Grafana salary and demand: pay band and hiring trends
Reviewed by Mark Dickie · Last updated
Grafana is an open-source observability platform for building dashboards and alerts over metrics, logs and traces, and this report covers what the market pays for Grafana skills and how often employers ask for them. Pay is shown as one band for the whole technology, not split by seniority, so it describes the market as a whole. The hiring-demand series shows whether postings naming Grafana are holding steady, rising or falling over time. Postings that name Grafana often also list Prometheus, PromQL or Loki, so the pay band reflects that wider observability work as well as dashboard building.
What does the Grafana job market look like in the latest data?
| Figure on this page | What it measures | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Salary percentiles | Pay for roles that name Grafana, across the whole technology | Use the middle of the band as the reference point; the top end is set by a small share of roles |
| Hiring-demand series | Postings that name Grafana, tracked over time | A rising line means more employers want the skill; a flat line means steady demand, not growth |
| Stack keywords | Prometheus, PromQL, Loki, Tempo, Alloy listed next to Grafana | Postings that list these together usually want an observability engineer, not only a dashboard builder |
How to use the data:
- Provision one data source and one dashboard from YAML files in a local Grafana OSS container, the workflow many teams use, and judge the pay band against that setup.
- Write a PromQL rate query, attach it to an alert rule, and send it to a contact point, then check how many postings ask for that exact chain.
- Compare the demand series for postings that name Grafana alone with postings that name Grafana plus Prometheus or Loki, since the second group tends to sit closer to on-call and platform roles.
Grafana salary & hiring demand
From live job postings, the median Grafana salary is £79,395, across 124 postings in August 2026. These figures are technology-wide across all seniority levels, as of August 2026.
| 25th percentile | £70,000 |
|---|---|
| Median (50th percentile) | £79,395 |
| 75th percentile | £108,427 |
Hiring demand over time
We need 3 complete months of tracking before we publish a month-by-month series. Months we only partly covered are left out rather than shown as low demand.
Vacancy and salary data includes Adzuna.