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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 448 426
Rank change year-on-year +81 -22 +108
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 306 286 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.23% 4.62% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 213 166 224
10th Percentile £47,523 £43,911 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,313
90th Percentile £113,500 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -0.33%

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 4,231 6,186 7,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.17% 11.03% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,059 3,820 6,185
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,162
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,400 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,750 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +2.68% -2.61%

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 December 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 December 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 +58 240 £72,500 -2.68% 292
UK excluding London +26 142 £67,500 - 240
Work from Home +68 129 £67,500 -10.00% 173
London +60 115 £85,000 - 91
North of England +27 60 £62,500 -16.67% 64
North West +51 30 £62,500 -16.67% 32
Scotland +24 22 £72,289 +15.66% 14
Midlands +25 20 £72,500 +11.54% 34
West Midlands +42 18 £72,500 +11.54% 21
South East +11 18 £70,000 +3.70% 70
North East -11 17 £53,350 -12.90% 5
Yorkshire +2 13 £80,000 +0.63% 28
South West -10 12 £75,000 +15.38% 32
East of England +19 5 £67,500 +35.00% 22
Wales -10 4 £67,539 +3.91% 4
East Midlands -11 2 £54,600 +32.36% 12
Northern Ireland -4 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 15 (4.90%) Confluence
2 13 (4.25%) nginx
3 10 (3.27%) Apache
4 7 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.31%) IIS
7 2 (0.65%) CICS
7 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 209 (68.30%) AWS
2 147 (48.04%) Azure
3 85 (27.78%) GCP
4 82 (26.80%) GitHub
5 81 (26.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 65 (21.24%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (18.63%) Amazon EKS
8 53 (17.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (13.07%) Datadog
11 39 (12.75%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (11.44%) Serverless
13 33 (10.78%) Amazon S3
14 28 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (9.15%) SaaS
14 28 (9.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (8.17%) OpenShift
16 24 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (7.52%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (7.19%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.76%) Firewall
2 26 (8.50%) DNS
3 20 (6.54%) HTTP
4 12 (3.92%) FTP
5 11 (3.59%) SMTP
5 11 (3.59%) SSH
6 10 (3.27%) VPN
7 9 (2.94%) WAN
8 8 (2.61%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.29%) LAN
9 7 (2.29%) Wireless
10 6 (1.96%) BGP
10 6 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (1.63%) Network Security
11 5 (1.63%) SSL
12 4 (1.31%) IMAP
12 4 (1.31%) MPLS
12 4 (1.31%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (1.31%) SAN
13 3 (0.98%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.44%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.50%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.58%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.59%) InfluxDB
6 9 (2.94%) MySQL
6 9 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.94%) Redis
7 8 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.29%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.65%) Metadata
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.65%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 101 (33.01%) Jenkins
2 73 (23.86%) GitLab
3 60 (19.61%) Git
4 44 (14.38%) JIRA
5 25 (8.17%) TeamCity
6 21 (6.86%) Cucumber
7 15 (4.90%) Bitbucket
8 12 (3.92%) Vagrant
9 11 (3.59%) Selenium
10 10 (3.27%) JMeter
11 9 (2.94%) JUnit
11 9 (2.94%) SonarQube
12 8 (2.61%) CircleCI
12 8 (2.61%) Locust
12 8 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (2.29%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.96%) Robot Framework
14 6 (1.96%) TestRail
15 5 (1.63%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 96 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 81 (26.47%) Finance
3 27 (8.82%) Banking
4 21 (6.86%) Law
5 20 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.88%) Retail
7 17 (5.56%) Back Office
8 16 (5.23%) Telecoms
9 15 (4.90%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.61%) Advertising
12 6 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.63%) Games
14 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.98%) Legal
16 2 (0.65%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.65%) Front Office
17 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 78 (25.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (22.88%) Senior
3 37 (12.09%) Lead
4 34 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (9.15%) Software Engineer
6 26 (8.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (6.86%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (6.21%) Developer
9 17 (5.56%) Development Engineer
10 16 (5.23%) Senior DevOps
10 16 (5.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.90%) Analyst
