Prometheus Contracts in England

Prometheus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Prometheus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Prometheus over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 339 347
Rank change year-on-year +29 +8 +26
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 179 205 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.55% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.74% 4.67% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 164 246
10th Percentile £393 £409 £481
25th Percentile £459 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £620
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -13.31% -0.04%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £528 £530 £613
% change year-on-year -0.47% -13.47% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 26
10th Percentile £43.20 - -
25th Percentile £49.11 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 - £65.50
75th Percentile £71.46 - £75.38
90th Percentile £75.81 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - -15.48%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Prometheus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Prometheus in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prometheus in England.

Daily rate trend for Prometheus in England

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prometheus in England.

Hourly rate trend for Prometheus in England

Prometheus
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Prometheus in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Prometheus in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +5 97 £525 - 177
North of England +27 39 £620 +12.73% 41
Yorkshire +13 20 £725 +27.47% 10
South West +39 16 £606 +10.23% 15
North West +19 11 £525 +17.32% 29
South East +44 9 £389 -21.41% 60
North East +1 8 £590 - 2
West Midlands - 8 £525 - 9
Midlands - 8 £525 - 16
East of England +33 5 £400 - 19
Prometheus
UK

Prometheus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (10.61%) nginx
2 12 (6.70%) Traefik
3 10 (5.59%) Apache Spark
4 8 (4.47%) Apache
5 2 (1.12%) Confluence
5 2 (1.12%) IIS
5 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 109 (60.89%) AWS
2 48 (26.82%) Azure
3 40 (22.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 40 (22.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (15.64%) GCP
5 27 (15.08%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (14.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (13.41%) Amazon S3
7 24 (13.41%) GitHub
8 22 (12.29%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (8.94%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (8.94%) AWS Fargate
10 16 (8.94%) Entra ID
10 16 (8.94%) Serverless
11 15 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (8.38%) OpenShift
12 14 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (6.15%) Azure AKS
13 11 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.20%) DNS
2 23 (12.85%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.47%) Firewall
3 8 (4.47%) HTTP
3 8 (4.47%) SSL
4 7 (3.91%) Internet
5 5 (2.79%) SAN
6 4 (2.23%) NAS
6 4 (2.23%) Network Security
7 3 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (1.68%) VPN
8 2 (1.12%) DHCP
9 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.56%) DSLAM
9 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.56%) SNMP
9 1 (0.56%) SSH
9 1 (0.56%) Telnet
9 1 (0.56%) VSAN
9 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.41%) MongoDB
1 24 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (9.50%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.03%) MySQL
5 8 (4.47%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (4.47%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.91%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.91%) Redis
7 6 (3.35%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.79%) Big Data
9 4 (2.23%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.68%) Hazelcast
11 2 (1.12%) Power BI
11 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 70 (39.11%) Jenkins
2 62 (34.64%) GitLab
3 28 (15.64%) Git
4 15 (8.38%) Maven
5 10 (5.59%) JUnit
6 9 (5.03%) JIRA
6 9 (5.03%) Mockito
7 8 (4.47%) CircleCI
8 7 (3.91%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (2.23%) DbUnit
9 4 (2.23%) Gradle
9 4 (2.23%) jMock
10 3 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.68%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.68%) IntelliJ
10 3 (1.68%) Jaeger
10 3 (1.68%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.68%) TestNG
11 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
General
1 35 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.53%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.17%) Finance
4 18 (10.06%) Banking
5 12 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.47%) Military
7 6 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.23%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.68%) Electronics
10 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.68%) Marketing
11 2 (1.12%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Legal
