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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 388 434
Rank change year-on-year -38 +46 +2
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 415 341 429
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.68% 0.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.03% 6.20% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 238 228 205
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,875 £40,985
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.15%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,650 £117,875 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +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 5,901 5,504 7,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.54% 11.04% 9.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,260 3,306 5,034
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £101,100
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 15 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 15 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 -34 349 £70,000 -3.45% 490
UK excluding London -68 196 £65,000 -10.34% 200
London -32 168 £81,250 -1.52% 352
Work from Home +44 163 £65,000 -7.14% 239
South East +2 63 £62,500 -19.35% 43
South West -32 48 £65,000 -27.78% 36
North of England -37 43 £68,750 +5.77% 41
North West -4 28 £71,250 +18.75% 21
Midlands -75 17 £64,000 -11.72% 13
North East -48 14 £47,500 -20.83% 10
Scotland -10 12 £62,500 -34.21% 37
West Midlands -72 12 £66,289 -8.57% 5
Wales -53 10 £70,000 +21.74% 4
East Midlands -22 5 £64,000 +14.80% 8
East of England -20 2 £82,500 +22.22% 16
Yorkshire -40 1 £82,500 +6.54% 10
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 16 (3.86%) Apache
2 11 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.17%) Confluence
4 7 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.45%) IIS
6 5 (1.20%) nginx
7 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 277 (66.75%) AWS
2 162 (39.04%) Azure
3 158 (38.07%) GCP
4 85 (20.48%) Datadog
5 64 (15.42%) GitHub
6 60 (14.46%) GitHub Actions
6 60 (14.46%) SaaS
7 59 (14.22%) Amazon EKS
8 57 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (13.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 44 (10.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (10.36%) OpenShift
12 42 (10.12%) Serverless
13 38 (9.16%) Amazon S3
14 31 (7.47%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (7.23%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (5.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 18 (4.34%) Azure Monitor
18 18 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 49 (11.81%) Firewall
2 20 (4.82%) VLAN
3 17 (4.10%) DNS
4 15 (3.61%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.89%) WAN
6 11 (2.65%) HTTP
6 11 (2.65%) LAN
6 11 (2.65%) Unified Communications
6 11 (2.65%) WebEx
7 10 (2.41%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (2.41%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (2.17%) Broadband
8 9 (2.17%) VPN
9 8 (1.93%) BGP
10 7 (1.69%) Network Security
10 7 (1.69%) OSPF
10 7 (1.69%) SSH
11 6 (1.45%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.45%) SNMP
12 5 (1.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.43%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (7.23%) MySQL
4 25 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.58%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.61%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.89%) InfluxDB
7 12 (2.89%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.17%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.93%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.45%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.96%) Big Data
12 4 (0.96%) ZAP BI
13 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.72%) Redis
14 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 92 (22.17%) GitLab
2 79 (19.04%) Jenkins
3 74 (17.83%) Git
4 51 (12.29%) TeamCity
5 25 (6.02%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.54%) Cucumber
6 23 (5.54%) JMeter
7 16 (3.86%) Cypress.io
7 16 (3.86%) JIRA
7 16 (3.86%) Selenium
8 15 (3.61%) Gatling
9 12 (2.89%) LoadRunner
10 11 (2.65%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (2.17%) Bitbucket
11 9 (2.17%) Postman
12 7 (1.69%) JUnit
12 7 (1.69%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.69%) TestRail
13 6 (1.45%) Burp Suite
13 6 (1.45%) CircleCI
General
1 139 (33.49%) Finance
2 89 (21.45%) Banking
3 79 (19.04%) Social Skills
4 74 (17.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 71 (17.11%) Law
6 63 (15.18%) Retail
7 44 (10.60%) Public Sector
8 43 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (9.64%) Financial Institution
10 36 (8.67%) Back Office
11 21 (5.06%) Marketing
12 20 (4.82%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.69%) Legal
13 7 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Military
16 2 (0.48%) Advertising
16 2 (0.48%) Billing
16 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (20.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (17.11%) Senior
3 63 (15.18%) Software Engineer
4 44 (10.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (9.88%) Lead
6 40 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 35 (8.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 34 (8.19%) Platform Engineer
