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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 104 91
Rank change year-on-year -11 -13 +48
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 21 20 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.91% 1.10% 1.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.17% 8.85% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 29
10th Percentile £424 £403 £425
25th Percentile £458 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £575 £800 £710
90th Percentile £668 - £800
Central London median daily rate £513 £650 £703
% change year-on-year -21.15% -7.47% +4.07%

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 257 226 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.17% 12.47% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 163 208
10th Percentile £286 £281 £368
25th Percentile £450 £439 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -3.42%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £759
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.65% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £28.10 £30.26 -
25th Percentile £34.25 £35.53 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +70.77% -25.52%
75th Percentile £62.25 £56.74 -
90th Percentile £69.90 £62.04 -
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +27.39% +1.76% -25.52%

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 31 August 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 2 (9.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub
4 5 (23.81%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
6 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 3 (14.29%) PowerApps
7 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
7 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
7 2 (9.52%) Serverless
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) NoSQL
2 4 (19.05%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 3 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (28.57%) Git
3 5 (23.81%) JMeter
4 4 (19.05%) Postman
5 3 (14.29%) Gradle
5 3 (14.29%) Maven
6 2 (9.52%) GitLab
6 2 (9.52%) JIRA
7 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
7 1 (4.76%) Gatling
7 1 (4.76%) JUnit
7 1 (4.76%) LoadRunner
7 1 (4.76%) Mockito
7 1 (4.76%) NeoLoad
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Tester
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cassandra Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Database Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (19.05%) RESTful
2 4 (19.05%) Spring
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
2 4 (19.05%) Swagger
3 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.76%) Google JAX
4 1 (4.76%) Hugging Face
4 1 (4.76%) JAX
4 1 (4.76%) Loki
4 1 (4.76%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.76%) OpenID
4 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (23.81%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Genomics
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 18 (85.71%) DevOps
2 17 (80.95%) Observability
3 16 (76.19%) Containerisation
4 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
6 7 (33.33%) Agile
6 7 (33.33%) Microservices
7 6 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (23.81%) Performance Testing
8 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
9 4 (19.05%) AIOps
9 4 (19.05%) API Design
9 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
9 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing
9 4 (19.05%) Performance Engineering
9 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (19.05%) Proactive Monitoring
9 4 (19.05%) Validation
10 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Bash
3 4 (19.05%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) CQL
4 1 (4.76%) Korn
4 1 (4.76%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 12 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (90.48%) Grafana
2 18 (85.71%) Kubernetes
3 6 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (9.52%) Istio
5 1 (4.76%) Consul
5 1 (4.76%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (4.76%) Kustomize
5 1 (4.76%) linkerd
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Dynatrace
1 5 (23.81%) Splunk
2 4 (19.05%) AppDynamics
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.52%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto