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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 453 423
Rank change year-on-year +84 -30 +106
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 305 277 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.50% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.31% 4.55% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 211 158 212
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,911 £42,750
25th Percentile £56,875 £56,563 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,875 £85,000 £86,563
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.89% +6.00% -

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 4,173 6,093 7,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.05% 10.99% 14.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 3,740 6,094
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £49,944 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £104,000 £106,250 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 31 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 31 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 +50 239 £72,500 -2.68% 857
UK excluding London +42 142 £67,500 +1.89% 794
Work from Home +82 132 £67,500 -10.00% 406
London +67 113 £82,500 -6.78% 163
North of England +15 60 £65,000 -12.75% 181
North West +39 29 £62,500 -16.67% 86
Scotland +25 22 £72,289 +15.66% 62
Midlands +22 17 £71,521 +10.03% 137
South East +9 17 £70,000 +3.70% 194
North East -13 16 £51,500 -8.85% 17
West Midlands +31 15 £72,500 +11.54% 74
Yorkshire +9 15 £80,000 +8.11% 79
South West +2 15 £75,000 +15.38% 100
East of England +21 6 £68,750 +37.50% 98
Wales -1 4 £67,539 +3.91% 23
East Midlands -13 2 £54,600 +32.36% 54
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 9

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 14 (4.59%) Confluence
2 12 (3.93%) nginx
3 10 (3.28%) Apache
4 7 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.97%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.98%) IIS
8 2 (0.66%) CICS
8 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.33%) CMS
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.64%) 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 (68.52%) AWS
2 147 (48.20%) Azure
3 88 (28.85%) GCP
4 84 (27.54%) GitHub
5 79 (25.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 65 (21.31%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (18.69%) Amazon EKS
8 52 (17.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (13.44%) Datadog
10 40 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (12.13%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (11.80%) Serverless
13 30 (9.84%) Amazon S3
14 28 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (9.18%) SaaS
15 26 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (7.87%) OpenShift
17 22 (7.21%) Amazon ECS
17 22 (7.21%) Azure Monitor
18 21 (6.89%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.49%) Firewall
2 25 (8.20%) DNS
3 18 (5.90%) HTTP
4 10 (3.28%) FTP
4 10 (3.28%) VPN
5 9 (2.95%) SMTP
5 9 (2.95%) SSH
5 9 (2.95%) WAN
6 8 (2.62%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.30%) LAN
7 7 (2.30%) Wireless
8 6 (1.97%) BGP
8 6 (1.97%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (1.97%) SSL
9 5 (1.64%) Network Security
10 4 (1.31%) DHCP
10 4 (1.31%) IMAP
10 4 (1.31%) MPLS
10 4 (1.31%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.98%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.82%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.20%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.61%) InfluxDB
6 9 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (2.95%) MySQL
6 9 (2.95%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.95%) Redis
7 7 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.66%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.66%) Metadata
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.66%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 101 (33.11%) Jenkins
2 78 (25.57%) GitLab
3 56 (18.36%) Git
4 42 (13.77%) JIRA
5 24 (7.87%) TeamCity
6 21 (6.89%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.59%) Bitbucket
8 13 (4.26%) Selenium
9 11 (3.61%) JMeter
9 11 (3.61%) JUnit
10 10 (3.28%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.95%) Vagrant
12 8 (2.62%) CircleCI
12 8 (2.62%) Locust
13 7 (2.30%) Cypress.io
13 7 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (1.97%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.97%) Robot Framework
14 6 (1.97%) TestRail
15 5 (1.64%) Gradle
General
1 94 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 81 (26.56%) Finance
3 27 (8.85%) Banking
4 21 (6.89%) Law
5 20 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (5.90%) Retail
7 17 (5.57%) Back Office
7 17 (5.57%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.25%) Telecoms
9 15 (4.92%) Financial Institution
10 14 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.62%) Advertising
12 5 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.31%) Games
14 3 (0.98%) Legal
15 2 (0.66%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.66%) Front Office
16 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 79 (25.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 69 (22.62%) Senior
3 38 (12.46%) Lead
