Prometheus Contracts in the UK excluding London

Prometheus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 245 308 345
Rank change year-on-year +63 +37 +45
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 91 91 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.83% 3.87% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 67 74
10th Percentile £408 £409 £480
25th Percentile £456 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -14.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £718 £611 £688
90th Percentile £750 £648 £700
UK median daily rate £528 £530 £613
% change year-on-year -0.47% -13.47% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - £69.65
UK median hourly rate £61.60 - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - -15.48%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
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 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

Prometheus
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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North of England +27 39 £620 +12.73% 91
Yorkshire +13 20 £725 +27.47% 31
South West +39 16 £606 +10.23% 46
Scotland +7 13 £450 +2.86% 15
North West +19 11 £525 +17.32% 52
South East +44 9 £389 -21.41% 111
North East +1 8 £590 - 8
West Midlands - 8 £525 - 34
Midlands - 8 £525 - 62
East of England +33 5 £400 - 58
Wales -3 1 £586 -9.08% 7
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 13 (14.29%) nginx
2 7 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.69%) Traefik
3 5 (5.49%) Apache
4 2 (2.20%) IIS
5 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 42 (46.15%) AWS
2 21 (23.08%) Azure
3 20 (21.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (18.68%) OpenShift
5 16 (17.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (12.09%) Amazon S3
8 11 (12.09%) AWS Fargate
8 11 (12.09%) GCP
8 11 (12.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (10.99%) Entra ID
9 10 (10.99%) GitHub
10 9 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (7.69%) Azure AKS
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (6.59%) Collibra
13 5 (5.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (5.49%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.58%) DNS
2 10 (10.99%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.79%) SSL
4 5 (5.49%) Firewall
5 4 (4.40%) NAS
5 4 (4.40%) SAN
6 2 (2.20%) DHCP
6 2 (2.20%) Network Security
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.58%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (16.48%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.49%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.49%) DynamoDB
4 5 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.40%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.40%) Hadoop
5 4 (4.40%) MySQL
5 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.30%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (3.30%) Big Data
6 3 (3.30%) MariaDB
6 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.30%) Redis
7 2 (2.20%) Power BI
7 2 (2.20%) Power Query
8 1 (1.10%) Flink
8 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 34 (37.36%) Jenkins
2 27 (29.67%) GitLab
3 14 (15.38%) Git
4 7 (7.69%) Maven
5 6 (6.59%) JUnit
5 6 (6.59%) Mockito
6 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (4.40%) DbUnit
7 4 (4.40%) JIRA
7 4 (4.40%) jMock
7 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.20%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.20%) Selenium
10 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.10%) Gatling
10 1 (1.10%) Gradle
10 1 (1.10%) MLflow
General
1 19 (20.88%) Public Sector
2 12 (13.19%) Banking
2 12 (13.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Finance
4 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Electronics
6 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Legal
6 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.30%) Marketing
6 3 (3.30%) Military
6 3 (3.30%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.20%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Aviation
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (18.68%) Senior
3 13 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (10.99%) Architect
4 10 (10.99%) Developer
5 8 (8.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Applications Support
7 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Support Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Applications Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Applications Support Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.87%) Kafka
2 15 (16.48%) REST
3 13 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (10.99%) cloud-init
4 10 (10.99%) Keycloak
5 9 (9.89%) Loki
5 9 (9.89%) Middleware
5 9 (9.89%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (8.79%) SOAP
7 7 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 6 (6.59%) ARM Templates
8 6 (6.59%) RESTful
8 6 (6.59%) Spring
8 6 (6.59%) YAML
9 5 (5.49%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.49%) Hibernate
9 5 (5.49%) JPA
9 5 (5.49%) LDAP
9 5 (5.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (9.89%) PKI
2 6 (6.59%) Clustering
3 5 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.20%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.20%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (52.75%) Linux
2 20 (21.98%) Unix
3 14 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (13.19%) CentOS
5 10 (10.99%) Windows
6 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.10%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (63.74%) DevOps
2 55 (60.44%) CI/CD
3 43 (47.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (34.07%) Containerisation
5 29 (31.87%) Observability
6 21 (23.08%) Agile
7 19 (20.88%) Microservices
7 19 (20.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 17 (18.68%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (15.38%) High Availability
10 12 (13.19%) Identity Management
11 11 (12.09%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (12.09%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 11 (12.09%) Secrets Management
11 11 (12.09%) Static Application Security Testing
12 10 (10.99%) ITIL
12 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (10.99%) Scrum
13 9 (9.89%) Cloud Security
13 9 (9.89%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (50.55%) Python
2 28 (30.77%) Bash
3 20 (21.98%) Java
4 16 (17.58%) Go
5 13 (14.29%) SQL
6 11 (12.09%) Shell Script
7 10 (10.99%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.59%) Bicep
8 6 (6.59%) Perl
9 3 (3.30%) C#
9 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.20%) Groovy
10 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (39.56%) Security Cleared
2 22 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.09%) AWS Certification
4 10 (10.99%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.40%) Degree
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.10%) CSSLP
8 1 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.10%) MCITP
8 1 (1.10%) OCP
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) NCSC
2 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.10%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (46.15%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 8 (8.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.49%) Postfix
4 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (86.81%) Grafana
2 70 (76.92%) Kubernetes
3 60 (65.93%) Terraform
4 34 (37.36%) Ansible
5 12 (13.19%) Consul
5 12 (13.19%) Packer
6 11 (12.09%) ZABBIX
7 10 (10.99%) HAProxy
8 9 (9.89%) Istio
8 9 (9.89%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (9.89%) linkerd
8 9 (9.89%) Rancher
9 5 (5.49%) logstash
10 4 (4.40%) Progress Chef
11 3 (3.30%) Kibana
11 3 (3.30%) Nagios
12 2 (2.20%) BMC PATROL
12 2 (2.20%) Puppet
13 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
13 1 (1.10%) Graylog
Vendors
1 31 (34.07%) Splunk
2 15 (16.48%) VMware
3 9 (9.89%) Okta
4 8 (8.79%) Veritas
5 7 (7.69%) Apple
5 7 (7.69%) ESET
5 7 (7.69%) Google
6 6 (6.59%) Confluent
6 6 (6.59%) Microsoft
6 6 (6.59%) Oracle
7 4 (4.40%) Atlassian
7 4 (4.40%) IBM
7 4 (4.40%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (3.30%) SAP
9 2 (2.20%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.20%) BMC
9 2 (2.20%) Dell
9 2 (2.20%) HP
9 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds