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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 90 126
Rank change year-on-year -23 +36 +56
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 13 31 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 1.48% 0.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.16% 8.66% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 20
10th Percentile £400 £425 £596
25th Percentile £436 £491 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 £631 £675
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% -6.48% +3.85%
75th Percentile £800 £711 £719
90th Percentile £813 £771 £753
Central London median daily rate £695 £631 £675
% change year-on-year +10.10% -6.48% +3.85%

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 252 358 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.31% 17.15% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 237 311
10th Percentile £356 £360 £388
25th Percentile £429 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £684
90th Percentile £775 £733 £775
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £21.49 £44.00 £23.88
25th Percentile £23.46 £69.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +208.97% +85.90%
75th Percentile £47.91 - £45.31
90th Percentile £58.51 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +81.25%

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 18 November 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
4 3 (23.08%) Datadog
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) GCP
5 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) MemSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Pinecone
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Site Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Software Design Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
1 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
1 3 (23.08%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (23.08%) WebSockets
2 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) Loki
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) ADO
3 1 (7.69%) Faiss
3 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.69%) LangChain
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (69.23%) DevOps
4 8 (61.54%) Observability
5 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
6 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (30.77%) High Availability
6 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
7 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
7 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
7 3 (23.08%) User Experience
8 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Go
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) PromQL
4 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.69%) Bicep
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) MCP
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) EU AI Act
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 9 (69.23%) Grafana
3 7 (53.85%) Terraform
4 3 (23.08%) Istio
5 2 (15.38%) Ansible
5 2 (15.38%) Argo
5 2 (15.38%) Kustomize
6 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.69%) Tenable