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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 93 118
Rank change year-on-year -16 +25 +61
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 14 33 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.83% 1.57% 1.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.91% 9.59% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 22
10th Percentile £400 £425 £601
25th Percentile £466 £497 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 £678 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +0.37% +3.85%
75th Percentile £800 £716 £734
90th Percentile - £863 £749
Central London median daily rate £740 £705 £675
% change year-on-year +4.96% +4.44% +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 237 344 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.02% 16.33% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 223 315
10th Percentile £290 £365 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £769 £736 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.65% +4.55% -7.56%
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 £24.43 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -78.19% +208.97% +85.90%

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 20 October 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 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) GitHub
3 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon Cognito
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon EventBridge
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (28.57%) Datadog
4 4 (28.57%) Serverless
5 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (21.43%) Azure
5 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
6 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
7 1 (7.14%) GCP
7 1 (7.14%) IaaS
7 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) MemSQL
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Pinecone
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Software Design Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Site Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
1 4 (28.57%) GraphQL
1 4 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
1 4 (28.57%) WebSockets
2 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 2 (14.29%) Loki
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) ADO
3 1 (7.14%) Faiss
3 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) LangChain
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (57.14%) Observability
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) High Availability
5 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (28.57%) User Experience
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) PromQL
4 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.14%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) MCP
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) EU AI Act
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (64.29%) Grafana
3 7 (50.00%) Terraform
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Argo
4 2 (14.29%) Istio
4 2 (14.29%) Kustomize
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.14%) Tenable