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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 384 525
Rank change year-on-year -16 +141 -54
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 408 332 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.71% 0.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.75% 6.05% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 236 216 204
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,825
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £86,563 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -3.45% +11.54%

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 5,267 5,490 9,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.46% 11.78% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,861 3,240 6,810
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,611 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £44,801
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,125 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -7.60%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -1 358 £71,289 -1.67% 202
UK excluding London -52 188 £62,500 -10.71% 128
London -6 173 £82,500 - 104
Work from Home +78 167 £67,500 -3.57% 109
South West -10 54 £70,000 +7.69% 22
South East -11 51 £62,500 -18.03% 34
North of England -33 48 £55,000 -15.38% 34
North West -4 26 £67,500 +12.50% 23
Midlands -77 19 £64,000 -11.72% 14
North East -38 18 £47,500 -20.83% 3
West Midlands -72 13 £62,500 -13.79% 9
East Midlands -22 6 £64,500 +12.17% 5
Wales -50 6 £70,000 +21.74% 6
Scotland -6 4 £62,500 -34.21% 9
East of England -12 4 £82,575 +43.61% 6
Yorkshire -41 4 £48,750 -34.89% 8
Northern Ireland -30 2 - - 4

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 20 (4.90%) Apache
2 11 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.47%) Confluence
4 5 (1.23%) IIS
5 3 (0.74%) nginx
5 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.98%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 282 (69.12%) AWS
2 162 (39.71%) Azure
3 158 (38.73%) GCP
4 82 (20.10%) Amazon EKS
5 69 (16.91%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (16.91%) GitHub
6 67 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (15.20%) Datadog
8 58 (14.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 55 (13.48%) Serverless
10 53 (12.99%) SaaS
11 48 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 38 (9.31%) Amazon S3
13 36 (8.82%) OpenShift
14 33 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (6.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (4.66%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 60 (14.71%) Firewall
2 26 (6.37%) DNS
3 24 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 21 (5.15%) HTTP
5 19 (4.66%) VLAN
6 16 (3.92%) VPN
7 11 (2.70%) WAN
8 10 (2.45%) LAN
8 10 (2.45%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.45%) WebEx
9 9 (2.21%) Broadband
9 9 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.21%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.96%) BGP
11 7 (1.72%) MQTT
11 7 (1.72%) Network Security
11 7 (1.72%) OSPF
12 6 (1.47%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.47%) SNMP
13 5 (1.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.07%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.60%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (5.39%) MySQL
4 21 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.68%) InfluxDB
7 13 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (3.19%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.96%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.98%) Big Data
11 4 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.98%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.49%) Looker
12 2 (0.49%) SQLPlus
13 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 91 (22.30%) GitLab
2 89 (21.81%) Jenkins
3 66 (16.18%) TeamCity
4 62 (15.20%) Git
5 27 (6.62%) SonarQube
6 25 (6.13%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.15%) JMeter
8 14 (3.43%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.94%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.94%) JIRA
10 11 (2.70%) Cypress.io
10 11 (2.70%) Selenium
11 10 (2.45%) Gatling
11 10 (2.45%) LoadRunner
12 9 (2.21%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (1.96%) Robot Framework
13 8 (1.96%) TestRail
14 6 (1.47%) Burp Suite
14 6 (1.47%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.23%) Locust
General
1 123 (30.15%) Finance
2 87 (21.32%) Banking
3 84 (20.59%) Law
4 79 (19.36%) Social Skills
5 77 (18.87%) Retail
6 72 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (10.54%) Financial Institution
8 40 (9.80%) Back Office
9 39 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
10 37 (9.07%) Public Sector
11 30 (7.35%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.21%) Marketing
13 8 (1.96%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.74%) Legal
16 2 (0.49%) Advertising
16 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
17 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
17 1 (0.25%) Billing
17 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 87 (21.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 80 (19.61%) Senior
3 66 (16.18%) Software Engineer
4 43 (10.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.31%) Platform Engineer
6 35 (8.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 32 (7.84%) Lead
8 27 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (6.62%) Developer
9 22 (5.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 21 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
