Grafana: market
Grafana is the standard for metrics visualization and observability: dashboards on top of Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and dozens of other sources, plus alerting. We track 4 331 open positions listing Grafana, 3 600 of them fresh. The skill belongs to the DevOps and SRE profile: production operations are impossible without monitoring, and Grafana is the most common way to present it. Most of the demand comes from DevOps, Backend and Platform Engineer roles. It most often appears next to Kubernetes, AWS and Docker. 38% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of Grafana demand.
The Grafana market currently has 4,331 open roles, 3,600 of them freshly observed. Median salary $9,166/mo. Observed candidate pool — 927.
38% of Grafana postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 497 of 4331 jobs; remote share from 3590 with a stated format; 3600 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 4,331 |
| Observed supply | 927 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
- usable for the calculation: 497 (11.5%)
- stated but not converted to USD/month: 731 (16.9%)
- not stated: 3,103 (71.6%)
One in ten postings offers under $3,500, one in ten over $16,666. Half of the postings offer between $5,892 and $14,416. Sample: 497.
The range histogram for Grafana postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs | share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 746 | 20.2% |
| Poland | 674 | 18.2% |
| Russia | 449 | 12.1% |
| India | 308 | 8.3% |
| Germany | 213 | 5.8% |
| United Kingdom | 167 | 4.5% |
| Canada | 87 | 2.4% |
| Spain | 69 | 1.9% |
| Kazakhstan | 68 | 1.8% |
| Sweden | 57 | 1.5% |
| Other countries | 864 | 23.3% |
The top country for Grafana demand is the US (746 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Share — how many of the 4,331 jobs in the Grafana market mention this technology. Ordered by job count, not by “strength of association”. Umbrella terms like cloud are not a specific cloud (AWS, Azure).
Grafana most often appears next to Kubernetes, AWS and Docker. Prometheus among the neighbours is the classic metrics-and-dashboards pair.
Roles that use it
Share of the 4,067 jobs in the Grafana market that have a defined role. Another 264 jobs without a role or in a catch-all bucket (Other, IT) are not included. A technology is a skill, a role is a profession: Python is not Backend.
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 1,533 |
| middle | 508 |
| principal | 300 |
| lead | 222 |
| junior | 180 |
Senior-and-above is about 75% of 2 743 graded Grafana postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 2,064 employers. The largest accounts for 2.0%, the top ten for 9.3%; the remaining 90.7% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 2.0% |
| top-3 | 4.9% |
| top-10 | 9.3% |
| long tail | 90.7% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 132 sources; the largest accounts for 20.2% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Grafana postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- SRE инженер\Middle+ · RU
- Senior Software Engineer - .NET Full Stack
- Full-stack Software Engineer · US
- Senior Software Engineer, ITC · IN
- Desarrollador Backend Senior · PL
- Infrastructure Engineer · US
- Senior Lead ML Platform Engineer, Training and Inference
- Principal Site Reliability Engineer · US
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-11-09
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Grafana market — short answers from the same data slice.
What does the 'Grafana' skill mean in postings?
Building dashboards and variables, PromQL and LogQL queries, alerting setup, dashboards as code (provisioning, Terraform), understanding SLI/SLO metrics.
What is Grafana paired with?
Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo or Jaeger for traces, Kubernetes as the environment and OpenTelemetry for data collection.
How big is Grafana demand?
The slice tracks 4 331 open positions listing Grafana; it is almost never a standalone profession — it is a mandatory part of the DevOps, SRE and platform-engineer profile.