Prometheus Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Prometheus
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Prometheus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 112 131
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 +34
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 10 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.23% 3.66% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £421 £450 £472
25th Percentile £446 £469 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £508 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -1.46% -6.36%
75th Percentile £533 £550 £553
90th Percentile £563 £576 £581
South East median daily rate £493 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -2.96% -3.33% -10.64%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 310 273 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.89% 13.60% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 197 258
10th Percentile £255 £278 £163
25th Percentile £382 £375 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £615
90th Percentile £607 £679 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 16
10th Percentile - £18.00 £24.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £28.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.08 £47.95
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -26.84% -12.82%
75th Percentile £82.25 £37.06 £53.55
90th Percentile £85.70 £37.62 £68.63
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £29.25 £48.40
% change year-on-year +36.75% -39.57% +14.87%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Prometheus job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Prometheus
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the Thames Valley

Prometheus
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Berkshire -5 9 £493 -7.51% 3
Oxfordshire -13 1 - - 2
Prometheus
South East

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Loki
2 1 (10.00%) Django
2 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (10.00%) Flask
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 8 (80.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (90.00%) Observability
3 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 8 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) GitOps
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) OWASP
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Runbook
4 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) vSphere
2 7 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Grafana
2 9 (90.00%) Argo
2 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (80.00%) Kustomize
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 8 (80.00%) VMware