Prometheus Contracts in Scotland

Prometheus
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 103 110 148
Rank change year-on-year +7 +38 +17
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 13 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.86% 0.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.53% 6.83% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 7
10th Percentile £408 - £527
25th Percentile £420 £400 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -25.53% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £663
90th Percentile £540 £623 £693
UK median daily rate £528 £530 £613
% change year-on-year -0.47% -13.47% +2.08%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 235 278 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.46% 12.54% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 194 406
10th Percentile £198 £246 £260
25th Percentile £399 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -2.96% -2.10%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £576 £654 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £21.18 £19.59 £21.47
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.32 £30.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.99 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.45% -32.47% +25.50%
75th Percentile £24.00 £49.21 £58.75
90th Percentile £24.11 £55.68 £59.65
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Prometheus in Scotland

Prometheus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Prometheus in Scotland

Prometheus
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -5 10 £440 +0.57% 2
Edinburgh +7 3 £525 - 3
Prometheus
UK

Prometheus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) OpenShift
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MariaDB
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
1 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Power Query
2 2 (15.38%) Redis
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.69%) Gatling
3 1 (7.69%) JMeter
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Legal
5 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Applications Support
2 4 (30.77%) Applications Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Applications Support Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Support Specialist
3 3 (23.08%) Linux Specialist
3 3 (23.08%) Linux Support
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Loki
2 4 (30.77%) Middleware
3 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
3 2 (15.38%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (15.38%) JSON
3 2 (15.38%) YAML
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (15.38%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) ITIL
3 6 (46.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
6 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
6 3 (23.08%) Garbage Collection
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Change Management
7 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (15.38%) High Availability
7 2 (15.38%) Internal Audit
7 2 (15.38%) Investment Management
7 2 (15.38%) JVM Tuning
7 2 (15.38%) Kanban
7 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 2 (15.38%) Observability
7 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Shell Script
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) Bicep
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) OCP
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (23.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Grafana
2 12 (92.31%) Ansible
2 12 (92.31%) Terraform
3 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
4 3 (23.08%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Splunk
1 8 (61.54%) Veritas
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle