Prometheus Contract Job Trends in the South West

Prometheus
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Prometheus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 113 144
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +21
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 26 16 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.12% 0.77% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.86% 4.94% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 2
10th Percentile £440 £513 £560
25th Percentile £513 £519 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £643
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% -5.84% +4.47%
75th Percentile £650 £632 £698
90th Percentile £740 £638 £722
England median daily rate £513 £558 £600
% change year-on-year -8.07% -7.08% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 379 324 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.28% 15.56% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 204 321
10th Percentile £343 £330 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% -
75th Percentile £694 £632 £675
90th Percentile £738 £729 £738
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 12
10th Percentile £53.85 £12.50 £19.35
25th Percentile £74.63 £13.25 £49.13
Median hourly rate £86.00 £45.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.11% -37.93% +11.54%
75th Percentile £119.00 £74.00 £78.00
90th Percentile - £74.22 -
England median hourly rate £47.75 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.85% -41.53% +27.89%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Prometheus job vacancy trend in the South West

Prometheus
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in the South West over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the South West

Prometheus
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Prometheus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Gloucestershire -3 9 £650 +6.12% 3
Bristol -2 8 £525 -9.68% 3
Wiltshire -5 6 £606 +1.04% 3
Dorset +10 3 £525 +33.93% 4
Prometheus
England

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 12 (46.15%) AWS
3 11 (42.31%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (38.46%) GitHub
4 10 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (26.92%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (26.92%) Serverless
6 6 (23.08%) GCP
6 6 (23.08%) OpenShift
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.85%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (26.92%) Redis
2 3 (11.54%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.69%) Big Data
3 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) GitLab
1 14 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) Git
3 4 (15.38%) SonarQube
4 3 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Aerospace
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Backend Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Python Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (30.77%) REST
3 7 (26.92%) FastAPI
3 7 (26.92%) Flask
3 7 (26.92%) GraphQL
3 7 (26.92%) gRPC
3 7 (26.92%) WebSockets
4 2 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (7.69%) Express.js
4 2 (7.69%) Kafka
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js
4 2 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) OpenID
5 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 19 (73.08%) Containerisation
3 17 (65.38%) DevOps
4 11 (42.31%) Microservices
5 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (26.92%) DevSecOps
7 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
7 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Task Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Agile
8 4 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Secure Coding
8 4 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
9 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (11.54%) Observability
9 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
9 3 (11.54%) SDLC
9 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) Bash
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 8 (30.77%) Go
4 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
5 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.85%) C
7 1 (3.85%) C#
7 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 23 (88.46%) Security Cleared
2 20 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 10 (38.46%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (88.46%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (100.00%) Grafana
2 21 (80.77%) Kubernetes
3 14 (53.85%) Ansible
4 13 (50.00%) Terraform
5 4 (15.38%) Podman
6 3 (11.54%) Packer
6 3 (11.54%) Proxmox
7 2 (7.69%) Kibana
7 2 (7.69%) logstash
7 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 2 (7.69%) Rancher
8 1 (3.85%) Argo
8 1 (3.85%) Nagios
8 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
3 3 (11.54%) Splunk