Prometheus Contract Job Trends in London

Prometheus
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Prometheus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 262 278
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 +56
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 157 97 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.72% 0.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.56% 4.75% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 58 96
10th Percentile £357 £390 £425
25th Percentile £417 £483 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £564
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +2.00% -13.27%
75th Percentile £608 £697 £672
90th Percentile £705 £741 £738
England median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.81% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £49.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £44.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +52.81% -40.67% +15.38%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,392 2,044 2,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.40% 15.16% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,642 1,356 1,721
10th Percentile £350 £364 £319
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.20%
75th Percentile £632 £680 £656
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 36
10th Percentile £21.93 £21.78 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £36.75 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% +15.75% +23.49%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.65 £106.90 £64.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £26.00 £42.03
% change year-on-year +101.92% -38.14% -16.88%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prometheus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Prometheus job vacancy trend in London

Prometheus
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Prometheus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in London

Prometheus
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Prometheus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the London region over the 6 months to 18 February 2026. 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
Central London -10 15 £535 -4.25% 15
South London -9 11 £519 -19.61% 3
West London - 11 £400 - 1
Prometheus
England

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 13 (8.28%) Confluence
2 12 (7.64%) nginx
3 5 (3.18%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.91%) Apache
4 3 (1.91%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.91%) Hyperledger
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.27%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.27%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.64%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.64%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) Maximo
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 88 (56.05%) AWS
2 33 (21.02%) Azure
3 27 (17.20%) Amazon S3
3 27 (17.20%) GitHub
4 26 (16.56%) Amazon EKS
5 24 (15.29%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (15.29%) GCP
5 24 (15.29%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (14.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 20 (12.74%) Serverless
8 19 (12.10%) Route 53
9 18 (11.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (11.46%) Datadog
10 14 (8.92%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (7.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (7.64%) CloudFront
12 9 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (5.73%) OpenShift
13 8 (5.10%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.74%) Firewall
2 18 (11.46%) DNS
3 17 (10.83%) TCP/IP
4 16 (10.19%) VPN
5 9 (5.73%) WAN
6 8 (5.10%) BGP
7 7 (4.46%) Ethernet
7 7 (4.46%) InfiniBand
7 7 (4.46%) NetScaler
7 7 (4.46%) OpenVPN
7 7 (4.46%) Wireless
8 6 (3.82%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (3.82%) HTTP
8 6 (3.82%) Multicast
9 4 (2.55%) FTP
9 4 (2.55%) IMAP
9 4 (2.55%) MPLS
9 4 (2.55%) SMTP
9 4 (2.55%) SSH
9 4 (2.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.92%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (8.92%) Redis
3 12 (7.64%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (7.01%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.10%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (5.10%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.18%) MySQL
7 4 (2.55%) Big Data
8 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.91%) Flink
8 3 (1.91%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.91%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.27%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.27%) OLTP
10 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 54 (34.39%) Jenkins
2 38 (24.20%) GitLab
3 24 (15.29%) Git
4 18 (11.46%) JIRA
5 7 (4.46%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.82%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.18%) CircleCI
7 5 (3.18%) Gatling
8 4 (2.55%) Vagrant
9 3 (1.91%) Jaeger
9 3 (1.91%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.27%) JUnit
10 2 (1.27%) Maven
10 2 (1.27%) PVCS
11 1 (0.64%) Gradle
11 1 (0.64%) JMeter
11 1 (0.64%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.64%) Mockito
11 1 (0.64%) Postman
11 1 (0.64%) Selenium
General
1 45 (28.66%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.65%) Finance
3 19 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.01%) Banking
5 10 (6.37%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.55%) Front Office
8 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.27%) Games
10 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Local Government
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (24.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (19.75%) Senior
3 20 (12.74%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (10.19%) Developer
5 14 (8.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 13 (8.28%) Site Engineer
7 12 (7.64%) Architect
7 12 (7.64%) AWS DevOps
8 11 (7.01%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (7.01%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Lead
9 9 (5.73%) Network Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Operations Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.82%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.18%) Java Developer
13 4 (2.55%) Cloud Architect
13 4 (2.55%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (29.94%) Kafka
2 21 (13.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 18 (11.46%) Node.js
4 14 (8.92%) gRPC
5 13 (8.28%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (7.64%) Spring
7 11 (7.01%) LDAP
7 11 (7.01%) OpenID
7 11 (7.01%) Playwright
8 10 (6.37%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.37%) YAML
9 9 (5.73%) GraphQL
9 9 (5.73%) Middleware
10 8 (5.10%) Loki
10 8 (5.10%) React
10 8 (5.10%) REST
10 8 (5.10%) Vitest
11 6 (3.82%) Keycloak
12 5 (3.18%) WireMock
13 4 (2.55%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.11%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.74%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.37%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.73%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.10%) Replication
6 5 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.55%) PKI
7 4 (2.55%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.91%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.91%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.27%) Derivative
9 2 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.27%) Energy Derivatives
9 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.64%) CMDB
10 1 (0.64%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.64%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 42 (26.75%) Linux
2 13 (8.28%) Unix
2 13 (8.28%) Windows
3 8 (5.10%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.55%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (2.55%) CentOS
4 4 (2.55%) VMS
5 3 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (71.34%) CI/CD
2 87 (55.41%) Observability
3 86 (54.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (50.96%) DevOps
5 53 (33.76%) Containerisation
6 32 (20.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 31 (19.75%) Platform Engineering
8 29 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (17.20%) Microservices
10 26 (16.56%) Agile
10 26 (16.56%) Software Engineering
11 20 (12.74%) Test Automation
12 19 (12.10%) Incident Response
13 18 (11.46%) Clean Code
13 18 (11.46%) Roadmaps
14 17 (10.83%) Open Source
15 16 (10.19%) Infrastructure Automation
16 15 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (9.55%) Mentoring
17 14 (8.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 84 (53.50%) Python
2 39 (24.84%) Java
3 36 (22.93%) Bash
4 24 (15.29%) Go
5 16 (10.19%) SQL
6 14 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.01%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.37%) JavaScript
9 8 (5.10%) Groovy
10 5 (3.18%) C#
11 3 (1.91%) Scala
12 2 (1.27%) Bicep
12 2 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.27%) Rust
12 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.64%) C
13 1 (0.64%) Korn
13 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.64%) ProC
13 1 (0.64%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 45 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.93%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.92%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.10%) CCNP
4 8 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.10%) Degree
5 5 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) RHCE
8 1 (0.64%) CISSP
8 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.46%) QA
2 3 (1.91%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.27%) NIST
3 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.27%) PSD2
3 2 (1.27%) SEPA
3 2 (1.27%) SLA
4 1 (0.64%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.64%) GDPR
4 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.64%) NCSC
4 1 (0.64%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (47.13%) Docker
2 12 (7.64%) Squid
3 4 (2.55%) DFS Replication
3 4 (2.55%) Dovecot
3 4 (2.55%) Postfix
4 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.64%) Firmware
5 1 (0.64%) HDFS
5 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 134 (85.35%) Grafana
2 95 (60.51%) Kubernetes
3 92 (58.60%) Terraform
4 42 (26.75%) Ansible
5 11 (7.01%) Argo
6 8 (5.10%) FortiGate
6 8 (5.10%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (3.82%) Consul
8 5 (3.18%) Nessus
8 5 (3.18%) Rancher
8 5 (3.18%) Salt
9 4 (2.55%) Istio
9 4 (2.55%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (2.55%) Kibana
9 4 (2.55%) Nagios
9 4 (2.55%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.27%) Cilium
10 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.27%) Puppet
10 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 27 (17.20%) Splunk
2 23 (14.65%) Dynatrace
3 13 (8.28%) Red Hat
3 13 (8.28%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.64%) Arista
5 11 (7.01%) Cisco
6 10 (6.37%) Aruba
7 9 (5.73%) F5
7 9 (5.73%) Google
7 9 (5.73%) Palo Alto
8 8 (5.10%) Oracle
9 7 (4.46%) Atlassian
9 7 (4.46%) CheckPoint
10 6 (3.82%) BigPanda
10 6 (3.82%) Microsoft
11 5 (3.18%) New Relic
11 5 (3.18%) Solace
12 4 (2.55%) Dell
12 4 (2.55%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (2.55%) TIBCO