10 21 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (4.90%) Administrator
11 20 (4.90%) Java Engineer
11 20 (4.90%) Site Engineer
12 19 (4.66%) Systems Administrator
13 18 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.41%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (4.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.42%) Elastic Stack
2 44 (10.78%) Kafka
3 28 (6.86%) OpenTelemetry
4 22 (5.39%) Loki
4 22 (5.39%) RabbitMQ
5 19 (4.66%) Node.js
5 19 (4.66%) REST
6 17 (4.17%) React
7 16 (3.92%) .NET
8 14 (3.43%) Apache NiFi
8 14 (3.43%) YAML
9 13 (3.19%) Spring
10 12 (2.94%) gRPC
10 12 (2.94%) OAuth
10 12 (2.94%) Playwright
10 12 (2.94%) Spring Boot
11 11 (2.70%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.70%) Vue
12 10 (2.45%) XMPP
13 9 (2.21%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 125 (30.64%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.80%) Product Ownership
3 32 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (4.90%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.17%) Blog
7 12 (2.94%) Replication
8 11 (2.70%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.45%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.45%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.47%) PKI
12 6 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.23%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.98%) Blockchain
15 3 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
15 3 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 121 (29.66%) Linux
2 53 (12.99%) Windows
3 21 (5.15%) CentOS
4 13 (3.19%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.45%) Unix
6 8 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.72%) VMS
8 4 (0.98%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.74%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (74.26%) CI/CD
2 235 (57.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 229 (56.13%) DevOps
4 170 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 170 (41.67%) Observability
5 141 (34.56%) Test Automation
6 131 (32.11%) Software Engineering
7 122 (29.90%) Agile
8 116 (28.43%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (26.72%) Deployment Automation
10 107 (26.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (23.28%) Microservices
12 79 (19.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 78 (19.12%) Mentoring
13 78 (19.12%) Platform Engineering
14 64 (15.69%) Continuous Deployment
15 61 (14.95%) Clean Code
16 57 (13.97%) AI
17 55 (13.48%) DevSecOps
18 53 (12.99%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 255 (62.50%) Python
2 169 (41.42%) Bash
3 127 (31.13%) Java
4 74 (18.14%) PowerShell
5 51 (12.50%) SQL
6 48 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 46 (11.27%) Go
8 37 (9.07%) C#
9 29 (7.11%) Rust
10 21 (5.15%) TypeScript
11 19 (4.66%) C++
12 10 (2.45%) Bicep
13 8 (1.96%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.47%) Google Apps Script
14 6 (1.47%) VBA
15 5 (1.23%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.74%) Ruby
17 2 (0.49%) Elixir
17 2 (0.49%) Erlang
17 2 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (23.28%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.80%) Degree
3 36 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.35%) DV Cleared
5 27 (6.62%) AWS Certification
6 21 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.94%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.98%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.98%) Microsoft 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%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.54%) QA
2 12 (2.94%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.70%) GDPR
4 10 (2.45%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.21%) SLA
6 8 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.47%) WCAG
8 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.49%) GRC
10 2 (0.49%) SEPA
11 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 183 (44.85%) Docker
2 25 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.45%) vSphere
5 7 (1.72%) iptables
6 6 (1.47%) KVM
6 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.23%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.98%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 300 (73.53%) Terraform
2 265 (64.95%) Kubernetes
3 224 (54.90%) Prometheus
4 159 (38.97%) Ansible
5 30 (7.35%) Kibana
6 27 (6.62%) Argo
7 24 (5.88%) Puppet
8 17 (4.17%) Nagios
9 16 (3.92%) logstash
10 15 (3.68%) Istio
11 10 (2.45%) Cisco CUCM
11 10 (2.45%) Progress Chef
11 10 (2.45%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.21%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.96%) linkerd
13 8 (1.96%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.72%) Kustomize
14 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (1.47%) vCenter Server
16 5 (1.23%) Mesos
Vendors
1 50 (12.25%) Splunk
2 44 (10.78%) Microsoft
3 41 (10.05%) VMware
4 31 (7.60%) Red Hat
5 25 (6.13%) Dynatrace
6 16 (3.92%) Google
7 11 (2.70%) Cisco
8 10 (2.45%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.45%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.21%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.96%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.72%) NetApp
11 7 (1.72%) Oracle
12 6 (1.47%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.23%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.23%) Tenable
14 4 (0.98%) Cribl.io
14 4 (0.98%) New Relic
14 4 (0.98%) Veracode