Prometheus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Prometheus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Prometheus over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 467 425
Rank change year-on-year -46 -42 +14
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 434 612 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.63% 0.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.40% 4.29% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 204 349 400
10th Percentile £58,938 £50,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,615 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £111,250 £88,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £119,625 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +16.67%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Prometheus is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,853 14,263 30,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 14.65% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 8,875 14,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Prometheus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Prometheus.

Salary trend for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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 -80 326 £81,615 +8.82% 74
UK excluding London +31 275 £80,000 +14.29% 38
Work from Home +44 188 £100,000 +33.33% 45
London -19 156 £100,000 +25.00% 41
Scotland +18 95 £75,000 +17.65% 1
North of England +51 83 £60,000 -14.29% 13
North West +14 53 £67,500 +170.00% 5
South West -9 50 £80,000 +33.33% 6
Yorkshire +68 22 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Midlands -7 21 £87,500 +29.63% 6
East Midlands -1 20 £90,000 +33.33% 3
South East -15 15 £60,000 -20.00% 5
North East +2 10 £58,750 -32.86% 2
Wales +4 6 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland 0 5 - - 4
West Midlands -6 1 £65,465 -6.48% 3

Prometheus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 81 (18.66%) Apache
2 55 (12.67%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (7.83%) nginx
4 21 (4.84%) GemFire
5 18 (4.15%) Apache Spark
6 17 (3.92%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.92%) Confluence
8 3 (0.69%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 242 (55.76%) AWS
2 141 (32.49%) Amazon S3
3 96 (22.12%) Azure
4 84 (19.35%) Datadog
5 82 (18.89%) Amazon EKS
6 65 (14.98%) OCI
7 59 (13.59%) Snowflake
8 58 (13.36%) Amazon ECR
8 58 (13.36%) IBM Cloud
8 58 (13.36%) Route 53
9 54 (12.44%) dbt
10 46 (10.60%) GCP
11 34 (7.83%) OpenShift
12 30 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (4.61%) Azure AKS
15 20 (4.61%) Serverless
16 17 (3.92%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 71 (16.36%) Firewall
2 64 (14.75%) VPN
3 56 (12.90%) Internet
4 54 (12.44%) IPsec
4 54 (12.44%) SNMP
5 23 (5.30%) TCP/IP
6 21 (4.84%) DNS
7 12 (2.76%) AMQP
8 10 (2.30%) DHCP
8 10 (2.30%) Network Security
9 8 (1.84%) SAN
10 5 (1.15%) HTTP
11 3 (0.69%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.69%) tcpdump
11 3 (0.69%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.46%) NAS
13 1 (0.23%) BGP
13 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.23%) SSH
13 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (20.51%) MongoDB
2 72 (16.59%) Big Data
3 69 (15.90%) Amazon RDS
3 69 (15.90%) Elasticsearch
4 57 (13.13%) Dremio
5 54 (12.44%) Amazon Athena
5 54 (12.44%) Apache Arrow
5 54 (12.44%) Data Lake
6 39 (8.99%) Relational Database
7 36 (8.29%) NoSQL
8 31 (7.14%) SQL Server
9 24 (5.53%) Apache Cassandra
10 21 (4.84%) CockroachDB
10 21 (4.84%) Hazelcast
11 17 (3.92%) Hadoop
11 17 (3.92%) Presto
12 16 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (3.46%) Redis
14 14 (3.23%) MySQL
15 12 (2.76%) DB2
Development Applications
1 98 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 43 (9.91%) GitLab
3 25 (5.76%) Git
4 21 (4.84%) Jaeger
5 17 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.07%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.61%) Mocha
8 7 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.38%) JIRA
10 4 (0.92%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.92%) Maven
10 4 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.69%) Selenium
12 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.46%) Spinnaker
13 1 (0.23%) MLflow
13 1 (0.23%) Travis CI
General
1 211 (48.62%) Finance
2 139 (32.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 79 (18.20%) Law
4 69 (15.90%) Public Sector
5 55 (12.67%) Social Skills
6 54 (12.44%) Marketing
7 33 (7.60%) Banking
8 24 (5.53%) Investment Banking
9 14 (3.23%) Retail
10 12 (2.76%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.23%) Cantonese Language
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (32.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 95 (21.89%) Senior
3 84 (19.35%) AWS Engineer
4 82 (18.89%) Lead
5 71 (16.36%) Big Data Engineer
5 71 (16.36%) Senior DevOps
5 71 (16.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 67 (15.44%) Software Engineer
7 66 (15.21%) Site Engineer
7 66 (15.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 54 (12.44%) Consultant
8 54 (12.44%) NetApp Consultant
9 42 (9.68%) Lead Software Engineer
10 27 (6.22%) AWS DevOps
11 25 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
12 24 (5.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.53%) Java Engineer
13 23 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (5.30%) Java Software Engineer
14 21 (4.84%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (20.51%) RabbitMQ
2 71 (16.36%) YAML
3 61 (14.06%) gRPC
4 54 (12.44%) Protocol Buffers
5 51 (11.75%) Spring
6 45 (10.37%) OpenTelemetry
7 42 (9.68%) Elastic Stack
8 40 (9.22%) .NET
9 38 (8.76%) Kafka
10 37 (8.53%) Spring Boot
11 25 (5.76%) REST
12 21 (4.84%) JPA
13 18 (4.15%) Apache NiFi
14 17 (3.92%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (3.23%) OAuth
16 12 (2.76%) Spring XD
17 11 (2.53%) Node.js
18 9 (2.07%) ARM Templates
18 9 (2.07%) OpenAPI
19 8 (1.84%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 77 (17.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 62 (14.29%) Clustering
3 59 (13.59%) Data Centre
3 59 (13.59%) Hedge funds
4 58 (13.36%) Blockchain
4 58 (13.36%) e-Learning
5 47 (10.83%) Cloud Native
6 36 (8.29%) Public Cloud
7 34 (7.83%) Algorithms
8 27 (6.22%) Replication
9 25 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (3.46%) Data Structures
12 14 (3.23%) Product Ownership
13 13 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (2.53%) Client/Server
15 10 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (1.61%) Onboarding
17 6 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
17 6 (1.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 146 (33.64%) Linux
2 82 (18.89%) Windows
3 54 (12.44%) Data ONTAP
4 15 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.00%) Unix
6 8 (1.84%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (1.61%) CentOS
7 7 (1.61%) Solaris
7 7 (1.61%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.92%) VMS
10 3 (0.69%) SUSE
10 3 (0.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.46%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (57.83%) DevOps
2 191 (44.01%) Agile
3 175 (40.32%) Observability
4 172 (39.63%) CI/CD
5 126 (29.03%) Containerisation
6 110 (25.35%) Software Engineering
7 107 (24.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 105 (24.19%) Artificial Intelligence
8 105 (24.19%) Mentoring
9 102 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 84 (19.35%) Community of Practice
12 73 (16.82%) SDLC
13 69 (15.90%) Coaching
14 68 (15.67%) Secrets Management
15 64 (14.75%) Test Automation
16 61 (14.06%) Continuous Delivery
17 60 (13.82%) Infrastructure Management
17 60 (13.82%) Operational Stability
18 58 (13.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 221 (50.92%) Python
2 143 (32.95%) Java
3 84 (19.35%) Go
4 74 (17.05%) JavaScript
5 71 (16.36%) Bash
6 56 (12.90%) SQL
7 32 (7.37%) Groovy
7 32 (7.37%) PowerShell
8 31 (7.14%) Shell Script
9 21 (4.84%) C#
10 15 (3.46%) TypeScript
11 13 (3.00%) Perl
11 13 (3.00%) Ruby
12 8 (1.84%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.84%) PHP
13 5 (1.15%) C++
14 4 (0.92%) C
15 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (9.45%) Security Cleared
2 21 (4.84%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.15%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.00%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.00%) Degree
5 10 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.15%) CISSP
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (0.69%) Linux+ Certification
9 3 (0.69%) RHCE
10 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 194 (44.70%) Docker
2 64 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.84%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.38%) KVM
6 5 (1.15%) Ceph
6 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.69%) Gluster
7 3 (0.69%) oVirt
8 2 (0.46%) Firmware
8 2 (0.46%) LXC
8 2 (0.46%) Squid
9 1 (0.23%) NFS
9 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 333 (76.73%) Kubernetes
2 264 (60.83%) Terraform
3 229 (52.76%) Grafana
4 143 (32.95%) Ansible
5 54 (12.44%) vCenter Server
6 39 (8.99%) HAProxy
7 33 (7.60%) Kibana
8 30 (6.91%) Progress Chef
9 27 (6.22%) Puppet
10 21 (4.84%) ITRS Geneos
10 21 (4.84%) Zipkin
11 12 (2.76%) Istio
12 7 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.38%) Nagios
14 5 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (1.15%) Karpenter
14 5 (1.15%) Packer
14 5 (1.15%) Rancher
14 5 (1.15%) SCOM
15 4 (0.92%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 143 (32.95%) Dynatrace
2 128 (29.49%) Red Hat
3 113 (26.04%) Splunk
4 66 (15.21%) VMware
5 60 (13.82%) IBM
6 54 (12.44%) NetApp
6 54 (12.44%) Palo Alto
6 54 (12.44%) SolidFire
7 41 (9.45%) Oracle
8 28 (6.45%) Google
9 13 (3.00%) New Relic
10 12 (2.76%) Microsoft
10 12 (2.76%) Sybase
11 11 (2.53%) SaltStack
12 7 (1.61%) ForgeRock
12 7 (1.61%) Zscaler
13 6 (1.38%) Dell
13 6 (1.38%) HP
13 6 (1.38%) Serena
14 5 (1.15%) SolarWinds