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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 451 438
Rank change year-on-year +97 -13 +84
Permanent jobs citing Grafana 359 320 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.47% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.12% 4.86% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 235 188 252
10th Percentile £52,500 £44,738 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +13.64% -14.84%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £102,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,079 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.82% +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 5,042 6,586 8,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 9.66% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,180 3,946 6,786
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,925 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.52% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% - +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 29 October 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 29 October 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 +82 299 £72,500 - 245
UK excluding London +80 189 £70,079 +3.82% 176
London +76 136 £80,000 -3.03% 152
Work from Home +28 100 £70,000 -6.67% 109
North of England -3 54 £62,500 -16.67% 24
Midlands +72 53 £72,500 +11.54% 11
West Midlands +81 49 £72,500 +11.54% 7
South East +35 41 £70,000 +3.70% 108
North West +19 30 £62,500 -16.67% 19
Scotland +18 30 £72,289 +15.66% 12
Yorkshire +6 13 £70,000 -15.15% 2
North East -10 11 £51,500 -21.33% 3
South West +3 6 £90,000 +38.46% 16
Wales +6 5 £65,000 - 3
East Midlands +7 4 £55,750 +36.81% 5
East of England +11 2 £68,750 +37.50% 1
Northern Ireland +6 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 45 (12.53%) Confluence
2 18 (5.01%) nginx
3 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.39%) Apache
4 5 (1.39%) IIS
5 4 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.84%) CICS
6 3 (0.84%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (2.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.28%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 251 (69.92%) AWS
2 145 (40.39%) Azure
3 109 (30.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 77 (21.45%) Amazon EC2
5 74 (20.61%) GCP
6 70 (19.50%) Amazon S3
7 65 (18.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 60 (16.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 55 (15.32%) GitHub
10 51 (14.21%) AWS KMS
11 46 (12.81%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (12.81%) Azure Monitor
12 45 (12.53%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (11.42%) Amazon ELB
14 39 (10.86%) Serverless
15 37 (10.31%) Amazon ECS
16 36 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
17 33 (9.19%) Amazon Glacier
18 32 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
18 32 (8.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 62 (17.27%) Firewall
2 35 (9.75%) DNS
3 29 (8.08%) HTTP
4 26 (7.24%) FTP
5 25 (6.96%) SMTP
5 25 (6.96%) SSH
6 9 (2.51%) WAN
7 8 (2.23%) IMAP
7 8 (2.23%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (1.95%) SAN
8 7 (1.95%) VPN
9 6 (1.67%) Network Security
10 5 (1.39%) LAN
10 5 (1.39%) Wireless
11 4 (1.11%) BGP
11 4 (1.11%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.11%) VLAN
12 3 (0.84%) AMQP
12 3 (0.84%) SSL
12 3 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (18.38%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.57%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.46%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (4.18%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.34%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.79%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.51%) MySQL
9 7 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.95%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.95%) InfluxDB
9 7 (1.95%) Redis
10 5 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.11%) Couchbase
12 3 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.84%) DB2
13 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 135 (37.60%) Jenkins
2 86 (23.96%) Git
3 75 (20.89%) JIRA
4 62 (17.27%) GitLab
5 41 (11.42%) Vagrant
6 19 (5.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 17 (4.74%) TeamCity
8 14 (3.90%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.51%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.51%) JMeter
9 9 (2.51%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (2.51%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.23%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.95%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.95%) Locust
12 6 (1.67%) JUnit
12 6 (1.67%) Maven
13 4 (1.11%) Mockito
13 4 (1.11%) Spinnaker
14 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 114 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 113 (31.48%) Finance
3 52 (14.48%) Law
4 47 (13.09%) Public Sector
5 43 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (8.36%) Banking
7 26 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (4.74%) Marketing
9 15 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.90%) Legal
11 12 (3.34%) Back Office
12 11 (3.06%) Advertising
13 10 (2.79%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.79%) Retail
14 6 (1.67%) Games
15 5 (1.39%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.56%) Agriculture
18 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 94 (26.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (19.78%) Senior
3 50 (13.93%) AWS Engineer
4 43 (11.98%) Lead
5 39 (10.86%) Software Engineer
