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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 406 484
Rank change year-on-year +48 +78 -8
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 400 233 421
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.03% 5.11% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 226 160 197
10th Percentile £45,081 £44,935 £41,699
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -7.64% +4.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +19.61%

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 4,430 4,559 9,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.50% 11.14% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,119 3,380 7,296
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,975 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -6.09%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 +52 338 £70,079 -4.89% 134
Work from Home +108 186 £72,500 +11.54% 77
UK excluding London -17 180 £62,500 -3.85% 107
London +54 170 £82,500 -8.33% 50
North of England -65 56 £57,600 -19.16% 32
South West -5 41 £56,250 -13.46% 14
South East -6 36 £62,500 -19.35% 32
North East -26 23 £47,500 -22.45% 6
North West -32 20 £62,500 -15.25% 19
Midlands -55 17 £64,000 -1.54% 11
Scotland -22 15 £68,539 -27.85% 6
Yorkshire -47 13 £80,000 +6.85% 7
West Midlands -26 12 £58,850 -9.46% 10
East of England -18 8 £82,575 +43.61% 6
Wales -35 5 £70,079 +7.81% 5
East Midlands -43 5 £64,000 +55.15% 1
Northern Ireland -39 2 - - 1

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 (4.75%) Apache
2 15 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.25%) Confluence
5 4 (1.00%) IIS
6 3 (0.75%) nginx
7 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.00%) Weka
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 287 (71.75%) AWS
2 178 (44.50%) Azure
3 164 (41.00%) GCP
4 101 (25.25%) GitHub
5 96 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
6 86 (21.50%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (19.25%) Datadog
8 74 (18.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 59 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (14.00%) Serverless
11 53 (13.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 51 (12.75%) SaaS
13 33 (8.25%) OpenShift
14 32 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (7.50%) Amazon S3
16 27 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 23 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
19 21 (5.25%) dbt
20 15 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 52 (13.00%) Firewall
2 32 (8.00%) DNS
3 28 (7.00%) HTTP
4 20 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 18 (4.50%) VPN
6 11 (2.75%) LAN
6 11 (2.75%) WAN
7 10 (2.50%) Broadband
8 9 (2.25%) VLAN
9 7 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (1.75%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.75%) WebEx
10 6 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.50%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (1.50%) Network Security
11 5 (1.25%) BGP
11 5 (1.25%) DHCP
11 5 (1.25%) SSL
12 4 (1.00%) MQTT
12 4 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (5.75%) SQL Server
4 19 (4.75%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (4.75%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.25%) MySQL
7 12 (3.00%) InfluxDB
8 11 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.75%) Redis
11 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.75%) Big Data
12 3 (0.75%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.50%) Looker
13 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.50%) PostHog
13 2 (0.50%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 106 (26.50%) Jenkins
2 94 (23.50%) GitLab
3 61 (15.25%) TeamCity
4 56 (14.00%) Git
5 35 (8.75%) Cucumber
6 26 (6.50%) JMeter
7 21 (5.25%) JIRA
8 19 (4.75%) SonarQube
9 18 (4.50%) Selenium
10 17 (4.25%) CircleCI
11 13 (3.25%) Bitbucket
11 13 (3.25%) Locust
12 11 (2.75%) Cypress.io
13 10 (2.50%) JUnit
13 10 (2.50%) Robot Framework
13 10 (2.50%) TestRail
14 9 (2.25%) LoadRunner
15 8 (2.00%) Gatling
16 5 (1.25%) MLflow
16 5 (1.25%) Postman
General
1 120 (30.00%) Finance
2 109 (27.25%) Social Skills
3 75 (18.75%) Law
4 74 (18.50%) Banking
5 70 (17.50%) Retail
6 67 (16.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (9.75%) Back Office
8 37 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (9.25%) Financial Institution
9 36 (9.00%) Telecoms
10 20 (5.00%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.50%) Legal
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.50%) Advertising
16 1 (0.25%) Front Office
16 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 89 (22.25%) Senior
2 82 (20.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 58 (14.50%) Software Engineer
4 52 (13.00%) Lead
5 34 (8.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (7.25%) Developer
8 27 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.50%) Java Engineer
11 20 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (4.50%) Software Developer
13 17 (4.25%) Java Software Engineer
14 16 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 15 (3.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 14 (3.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 13 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
