Grafana Job Trends

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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 472 433
Rank change year-on-year +123 -39 +103
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 339 302 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.45% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.57% 4.52% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 230 172 230
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,911 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,521 £75,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +13.21% -14.52%
75th Percentile £85,188 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £92,375 £108,525
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

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 4,476 6,682 7,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.30% 9.95% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,174 4,037 6,435
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,520 £36,041
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,333
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.29% +2.38%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +98 280 £72,500 +1.75% 175
UK excluding London +90 172 £70,000 +3.70% 145
London +77 131 £80,500 -5.29% 74
Work from Home +87 117 £67,500 -10.00% 98
North of England +57 62 £62,500 -16.67% 30
Midlands +59 39 £72,500 +11.54% 19
West Midlands +85 34 £72,500 +11.54% 17
North West +70 32 £62,500 -16.67% 15
South East +41 29 £70,000 +3.70% 48
Scotland +34 27 £72,289 +15.66% 12
North East -3 17 £57,600 -5.96% 4
Yorkshire +12 13 £80,000 -5.88% 11
South West 0 10 £90,000 +38.46% 24
East Midlands +17 5 £55,200 +38.00% 2
Wales -1 4 £67,539 +3.91% 1
East of England +25 2 £68,750 +37.50% 10
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 2

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 31 (9.14%) Confluence
2 16 (4.72%) nginx
3 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.77%) Apache
4 6 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.77%) IIS
5 5 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.59%) CICS
6 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.29%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 231 (68.14%) AWS
2 148 (43.66%) Azure
3 97 (28.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 76 (22.42%) GCP
5 71 (20.94%) GitHub
6 58 (17.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
8 53 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (15.04%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (13.86%) Amazon S3
11 43 (12.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 40 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
13 36 (10.62%) Azure Monitor
13 36 (10.62%) Datadog
14 35 (10.32%) Serverless
15 31 (9.14%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (9.14%) AWS KMS
16 28 (8.26%) Amazon ELB
16 28 (8.26%) SaaS
17 27 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 53 (15.63%) Firewall
2 31 (9.14%) DNS
3 25 (7.37%) HTTP
4 19 (5.60%) FTP
5 18 (5.31%) SMTP
5 18 (5.31%) SSH
6 9 (2.65%) WAN
7 8 (2.36%) VPN
8 7 (2.06%) LAN
8 7 (2.06%) SAN
8 7 (2.06%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.06%) Wireless
9 6 (1.77%) BGP
9 6 (1.77%) IMAP
9 6 (1.77%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (1.47%) Network Security
11 4 (1.18%) MPLS
11 4 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.18%) SSL
11 4 (1.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (13.86%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (8.26%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.01%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.13%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.95%) Redis
7 9 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.65%) InfluxDB
8 7 (2.06%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.06%) MySQL
9 5 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.88%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.59%) Big Data
11 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 126 (37.17%) Jenkins
2 77 (22.71%) GitLab
3 75 (22.12%) Git
4 64 (18.88%) JIRA
5 28 (8.26%) Vagrant
6 21 (6.19%) TeamCity
7 18 (5.31%) Cucumber
8 17 (5.01%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (2.95%) JUnit
10 10 (2.95%) Selenium
11 9 (2.65%) JMeter
12 8 (2.36%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.36%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (2.36%) SonarQube
13 7 (2.06%) CircleCI
13 7 (2.06%) Locust
14 4 (1.18%) Robot Framework
14 4 (1.18%) TestRail
15 3 (0.88%) Gradle
General
1 103 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 98 (28.91%) Finance
3 43 (12.68%) Law
4 38 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (9.73%) Public Sector
6 30 (8.85%) Banking
7 18 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.72%) Back Office
9 15 (4.42%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.13%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.13%) Retail
11 12 (3.54%) Marketing
12 11 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.95%) Legal
14 8 (2.36%) Advertising
15 5 (1.47%) Games
16 4 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.59%) Agriculture
17 2 (0.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 92 (27.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (21.24%) Senior
3 38 (11.21%) Lead
4 36 (10.62%) Software Engineer
5 34 (10.03%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (9.73%) AWS Engineer