9 33 (7.95%) Developer
9 33 (7.95%) Site Engineer
10 29 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (4.58%) Administrator
11 19 (4.58%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (4.34%) Systems Administrator
13 17 (4.10%) Team Leader
14 16 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (3.61%) Java Engineer
15 15 (3.61%) Linux Administrator
15 15 (3.61%) Linux Systems Administrator
15 15 (3.61%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (13.49%) Elastic Stack
2 49 (11.81%) Kafka
3 35 (8.43%) OpenTelemetry
4 28 (6.75%) RabbitMQ
5 23 (5.54%) Loki
5 23 (5.54%) Node.js
5 23 (5.54%) REST
6 21 (5.06%) React
6 21 (5.06%) RESTful
7 18 (4.34%) .NET
7 18 (4.34%) Spring
7 18 (4.34%) Spring Boot
8 16 (3.86%) pytest
9 15 (3.61%) Playwright
9 15 (3.61%) YAML
10 11 (2.65%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.65%) Apache NiFi
10 11 (2.65%) gRPC
10 11 (2.65%) OAuth
10 11 (2.65%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 124 (29.88%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.08%) Product Ownership
3 36 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.30%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.13%) Replication
7 11 (2.65%) Blog
7 11 (2.65%) FlexPod
7 11 (2.65%) Video Conferencing
7 11 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.93%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.69%) PKI
11 7 (1.69%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.45%) IoT
13 5 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 122 (29.40%) Linux
2 46 (11.08%) Windows
3 21 (5.06%) CentOS
4 14 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.89%) Unix
6 7 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.45%) VMS
8 5 (1.20%) Debian
9 4 (0.96%) Android
9 4 (0.96%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.48%) Rocky
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (69.64%) CI/CD
2 242 (58.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 223 (53.73%) DevOps
4 218 (52.53%) Observability
5 154 (37.11%) Containerisation
6 139 (33.49%) Software Engineering
7 127 (30.60%) Test Automation
8 115 (27.71%) Agile
9 112 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (26.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (26.27%) Deployment Automation
11 94 (22.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 93 (22.41%) Microservices
13 89 (21.45%) Platform Engineering
14 82 (19.76%) Mentoring
15 70 (16.87%) AI
16 59 (14.22%) GitOps
17 57 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 55 (13.25%) Continuous Deployment
19 52 (12.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 266 (64.10%) Python
2 149 (35.90%) Bash
3 120 (28.92%) Java
4 81 (19.52%) PowerShell
5 54 (13.01%) SQL
6 44 (10.60%) JavaScript
7 41 (9.88%) Go
8 34 (8.19%) C#
9 23 (5.54%) Rust
9 23 (5.54%) TypeScript
10 16 (3.86%) C++
11 9 (2.17%) Bicep
11 9 (2.17%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.93%) PHP
13 7 (1.69%) VBA
14 5 (1.20%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.72%) Swift
17 2 (0.48%) Ruby
17 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.16%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.95%) Degree
4 22 (5.30%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.72%) CISSP
11 3 (0.72%) OCP
11 3 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.48%) ISEB
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (13.49%) QA
2 12 (2.89%) PCI DSS
2 12 (2.89%) SLA
3 11 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.17%) GDPR
6 8 (1.93%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.93%) WCAG
7 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.72%) NIST
7 3 (0.72%) PSD2
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 195 (46.99%) Docker
2 24 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (2.65%) Active Directory
5 11 (2.65%) vSphere
6 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.20%) KVM
7 5 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.96%) iptables
9 2 (0.48%) Xen
10 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 288 (69.40%) Terraform
2 265 (63.86%) Kubernetes
3 227 (54.70%) Prometheus
4 143 (34.46%) Ansible
5 40 (9.64%) Argo
6 26 (6.27%) Kibana
7 22 (5.30%) Istio
8 18 (4.34%) Nagios
9 16 (3.86%) logstash
9 16 (3.86%) Puppet
10 12 (2.89%) Kustomize
11 11 (2.65%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (2.17%) linkerd
13 8 (1.93%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.93%) ZABBIX
14 6 (1.45%) vCenter Server
15 5 (1.20%) Cilium
15 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (1.20%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.96%) Mesos
Vendors
1 65 (15.66%) Splunk
2 52 (12.53%) Microsoft
3 44 (10.60%) Dynatrace
4 36 (8.67%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.23%) VMware
6 28 (6.75%) Google
7 12 (2.89%) Cisco
8 11 (2.65%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.65%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.65%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.65%) Rapid7
9 10 (2.41%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.41%) NetApp
9 10 (2.41%) Oracle
9 10 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.45%) Informatica
10 6 (1.45%) New Relic
10 6 (1.45%) NVIDIA
11 5 (1.20%) Databricks
12 4 (0.96%) Veracode