Prometheus Contracts in the North of England

Prometheus
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 127 154 160
Rank change year-on-year +27 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 39 31 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.18% 0.65% 1.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.37% 5.76% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 45
10th Percentile £461 £409 £505
25th Percentile £506 £494 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £750 £608 £700
90th Percentile £780 £645 -
England median daily rate £550 £538 £620
% change year-on-year +2.33% -13.31% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £61.60 - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - -15.48%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 612 538 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.57% 11.28% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 379 635
10th Percentile £254 £239 £325
25th Percentile £379 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £638
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 52
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.89 £17.53
25th Percentile £51.38 £17.72 £22.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -40.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £74.50 £48.75 £50.17
90th Percentile £80.95 £80.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Prometheus in the North of England

Prometheus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Prometheus in the North of England

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the North of England

Prometheus
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire +13 20 £725 +27.47% 10
North West +19 11 £525 +17.32% 29
North East +1 8 £590 - 2
Prometheus
England

Prometheus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 10 (25.64%) nginx
2 7 (17.95%) Traefik
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.13%) IIS
4 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 12 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (28.21%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (28.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (25.64%) AWS Fargate
4 10 (25.64%) Azure
5 9 (23.08%) Entra ID
6 6 (15.38%) Collibra
6 6 (15.38%) GCP
7 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) OpenShift
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
9 3 (7.69%) GitHub
10 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
10 2 (5.13%) CloudBees
10 2 (5.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.21%) DNS
2 9 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 8 (20.51%) SSL
4 4 (10.26%) NAS
4 4 (10.26%) SAN
5 2 (5.13%) DHCP
6 1 (2.56%) Firewall
6 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.26%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (51.28%) GitLab
2 17 (43.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) Git
4 3 (7.69%) JIRA
5 2 (5.13%) CircleCI
5 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.13%) Maven
5 2 (5.13%) Selenium
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.56%) Gradle
6 1 (2.56%) JUnit
6 1 (2.56%) Mockito
General
1 9 (23.08%) Banking
1 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Military
5 2 (5.13%) Electronics
5 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing
5 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.13%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) DevOps Engineer
1 16 (41.03%) Senior
2 13 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Architect
4 8 (20.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (48.72%) Kafka
2 10 (25.64%) cloud-init
3 9 (23.08%) Keycloak
4 8 (20.51%) REST
5 6 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (12.82%) LDAP
7 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (10.26%) Middleware
7 4 (10.26%) pytest
8 3 (7.69%) Node.js
8 3 (7.69%) SOAP
9 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
9 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
9 2 (5.13%) Playwright
9 2 (5.13%) Puppeteer
9 2 (5.13%) React
9 2 (5.13%) RESTful
10 1 (2.56%) OAuth
10 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) PKI
2 6 (15.38%) Clustering
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (56.41%) Linux
2 14 (35.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (30.77%) CentOS
4 10 (25.64%) Unix
5 7 (17.95%) Windows
6 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
6 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.56%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) CI/CD
2 22 (56.41%) DevOps
3 19 (48.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (46.15%) Observability
5 11 (28.21%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (28.21%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 11 (28.21%) Static Application Security Testing
6 10 (25.64%) Secrets Management
7 9 (23.08%) Cloud Security
7 9 (23.08%) Identity Management
7 9 (23.08%) Microservices
8 7 (17.95%) Agile
8 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.95%) Mobile Device Management
9 6 (15.38%) High Availability
9 6 (15.38%) Monte Carlo Method
10 5 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
11 4 (10.26%) Data Governance
11 4 (10.26%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) Python
2 15 (38.46%) Bash
3 11 (28.21%) Go
4 8 (20.51%) Java
5 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.56%) Bicep
7 1 (2.56%) Groovy
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 10 (25.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) NCSC
2 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (92.31%) Grafana
2 32 (82.05%) Kubernetes
3 25 (64.10%) Terraform
4 11 (28.21%) Packer
4 11 (28.21%) ZABBIX
5 9 (23.08%) Consul
5 9 (23.08%) Istio
5 9 (23.08%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (23.08%) linkerd
5 9 (23.08%) Rancher
6 7 (17.95%) HAProxy
7 5 (12.82%) Ansible
8 2 (5.13%) Nagios
9 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (2.56%) Graylog
9 1 (2.56%) Kibana
9 1 (2.56%) logstash
9 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Splunk
2 9 (23.08%) Okta
3 7 (17.95%) Apple
3 7 (17.95%) ESET
4 6 (15.38%) Confluent
5 5 (12.82%) Oracle
6 4 (10.26%) Google
6 4 (10.26%) IBM
7 3 (7.69%) VMware
8 2 (5.13%) AppDynamics
8 2 (5.13%) Dell
8 2 (5.13%) HP
8 2 (5.13%) PagerDuty
8 2 (5.13%) SAP
8 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
9 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.56%) New Relic
9 1 (2.56%) Red Hat