17 13 (3.25%) Development Engineer
17 13 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (19.00%) Elastic Stack
2 36 (9.00%) Kafka
3 28 (7.00%) .NET
4 21 (5.25%) React
5 20 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 20 (5.00%) Spring
6 19 (4.75%) Spring Boot
7 17 (4.25%) OAuth
7 17 (4.25%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (4.00%) Gherkin
9 14 (3.50%) Loki
9 14 (3.50%) pytest
10 12 (3.00%) REST
11 11 (2.75%) Node.js
12 10 (2.50%) ADO
12 10 (2.50%) AWS CDK
13 9 (2.25%) Django
13 9 (2.25%) Flask
13 9 (2.25%) JWT
13 9 (2.25%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 107 (26.75%) Cloud Native
2 44 (11.00%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.50%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.00%) Blog
6 12 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.75%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.50%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.00%) PKI
9 8 (2.00%) Replication
10 7 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.75%) FlexPod
10 7 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.00%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.00%) IoT
11 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 121 (30.25%) Linux
2 61 (15.25%) Windows
3 19 (4.75%) CentOS
4 15 (3.75%) Unix
5 11 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.75%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.25%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.00%) VMS
8 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
9 2 (0.50%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (77.75%) CI/CD
2 244 (61.00%) DevOps
3 214 (53.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 179 (44.75%) Observability
5 176 (44.00%) Containerisation
6 132 (33.00%) Test Automation
7 122 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
8 115 (28.75%) Agile
8 115 (28.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 111 (27.75%) Software Engineering
10 89 (22.25%) Deployment Automation
11 87 (21.75%) Microservices
12 85 (21.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 69 (17.25%) Platform Engineering
14 60 (15.00%) Clean Code
15 58 (14.50%) Mentoring
16 56 (14.00%) Continuous Deployment
17 53 (13.25%) High Availability
17 53 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 51 (12.75%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 230 (57.50%) Python
2 132 (33.00%) Bash
3 118 (29.50%) Java
4 55 (13.75%) PowerShell
5 53 (13.25%) JavaScript
6 52 (13.00%) Go
7 48 (12.00%) SQL
8 37 (9.25%) C#
9 25 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 15 (3.75%) Rust
11 14 (3.50%) C++
12 9 (2.25%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.00%) Bicep
13 8 (2.00%) Delphi
14 7 (1.75%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.75%) Elixir
15 3 (0.75%) Erlang
15 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.50%) C
16 2 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 45 (11.25%) Degree
3 31 (7.75%) AWS Certification
3 31 (7.75%) DV Cleared
4 30 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 23 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.25%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.25%) QA
2 15 (3.75%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.75%) GDPR
3 13 (3.25%) WCAG
4 10 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.50%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.00%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
7 2 (0.50%) SEPA
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) NIST
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 190 (47.50%) Docker
2 20 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.75%) KVM
4 7 (1.75%) vSphere
5 6 (1.50%) iptables
6 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.00%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.25%) pfSense
9 1 (0.25%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 298 (74.50%) Terraform
2 267 (66.75%) Kubernetes
3 206 (51.50%) Prometheus
4 145 (36.25%) Ansible
5 23 (5.75%) Kibana
6 14 (3.50%) Argo
6 14 (3.50%) Puppet
7 12 (3.00%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.25%) Istio
8 9 (2.25%) logstash
8 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.25%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.00%) linkerd
9 8 (2.00%) Mesos
9 8 (2.00%) Nagios
9 8 (2.00%) Proxmox
9 8 (2.00%) ZABBIX
10 7 (1.75%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (1.00%) Control-M
12 3 (0.75%) Scalr
Vendors
1 50 (12.50%) Splunk
2 39 (9.75%) VMware
3 27 (6.75%) Microsoft
4 26 (6.50%) Dynatrace
5 24 (6.00%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.75%) Oracle
7 14 (3.50%) Google
8 12 (3.00%) AppDynamics
8 12 (3.00%) Fortinet
9 10 (2.50%) SolarWinds
10 9 (2.25%) Cisco
11 8 (2.00%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.50%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.50%) NetApp
12 6 (1.50%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.25%) Databricks
13 5 (1.25%) New Relic
13 5 (1.25%) Rapid7
14 4 (1.00%) Cribl.io
14 4 (1.00%) PagerDuty