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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 477 431
Rank change year-on-year +148 -46 +104
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 348 299 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.44% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.74% 4.46% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 231 172 237
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,911 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +14.62% -16.13%
75th Percentile £85,125 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £92,375 £106,400
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 4,499 6,698 8,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.44% 9.78% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 4,042 6,578
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,520 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,125 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

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 22 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 22 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 +118 289 £72,500 +3.57% 342
UK excluding London +84 178 £70,000 +3.70% 203
London +89 134 £80,750 -5.00% 174
Work from Home +84 115 £67,500 -10.00% 193
North of England +40 59 £60,000 -20.00% 62
Midlands +81 42 £72,500 +11.54% 29
West Midlands +80 37 £72,500 +11.54% 24
South East +40 35 £70,000 +3.70% 49
North West +60 31 £62,500 -16.67% 42
Scotland +37 28 £72,289 +15.66% 12
North East -4 16 £57,600 -5.96% 8
Yorkshire +17 12 £75,000 -11.76% 12
South West +4 9 £72,500 +11.54% 31
East Midlands +20 5 £55,200 +38.00% 5
Wales +3 4 £67,539 +3.91% 3
East of England +14 2 £68,750 +37.50% 15
Northern Ireland +6 1 - - 5

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 34 (9.77%) Confluence
2 16 (4.60%) nginx
3 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.72%) Apache
4 6 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.44%) IIS
6 2 (0.57%) CICS
6 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.57%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.01%) 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
1 242 (69.54%) AWS
2 151 (43.39%) Azure
3 101 (29.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 82 (23.56%) GCP
5 71 (20.40%) GitHub
6 59 (16.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (16.09%) Amazon EC2
8 55 (15.80%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (14.66%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (14.37%) Amazon S3
11 47 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 42 (12.07%) Azure Monitor
13 40 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (10.34%) Datadog
15 35 (10.06%) AWS KMS
15 35 (10.06%) Serverless
16 33 (9.48%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (8.91%) Amazon ELB
18 29 (8.33%) SaaS
19 27 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 55 (15.80%) Firewall
2 33 (9.48%) DNS
3 28 (8.05%) HTTP
4 21 (6.03%) FTP
5 20 (5.75%) SMTP
5 20 (5.75%) SSH
6 10 (2.87%) WAN
7 8 (2.30%) VPN
8 7 (2.01%) IMAP
8 7 (2.01%) LAN
8 7 (2.01%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (2.01%) SAN
8 7 (2.01%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.01%) Wireless
9 6 (1.72%) BGP
10 5 (1.44%) Network Security
11 4 (1.15%) MPLS
11 4 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.15%) SSL
11 4 (1.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.08%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (7.76%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.60%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.02%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.59%) Redis
8 8 (2.30%) InfluxDB
8 8 (2.30%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.01%) MySQL
10 5 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.86%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.57%) Big Data
13 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.57%) Metadata
13 2 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 128 (36.78%) Jenkins
2 77 (22.13%) Git
3 75 (21.55%) GitLab
4 66 (18.97%) JIRA
5 31 (8.91%) Vagrant
6 21 (6.03%) TeamCity
7 17 (4.89%) Cucumber
8 16 (4.60%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.02%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (2.87%) JUnit
10 10 (2.87%) Selenium
11 9 (2.59%) JMeter
12 8 (2.30%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (2.30%) SonarQube
13 7 (2.01%) CircleCI
13 7 (2.01%) Locust
14 4 (1.15%) Robot Framework
14 4 (1.15%) TestRail
15 3 (0.86%) Spinnaker
General
1 114 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 106 (30.46%) Finance
3 50 (14.37%) Law
4 39 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 30 (8.62%) Banking
7 19 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.60%) Back Office
8 16 (4.60%) Legal
9 15 (4.31%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.02%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.02%) Retail
11 13 (3.74%) Marketing
12 12 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.59%) Advertising
14 6 (1.72%) Games
15 4 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.57%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.57%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 93 (26.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 80 (22.99%) Senior
3 36 (10.34%) Software Engineer
4 35 (10.06%) AWS Engineer
4 35 (10.06%) Lead
5 34 (9.77%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 21 (6.03%) Analyst
8 20 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
9 18 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 18 (5.17%) Support Engineer
10 17 (4.89%) Applications Support
10 17 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.89%) Developer
11 16 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (4.60%) Site Engineer
12 15 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (4.02%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (7.76%) .NET
3 19 (5.46%) Kafka
4 17 (4.89%) OpenTelemetry
5 15 (4.31%) Node.js
5 15 (4.31%) Spring
6 14 (4.02%) TensorFlow
7 13 (3.74%) Hugging Face
7 13 (3.74%) LangChain
7 13 (3.74%) PyTorch
7 13 (3.74%) React
7 13 (3.74%) Spring Boot
8 12 (3.45%) AWS CDK
8 12 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (3.16%) Django
9 11 (3.16%) Loki
10 10 (2.87%) FIX Protocol
10 10 (2.87%) Flask
11 9 (2.59%) ADO
12 8 (2.30%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.90%) Replication
4 13 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.30%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.44%) IoT
10 5 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.15%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.57%) MPEG
13 2 (0.57%) NHS
13 2 (0.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 146 (41.95%) Linux
2 76 (21.84%) Windows
3 34 (9.77%) VMS
4 25 (7.18%) Unix
5 20 (5.75%) Amazon Linux
6 19 (5.46%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.72%) Debian
8 6 (1.72%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.15%) CentOS
10 3 (0.86%) Android
11 2 (0.57%) AIX
11 2 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.57%) SUSE
11 2 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (66.95%) CI/CD
2 219 (62.93%) DevOps
3 141 (40.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (39.66%) Observability
5 109 (31.32%) Containerisation
6 83 (23.85%) Agile
7 78 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (21.26%) Platform Engineering
9 73 (20.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 68 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (17.82%) Cloud Security
12 58 (16.67%) Software Engineering
13 57 (16.38%) Change Management
14 56 (16.09%) Configuration Management
15 55 (15.80%) Test Automation
16 54 (15.52%) Computer Science
16 54 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 53 (15.23%) Microservices
18 52 (14.94%) High Availability
19 43 (12.36%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 207 (59.48%) Python
2 89 (25.57%) Java
3 81 (23.28%) Bash
3 81 (23.28%) PowerShell
4 59 (16.95%) SQL
5 39 (11.21%) Go
6 34 (9.77%) Groovy
7 33 (9.48%) JavaScript
8 21 (6.03%) C#
9 17 (4.89%) Bicep
10 14 (4.02%) Perl
11 13 (3.74%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.74%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.30%) Delphi
13 6 (1.72%) Ruby
14 5 (1.44%) C++
15 4 (1.15%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.86%) PHP
17 2 (0.57%) Korn
17 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 76 (21.84%) Degree
3 71 (20.40%) SC Cleared
4 51 (14.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (8.91%) AWS Certification
6 29 (8.33%) Azure Certification
7 19 (5.46%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.74%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.15%) CCNA
11 4 (1.15%) CCNP
12 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.86%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.34%) QA
2 7 (2.01%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.01%) WCAG
3 6 (1.72%) GDPR
4 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 164 (47.13%) Docker
2 27 (7.76%) Active Directory
3 22 (6.32%) DFS Replication
4 9 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (2.01%) Dovecot
6 7 (2.01%) Postfix
6 7 (2.01%) Squid
7 4 (1.15%) vSphere
8 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.57%) KVM
8 2 (0.57%) NFS
8 2 (0.57%) RACF
8 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.29%) iptables
9 1 (0.29%) pfSense
9 1 (0.29%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 223 (64.08%) Prometheus
2 216 (62.07%) Terraform
3 200 (57.47%) Kubernetes
4 104 (29.89%) Ansible
5 16 (4.60%) Argo
6 13 (3.74%) Control-M
7 10 (2.87%) Kibana
7 10 (2.87%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.59%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.59%) Nessus
9 7 (2.01%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.72%) logstash
11 5 (1.44%) Puppet
11 5 (1.44%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.15%) Nagios
13 3 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.86%) Netcool
13 3 (0.86%) Netcool/OMNIbus
13 3 (0.86%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (18.68%) Splunk
2 44 (12.64%) ServiceNow
3 28 (8.05%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.03%) Oracle
5 20 (5.75%) Dynatrace
6 17 (4.89%) SolarWinds
7 16 (4.60%) VMware
8 13 (3.74%) Atlassian
8 13 (3.74%) OpenAI
9 12 (3.45%) Google
9 12 (3.45%) Juniper
10 10 (2.87%) Cisco
11 9 (2.59%) AppDynamics
11 9 (2.59%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.59%) Red Hat
12 8 (2.30%) IBM
13 7 (2.01%) Jaspersoft
14 5 (1.44%) F5
14 5 (1.44%) Sonatype
15 3 (0.86%) New Relic