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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 373 459
Rank change year-on-year -47 +86 -7
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 406 349 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.71% 0.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.19% 6.19% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 246 234 198
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £39,925
25th Percentile £55,725 £61,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.82% +5.77%

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 5,646 5,637 8,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.57% 11.40% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,142 3,361 5,668
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,063 £43,750 £45,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,125 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,320 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.94% +0.58% -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 27 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 27 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 -36 352 £70,000 -3.45% 178
UK excluding London -44 198 £65,000 -7.14% 92
Work from Home +47 163 £65,000 -7.14% 97
London -9 162 £82,500 - 114
South East +3 61 £62,500 -16.67% 15
South West -13 51 £65,000 - 18
North of England -25 49 £63,750 -1.92% 23
North West -2 31 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Midlands -72 19 £62,500 -13.79% 13
North East -37 16 £47,500 -20.83% 3
West Midlands -67 15 £62,500 -13.79% 11
Wales -52 9 £70,000 +33.18% 4
Scotland -9 6 £62,500 -34.21% 13
East Midlands -27 4 £64,500 +15.70% 2
East of England -15 2 £77,575 +14.93% 7
Yorkshire -45 2 £67,500 -9.84% 6
Northern Ireland -67 1 - - 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 16 (3.94%) Apache
2 9 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.72%) Confluence
4 6 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.48%) IIS
5 5 (1.23%) nginx
6 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 272 (67.00%) AWS
2 165 (40.64%) Azure
3 158 (38.92%) GCP
4 73 (17.98%) Datadog
5 65 (16.01%) GitHub
6 63 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (15.27%) Amazon EKS
7 62 (15.27%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (13.79%) SaaS
9 53 (13.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (12.07%) Serverless
11 48 (11.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (9.61%) OpenShift
13 37 (9.11%) Amazon S3
14 33 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (6.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
18 17 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (13.79%) Firewall
2 22 (5.42%) DNS
3 21 (5.17%) TCP/IP
4 19 (4.68%) VLAN
5 17 (4.19%) HTTP
6 12 (2.96%) VPN
7 11 (2.71%) WAN
8 10 (2.46%) LAN
8 10 (2.46%) Unified Communications
8 10 (2.46%) WebEx
9 9 (2.22%) Broadband
9 9 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (2.22%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.97%) BGP
10 8 (1.97%) Network Security
11 7 (1.72%) MQTT
11 7 (1.72%) OSPF
11 7 (1.72%) SSH
12 6 (1.48%) IPFIX
12 6 (1.48%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.37%) Elasticsearch
3 27 (6.65%) MySQL
4 24 (5.91%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (4.43%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.45%) InfluxDB
6 14 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.97%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.74%) Big Data
13 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.49%) Looker
13 2 (0.49%) Redis
13 2 (0.49%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 91 (22.41%) GitLab
2 82 (20.20%) Jenkins
3 72 (17.73%) Git
4 56 (13.79%) TeamCity
5 24 (5.91%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.67%) JMeter
7 22 (5.42%) Cucumber
8 14 (3.45%) JIRA
9 12 (2.96%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.96%) Cypress.io
9 12 (2.96%) Gatling
9 12 (2.96%) LoadRunner
9 12 (2.96%) Selenium
10 11 (2.71%) CircleCI
10 11 (2.71%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.72%) Robot Framework
11 7 (1.72%) TestRail
12 6 (1.48%) Burp Suite
12 6 (1.48%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.23%) Postman
General
1 127 (31.28%) Finance
2 88 (21.67%) Banking
3 75 (18.47%) Law
4 72 (17.73%) Social Skills
5 71 (17.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (16.75%) Retail
7 43 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (10.10%) Financial Institution
8 41 (10.10%) Public Sector
9 38 (9.36%) Back Office
10 25 (6.16%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.96%) Marketing
12 8 (1.97%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.23%) Legal
14 2 (0.49%) Advertising
14 2 (0.49%) Billing
14 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (23.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (17.98%) Senior
3 61 (15.02%) Software Engineer
4 41 (10.10%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (9.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 34 (8.37%) Lead
6 34 (8.37%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (7.14%) Developer
8 24 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (5.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 22 (5.42%) Site Engineer
10 20 (4.93%) Administrator