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (40.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (25.70%) Senior
3 28 (15.64%) Senior DevOps
4 22 (12.29%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (12.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 21 (11.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 20 (11.17%) Architect
6 20 (11.17%) Site Engineer
7 19 (10.61%) AWS DevOps
7 19 (10.61%) Developer
8 18 (10.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.15%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.03%) Lead
11 7 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) Data Architect
13 5 (2.79%) Java Engineer
14 4 (2.23%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (28.49%) Kafka
2 40 (22.35%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (12.85%) Spring
4 22 (12.29%) OpenTelemetry
5 17 (9.50%) REST
5 17 (9.50%) Spring Boot
6 15 (8.38%) cloud-init
6 15 (8.38%) Keycloak
7 13 (7.26%) RESTful
8 10 (5.59%) AngularJS
9 9 (5.03%) .NET
9 9 (5.03%) Hibernate
10 8 (4.47%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (4.47%) SOAP
11 6 (3.35%) JSON
11 6 (3.35%) Node.js
11 6 (3.35%) React
11 6 (3.35%) Web Services
12 5 (2.79%) LDAP
12 5 (2.79%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.82%) PKI
3 7 (3.91%) Clustering
4 6 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.68%) Replication
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.12%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (37.99%) Linux
2 25 (13.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (10.61%) CentOS
4 18 (10.06%) Unix
5 14 (7.82%) Windows
6 3 (1.68%) Android
6 3 (1.68%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.12%) Debian
7 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.56%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (69.27%) DevOps
2 102 (56.98%) CI/CD
3 95 (53.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (44.13%) Containerisation
5 59 (32.96%) Observability
6 57 (31.84%) Microservices
7 38 (21.23%) Continuous Integration
8 36 (20.11%) Agile
8 36 (20.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 31 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (13.41%) High Availability
11 21 (11.73%) Configuration Management
12 20 (11.17%) Software Engineering
12 20 (11.17%) Task Automation
13 19 (10.61%) Cloud Security
14 18 (10.06%) Deployment Automation
14 18 (10.06%) Identity Management
15 17 (9.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
15 17 (9.50%) Secrets Management
15 17 (9.50%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 85 (47.49%) Python
2 55 (30.73%) Bash
3 40 (22.35%) Java
4 33 (18.44%) Go
5 20 (11.17%) SQL
6 13 (7.26%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.59%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.03%) Bicep
8 9 (5.03%) Perl
9 8 (4.47%) Ruby
9 8 (4.47%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.35%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.79%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.23%) Groovy
13 3 (1.68%) C#
14 1 (0.56%) C
14 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 75 (41.90%) Security Cleared
2 60 (33.52%) SC Cleared
3 28 (15.64%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.94%) Degree
5 11 (6.15%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) CEH
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) MCITP
9 1 (0.56%) RHCE
9 1 (0.56%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) NCSC
2 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.79%) QA
3 3 (1.68%) GDPR
4 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.12%) SLA
4 2 (1.12%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.56%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (48.04%) Docker
2 6 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (2.79%) Postfix
4 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.68%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) Ceph
7 1 (0.56%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.56%) iptables
7 1 (0.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 144 (80.45%) Grafana
2 142 (79.33%) Kubernetes
3 112 (62.57%) Terraform
4 55 (30.73%) Ansible
5 21 (11.73%) Puppet
6 19 (10.61%) Istio
6 19 (10.61%) Packer
6 19 (10.61%) ZABBIX
7 17 (9.50%) Consul
8 16 (8.94%) Progress Chef
9 15 (8.38%) HAProxy
10 14 (7.82%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (7.82%) linkerd
10 14 (7.82%) Rancher
11 8 (4.47%) logstash
12 7 (3.91%) Nagios
13 5 (2.79%) Argo
14 3 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.68%) Control-M
14 3 (1.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (21.23%) Splunk
2 16 (8.94%) Google
2 16 (8.94%) Red Hat
3 14 (7.82%) Okta
4 12 (6.70%) Apple
4 12 (6.70%) ESET
5 10 (5.59%) VMware
6 9 (5.03%) Dynatrace
6 9 (5.03%) Microsoft
7 8 (4.47%) Oracle
8 6 (3.35%) Confluent
9 4 (2.23%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.23%) Cisco
9 4 (2.23%) IBM
9 4 (2.23%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (2.23%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.68%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.68%) Dell
10 3 (1.68%) HP
10 3 (1.68%) SAP