11 15 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.90%) Lead DevOps
12 14 (4.58%) Applications Support
12 14 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (4.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (3.59%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 11 (3.59%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (19.61%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (10.13%) .NET
3 16 (5.23%) Kafka
4 15 (4.90%) React
5 14 (4.58%) ADO
5 14 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
5 14 (4.58%) Spring
6 13 (4.25%) Node.js
6 13 (4.25%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (3.59%) AWS CDK
8 11 (3.59%) Loki
9 10 (3.27%) Django
9 10 (3.27%) Gherkin
10 9 (2.94%) Flask
10 9 (2.94%) pytest
11 7 (2.29%) ARM Templates
11 7 (2.29%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.96%) JWT
12 6 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.48%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.27%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.94%) Replication
8 8 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.63%) IoT
9 5 (1.63%) PKI
10 3 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.65%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.65%) MPEG
11 2 (0.65%) NHS
11 2 (0.65%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 127 (41.50%) Linux
2 60 (19.61%) Windows
3 20 (6.54%) Unix
4 15 (4.90%) VMS
5 13 (4.25%) Ubuntu
6 11 (3.59%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (2.61%) CentOS
8 6 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.31%) Debian
9 4 (1.31%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.98%) SUSE
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (74.84%) CI/CD
2 206 (67.32%) DevOps
3 150 (49.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 131 (42.81%) Observability
5 117 (38.24%) Containerisation
6 82 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (25.49%) Agile
8 72 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 68 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
10 62 (20.26%) Test Automation
11 50 (16.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 47 (15.36%) Incident Response
13 44 (14.38%) Microservices
13 44 (14.38%) Software Engineering
14 39 (12.75%) Cloud Security
14 39 (12.75%) Mentoring
15 37 (12.09%) Configuration Management
16 36 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
17 35 (11.44%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 182 (59.48%) Python
2 81 (26.47%) Bash
3 71 (23.20%) Java
4 57 (18.63%) PowerShell
5 43 (14.05%) SQL
6 41 (13.40%) JavaScript
7 33 (10.78%) Go
8 25 (8.17%) C#
9 17 (5.56%) Bicep
9 17 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 14 (4.58%) Groovy
11 9 (2.94%) Perl
12 8 (2.61%) C++
12 8 (2.61%) Delphi
13 5 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.63%) Ruby
13 5 (1.63%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.31%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.98%) PHP
16 2 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 53 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 51 (16.67%) Degree
4 30 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (8.82%) AWS Certification
6 22 (7.19%) DV Cleared
7 20 (6.54%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.31%) CCNA
10 3 (0.98%) CCNP
10 3 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.98%) MCP
11 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.38%) QA
2 7 (2.29%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.29%) WCAG
3 6 (1.96%) GDPR
4 4 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 163 (53.27%) Docker
2 14 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.29%) DFS Replication
5 4 (1.31%) Dovecot
5 4 (1.31%) KVM
5 4 (1.31%) Postfix
5 4 (1.31%) Squid
6 3 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.98%) vSphere
7 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.65%) iptables
7 2 (0.65%) NFS
7 2 (0.65%) RACF
8 1 (0.33%) pfSense
8 1 (0.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 207 (67.65%) Terraform
2 202 (66.01%) Kubernetes
3 184 (60.13%) Prometheus
4 102 (33.33%) Ansible
5 21 (6.86%) Argo
6 12 (3.92%) Control-M
6 12 (3.92%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (2.94%) Kibana
8 8 (2.61%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.96%) Nessus
10 5 (1.63%) Istio
10 5 (1.63%) linkerd
10 5 (1.63%) logstash
10 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.31%) Mesos
11 4 (1.31%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.31%) Puppet
12 3 (0.98%) Nagios
12 3 (0.98%) Rancher
12 3 (0.98%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (15.36%) Splunk
2 23 (7.52%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.54%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.23%) VMware
5 14 (4.58%) Oracle
5 14 (4.58%) SolarWinds
6 13 (4.25%) Google
7 9 (2.94%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.94%) Cisco
7 9 (2.94%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.94%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.61%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.61%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.63%) F5
10 4 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.31%) Sonatype
11 3 (0.98%) Arista
11 3 (0.98%) Databricks
11 3 (0.98%) Meraki
11 3 (0.98%) New Relic