7 22 (6.49%) Analyst
7 22 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 20 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.31%) Senior DevOps
10 18 (5.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.01%) Developer
12 16 (4.72%) Applications Support
12 16 (4.72%) Support Engineer
13 15 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (4.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (4.13%) Java Engineer
14 14 (4.13%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (17.70%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (7.96%) .NET
3 19 (5.60%) Kafka
4 15 (4.42%) Spring
5 14 (4.13%) Node.js
5 14 (4.13%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
5 14 (4.13%) React
6 13 (3.83%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.54%) AWS CDK
7 12 (3.54%) Loki
8 11 (3.24%) Django
8 11 (3.24%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (2.95%) Flask
10 9 (2.65%) ADO
11 8 (2.36%) Gherkin
11 8 (2.36%) pytest
11 8 (2.36%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.06%) PyTorch
12 7 (2.06%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.11%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.49%) Replication
4 12 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.47%) IoT
7 5 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.18%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.88%) PKI
10 2 (0.59%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.59%) NHS
10 2 (0.59%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.59%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 147 (43.36%) Linux
2 74 (21.83%) Windows
3 31 (9.14%) VMS
4 25 (7.37%) Unix
5 18 (5.31%) Amazon Linux
5 18 (5.31%) Ubuntu
6 11 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.06%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.77%) Debian
9 5 (1.47%) CentOS
10 2 (0.59%) AIX
10 2 (0.59%) Android
10 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.59%) SUSE
10 2 (0.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (68.73%) CI/CD
2 218 (64.31%) DevOps
3 142 (41.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 134 (39.53%) Observability
5 110 (32.45%) Containerisation
6 85 (25.07%) Agile
7 77 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (21.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 69 (20.35%) Platform Engineering
10 62 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (16.81%) Software Engineering
12 56 (16.52%) Configuration Management
12 56 (16.52%) Test Automation
13 54 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 53 (15.63%) Cloud Security
15 52 (15.34%) Microservices
16 48 (14.16%) Computer Science
17 47 (13.86%) High Availability
18 46 (13.57%) Change Management
19 42 (12.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 206 (60.77%) Python
2 87 (25.66%) Java
3 84 (24.78%) Bash
4 78 (23.01%) PowerShell
5 58 (17.11%) SQL
6 39 (11.50%) Go
7 33 (9.73%) JavaScript
8 31 (9.14%) Groovy
9 22 (6.49%) C#
10 17 (5.01%) Bicep
11 14 (4.13%) Perl
11 14 (4.13%) TypeScript
12 12 (3.54%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.36%) Delphi
14 6 (1.77%) Ruby
15 5 (1.47%) C++
16 3 (0.88%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.88%) PHP
17 2 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.59%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 86 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 70 (20.65%) Degree
3 69 (20.35%) SC Cleared
4 45 (13.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (8.85%) AWS Certification
6 28 (8.26%) Azure Certification
7 14 (4.13%) DV Cleared
8 13 (3.83%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.18%) CCNA
11 4 (1.18%) CCNP
12 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.88%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.50%) QA
2 7 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.06%) WCAG
3 6 (1.77%) GDPR
4 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 168 (49.56%) Docker
2 26 (7.67%) Active Directory
3 20 (5.90%) DFS Replication
4 10 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.77%) Dovecot
6 6 (1.77%) Postfix
6 6 (1.77%) Squid
7 4 (1.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.59%) iptables
8 2 (0.59%) KVM
8 2 (0.59%) NFS
8 2 (0.59%) RACF
8 2 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.29%) pfSense
9 1 (0.29%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 213 (62.83%) Prometheus
1 213 (62.83%) Terraform
2 204 (60.18%) Kubernetes
3 109 (32.15%) Ansible
4 16 (4.72%) Argo
5 13 (3.83%) Control-M
6 10 (2.95%) Docker Swarm
6 10 (2.95%) Kibana
6 10 (2.95%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.36%) Nessus
8 6 (1.77%) logstash
8 6 (1.77%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.47%) Nagios
9 5 (1.47%) Puppet
9 5 (1.47%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.88%) Netcool
10 3 (0.88%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 3 (0.88%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 63 (18.58%) Splunk
2 41 (12.09%) ServiceNow
3 28 (8.26%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.19%) Oracle
5 19 (5.60%) Dynatrace
6 18 (5.31%) VMware
7 16 (4.72%) SolarWinds
8 14 (4.13%) Atlassian
9 12 (3.54%) Google
10 11 (3.24%) Juniper
10 11 (3.24%) Red Hat
11 10 (2.95%) Cisco
12 9 (2.65%) AppDynamics
12 9 (2.65%) Fortinet
13 8 (2.36%) IBM
14 7 (2.06%) OpenAI
15 6 (1.77%) Jaspersoft
16 5 (1.47%) F5
16 5 (1.47%) Sonatype
17 3 (0.88%) Meraki