38.74%) GCP
4 78 (18.89%) Datadog
5 66 (15.98%) GitHub
6 65 (15.74%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (15.25%) GitHub Actions
8 58 (14.04%) SaaS
9 53 (12.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (11.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (11.38%) Serverless
11 39 (9.44%) OpenShift
12 37 (8.96%) Amazon S3
13 32 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (6.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (4.36%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (13.80%) Firewall
2 22 (5.33%) DNS
3 21 (5.08%) TCP/IP
4 20 (4.84%) VLAN
5 17 (4.12%) HTTP
6 12 (2.91%) VPN
6 12 (2.91%) WAN
7 11 (2.66%) LAN
7 11 (2.66%) Unified Communications
7 11 (2.66%) WebEx
8 10 (2.42%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (2.42%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (2.18%) Broadband
10 8 (1.94%) BGP
11 7 (1.69%) MQTT
11 7 (1.69%) Network Security
11 7 (1.69%) OSPF
11 7 (1.69%) SSH
12 6 (1.45%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.23%) Elasticsearch
3 27 (6.54%) MySQL
4 24 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.39%) InfluxDB
6 14 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.91%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.42%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.94%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.21%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.73%) Big Data
13 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.48%) Looker
13 2 (0.48%) Redis
13 2 (0.48%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 91 (22.03%) GitLab
2 80 (19.37%) Jenkins
3 72 (17.43%) Git
4 57 (13.80%) TeamCity
5 24 (5.81%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.57%) JMeter
7 22 (5.33%) Cucumber
8 15 (3.63%) JIRA
9 12 (2.91%) Cypress.io
9 12 (2.91%) Gatling
9 12 (2.91%) LoadRunner
9 12 (2.91%) Selenium
10 11 (2.66%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.66%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (2.18%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.69%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.69%) TestRail
13 6 (1.45%) Burp Suite
13 6 (1.45%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.21%) Postman
General
1 134 (32.45%) Finance
2 92 (22.28%) Banking
3 78 (18.89%) Law
4 74 (17.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (17.92%) Social Skills
5 70 (16.95%) Retail
6 44 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (9.93%) Financial Institution
7 41 (9.93%) Public Sector
8 38 (9.20%) Back Office
9 26 (6.30%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.63%) Marketing
11 8 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.45%) Legal
13 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Advertising
14 2 (0.48%) Billing
14 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 93 (22.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (17.43%) Senior
3 62 (15.01%) Software Engineer
4 41 (9.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (9.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 37 (8.96%) Lead
7 34 (8.23%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (7.02%) Developer
9 28 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 26 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (6.30%) Site Engineer
11 20 (4.84%) Administrator
12 19 (4.60%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (4.60%) Systems Administrator
13 18 (4.36%) Java Engineer
13 18 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (4.36%) Team Leader
14 17 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.25%) Elastic Stack
2 49 (11.86%) Kafka
3 31 (7.51%) OpenTelemetry
4 27 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (5.08%) Loki
6 20 (4.84%) Node.js
7 18 (4.36%) React
7 18 (4.36%) REST
8 17 (4.12%) Spring
9 16 (3.87%) RESTful
9 16 (3.87%) Spring Boot
10 15 (3.63%) YAML
11 13 (3.15%) .NET
12 12 (2.91%) AngularJS
12 12 (2.91%) Playwright
12 12 (2.91%) pytest
13 11 (2.66%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (2.66%) ARM Templates
13 11 (2.66%) gRPC
13 11 (2.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 125 (30.27%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.14%) Product Ownership
3 35 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.33%) Onboarding
5 20 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.15%) Blog
6 13 (3.15%) Replication
7 11 (2.66%) FlexPod
7 11 (2.66%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.18%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.94%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.69%) PKI
11 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.21%) IoT
13 4 (0.97%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.97%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 119 (28.81%) Linux
2 46 (11.14%) Windows
3 20 (4.84%) CentOS
4 15 (3.63%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.91%) Unix
6 7 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.45%) VMS
8 5 (1.21%) Debian
9 4 (0.97%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.48%) Android
10 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.48%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (72.40%) CI/CD
2 239 (57.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 234 (56.66%) DevOps
4 197 (47.70%) Observability
5 168 (40.68%) Containerisation
6 133 (32.20%) Software Engineering
7 132 (31.96%) Test Automation
8 121 (29.30%) Agile
9 114 (27.60%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (26.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (26.39%) Deployment Automation
11 94 (22.76%) Microservices
12 92 (22.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 84 (20.34%) Platform Engineering
14 78 (18.89%) Mentoring
15 64 (15.50%) AI
16 59 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
17 55 (13.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 52 (12.59%) Clean Code
19 51 (12.35%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 268 (64.89%) Python
2 160 (38.74%) Bash
3 121 (29.30%) Java
4 78 (18.89%) PowerShell
5 56 (13.56%) SQL
6 45 (10.90%) Go
6 45 (10.90%) JavaScript
7 34 (8.23%) C#
8 26 (6.30%) Rust
9 22 (5.33%) TypeScript
10 16 (3.87%) C++
11 10 (2.42%) Bicep
12 7 (1.69%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.69%) VBA
13 6 (1.45%) PHP
14 5 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.48%) Ruby
16 2 (0.48%) Swift
16 2 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (20.82%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.72%) Degree
3 34 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (4.84%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.48%) CISSP
13 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.48%) ISEB
13 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.11%) QA
2 14 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.91%) GDPR
5 10 (2.42%) SLA
5 10 (2.42%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.45%) WCAG
8 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.73%) PSD2
10 2 (0.48%) GRC
10 2 (0.48%) NIST
10 2 (0.48%) SEPA
11 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 194 (46.97%) Docker
2 24 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.15%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (2.66%) vSphere
5 10 (2.42%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.21%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.21%) iptables
7 5 (1.21%) KVM
7 5 (1.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.48%) Xen
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 293 (70.94%) Terraform
2 267 (64.65%) Kubernetes
3 233 (56.42%) Prometheus
4 148 (35.84%) Ansible
5 34 (8.23%) Argo
6 27 (6.54%) Kibana
7 20 (4.84%) Istio
8 18 (4.36%) Puppet
9 17 (4.12%) Nagios
10 16 (3.87%) logstash
11 11 (2.66%) Cisco CUCM
12 10 (2.42%) Kustomize
13 9 (2.18%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (2.18%) linkerd
14 8 (1.94%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.45%) Progress Chef
15 6 (1.45%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.21%) Mesos
16 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (1.21%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 57 (13.80%) Splunk
2 52 (12.59%) Microsoft
3 34 (8.23%) Red Hat
4 33 (7.99%) Dynatrace
5 32 (7.75%) VMware
6 24 (5.81%) Google
7 12 (2.91%) Cisco
8 11 (2.66%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.66%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.66%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.42%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.42%) NetApp
9 10 (2.42%) Rapid7
10 9 (2.18%) Oracle
11 8 (1.94%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.69%) New Relic
13 6 (1.45%) Informatica
14 5 (1.21%) NVIDIA
14 5 (1.21%) Tenable
15 4 (0.97%) Databricks