6 38 (10.58%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (8.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 23 (6.41%) Analyst
9 22 (6.13%) AWS DevOps
9 22 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (6.13%) Support Engineer
10 20 (5.57%) Applications Support
10 20 (5.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 19 (5.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.29%) Site Engineer
12 18 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (5.01%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (5.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.46%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (12.53%) Elastic Stack
2 28 (7.80%) .NET
3 20 (5.57%) Kafka
4 18 (5.01%) Node.js
5 17 (4.74%) OpenTelemetry
6 16 (4.46%) Loki
7 15 (4.18%) React
8 14 (3.90%) AWS CDK
8 14 (3.90%) REST
9 13 (3.62%) Hugging Face
9 13 (3.62%) LangChain
9 13 (3.62%) PyTorch
9 13 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (3.62%) Spring
9 13 (3.62%) TensorFlow
10 11 (3.06%) Spring Boot
11 9 (2.51%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (2.51%) LDAP
11 9 (2.51%) RESTful
12 7 (1.95%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.04%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.91%) Replication
3 22 (6.13%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.06%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
7 8 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.95%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.67%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.67%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.39%) IoT
11 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.84%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.56%) Hackathon
12 2 (0.56%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 157 (43.73%) Linux
2 81 (22.56%) Windows
3 44 (12.26%) VMS
4 27 (7.52%) Unix
5 26 (7.24%) Amazon Linux
6 21 (5.85%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (2.51%) Windows Server
9 7 (1.95%) Debian
10 3 (0.84%) Android
10 3 (0.84%) CentOS
11 2 (0.56%) AIX
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (65.74%) CI/CD
2 218 (60.72%) DevOps
3 144 (40.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (37.60%) Observability
5 97 (27.02%) Containerisation
6 93 (25.91%) Agile
7 80 (22.28%) Platform Engineering
8 73 (20.33%) Cloud Security
8 73 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (19.78%) Change Management
9 71 (19.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 68 (18.94%) Configuration Management
11 63 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 62 (17.27%) Software Engineering
13 54 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 52 (14.48%) Computer Science
14 52 (14.48%) Microservices
15 49 (13.65%) High Availability
16 47 (13.09%) Test Automation
17 43 (11.98%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 213 (59.33%) Python
2 98 (27.30%) Java
3 90 (25.07%) PowerShell
4 82 (22.84%) Bash
5 71 (19.78%) SQL
6 45 (12.53%) Groovy
7 40 (11.14%) Go
8 29 (8.08%) JavaScript
9 22 (6.13%) C#
10 20 (5.57%) Perl
11 17 (4.74%) Bicep
11 17 (4.74%) Shell Script
12 12 (3.34%) TypeScript
13 7 (1.95%) C++
14 6 (1.67%) Ruby
15 5 (1.39%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.84%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.84%) PHP
17 2 (0.56%) Korn
17 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 95 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 83 (23.12%) SC Cleared
3 76 (21.17%) Degree
4 48 (13.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (10.03%) AWS Certification
6 35 (9.75%) Azure Certification
7 22 (6.13%) Master's Degree
8 10 (2.79%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.11%) CCNA
12 4 (1.11%) CCNP
13 3 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 1 (0.28%) ISEB
15 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.14%) QA
2 7 (1.95%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.95%) WCAG
3 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.11%) GDPR
5 3 (0.84%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 162 (45.13%) Docker
2 35 (9.75%) Active Directory
3 29 (8.08%) DFS Replication
4 11 (3.06%) Postfix
5 8 (2.23%) Dovecot
5 8 (2.23%) Squid
5 8 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.84%) RACF
6 3 (0.84%) vSphere
7 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.56%) KVM
7 2 (0.56%) NFS
7 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.28%) Corosync
8 1 (0.28%) iptables
8 1 (0.28%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.28%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 239 (66.57%) Prometheus
2 219 (61.00%) Terraform
3 186 (51.81%) Kubernetes
4 100 (27.86%) Ansible
5 14 (3.90%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.62%) Argo
7 11 (3.06%) Control-M
8 9 (2.51%) Kibana
8 9 (2.51%) Nessus
9 8 (2.23%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (2.23%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.39%) logstash
10 5 (1.39%) Puppet
11 4 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (1.11%) Nagios
11 4 (1.11%) Netcool
11 4 (1.11%) Netcool/OMNIbus
11 4 (1.11%) Tivoli
11 4 (1.11%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.84%) linkerd
Vendors
1 69 (19.22%) Splunk
2 55 (15.32%) ServiceNow
3 27 (7.52%) Microsoft
4 25 (6.96%) Dynatrace
5 21 (5.85%) Oracle
6 17 (4.74%) SolarWinds
7 15 (4.18%) Google
7 15 (4.18%) Juniper
8 14 (3.90%) Atlassian
9 13 (3.62%) OpenAI
10 12 (3.34%) VMware
11 11 (3.06%) Jaspersoft
12 10 (2.79%) Cisco
12 10 (2.79%) IBM
13 9 (2.51%) Red Hat
14 8 (2.23%) AppDynamics
15 6 (1.67%) Fortinet
16 5 (1.39%) Sonatype
17 4 (1.11%) F5
17 4 (1.11%) Hitachi