Prometheus Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Prometheus
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Prometheus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 105 108
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +60
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 16 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 0.64% 0.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.04% 3.28% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 17
10th Percentile £510 £409 £484
25th Percentile £513 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £655
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -21.76% -6.43%
75th Percentile £659 £570 £690
90th Percentile £710 £591 £704
Central London median daily rate £560 £513 £650
% change year-on-year +9.27% -21.15% -7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 265 335 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.25% 19.39% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 229 204
10th Percentile £350 £323 £350
25th Percentile £413 £449 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £626 £670 £650
90th Percentile £708 £728 £743
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £24.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.57 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £40.02 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -83.95%
75th Percentile £50.72 - £32.25
90th Percentile £56.12 - £43.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £13.50
% change year-on-year -3.71% +95.93% -83.95%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Prometheus job vacancy trend in the City of London

Prometheus
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Prometheus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the City of London

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) GitHub
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (18.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (18.75%) GCP
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 2 (12.50%) Google Gemini
7 2 (12.50%) LangSmith
7 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
7 2 (12.50%) Serverless
7 2 (12.50%) Vertex AI
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
8 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) NoSQL
2 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (25.00%) Redis
3 3 (18.75%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
4 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (12.50%) Hazelcast
4 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.25%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Gradle
3 3 (18.75%) Maven
4 2 (12.50%) Gatling
5 1 (6.25%) Jaeger
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Games
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Local Government
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Gen AI Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Lead
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Kafka
1 8 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (43.75%) Spring
3 5 (31.25%) Spring Boot
4 3 (18.75%) OAuth
4 3 (18.75%) OAuth2
4 3 (18.75%) OpenID
4 3 (18.75%) RESTful
5 2 (12.50%) Apache Avro
5 2 (12.50%) JSON
5 2 (12.50%) Micronaut
5 2 (12.50%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (12.50%) Node.js
5 2 (12.50%) Quarkus
5 2 (12.50%) React
5 2 (12.50%) WireMock
6 1 (6.25%) Loki
6 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) AI Agents
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Code
4 1 (6.25%) Media Streaming
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.25%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 12 (75.00%) Observability
3 10 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 9 (56.25%) Microservices
5 7 (43.75%) DevOps
6 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven
6 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (25.00%) Secrets Management
7 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 3 (18.75%) API Design
8 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
8 3 (18.75%) Low Latency
8 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
9 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
9 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Programming
9 2 (12.50%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 2 (12.50%) Go
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) C
6 1 (6.25%) C#
6 1 (6.25%) Korn
6 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
6 1 (6.25%) ProC
6 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 20022
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 8583
2 2 (12.50%) PSD2
2 2 (12.50%) SEPA
3 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Grafana
2 12 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (43.75%) Terraform
4 4 (25.00%) Istio
5 2 (12.50%) Ansible
5 2 (12.50%) Argo
6 1 (6.25%) Kustomize
6 1 (6.25%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Dynatrace
2 3 (18.75%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) Confluent
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle