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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 110 151
Rank change year-on-year +20 +41 +24
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 30 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.72% 0.49% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.66% 4.15% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 8
10th Percentile £408 £394 £470
25th Percentile £426 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -20.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £697 £484 £539
90th Percentile £736 £520 £603
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £625
% change year-on-year -2.33% -14.00% +0.81%

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 237 241 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.57% 11.79% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 182 305
10th Percentile £201 £200 £260
25th Percentile £407 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -6.15% -8.67%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £546
90th Percentile £637 £634 £615
UK median daily rate £510 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% -5.59% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £16.00 £19.49
25th Percentile £52.50 £17.37 £21.36
Median hourly rate £55.00 £20.08 £39.59
Median % change year-on-year +173.97% -49.29% -11.68%
75th Percentile £57.50 £22.35 £58.75
90th Percentile - £23.45 £59.65
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £31.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +23.81% -45.22% +150.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 19 July 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 0 23 £538 +34.38% 3
Edinburgh - 7 £513 - 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (30.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) GitHub
2 10 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 10 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 4 (13.33%) Serverless
4 3 (10.00%) Azure
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (26.67%) Redis
3 7 (23.33%) Oracle Database
4 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (13.33%) MariaDB
5 4 (13.33%) MySQL
6 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (10.00%) Big Data
6 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (10.00%) Power Query
7 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
8 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (3.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (30.00%) CircleCI
3 7 (23.33%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 4 (13.33%) Artifactory
5 4 (13.33%) Git
5 4 (13.33%) GitLab
6 2 (6.67%) Liquibase
7 1 (3.33%) Gatling
7 1 (3.33%) JMeter
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Architect
2 9 (30.00%) Technical Architect
3 7 (23.33%) Lead
3 7 (23.33%) Lead Architect
3 7 (23.33%) Technical Leader
4 5 (16.67%) Applications Support
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Applications Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Applications Support Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Linux Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Linux Support
6 3 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Support Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) Loki
2 8 (26.67%) RESTful
3 7 (23.33%) Kafka
4 5 (16.67%) FastAPI
4 5 (16.67%) Flask
4 5 (16.67%) LangChain
4 5 (16.67%) LangGraph
4 5 (16.67%) OAuth
4 5 (16.67%) OAuth2
5 4 (13.33%) JSON
5 4 (13.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (13.33%) PyTorch
5 4 (13.33%) TensorFlow
6 3 (10.00%) ARM Templates
6 3 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (10.00%) Hugging Face
6 3 (10.00%) Middleware
6 3 (10.00%) REST
6 3 (10.00%) YAML
7 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (13.33%) AI Agents
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (10.00%) Low-Code
3 3 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 8 (26.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (46.67%) DevOps
4 13 (43.33%) Agile
5 11 (36.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 9 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 8 (26.67%) Domain-Driven Design
7 8 (26.67%) Microservices
7 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
7 8 (26.67%) Strategic Roadmap
7 8 (26.67%) TDD
8 6 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
9 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 5 (16.67%) Performance Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Scrum
9 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 5 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 8 (26.67%) SQL
4 6 (20.00%) Java
5 5 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 4 (13.33%) Bash
7 3 (10.00%) Bicep
7 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (6.67%) Go
9 1 (3.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) Degree
4 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (16.67%) Master's Degree
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) OCP
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.33%) Docker
4 2 (6.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 29 (96.67%) Grafana
2 24 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 23 (76.67%) Terraform
4 13 (43.33%) Ansible
5 4 (13.33%) Kustomize
6 3 (10.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Splunk
2 9 (30.00%) Oracle
3 7 (23.33%) Veritas
3 7 (23.33%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.33%) PagerDuty