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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 382 443
Rank change year-on-year -44 +61 -7
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 410 344 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.69% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.99% 6.20% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 237 229 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £40,808
25th Percentile £55,750 £63,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +0.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £99,550 £115,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £71,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.77% +5.56% +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 5,866 5,552 7,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.53% 11.15% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,253 3,320 5,098
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.99%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -38 347 £70,000 -3.45% 524
UK excluding London -78 198 £65,000 -8.77% 229
Work from Home +58 165 £65,000 -7.14% 254
London -34 163 £82,500 - 356
South East -3 63 £62,500 -18.03% 47
South West -18 49 £65,000 -27.78% 46
North of England -49 44 £67,500 +5.88% 52
North West -18 29 £70,000 +16.67% 27
Midlands -64 18 £63,250 -12.76% 18
North East -44 14 £47,500 -20.83% 12
West Midlands -66 13 £62,500 -13.79% 9
Scotland -2 11 £62,500 -34.21% 35
Wales -51 10 £70,000 +33.18% 5
East Midlands -19 5 £64,000 +14.80% 9
East of England -32 2 £82,500 +22.22% 16
Yorkshire -38 1 £82,500 +6.54% 13
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 12

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 15 (3.66%) Apache
2 11 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.20%) Confluence
4 7 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.46%) IIS
6 5 (1.22%) nginx
7 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 273 (66.59%) AWS
2 159 (38.78%) Azure
3 154 (37.56%) GCP
4 82 (20.00%) Datadog
5 64 (15.61%) GitHub
6 61 (14.88%) SaaS
7 60 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
8 59 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (12.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (10.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (10.49%) Serverless
11 42 (10.24%) OpenShift
12 38 (9.27%) Amazon S3
13 31 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (7.07%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (5.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 50 (12.20%) Firewall
2 20 (4.88%) VLAN
3 19 (4.63%) DNS
4 17 (4.15%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.17%) HTTP
6 12 (2.93%) WAN
7 11 (2.68%) LAN
7 11 (2.68%) Unified Communications
7 11 (2.68%) WebEx
8 10 (2.44%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (2.44%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (2.20%) Broadband
9 9 (2.20%) VPN
10 8 (1.95%) BGP
11 7 (1.71%) Network Security
11 7 (1.71%) OSPF
11 7 (1.71%) SSH
12 6 (1.46%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.46%) SNMP
13 5 (1.22%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.54%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (6.83%) MySQL
4 25 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (4.15%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.41%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.17%) InfluxDB
8 12 (2.93%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.20%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.95%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.46%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.98%) ZAP BI
14 3 (0.73%) Big Data
14 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 91 (22.20%) GitLab
2 80 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 73 (17.80%) Git
4 53 (12.93%) TeamCity
5 25 (6.10%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.61%) Cucumber
6 23 (5.61%) JMeter
7 16 (3.90%) JIRA
8 15 (3.66%) Cypress.io
8 15 (3.66%) Selenium
9 13 (3.17%) Gatling
10 12 (2.93%) LoadRunner
11 11 (2.68%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (2.44%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.95%) Postman
14 7 (1.71%) JUnit
14 7 (1.71%) Robot Framework
14 7 (1.71%) TestRail
15 6 (1.46%) Burp Suite
15 6 (1.46%) CircleCI
General
1 136 (33.17%) Finance
2 88 (21.46%) Banking
3 74 (18.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 74 (18.05%) Law
4 73 (17.80%) Social Skills
5 65 (15.85%) Retail
6 42 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (10.00%) Public Sector
8 40 (9.76%) Financial Institution
9 37 (9.02%) Back Office
10 22 (5.37%) Telecoms
11 19 (4.63%) Marketing
12 7 (1.71%) Legal
12 7 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.73%) Military
15 2 (0.49%) Advertising
15 2 (0.49%) Billing
15 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (20.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (17.32%) Senior
3 61 (14.88%) Software Engineer
4 43 (10.49%) Lead
5 42 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (9.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (8.05%) Developer
7 33 (8.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 32 (7.80%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (7.56%) Site Engineer
10 27 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (4.39%) Administrator
12 18 (4.39%) Team Leader
13 17 (4.15%) Systems Administrator
14 16 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (3.66%) Java Engineer
15 15 (3.66%) Test Engineer
16 14 (3.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (14.15%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (11.46%) Kafka
3 34 (8.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 27 (6.59%) RabbitMQ
5 23 (5.61%) Loki
5 23 (5.61%) Node.js
6 22 (5.37%) React
6 22 (5.37%) REST
7 20 (4.88%) RESTful
8 19 (4.63%) Spring
9 18 (4.39%) .NET
9 18 (4.39%) Spring Boot
10 15 (3.66%) pytest
10 15 (3.66%) YAML
11 13 (3.17%) Playwright
12 12 (2.93%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.68%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (2.68%) gRPC
13 11 (2.68%) OAuth
13 11 (2.68%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 124 (30.24%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.22%) Product Ownership
3 35 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.37%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.17%) Replication
7 11 (2.68%) Blog
7 11 (2.68%) FlexPod
7 11 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
8 10 (2.44%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.71%) PKI
12 6 (1.46%) IoT
12 6 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.46%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.98%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 119 (29.02%) Linux
2 45 (10.98%) Windows
3 20 (4.88%) CentOS
4 14 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.93%) Unix
6 7 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.71%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.46%) VMS
8 5 (1.22%) Debian
9 4 (0.98%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.73%) Android
10 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.49%) Rocky
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (70.49%) CI/CD
2 238 (58.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 225 (54.88%) DevOps
4 209 (50.98%) Observability
5 154 (37.56%) Containerisation
6 134 (32.68%) Software Engineering
7 127 (30.98%) Test Automation
8 113 (27.56%) Agile
9 110 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (26.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 107 (26.10%) Deployment Automation
11 94 (22.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 92 (22.44%) Microservices
13 87 (21.22%) Platform Engineering
14 82 (20.00%) Mentoring
15 65 (15.85%) AI
16 56 (13.66%) Continuous Deployment
16 56 (13.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 55 (13.41%) GitOps
18 50 (12.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 262 (63.90%) Python
2 148 (36.10%) Bash
3 122 (29.76%) Java
4 79 (19.27%) PowerShell
5 54 (13.17%) SQL
6 46 (11.22%) JavaScript
7 42 (10.24%) Go
8 34 (8.29%) C#
9 25 (6.10%) TypeScript
10 23 (5.61%) Rust
11 16 (3.90%) C++
12 9 (2.20%) Bicep
12 9 (2.20%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.95%) PHP
14 7 (1.71%) VBA
15 5 (1.22%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.73%) Swift
18 2 (0.49%) Ruby
19 1 (0.24%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 87 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.02%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.80%) Degree
4 21 (5.12%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.73%) OCP
11 3 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.49%) CISSP
12 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.49%) ISEB
12 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.44%) QA
2 12 (2.93%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.68%) SLA
4 9 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.20%) GDPR
5 8 (1.95%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.71%) WCAG
7 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.73%) NIST
7 3 (0.73%) PSD2
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 192 (46.83%) Docker
2 24 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (2.68%) vSphere
6 10 (2.44%) Active Directory
7 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.22%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.22%) KVM
8 5 (1.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.98%) iptables
10 2 (0.49%) Xen
11 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 284 (69.27%) Terraform
2 263 (64.15%) Kubernetes
3 226 (55.12%) Prometheus
4 141 (34.39%) Ansible
5 38 (9.27%) Argo
6 27 (6.59%) Kibana
7 20 (4.88%) Istio
8 17 (4.15%) Nagios
9 16 (3.90%) logstash
9 16 (3.90%) Puppet
10 11 (2.68%) Cisco CUCM
10 11 (2.68%) Kustomize
11 8 (1.95%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (1.95%) linkerd
11 8 (1.95%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.46%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.22%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.98%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.98%) Mesos
Vendors
1 60 (14.63%) Splunk
2 51 (12.44%) Microsoft
3 40 (9.76%) Dynatrace
4 35 (8.54%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.32%) VMware
6 26 (6.34%) Google
7 12 (2.93%) Cisco
8 11 (2.68%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.68%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.68%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.44%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.44%) NetApp
9 10 (2.44%) Oracle
9 10 (2.44%) Rapid7
9 10 (2.44%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.46%) Informatica
10 6 (1.46%) New Relic
10 6 (1.46%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.98%) Databricks
11 4 (0.98%) Veracode