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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 97 119
Rank change year-on-year -17 +22 +72
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 11 24 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.62% 1.13% 0.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.31% 6.59% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 23
10th Percentile £400 £453 £513
25th Percentile £405 £497 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £578 £668
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -13.48% +2.69%
75th Percentile £706 £708 £713
90th Percentile £838 £730 £738
Central London median daily rate £575 £578 £663
% change year-on-year -0.43% -12.83% +1.92%

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 255 364 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.30% 17.10% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 241 305
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £730 £795
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £541
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.24% -9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £24.35 £44.00 -
25th Percentile £30.60 £69.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.04 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.47% +397.78% +15.38%
75th Percentile £54.31 - £23.75
90th Percentile £61.07 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -77.26% +397.78% +12.50%

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 2 December 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 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (9.09%) Apigee
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Run
5 1 (9.09%) Datadog
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MemSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
2 1 (9.09%) Jaeger
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Games
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Software Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Loki
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (9.09%) Faiss
3 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
3 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 1 (9.09%) LangChain
3 1 (9.09%) Middleware
3 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (9.09%) Media Streaming
3 1 (9.09%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Observability
4 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 4 (36.36%) High Availability
5 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Low Latency
7 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (18.18%) SDLC
7 2 (18.18%) Secrets Management
7 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) Go
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) PromQL
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) EU AI Act
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (81.82%) Grafana
3 7 (63.64%) Terraform
4 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Argo
4 2 (18.18%) Istio
4 2 (18.18%) Kustomize
5 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 1 (9.09%) Tenable