11 19 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (4.68%) Systems Administrator
12 18 (4.43%) Java Engineer
13 17 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (4.19%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (15.76%) Elastic Stack
2 49 (12.07%) Kafka
3 30 (7.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (6.40%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (5.17%) Loki
6 20 (4.93%) Node.js
7 18 (4.43%) REST
8 16 (3.94%) React
8 16 (3.94%) RESTful
8 16 (3.94%) Spring
9 15 (3.69%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.69%) YAML
10 12 (2.96%) .NET
10 12 (2.96%) AngularJS
10 12 (2.96%) Playwright
10 12 (2.96%) pytest
11 11 (2.71%) Apache NiFi
11 11 (2.71%) ARM Templates
11 11 (2.71%) gRPC
11 11 (2.71%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 124 (30.54%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.08%) Product Ownership
3 35 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (2.96%) Replication
7 11 (2.71%) Blog
8 10 (2.46%) FlexPod
8 10 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.22%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.97%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.72%) PKI
12 6 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.99%) IoT
14 3 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 117 (28.82%) Linux
2 45 (11.08%) Windows
3 20 (4.93%) CentOS
4 14 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.96%) Unix
6 7 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.48%) VMS
8 5 (1.23%) Debian
9 4 (0.99%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.49%) Rocky
11 1 (0.25%) Android
11 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (73.40%) CI/CD
2 236 (58.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 234 (57.64%) DevOps
4 189 (46.55%) Observability
5 171 (42.12%) Containerisation
6 132 (32.51%) Software Engineering
7 131 (32.27%) Test Automation
8 122 (30.05%) Agile
9 117 (28.82%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (26.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 106 (26.11%) Deployment Automation
12 96 (23.65%) Microservices
13 86 (21.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 82 (20.20%) Platform Engineering
15 78 (19.21%) Mentoring
16 61 (15.02%) AI
17 58 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
18 54 (13.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 52 (12.81%) Clean Code
20 50 (12.32%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 263 (64.78%) Python
2 162 (39.90%) Bash
3 120 (29.56%) Java
4 77 (18.97%) PowerShell
5 57 (14.04%) SQL
6 45 (11.08%) Go
7 44 (10.84%) JavaScript
8 34 (8.37%) C#
9 27 (6.65%) Rust
10 20 (4.93%) TypeScript
11 17 (4.19%) C++
12 10 (2.46%) Bicep
13 7 (1.72%) VBA
14 6 (1.48%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.23%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (1.23%) PHP
16 4 (0.99%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.49%) Ruby
17 2 (0.49%) VB
18 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 86 (21.18%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.11%) Degree
3 34 (8.37%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.42%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.68%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.99%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.49%) CISSP
13 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.49%) ISEB
13 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.32%) QA
2 15 (3.69%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.20%) GDPR
4 11 (2.71%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.22%) SLA
6 8 (1.97%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.48%) WCAG
8 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.74%) PSD2
10 2 (0.49%) GRC
10 2 (0.49%) NIST
10 2 (0.49%) SEPA
11 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 194 (47.78%) Docker
2 23 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.96%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.46%) vSphere
5 6 (1.48%) iptables
5 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.23%) KVM
6 5 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.49%) Xen
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 287 (70.69%) Terraform
2 262 (64.53%) Kubernetes
3 232 (57.14%) Prometheus
4 146 (35.96%) Ansible
5 33 (8.13%) Argo
6 27 (6.65%) Kibana
7 19 (4.68%) Istio
7 19 (4.68%) Puppet
8 17 (4.19%) Nagios
9 16 (3.94%) logstash
10 10 (2.46%) Cisco CUCM
10 10 (2.46%) Kustomize
11 9 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (2.22%) linkerd
12 8 (1.97%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.72%) Progress Chef
14 6 (1.48%) vCenter Server
15 5 (1.23%) Mesos
15 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (1.23%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 55 (13.55%) Splunk
2 51 (12.56%) Microsoft
3 34 (8.37%) Red Hat
4 31 (7.64%) VMware
5 29 (7.14%) Dynatrace
6 24 (5.91%) Google
7 11 (2.71%) AppDynamics
7 11 (2.71%) Cisco
8 10 (2.46%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.46%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.46%) Rapid7
9 9 (2.22%) NetApp
9 9 (2.22%) Oracle
10 8 (1.97%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.72%) New Relic
12 6 (1.48%) Informatica
13 5 (1.23%) Tenable
14 4 (0.99%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.99%) Veracode