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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 104 112
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +61
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 13 15 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.69% 0.81% 0.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.08% 4.73% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 17
10th Percentile £400 £508 £484
25th Percentile £443 £524 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £613 £655
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% -6.49% -6.43%
75th Percentile £681 £719 £695
90th Percentile £933 £730 £738
Central London median daily rate £487 £613 £643
% change year-on-year -20.49% -4.67% -8.21%

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 256 317 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.63% 17.13% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 208 249
10th Percentile £356 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £738 £711 £739
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £20.24 - £16.15
25th Percentile £20.34 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% +261.29% +50.47%
75th Percentile £22.91 - £41.25
90th Percentile £23.39 - £46.65
Central London median hourly rate £23.87 £112.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -78.69% +261.29% +49.72%

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 27 January 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
4 3 (23.08%) Google Gemini
4 3 (23.08%) Vertex AI
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
5 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.69%) Apigee
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
1 4 (30.77%) Redis
2 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
2 2 (15.38%) Hazelcast
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) OLTP
3 1 (7.69%) Pinecone
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
3 2 (15.38%) Gatling
3 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) Jaeger
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Games
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Local Government
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Gen AI Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) Loki
2 3 (23.08%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Avro
3 2 (15.38%) JSON
3 2 (15.38%) Micronaut
3 2 (15.38%) OAuth
3 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
3 2 (15.38%) OpenID
3 2 (15.38%) Quarkus
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.69%) Faiss
4 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.69%) LangChain
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.69%) React
4 1 (7.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) AI Agents
1 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Code
3 1 (7.69%) Media Streaming
3 1 (7.69%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
4 6 (46.15%) Observability
5 5 (38.46%) Microservices
6 4 (30.77%) Secrets Management
6 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (23.08%) AI
7 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
7 3 (23.08%) DevOps
7 3 (23.08%) LLM
7 3 (23.08%) Low Latency
7 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
7 3 (23.08%) MLOps
7 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (23.08%) Prompt Engineering
7 3 (23.08%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (15.38%) High Availability
8 2 (15.38%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.69%) C
6 1 (7.69%) C#
6 1 (7.69%) Go
6 1 (7.69%) Korn
6 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (7.69%) ProC
6 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) MCP
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) ISO 20022
2 2 (15.38%) ISO 8583
2 2 (15.38%) PSD2
2 2 (15.38%) SEPA
3 1 (7.69%) EU AI Act
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (76.92%) Grafana
3 7 (53.85%) Terraform
4 4 (30.77%) Argo
4 4 (30.77%) Istio
5 3 (23.08%) Ansible
6 2 (15.38%) Kustomize
7 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Dynatrace
2 3 (23.08%) Splunk
3 2 (15.38%) Confluent
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Tenable