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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 289 347
Rank change year-on-year +40 +58 +20
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 91 103 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.61% 4.36% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 77 65
10th Percentile £408 £409 £480
25th Percentile £443 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £587 £622 £675
90th Percentile £775 £645 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £620
% change year-on-year -2.33% -13.31% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £78.83 - -
25th Percentile £79.03 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £79.35 - £65.50
75th Percentile £79.68 - £78.00
90th Percentile £79.87 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £78.70 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 1,972 2,362 3,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.26% 11.41% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,753 2,430
10th Percentile £235 £213 £281
25th Percentile £387 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £517 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +0.34% -6.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 63 130
10th Percentile £17.99 £14.00 £15.86
25th Percentile £20.68 £17.36 £20.22
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.78% +116.88%
75th Percentile £66.88 £49.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.58 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -5.83% -47.83% +162.68%

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 30 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 30 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 +4 29 £525 -4.55% 297
Yorkshire +17 19 £725 +27.47% 127
Midlands - 17 £500 - 254
West Midlands - 16 £500 - 143
Scotland +1 14 £475 +5.56% 50
South West +32 13 £600 +9.09% 149
South East +52 11 £402 -18.72% 400
North West +10 8 £425 -5.03% 139
East of England +37 6 £410 - 188
North East -6 2 £558 - 31
Wales 0 1 £586 -9.08% 33
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 95
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 4 (4.40%) Apache
1 4 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) IIS
2 2 (2.20%) nginx
3 1 (1.10%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 41 (45.05%) AWS
2 20 (21.98%) Azure
3 18 (19.78%) OpenShift
4 16 (17.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (17.58%) Amazon S3
5 15 (16.48%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (14.29%) GitHub
8 12 (13.19%) GCP
9 11 (12.09%) AWS KMS
10 9 (9.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (9.89%) Azure AKS
10 9 (9.89%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (8.79%) Route 53
12 7 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (6.59%) Collibra
13 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
13 6 (6.59%) Serverless
13 6 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.29%) DNS
2 9 (9.89%) Firewall
3 8 (8.79%) SSL
4 5 (5.49%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.40%) NAS
5 4 (4.40%) Network Security
5 4 (4.40%) SAN
6 3 (3.30%) VPN
7 2 (2.20%) DHCP
8 1 (1.10%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.10%) FTP
8 1 (1.10%) HTTP
8 1 (1.10%) MQTT
8 1 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.10%) SMTP
8 1 (1.10%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (16.48%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (12.09%) DynamoDB
4 10 (10.99%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (8.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (7.69%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.49%) MySQL
8 4 (4.40%) BigQuery
8 4 (4.40%) MariaDB
8 4 (4.40%) Redis
8 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.30%) Power BI
9 3 (3.30%) Power Query
10 2 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.10%) Big Data
11 1 (1.10%) Flink
11 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 34 (37.36%) Jenkins
2 22 (24.18%) Git
3 16 (17.58%) GitLab
4 11 (12.09%) Maven
5 10 (10.99%) JUnit
5 10 (10.99%) Mockito
5 10 (10.99%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (7.69%) DbUnit
6 7 (7.69%) JIRA
6 7 (7.69%) jMock
7 6 (6.59%) Bitbucket
8 4 (4.40%) CircleCI
8 4 (4.40%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.20%) Selenium
10 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.10%) JMeter
10 1 (1.10%) Vagrant
10 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Finance
5 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Legal
8 2 (2.20%) Electronics
8 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.20%) Marketing
8 2 (2.20%) Military
8 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.20%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (13.19%) Architect
2 12 (13.19%) Senior
3 11 (12.09%) Developer
4 10 (10.99%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Site Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Lead
7 6 (6.59%) Applications Support
8 5 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Support Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Applications Support Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Lead DevOps
9 4 (4.40%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.68%) REST
2 15 (16.48%) Kafka
3 14 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (12.09%) Spring
4 11 (12.09%) Spring Boot
5 10 (10.99%) ActiveMQ
5 10 (10.99%) AngularJS
5 10 (10.99%) JPA
5 10 (10.99%) Loki
5 10 (10.99%) RESTful
5 10 (10.99%) SOAP
5 10 (10.99%) Spring Cloud
6 9 (9.89%) ARM Templates
6 9 (9.89%) Bootstrap
6 9 (9.89%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (8.79%) Hibernate
7 8 (8.79%) Middleware
7 8 (8.79%) Web Services
8 7 (7.69%) Spring Batch
8 7 (7.69%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.59%) Clustering
2 6 (6.59%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.30%) Replication
5 2 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.20%) Private 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%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 39 (42.86%) Linux
2 12 (13.19%) Unix
3 11 (12.09%) Windows
4 3 (3.30%) CentOS
4 3 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (57.14%) DevOps
2 48 (52.75%) CI/CD
3 40 (43.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (40.66%) Containerisation
5 29 (31.87%) Observability
6 27 (29.67%) Agile
7 21 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 20 (21.98%) Microservices
9 17 (18.68%) High Availability
10 14 (15.38%) Scrum
11 13 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (14.29%) TDD
12 12 (13.19%) Risk Management
13 11 (12.09%) ITIL
13 11 (12.09%) Task Automation
14 10 (10.99%) Change Management
14 10 (10.99%) Configuration Management
14 10 (10.99%) DevSecOps
14 10 (10.99%) Kanban
14 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.05%) Python
2 25 (27.47%) Bash
3 24 (26.37%) Java
4 19 (20.88%) SQL
5 13 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 13 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 9 (9.89%) Bicep
7 6 (6.59%) Perl
8 5 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.40%) C#
9 4 (4.40%) Go
9 4 (4.40%) Groovy
10 3 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
10 3 (3.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 35 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.99%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.79%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.20%) APMG
7 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.10%) CSSLP
8 1 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.10%) Degree
8 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.10%) OCP
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.30%) GDPR
2 3 (3.30%) NIST
2 3 (3.30%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.20%) NCSC
3 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.20%) QA
4 1 (1.10%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (45.05%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 8 (8.79%) Postfix
2 8 (8.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.49%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.10%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 82 (90.11%) Grafana
2 58 (63.74%) Kubernetes
3 55 (60.44%) Terraform
4 39 (42.86%) Ansible
5 5 (5.49%) Puppet
6 4 (4.40%) Consul
6 4 (4.40%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.30%) Kibana
7 3 (3.30%) logstash
7 3 (3.30%) Nagios
7 3 (3.30%) Packer
7 3 (3.30%) ZABBIX
8 2 (2.20%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (2.20%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.20%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.10%) Istio
9 1 (1.10%) linkerd
9 1 (1.10%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 29 (31.87%) Splunk
2 15 (16.48%) VMware
3 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.79%) Veritas
4 7 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 7 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (6.59%) Google
5 6 (6.59%) Oracle
6 5 (5.49%) Confluent
7 4 (4.40%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.40%) IBM
7 4 (4.40%) PagerDuty
7 4 (4.40%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.20%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.20%) BMC
8 2 (2.20%) Dell
8 2 (2.20%) HP
8 2 (2.20%) SAP
8 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds