Prometheus Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Prometheus
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Prometheus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 66 66
Rank change year-on-year +24 0 +18
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 32 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.96% 0.46% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.88% 5.00% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 2 0
10th Percentile £463 £423 -
25th Percentile £468 £444 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% - -
75th Percentile £571 £515 -
90th Percentile £892 £536 -
West Midlands median daily rate £538 £550 -
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Birmingham

Prometheus falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 161 60 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.93% 9.27% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 40 57
10th Percentile £250 £158 £200
25th Percentile £421 £337 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +21.21% -17.50%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £500
90th Percentile £608 £694 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £419
% change year-on-year +3.00% +19.40% -16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £39.98 - -
25th Percentile £45.94 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +165.64%
75th Percentile £66.94 - -
90th Percentile £73.13 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £75.00 £16.19 £55.00
% change year-on-year +363.25% -70.56% +210.38%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prometheus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Prometheus job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Prometheus
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Prometheus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in Birmingham

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 9 (28.13%) Confluence
2 6 (18.75%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (71.88%) AWS
2 17 (53.13%) GCP
3 14 (43.75%) Serverless
4 13 (40.63%) AWS KMS
5 9 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (28.13%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (28.13%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (28.13%) Amazon S3
5 9 (28.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (21.88%) Azure
7 6 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (18.75%) Route 53
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (9.38%) GitHub
8 3 (9.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.13%) BrowserStack
10 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) DNS
1 9 (28.13%) Firewall
1 9 (28.13%) FTP
1 9 (28.13%) HTTP
1 9 (28.13%) SMTP
1 9 (28.13%) SSH
2 6 (18.75%) IMAP
2 6 (18.75%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (43.75%) NoSQL
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (18.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (84.38%) Jenkins
2 15 (46.88%) GitLab
3 12 (37.50%) Git
4 11 (34.38%) JIRA
5 10 (31.25%) Liquibase
6 9 (28.13%) Vagrant
7 2 (6.25%) Jaeger
8 1 (3.13%) Gatling
8 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.13%) Selenium
8 1 (3.13%) Serenity BDD
General
1 21 (65.63%) Social Skills
2 15 (46.88%) Finance
3 10 (31.25%) Banking
3 10 (31.25%) Financial Institution
3 10 (31.25%) Public Sector
4 6 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) AWS Engineer
1 15 (46.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (34.38%) GCP Engineer
4 10 (31.25%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (31.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 9 (28.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 9 (28.13%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (28.13%) Software Engineer
6 7 (21.88%) Senior
6 7 (21.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (18.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (18.75%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 5 (15.63%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (15.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 4 (12.50%) Developer
9 4 (12.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 4 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) Elastic Stack
1 14 (43.75%) REST
1 14 (43.75%) RESTful
2 7 (21.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (18.75%) LDAP
4 2 (6.25%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.13%) .NET
5 1 (3.13%) Kafka
5 1 (3.13%) Playwright
5 1 (3.13%) Spring
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Public Cloud
2 12 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (31.25%) Cloud Native
4 9 (28.13%) Replication
5 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (78.13%) Linux
2 9 (28.13%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (28.13%) VMS
2 9 (28.13%) Windows
3 6 (18.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) CI/CD
1 29 (90.63%) DevOps
2 21 (65.63%) Containerisation
3 18 (56.25%) Root Cause Analysis
4 17 (53.13%) Change Management
4 17 (53.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (50.00%) Agile
6 14 (43.75%) Computer Science
6 14 (43.75%) Cryptography
7 13 (40.63%) Microservices
8 12 (37.50%) Cloud Security
8 12 (37.50%) High Availability
9 10 (31.25%) Cost Optimisation
9 10 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (31.25%) Non-Functional Testing
9 10 (31.25%) Software Engineering
10 9 (28.13%) Configuration Management
10 9 (28.13%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (28.13%) Data Encryption
10 9 (28.13%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (93.75%) Python
2 16 (50.00%) Go
3 10 (31.25%) Groovy
3 10 (31.25%) SQL
4 9 (28.13%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.50%) Java
6 3 (9.38%) Perl
7 2 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (62.50%) Degree
2 14 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (37.50%) Master's Degree
4 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
5 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
6 8 (25.00%) AWS Certification
7 6 (18.75%) Azure Certification
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) CISM
9 1 (3.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (90.63%) Docker
2 9 (28.13%) DFS Replication
3 6 (18.75%) Dovecot
3 6 (18.75%) Postfix
3 6 (18.75%) Squid
4 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (100.00%) Grafana
2 27 (84.38%) Terraform
3 20 (62.50%) Kubernetes
4 14 (43.75%) Ansible
5 8 (25.00%) Nessus
6 6 (18.75%) Proxmox
7 2 (6.25%) Control-M
7 2 (6.25%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Splunk
2 9 (28.13%) ServiceNow
3 6 (18.75%) Google
3 6 (18.75%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.25%) Tenable
6 1 (3.13%) VMware