4 33 (10.82%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (9.18%) Software Engineer
6 27 (8.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (6.23%) Developer
9 18 (5.90%) Lead DevOps
10 17 (5.57%) Development Engineer
10 17 (5.57%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (5.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 14 (4.59%) Applications Support
14 13 (4.26%) Analyst
14 13 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (3.61%) Network Engineer
15 11 (3.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 30 (9.84%) .NET
3 16 (5.25%) Kafka
3 16 (5.25%) Spring
4 15 (4.92%) React
4 15 (4.92%) Spring Boot
5 14 (4.59%) ADO
6 13 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (3.93%) Node.js
8 11 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
9 10 (3.28%) AWS CDK
9 10 (3.28%) Django
9 10 (3.28%) Gherkin
9 10 (3.28%) Loki
10 9 (2.95%) Flask
10 9 (2.95%) pytest
11 7 (2.30%) JWT
11 7 (2.30%) OAuth
11 7 (2.30%) REST
12 6 (1.97%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.84%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.57%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.95%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.30%) Replication
9 5 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.64%) IoT
9 5 (1.64%) PKI
10 3 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.66%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.66%) MPEG
11 2 (0.66%) NHS
11 2 (0.66%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (40.00%) Linux
2 57 (18.69%) Windows
3 19 (6.23%) Unix
4 13 (4.26%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.93%) VMS
6 9 (2.95%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (2.62%) CentOS
8 6 (1.97%) 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
1 233 (76.39%) CI/CD
2 208 (68.20%) DevOps
3 150 (49.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (44.26%) Observability
5 121 (39.67%) Containerisation
6 83 (27.21%) Agile
7 81 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (25.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 69 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (21.64%) Platform Engineering
11 63 (20.66%) Test Automation
12 52 (17.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 48 (15.74%) Incident Response
14 44 (14.43%) Software Engineering
15 42 (13.77%) Microservices
16 39 (12.79%) Deployment Automation
17 37 (12.13%) Cloud Security
17 37 (12.13%) Mentoring
18 36 (11.80%) High Availability
19 34 (11.15%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 179 (58.69%) Python
2 84 (27.54%) Bash
3 70 (22.95%) Java
4 52 (17.05%) PowerShell
5 44 (14.43%) SQL
6 40 (13.11%) JavaScript
7 31 (10.16%) Go
8 23 (7.54%) C#
9 17 (5.57%) Bicep
9 17 (5.57%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.61%) Groovy
11 8 (2.62%) C++
11 8 (2.62%) Delphi
12 7 (2.30%) Perl
13 5 (1.64%) Ruby
13 5 (1.64%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.31%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (1.31%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.98%) PHP
16 2 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 75 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 50 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.74%) Degree
4 28 (9.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (8.52%) AWS Certification
6 23 (7.54%) DV Cleared
7 18 (5.90%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.97%) 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%) MCP
11 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.10%) QA
2 7 (2.30%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.30%) WCAG
3 6 (1.97%) GDPR
4 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 165 (54.10%) Docker
2 12 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.64%) DFS Replication
5 4 (1.31%) Dovecot
5 4 (1.31%) KVM
5 4 (1.31%) Postfix
5 4 (1.31%) Squid
6 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.66%) iptables
6 2 (0.66%) NFS
6 2 (0.66%) RACF
6 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.66%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) pfSense
7 1 (0.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 207 (67.87%) Terraform
2 206 (67.54%) Kubernetes
3 186 (60.98%) Prometheus
4 104 (34.10%) Ansible
5 21 (6.89%) Argo
6 11 (3.61%) Control-M
6 11 (3.61%) Docker Swarm
6 11 (3.61%) Kibana
7 8 (2.62%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.97%) Nessus
9 5 (1.64%) Istio
9 5 (1.64%) linkerd
9 5 (1.64%) logstash
10 4 (1.31%) Mesos
10 4 (1.31%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.31%) Puppet
11 3 (0.98%) Nagios
11 3 (0.98%) Rancher
11 3 (0.98%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (16.39%) Splunk
2 21 (6.89%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.57%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.25%) Oracle
4 16 (5.25%) VMware
5 14 (4.59%) Google
6 13 (4.26%) SolarWinds
7 10 (3.28%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.95%) AppDynamics
8 9 (2.95%) Cisco
8 9 (2.95%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.62%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.30%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.64%) F5
12 4 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (1.31%) Sonatype
13 3 (0.98%) Arista
13 3 (0.98%) Databricks
13 3 (0.98%) Meraki
13 3 (0.98%) New Relic