Prometheus Contracts in the UK excluding London

Prometheus
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Prometheus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Prometheus over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 346 400
Rank change year-on-year +45 +54 -57
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 89 113 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.47% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.80% 3.12% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 69 92
10th Percentile £409 £480 £425
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £622 £688 £675
90th Percentile £649 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% +2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -15.48% +60.62%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Prometheus is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,343 3,627 4,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.28% 15.02% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,698 2,658 3,004
10th Percentile £213 £275 £231
25th Percentile £375 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £594
90th Percentile £656 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £516 £565 £565
% change year-on-year -8.58% -0.03% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 142 121
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.89
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £70.50 £75.50 £51.45
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.14
% change year-on-year -47.83% +159.71% -34.88%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Prometheus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Prometheus in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prometheus in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Prometheus in the UK excluding London

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the UK excluding London

Prometheus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prometheus in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Prometheus in the UK excluding London

Prometheus
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
North of England +2 30 £550 -15.38% 16
South West +33 22 £550 -22.81% 10
Scotland +36 18 £450 -23.40% 5
Yorkshire +23 14 £573 -11.92% 7
South East +22 12 £495 -7.91% 8
North West -14 9 £448 -31.15% 7
North East +21 7 - - 2
Wales +20 5 £645 -0.85% 1
East of England +6 2 - - 3
Prometheus
UK

Prometheus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (6.74%) Confluence
2 5 (5.62%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.49%) nginx
3 4 (4.49%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.25%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 55 (61.80%) AWS
2 37 (41.57%) Azure
3 22 (24.72%) OpenShift
4 19 (21.35%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (20.22%) Amazon S3
6 17 (19.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (19.10%) GCP
7 12 (13.48%) GitHub
8 11 (12.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (10.11%) Serverless
10 8 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.74%) Apigee
11 6 (6.74%) Kong
11 6 (6.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.49%) Route 53
14 3 (3.37%) Azure AKS
14 3 (3.37%) Datadog
14 3 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.61%) TCP/IP
2 12 (13.48%) Firewall
3 11 (12.36%) VPN
4 8 (8.99%) DNS
5 7 (7.87%) AMQP
5 7 (7.87%) HTTP
6 6 (6.74%) Network Security
7 5 (5.62%) NAS
7 5 (5.62%) SAN
8 4 (4.49%) 5G
8 4 (4.49%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (4.49%) LTE
9 2 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.22%) Relational Database
2 17 (19.10%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (17.98%) MySQL
4 12 (13.48%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
7 8 (8.99%) InfluxDB
8 4 (4.49%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.37%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.37%) Redis
10 1 (1.12%) Big Data
10 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.12%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (38.20%) Jenkins
2 25 (28.09%) GitLab
3 12 (13.48%) Git
4 8 (8.99%) JIRA
5 7 (7.87%) CircleCI
5 7 (7.87%) Travis CI
6 6 (6.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (6.74%) Burp Suite
6 6 (6.74%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.62%) AppScan
8 3 (3.37%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.37%) Maven
9 2 (2.25%) Gradle
9 2 (2.25%) Selenium
10 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.12%) Mockito
10 1 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.12%) Spinnaker
10 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (11.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.74%) Finance
5 5 (5.62%) Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Electronics
7 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.12%) Marketing
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
7 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (40.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (32.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 21 (23.60%) Site Engineer
4 6 (6.74%) Developer
5 5 (5.62%) Administrator
5 5 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (5.62%) DBA
5 5 (5.62%) Java Developer
5 5 (5.62%) Senior
6 4 (4.49%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Python Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Azure Administrator
7 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.25%) Backend Developer
8 2 (2.25%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (33.71%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (16.85%) Kafka
3 10 (11.24%) JSON
4 8 (8.99%) YAML
5 7 (7.87%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (6.74%) RESTful
6 6 (6.74%) Spring Boot
6 6 (6.74%) XML
7 5 (5.62%) OpenTracing
7 5 (5.62%) REST
7 5 (5.62%) Spring
8 2 (2.25%) ADO
8 2 (2.25%) cloud-init
8 2 (2.25%) pytest
9 1 (1.12%) Akka
9 1 (1.12%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.12%) Django
9 1 (1.12%) LDAP
9 1 (1.12%) OAuth
9 1 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Linux Command Line
1 12 (13.48%) Public Cloud
2 11 (12.36%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.99%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Clustering
5 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.25%) PKI
6 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (53.93%) Linux
2 13 (14.61%) Windows
3 8 (8.99%) Unix
4 4 (4.49%) CentOS
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.25%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (65.17%) DevOps
2 47 (52.81%) CI/CD
3 39 (43.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 31 (34.83%) Agile
5 24 (26.97%) Containerisation
5 24 (26.97%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (22.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (21.35%) Observability
7 19 (21.35%) Task Automation
8 17 (19.10%) Configuration Management
9 16 (17.98%) Project Management
9 16 (17.98%) Software Engineering
10 14 (15.73%) Microservices
11 13 (14.61%) Scrum
12 12 (13.48%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (12.36%) GitOps
14 10 (11.24%) Change Control
15 9 (10.11%) Incident Response
16 8 (8.99%) Continuous Deployment
16 8 (8.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (49.44%) Python
2 20 (22.47%) Bash
3 18 (20.22%) Java
4 15 (16.85%) Go
4 15 (16.85%) PowerShell
5 14 (15.73%) SQL
6 11 (12.36%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.74%) C
7 6 (6.74%) Scala
8 5 (5.62%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.37%) Perl
9 3 (3.37%) Ruby
10 2 (2.25%) PHP
11 1 (1.12%) Bicep
11 1 (1.12%) C#
11 1 (1.12%) Groovy
11 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (34.83%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.22%) DV Cleared
3 12 (13.48%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.25%) SANS
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.98%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) NCSC
3 1 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 53 (59.55%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (84.27%) Grafana
1 75 (84.27%) Kubernetes
2 58 (65.17%) Terraform
3 56 (62.92%) Ansible
4 22 (24.72%) Progress Chef
5 19 (21.35%) Docker Swarm
6 16 (17.98%) Puppet
7 13 (14.61%) Kibana
8 11 (12.36%) Graylog
8 11 (12.36%) Istio
9 7 (7.87%) Argo
9 7 (7.87%) Nagios
10 6 (6.74%) logstash
11 5 (5.62%) HP Fortify
11 5 (5.62%) Nessus
11 5 (5.62%) WebInspect
11 5 (5.62%) Zipkin
12 4 (4.49%) yum
13 3 (3.37%) NetBackup
14 2 (2.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 25 (28.09%) Splunk
2 12 (13.48%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.74%) Checkmarx
3 6 (6.74%) PagerDuty
4 5 (5.62%) Oracle
4 5 (5.62%) Veracode
4 5 (5.62%) VMware
5 3 (3.37%) Veritas
6 1 (1.12%) Confluent
6 1 (1.12%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.12%) New Relic
6 1 (1.12%) SAP
6 1 (1.12%) Zscaler