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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 96 126
Rank change year-on-year -7 +30 +63
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 18 33 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.02% 1.59% 1.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.53% 9.79% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 26
10th Percentile £402 £425 £606
25th Percentile £481 £507 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 £703 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% +4.07% -
75th Percentile £800 £711 £738
90th Percentile - £838 £763
Central London median daily rate £695 £705 £675
% change year-on-year -1.42% +4.44% -

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 239 337 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.56% 16.21% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 229 343
10th Percentile £281 £375 £400
25th Percentile £430 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £585
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -3.42% -0.43%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £30.26 - £23.88
25th Percentile £35.53 - £27.81
Median hourly rate £46.11 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +70.77% -25.52% +81.25%
75th Percentile £56.74 - £45.31
90th Percentile £62.04 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £27.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +1.76% -25.52% +81.25%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Prometheus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Prometheus 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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the City of London

Prometheus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) GitHub
3 6 (33.33%) Datadog
3 6 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (27.78%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (27.78%) Serverless
5 3 (16.67%) Azure
5 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.56%) IaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) MemSQL
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.56%) Jaeger
3 1 (5.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Design Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
1 5 (27.78%) GraphQL
1 5 (27.78%) OpenTelemetry
1 5 (27.78%) WebSockets
2 3 (16.67%) Loki
3 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.56%) ADO
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.56%) Faiss
4 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) LangChain
4 1 (5.56%) Middleware
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 15 (83.33%) DevOps
3 14 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (55.56%) Observability
5 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
6 6 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
7 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
7 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (27.78%) High Availability
7 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
7 5 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
7 5 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (27.78%) User Experience
8 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (16.67%) Microservices
9 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Go
4 2 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) PromQL
5 1 (5.56%) Bicep
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) MCP
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) QA
1 2 (11.11%) SOC 2
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) EU AI Act
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Kubernetes
2 12 (66.67%) Grafana
3 11 (61.11%) Terraform
4 3 (16.67%) Ansible
5 2 (11.11%) Argo
5 2 (11.11%) Istio
5 2 (11.11%) Kustomize
6 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.56%) Tenable