Prometheus Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Prometheus
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Prometheus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 123 130
Rank change year-on-year +31 +7 +66
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 68 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.16% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.15% 1.73% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 3 2
10th Percentile £463 £437 -
25th Percentile £468 £480 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year - +5.97% -11.21%
75th Percentile £627 £588 -
90th Percentile £750 £610 -
England median daily rate £513 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -7.87% -7.29% -7.69%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 517 231 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.40% 10.01% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 152 233
10th Percentile £263 £188 £240
25th Percentile £404 £362 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £550
90th Percentile £650 £660 £688
England median daily rate £513 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile - - £15.34
25th Percentile £16.25 - £16.24
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +195.57% -31.26% -
75th Percentile £77.25 £14.67 £36.36
90th Percentile £77.40 £16.16 £47.54
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Prometheus job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Prometheus
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Prometheus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the Midlands

Prometheus
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
West Midlands +25 64 £544 -1.18% 6
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 1
Prometheus
England

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 21 (30.88%) Confluence
2 12 (17.65%) nginx
3 6 (8.82%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 51 (75.00%) AWS
2 37 (54.41%) Azure
3 29 (42.65%) Amazon S3
4 28 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (41.18%) Serverless
5 24 (35.29%) AWS KMS
6 22 (32.35%) GCP
7 21 (30.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (30.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 20 (29.41%) Amazon ELB
9 18 (26.47%) GitHub
9 18 (26.47%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (20.59%) OpenShift
12 11 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (16.18%) Route 53
13 9 (13.24%) Amazon Glacier
13 9 (13.24%) Datadog
14 8 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 20 (29.41%) Firewall
1 20 (29.41%) SMTP
2 19 (27.94%) DNS
2 19 (27.94%) FTP
2 19 (27.94%) HTTP
2 19 (27.94%) SSH
3 11 (16.18%) IMAP
3 11 (16.18%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (41.18%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (39.71%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (20.59%) NoSQL
4 11 (16.18%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (11.76%) Redis
6 4 (5.88%) InfluxDB
6 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 48 (70.59%) Jenkins
2 27 (39.71%) Git
3 22 (32.35%) GitLab
4 21 (30.88%) JIRA
5 20 (29.41%) Vagrant
6 10 (14.71%) Liquibase
7 6 (8.82%) JUnit
7 6 (8.82%) Postman
7 6 (8.82%) SonarQube
8 5 (7.35%) Artifactory
8 5 (7.35%) Bitbucket
8 5 (7.35%) CircleCI
8 5 (7.35%) Cypress.io
8 5 (7.35%) Gradle
8 5 (7.35%) Maven
8 5 (7.35%) Selenium
8 5 (7.35%) Snyk
8 5 (7.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (7.35%) webpack
9 2 (2.94%) Jaeger
General
1 30 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 20 (29.41%) Public Sector
3 12 (17.65%) Finance
4 10 (14.71%) Financial Institution
4 10 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (13.24%) Banking
6 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 27 (39.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (35.29%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (26.47%) AWS DevOps
3 18 (26.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 18 (26.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 18 (26.47%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (19.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (16.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (14.71%) Developer
7 9 (13.24%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 9 (13.24%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (13.24%) Senior
7 9 (13.24%) Software Engineer
8 8 (11.76%) Backend Developer
8 8 (11.76%) Python Developer
8 8 (11.76%) Site Engineer
8 8 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (10.29%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (8.82%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (8.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (38.24%) REST
2 20 (29.41%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (23.53%) RESTful
4 11 (16.18%) LDAP
5 8 (11.76%) FastAPI
5 8 (11.76%) Flask
5 8 (11.76%) GraphQL
5 8 (11.76%) WebSockets
6 7 (10.29%) gRPC
7 5 (7.35%) JSON
7 5 (7.35%) YAML
8 4 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.41%) Middleware
10 2 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (1.47%) Keycloak
11 1 (1.47%) OpenAPI
11 1 (1.47%) pytest
11 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
11 1 (1.47%) Swagger
11 1 (1.47%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.88%) Cloud Native
2 19 (27.94%) Replication
3 14 (20.59%) Public Cloud
4 12 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (7.35%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) PKI
7 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (73.53%) Linux
2 22 (32.35%) VMS
3 20 (29.41%) Amazon Linux
4 19 (27.94%) Windows
5 10 (14.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (85.29%) CI/CD
2 57 (83.82%) DevOps
3 37 (54.41%) Containerisation
4 34 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 31 (45.59%) Change Management
6 24 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (35.29%) Microservices
7 23 (33.82%) Cloud Security
8 20 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (27.94%) Agile
9 19 (27.94%) Patch Management
9 19 (27.94%) Software Engineering
10 18 (26.47%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (22.06%) Computer Science
12 14 (20.59%) Cryptography
12 14 (20.59%) High Availability
13 13 (19.12%) Continuous Delivery
14 12 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
15 11 (16.18%) Performance Tuning
16 10 (14.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 55 (80.88%) Python
2 31 (45.59%) SQL
3 28 (41.18%) Go
4 26 (38.24%) PowerShell
5 20 (29.41%) Groovy
6 14 (20.59%) Java
7 9 (13.24%) Bash
7 9 (13.24%) Perl
7 9 (13.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (69.12%) Security Cleared
2 35 (51.47%) SC Cleared
3 25 (36.76%) Degree
4 20 (29.41%) DV Cleared
5 14 (20.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (19.12%) AWS Certification
7 12 (17.65%) Azure Certification
7 12 (17.65%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.47%) CISM
9 1 (1.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 60 (88.24%) Docker
2 19 (27.94%) DFS Replication
3 11 (16.18%) Dovecot
3 11 (16.18%) Postfix
3 11 (16.18%) Squid
4 9 (13.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (94.12%) Grafana
2 53 (77.94%) Terraform
3 45 (66.18%) Kubernetes
4 28 (41.18%) Ansible
5 13 (19.12%) Progress Chef
6 11 (16.18%) Nessus
7 10 (14.71%) Proxmox
8 7 (10.29%) Puppet
9 5 (7.35%) Podman
10 2 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 23 (33.82%) Splunk
2 20 (29.41%) ServiceNow
3 15 (22.06%) Microsoft
4 11 (16.18%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (8.82%) Google
6 3 (4.41%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.41%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.94%) Databricks
7 2 (2.94%) VMware
8 1 (1.47%) F5