Prometheus Contract Job Trends

Prometheus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Prometheus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 298 371
Rank change year-on-year +88 +73 +15
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 541 235 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.27% 0.78% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.43% 4.94% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 145 158
10th Percentile £350 £374 £405
25th Percentile £413 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £578 £663 £650
90th Percentile £675 £745 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.97% -20.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £46.46 - -
25th Percentile £56.86 £39.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £44.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.81% -40.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £79.00 £49.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.10 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.73 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

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 6,421 4,753 5,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 15.70% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,443 3,113 3,782
10th Percentile £315 £313 £260
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £633
90th Percentile £688 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 54 145
10th Percentile £18.43 £16.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £25.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.82% -36.25% -23.27%
75th Percentile £64.20 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.65 £76.58 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £24.09 £40.00
% change year-on-year +121.05% -39.78% -14.53%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prometheus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Prometheus job vacancy trend in the UK

Prometheus
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Prometheus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Prometheus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Top 16 Contract Job 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 5 March 2026. 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 +88 455 £510 -7.27% 140
UK excluding London +57 281 £500 -9.09% 80
London +18 173 £525 -6.25% 68
Work from Home +37 146 £475 -13.64% 100
North of England +10 118 £490 -16.95% 32
Yorkshire -4 88 £479 -34.00% 16
Midlands +7 76 £534 +11.26% 5
West Midlands +9 72 £528 +10.01% 4
South East +7 61 £450 +50.00% 27
South West -8 35 £525 -12.50% 11
North West -24 25 £485 -2.90% 10
Scotland +16 16 £425 -5.56% 2
North East -13 7 £588 +1.73% 6
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 1
East of England -34 3 £550 +37.50% 1
Wales -6 1 £600 +2.39% 3

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (4.62%) Confluence
2 16 (2.96%) nginx
3 15 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.11%) Apache
4 6 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.55%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.55%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.37%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.18%) Maya
1 1 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.18%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 318 (58.78%) AWS
2 151 (27.91%) Azure
3 140 (25.88%) GitHub
4 121 (22.37%) GCP
5 116 (21.44%) GitHub Actions
5 116 (21.44%) Serverless
6 92 (17.01%) Amazon EKS
7 86 (15.90%) OpenShift
8 79 (14.60%) Amazon S3
9 77 (14.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 77 (14.23%) Amazon EC2
10 67 (12.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 65 (12.01%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (9.80%) Datadog
13 52 (9.61%) Azure DevOps
14 47 (8.69%) Amazon ECS
15 45 (8.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (5.36%) Azure AKS
17 25 (4.62%) CloudFront
17 25 (4.62%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.47%) Firewall
2 23 (4.25%) DNS
3 20 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 20 (3.70%) VPN
4 11 (2.03%) WAN
5 9 (1.66%) BGP
6 8 (1.48%) NAS
6 8 (1.48%) OpenVPN
6 8 (1.48%) SAN
7 7 (1.29%) Ethernet
7 7 (1.29%) InfiniBand
7 7 (1.29%) Multicast
7 7 (1.29%) NetScaler
7 7 (1.29%) Network Security
7 7 (1.29%) Wireless
8 6 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (1.11%) HTTP
8 6 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.74%) MPLS
9 4 (0.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (18.11%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (8.50%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (7.95%) NoSQL
4 37 (6.84%) MongoDB
5 35 (6.47%) Redis
6 22 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (3.88%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.03%) Flink
8 11 (2.03%) MySQL
9 10 (1.85%) Big Data
10 8 (1.48%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.11%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.11%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.92%) OLTP
14 4 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (0.74%) Metadata
14 4 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 205 (37.89%) Jenkins
2 197 (36.41%) GitLab
3 87 (16.08%) Git
4 54 (9.98%) JIRA
5 22 (4.07%) Selenium
6 21 (3.88%) JMeter
6 21 (3.88%) JUnit
7 19 (3.51%) SonarQube
8 18 (3.33%) Gatling
9 17 (3.14%) Liquibase
10 15 (2.77%) Artifactory
10 15 (2.77%) CircleCI
11 14 (2.59%) Maven
12 13 (2.40%) Bitbucket
12 13 (2.40%) Cucumber
13 12 (2.22%) Jaeger
13 12 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (2.03%) WebDriver
15 8 (1.48%) LoadRunner
16 7 (1.29%) Gradle
General
1 158 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 89 (16.45%) Finance
3 67 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 56 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (7.95%) Banking
6 26 (4.81%) Financial Institution
7 18 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.74%) Front Office
9 4 (0.74%) Games
9 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.55%) Billing
10 3 (0.55%) Local Government
10 3 (0.55%) Military
10 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.18%) Advertising
11 1 (0.18%) Automotive
11 1 (0.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 126 (23.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 99 (18.30%) Senior
3 75 (13.86%) Developer
4 59 (10.91%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (10.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 53 (9.80%) Site Engineer
7 45 (8.32%) AWS DevOps
8 41 (7.58%) Platform Engineer
9 37 (6.84%) Lead
10 34 (6.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 33 (6.10%) Python Developer
12 26 (4.81%) GCP Engineer
13 22 (4.07%) Architect
14 21 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
14 21 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.70%) Software Engineer
16 18 (3.33%) Java Developer
17 16 (2.96%) Automation Engineer
17 16 (2.96%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (19.04%) Kafka
2 102 (18.85%) Elastic Stack
3 94 (17.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 72 (13.31%) REST
5 46 (8.50%) Spring
6 45 (8.32%) RESTful
6 45 (8.32%) Spring Boot
7 37 (6.84%) FastAPI
8 35 (6.47%) Loki
9 32 (5.91%) Node.js
10 25 (4.62%) gRPC
10 25 (4.62%) Middleware
11 23 (4.25%) GraphQL
12 21 (3.88%) OpenID
13 18 (3.33%) Playwright
13 18 (3.33%) React
13 18 (3.33%) YAML
14 17 (3.14%) OAuth
14 17 (3.14%) OAuth2
14 17 (3.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 115 (21.26%) Cloud Native
2 84 (15.53%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.36%) Public Cloud
4 18 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 10 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.85%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.66%) PKI
8 9 (1.66%) Replication
9 8 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.74%) Legacy Code
11 4 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 171 (31.61%) Linux
2 27 (4.99%) Windows
3 24 (4.44%) Unix
4 17 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.74%) CentOS
7 4 (0.74%) VMS
8 2 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (81.33%) CI/CD
2 315 (58.23%) Observability
3 288 (53.23%) DevOps
4 266 (49.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 250 (46.21%) Containerisation
6 146 (26.99%) Agile
7 137 (25.32%) Microservices
8 114 (21.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 111 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
10 79 (14.60%) Test Automation
11 78 (14.42%) Platform Engineering
12 67 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 65 (12.01%) Software Engineering
14 62 (11.46%) Root Cause Analysis
15 61 (11.28%) Infrastructure Automation
16 59 (10.91%) High Availability
17 58 (10.72%) DevSecOps
17 58 (10.72%) Mentoring
18 55 (10.17%) Incident Response
19 50 (9.24%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 316 (58.41%) Python
2 137 (25.32%) Bash
3 102 (18.85%) Java
4 93 (17.19%) Go
5 66 (12.20%) SQL
6 50 (9.24%) PowerShell
7 34 (6.28%) Shell Script
8 31 (5.73%) TypeScript
9 21 (3.88%) JavaScript
10 15 (2.77%) Rust
11 11 (2.03%) Groovy
12 10 (1.85%) Bicep
13 9 (1.66%) Perl
14 6 (1.11%) C#
15 5 (0.92%) PromQL
15 5 (0.92%) Scala
16 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.74%) ProC
17 3 (0.55%) C++
18 2 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 197 (36.41%) Security Cleared
2 168 (31.05%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.13%) Degree
4 32 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.55%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.55%) DV Cleared
6 23 (4.25%) Master's Degree
7 17 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.48%) CCNP
10 8 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.55%) CISSP
13 3 (0.55%) OCP
13 3 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.37%) CISM
14 2 (0.37%) RHCE
15 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.70%) QA
2 9 (1.66%) GDPR
3 8 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.29%) NCSC
5 6 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.92%) SLA
7 4 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.55%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.55%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.37%) GRC
9 2 (0.37%) NIST
9 2 (0.37%) PSD2
9 2 (0.37%) SEPA
10 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 296 (54.71%) Docker
2 13 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.85%) Squid
4 9 (1.66%) vSphere
5 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.37%) Ceph
7 2 (0.37%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.37%) KVM
7 2 (0.37%) Postfix
7 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.18%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.18%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) HDFS
8 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 481 (88.91%) Grafana
2 397 (73.38%) Kubernetes
3 304 (56.19%) Terraform
4 159 (29.39%) Ansible
5 54 (9.98%) Argo
6 25 (4.62%) Nessus
7 24 (4.44%) Control-M
7 24 (4.44%) IBM Guardium
7 24 (4.44%) Istio
8 23 (4.25%) Progress Chef
9 17 (3.14%) Puppet
10 14 (2.59%) Kustomize
11 13 (2.40%) linkerd
12 12 (2.22%) Rancher
13 11 (2.03%) Podman
14 10 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (1.66%) FortiGate
15 9 (1.66%) Kiali
16 8 (1.48%) Kibana
16 8 (1.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 111 (20.52%) Splunk
2 44 (8.13%) Dynatrace
3 43 (7.95%) Red Hat
4 36 (6.65%) Microsoft
5 30 (5.55%) Google
6 25 (4.62%) VMware
7 24 (4.44%) Tenable
8 14 (2.59%) Arista
8 14 (2.59%) Oracle
9 13 (2.40%) ServiceNow
10 12 (2.22%) Cisco
11 11 (2.03%) F5
12 10 (1.85%) Aruba
12 10 (1.85%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.66%) AppDynamics
13 9 (1.66%) Atlassian
13 9 (1.66%) Databricks
14 7 (1.29%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.29%) New Relic
14 7 (1.29%) Veritas