Prometheus Contracts

Prometheus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 357 371
Rank change year-on-year +43 +14 +4
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 220 253 383
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.58% 0.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.78% 4.92% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 197 265
10th Percentile £387 £400 £480
25th Percentile £450 £455 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -13.47% +2.08%
75th Percentile £651 £645 £700
90th Percentile £738 £716 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +2.33% -14.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 26
10th Percentile £43.20 - -
25th Percentile £49.11 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 - £65.50
75th Percentile £71.46 - £75.38
90th Percentile £75.81 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 - £65.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Prometheus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prometheus.

Daily rate trend for Prometheus in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prometheus.

Hourly rate trend for Prometheus in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Prometheus in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +37 180 £550 +2.33% 219
London +8 98 £525 - 133
UK excluding London +53 91 £550 +2.33% 92
Work from Home +38 81 £550 -7.41% 132
North of England +36 39 £620 +12.73% 33
Yorkshire +20 20 £725 +27.47% 9
South West +38 16 £606 +10.23% 13
Scotland +3 13 £450 +2.86% 5
North West +13 11 £525 +17.32% 20
South East +40 9 £389 -21.41% 14
North East +1 8 £590 - 4
West Midlands - 8 £525 - 9
Midlands - 8 £525 - 14
East of England +36 5 £400 - 10
Wales +1 1 £586 -9.08% 1

Prometheus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (8.64%) nginx
2 13 (5.91%) Apache Spark
3 12 (5.45%) Traefik
4 11 (5.00%) Apache
5 2 (0.91%) Confluence
5 2 (0.91%) IIS
5 2 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.45%) SAS
6 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 134 (60.91%) AWS
2 62 (28.18%) Azure
3 53 (24.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 47 (21.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 38 (17.27%) GCP
6 35 (15.91%) Amazon EC2
7 31 (14.09%) Amazon S3
7 31 (14.09%) GitHub
8 30 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 26 (11.82%) Amazon ECS
10 25 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (10.45%) Serverless
12 22 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (10.00%) OpenShift
13 21 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (7.73%) AWS Fargate
15 16 (7.27%) Entra ID
16 14 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (6.36%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 36 (16.36%) DNS
2 27 (12.27%) TCP/IP
3 12 (5.45%) HTTP
4 10 (4.55%) Firewall
4 10 (4.55%) SSL
5 7 (3.18%) Internet
6 6 (2.73%) Network Security
7 5 (2.27%) SAN
7 5 (2.27%) VPN
8 4 (1.82%) NAS
9 3 (1.36%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.91%) DHCP
11 1 (0.45%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.45%) DSLAM
11 1 (0.45%) MQTT
11 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.45%) SNMP
11 1 (0.45%) SSH
11 1 (0.45%) Telnet
11 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (11.82%) MongoDB
3 23 (10.45%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (6.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (5.91%) MySQL
6 11 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 11 (5.00%) Redis
7 8 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (3.64%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (3.64%) Big Data
7 8 (3.64%) Hadoop
8 7 (3.18%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.27%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.82%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.36%) Flink
11 3 (1.36%) Hazelcast
11 3 (1.36%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 82 (37.27%) Jenkins
2 76 (34.55%) GitLab
3 39 (17.73%) Git
4 15 (6.82%) Maven
5 10 (4.55%) JUnit
6 9 (4.09%) JIRA
6 9 (4.09%) Mockito
6 9 (4.09%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.64%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.27%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.82%) DbUnit
9 4 (1.82%) Gradle
9 4 (1.82%) Jaeger
9 4 (1.82%) jMock
10 3 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.36%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.36%) IntelliJ
10 3 (1.36%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.36%) TestNG
General
1 43 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 27 (12.27%) Finance
4 21 (9.55%) Banking
5 13 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.64%) Military
7 6 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.36%) Electronics
10 3 (1.36%) Legal
10 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.36%) Marketing
11 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Aviation
12 1 (0.45%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (41.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (22.73%) Senior
3 32 (14.55%) Senior DevOps
4 29 (13.18%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (12.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 25 (11.36%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (11.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 25 (11.36%) Site Engineer
7 24 (10.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 22 (10.00%) Developer
9 20 (9.09%) Architect
10 13 (5.91%) Java Developer
11 10 (4.55%) Lead
12 9 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.73%) Applications Support
14 6 (2.73%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 6 (2.73%) Software Engineer
15 5 (2.27%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.91%) Kafka
2 50 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (11.36%) Spring
4 24 (10.91%) OpenTelemetry
5 19 (8.64%) Spring Boot
6 17 (7.73%) REST
7 16 (7.27%) Keycloak
8 15 (6.82%) cloud-init
9 13 (5.91%) RESTful
10 12 (5.45%) Loki
11 10 (4.55%) AngularJS
12 9 (4.09%) .NET
12 9 (4.09%) Hibernate
12 9 (4.09%) Middleware
13 8 (3.64%) ActiveMQ
13 8 (3.64%) JSON
13 8 (3.64%) SOAP
13 8 (3.64%) YAML
14 7 (3.18%) Node.js
14 7 (3.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.36%) PKI
4 7 (3.18%) Clustering
4 7 (3.18%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.36%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.36%) Replication
7 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.91%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.91%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.45%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.45%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 84 (38.18%) Linux
2 28 (12.73%) Unix
3 26 (11.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (8.64%) CentOS
5 15 (6.82%) Windows
6 4 (1.82%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.36%) Android
7 3 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.91%) Debian
8 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (68.18%) DevOps
2 128 (58.18%) CI/CD
3 118 (53.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (42.73%) Containerisation
5 69 (31.36%) Observability
6 63 (28.64%) Microservices
7 47 (21.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 45 (20.45%) Agile
9 43 (19.55%) Continuous Integration
10 37 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (14.09%) Configuration Management
11 31 (14.09%) High Availability
12 27 (12.27%) Task Automation
13 24 (10.91%) Software Engineering
14 22 (10.00%) Cloud Security
15 20 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
15 20 (9.09%) Mentoring
16 19 (8.64%) Event-Driven
17 18 (8.18%) Infrastructure Automation
17 18 (8.18%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (51.36%) Python
2 66 (30.00%) Bash
3 45 (20.45%) Java
4 37 (16.82%) Go
5 24 (10.91%) SQL
6 18 (8.18%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.45%) Shell Script
8 11 (5.00%) Bicep
8 11 (5.00%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.55%) Ruby
9 10 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 9 (4.09%) Perl
11 5 (2.27%) Groovy
11 5 (2.27%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.36%) C#
13 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.45%) C
14 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 84 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 69 (31.36%) SC Cleared
3 35 (15.91%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.09%) Degree
5 11 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.45%) CEH
10 1 (0.45%) CISSP
10 1 (0.45%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.45%) MCITP
10 1 (0.45%) OCP
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.45%) RHCE
10 1 (0.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.27%) NCSC
2 7 (3.18%) QA
3 5 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.82%) GDPR
5 2 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.91%) SLA
5 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.45%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 107 (48.64%) Docker
2 10 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 8 (3.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 6 (2.73%) Active Directory
6 5 (2.27%) Postfix
7 3 (1.36%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.45%) Ceph
9 1 (0.45%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.45%) iptables
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 180 (81.82%) Grafana
2 173 (78.64%) Kubernetes
3 146 (66.36%) Terraform
4 79 (35.91%) Ansible
5 27 (12.27%) Puppet
6 24 (10.91%) Progress Chef
7 22 (10.00%) Istio
8 19 (8.64%) Packer
8 19 (8.64%) ZABBIX
9 18 (8.18%) Consul
10 16 (7.27%) linkerd
11 15 (6.82%) HAProxy
12 14 (6.36%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (6.36%) Rancher
13 9 (4.09%) Argo
13 9 (4.09%) logstash
14 8 (3.64%) Nagios
15 5 (2.27%) Kibana
16 3 (1.36%) FortiGate
16 3 (1.36%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 50 (22.73%) Splunk
2 20 (9.09%) Google
3 19 (8.64%) Red Hat
3 19 (8.64%) VMware
4 14 (6.36%) Okta
5 12 (5.45%) Apple
5 12 (5.45%) ESET
6 11 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 11 (5.00%) Microsoft
7 9 (4.09%) Oracle
8 8 (3.64%) Veritas
9 6 (2.73%) Confluent
10 4 (1.82%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.82%) Cisco
10 4 (1.82%) IBM
10 4 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.82%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.36%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.36%) Dell
11 3 (1.36%) HP