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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 341 383
Rank change year-on-year +49 +42 +7
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 262 265 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.61% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.40% 4.96% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 209 231
10th Percentile £406 £400 £463
25th Percentile £438 £465 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -14.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £711
90th Percentile £738 £850 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £625
% change year-on-year -6.98% -14.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 16
10th Percentile £47.14 - £72.75
25th Percentile £58.98 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £79.00
75th Percentile £79.35 - £90.00
90th Percentile £79.74 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.35 - £78.00

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 4,853 5,338 8,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.75% 12.37% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,230 3,814 6,095
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -5.45% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 103 185
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.05 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £35.14 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.36 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.86 £71.25 £83.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +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

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
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 1 July 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 +44 216 £512 -6.86% 1,021
London +36 125 £525 -6.67% 645
UK excluding London +42 103 £500 -6.98% 459
Work from Home +42 101 £512 -14.67% 519
North of England -2 26 £500 -11.11% 117
Midlands - 24 £500 - 38
West Midlands - 23 £488 - 21
Yorkshire -5 18 £500 -14.27% 45
South East +49 17 £435 -11.76% 149
Scotland +8 17 £475 +18.75% 38
South West +24 13 £600 +9.09% 58
North West +11 7 £425 -5.03% 66
East of England +27 6 £410 - 36
North East -6 1 £550 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 16

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 11 (4.20%) Apache
2 9 (3.44%) Confluence
3 8 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.53%) nginx
5 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.15%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.76%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 160 (61.07%) AWS
2 64 (24.43%) Azure
3 52 (19.85%) GitHub
4 47 (17.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 46 (17.56%) Amazon EC2
6 43 (16.41%) Amazon S3
7 40 (15.27%) GCP
8 37 (14.12%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (13.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (13.36%) OpenShift
10 32 (12.21%) Serverless
11 29 (11.07%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (9.54%) Amazon SQS
12 25 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (8.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (7.63%) AWS KMS
16 18 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (6.87%) Datadog
17 14 (5.34%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.83%) DNS
2 18 (6.87%) Firewall
3 17 (6.49%) TCP/IP
4 16 (6.11%) HTTP
5 11 (4.20%) SSL
6 8 (3.05%) Internet
7 7 (2.67%) SMTP
8 6 (2.29%) Network Security
8 6 (2.29%) SSH
8 6 (2.29%) VPN
9 5 (1.91%) FTP
9 5 (1.91%) SAN
10 4 (1.53%) NAS
11 3 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (1.15%) MQTT
12 2 (0.76%) DHCP
12 2 (0.76%) IMAP
12 2 (0.76%) OpenLDAP
13 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.41%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (14.12%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (8.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 19 (7.25%) DynamoDB
5 18 (6.87%) Redis
6 15 (5.73%) MongoDB
7 14 (5.34%) MySQL
8 11 (4.20%) NoSQL
9 9 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.29%) Big Data
10 6 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.29%) Flink
11 5 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.53%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.53%) MariaDB
12 4 (1.53%) Power BI
12 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.15%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 89 (33.97%) Jenkins
2 57 (21.76%) GitLab
3 53 (20.23%) Git
4 19 (7.25%) Maven
5 18 (6.87%) CircleCI
6 17 (6.49%) JIRA
7 15 (5.73%) JUnit
8 14 (5.34%) Mockito
8 14 (5.34%) SonarQube
9 9 (3.44%) Bitbucket
10 8 (3.05%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (3.05%) DbUnit
10 8 (3.05%) jMock
11 7 (2.67%) Vagrant
12 4 (1.53%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.53%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.53%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.53%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.15%) Gatling
13 3 (1.15%) Gradle
General
1 63 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.27%) Public Sector
3 26 (9.92%) Finance
4 24 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.25%) Banking
6 9 (3.44%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.29%) Military
9 5 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Legal
11 2 (0.76%) Games
11 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
12 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (33.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (20.23%) Senior
3 35 (13.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 33 (12.60%) Developer
4 33 (12.60%) Site Engineer
5 30 (11.45%) Architect
6 24 (9.16%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (8.78%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (8.02%) Java Developer
9 19 (7.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 19 (7.25%) Senior DevOps
10 18 (6.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 17 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.96%) Lead
12 13 (4.96%) Technical Architect
13 10 (3.82%) Senior Architect
13 10 (3.82%) Senior Technical Architect
13 10 (3.82%) Software Engineer
14 7 (2.67%) AWS Architect
14 7 (2.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.61%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (17.94%) Kafka
3 30 (11.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 28 (10.69%) Spring
5 25 (9.54%) RESTful
6 21 (8.02%) Spring Boot
7 20 (7.63%) AngularJS
7 20 (7.63%) REST
8 15 (5.73%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (5.34%) Loki
9 14 (5.34%) OAuth
10 13 (4.96%) GraphQL
10 13 (4.96%) Hibernate
11 12 (4.58%) Node.js
12 11 (4.20%) .NET
12 11 (4.20%) JPA
12 11 (4.20%) SOAP
12 11 (4.20%) Spring Cloud
13 10 (3.82%) LDAP
13 10 (3.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.83%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.69%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.20%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.44%) Clustering
4 9 (3.44%) Replication
5 7 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.29%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.53%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.76%) PKI
9 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 85 (32.44%) Linux
2 19 (7.25%) Windows
3 17 (6.49%) Unix
4 7 (2.67%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (2.67%) VMS
5 5 (1.91%) CentOS
5 5 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.15%) Android
6 3 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (64.89%) DevOps
2 149 (56.87%) CI/CD
3 133 (50.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (42.75%) Containerisation
5 87 (33.21%) Observability
6 78 (29.77%) Microservices
7 57 (21.76%) Agile
8 56 (21.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 52 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (17.94%) Configuration Management
11 39 (14.89%) High Availability
12 35 (13.36%) Continuous Integration
13 33 (12.60%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (11.45%) Event-Driven
15 28 (10.69%) Deployment Automation
15 28 (10.69%) Scrum
16 27 (10.31%) Software Engineering
17 26 (9.92%) GitOps
17 26 (9.92%) Mentoring
17 26 (9.92%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 130 (49.62%) Python
2 72 (27.48%) Bash
3 63 (24.05%) Java
4 42 (16.03%) SQL
5 31 (11.83%) Go
6 30 (11.45%) PowerShell
7 20 (7.63%) TypeScript
8 16 (6.11%) Shell Script
9 15 (5.73%) Bicep
10 14 (5.34%) Kotlin
11 13 (4.96%) Perl
12 12 (4.58%) Groovy
13 11 (4.20%) JavaScript
14 10 (3.82%) Ruby
15 5 (1.91%) C#
15 5 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.76%) C++
18 1 (0.38%) C
18 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (35.11%) Security Cleared
2 77 (29.39%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.25%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.34%) Degree
5 12 (4.58%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.15%) OCP
9 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.76%) APMG
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.76%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.76%) OCA
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.38%) RHCE
11 1 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.44%) QA
2 8 (3.05%) GDPR
2 8 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.91%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.91%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.53%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.76%) NCSC
5 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 113 (43.13%) Docker
2 11 (4.20%) Postfix
3 10 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.44%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 8 (3.05%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (1.91%) DFS Replication
7 3 (1.15%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.76%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.76%) Squid
8 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.38%) Ceph
9 1 (0.38%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.38%) iptables
9 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 213 (81.30%) Grafana
2 190 (72.52%) Kubernetes
3 163 (62.21%) Terraform
4 92 (35.11%) Ansible
5 33 (12.60%) Puppet
6 28 (10.69%) Progress Chef
7 9 (3.44%) Kibana
8 8 (3.05%) Packer
9 7 (2.67%) Istio
9 7 (2.67%) Nagios
10 6 (2.29%) logstash
11 4 (1.53%) Consul
11 4 (1.53%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.53%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.15%) Argo
12 3 (1.15%) Control-M
12 3 (1.15%) QRadar
12 3 (1.15%) Rundeck
12 3 (1.15%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 59 (22.52%) Splunk
2 28 (10.69%) Red Hat
3 22 (8.40%) Google
4 18 (6.87%) VMware
5 17 (6.49%) Dynatrace
6 13 (4.96%) ServiceNow
7 11 (4.20%) Microsoft
7 11 (4.20%) Oracle
8 10 (3.82%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (3.44%) Atlassian
10 8 (3.05%) Veritas
11 5 (1.91%) Confluent
11 5 (1.91%) IBM
11 5 (1.91%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.53%) Cisco
13 3 (1.15%) Dell
13 3 (1.15%) HP
14 2 (0.76%) Bloomberg
14 2 (0.76%) BMC
14 2 (0.76%) TIBCO