Prometheus Contracts

Prometheus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Prometheus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Prometheus over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 372 373
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 +40
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 247 383 620
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.85% 3.98% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 265 427
10th Percentile £400 £480 £463
25th Percentile £453 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £645 £700 £688
90th Percentile £710 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -14.00% +4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 26 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.00 £76.25
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.48% +60.62%
75th Percentile - £75.38 £80.63
90th Percentile - £90.00 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Prometheus is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,617 14,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.11% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,944 10,283
10th Percentile £256 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 209 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.48 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £22.75 £15.78
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +156.81% -44.03%
75th Percentile £53.75 £71.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £43.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +118.75% -10.11%

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 28 April 2024.

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

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Top 13 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 28 April 2024. 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 +1 199 £538 -13.31% 86
London +27 126 £525 -15.32% 49
Work from Home +71 89 £594 -1.00% 41
UK excluding London +37 89 £538 -14.00% 45
North of England +2 30 £550 -15.38% 14
South West +25 22 £550 -22.81% 8
Scotland +37 18 £450 -23.40% 5
Yorkshire +21 14 £573 -8.40% 7
South East +17 12 £495 -7.91% 7
North West -11 9 £448 -31.15% 5
North East +21 7 - - 2
Wales +18 5 £645 -0.85% 1
East of England +2 2 - - 4

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 30 (12.15%) OpenStack
2 18 (7.29%) Confluence
3 15 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (4.05%) Apache
4 10 (4.05%) nginx
5 7 (2.83%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.81%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 134 (54.25%) AWS
2 68 (27.53%) Azure
3 40 (16.19%) Amazon S3
4 38 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (14.98%) GCP
6 31 (12.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (10.93%) OpenShift
8 22 (8.91%) GitHub
8 22 (8.91%) Route 53
8 22 (8.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 21 (8.50%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (6.88%) Slack
11 14 (5.67%) Snowflake
12 11 (4.45%) dbt
13 10 (4.05%) Azure AKS
13 10 (4.05%) Serverless
14 9 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.29%) Network Security
2 15 (6.07%) VPN
3 14 (5.67%) DNS
3 14 (5.67%) TCP/IP
4 12 (4.86%) Firewall
5 7 (2.83%) AMQP
5 7 (2.83%) HTTP
6 6 (2.43%) NAS
6 6 (2.43%) SAN
7 4 (1.62%) 5G
7 4 (1.62%) Diameter Protocol
7 4 (1.62%) LTE
8 2 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.40%) DHCP
9 1 (0.40%) SNMP
9 1 (0.40%) SSL
9 1 (0.40%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (21.86%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (12.15%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (9.72%) MongoDB
4 24 (9.72%) MySQL
5 22 (8.91%) Relational Database
6 18 (7.29%) NoSQL
7 15 (6.07%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.67%) Redis
9 11 (4.45%) Big Data
10 10 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (4.05%) Apache Arrow
10 10 (4.05%) Data Lake
10 10 (4.05%) Dremio
11 8 (3.24%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (3.24%) InfluxDB
11 8 (3.24%) MariaDB
12 7 (2.83%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.43%) Couchbase
14 5 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 103 (41.70%) Jenkins
2 47 (19.03%) Git
3 41 (16.60%) GitLab
4 19 (7.69%) JIRA
5 12 (4.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (4.05%) JMeter
7 9 (3.64%) CircleCI
7 9 (3.64%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.24%) Travis CI
9 7 (2.83%) Burp Suite
10 6 (2.43%) AppScan
11 5 (2.02%) Gatling
11 5 (2.02%) Maven
11 5 (2.02%) Mockito
11 5 (2.02%) Subversion
12 4 (1.62%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.62%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.62%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.62%) Selenium
12 4 (1.62%) Snyk
General
1 29 (11.74%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.93%) Finance
3 21 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.86%) Banking
6 7 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.21%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.81%) Retail
9 2 (0.81%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.40%) Electronics
10 1 (0.40%) French Language
10 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Marketing
10 1 (0.40%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (36.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 54 (21.86%) Site Engineer
4 22 (8.91%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (7.29%) Developer
6 15 (6.07%) Senior
7 14 (5.67%) Lead
7 14 (5.67%) Python Engineer
8 12 (4.86%) Architect
8 12 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.05%) Big Data Engineer
10 9 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.24%) Performance Engineer
11 8 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.24%) Technical Leader
11 8 (3.24%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (31.17%) Elastic Stack
2 46 (18.62%) Kafka
3 20 (8.10%) RabbitMQ
4 18 (7.29%) RESTful
5 12 (4.86%) YAML
6 10 (4.05%) gRPC
6 10 (4.05%) JSON
6 10 (4.05%) Protocol Buffers
6 10 (4.05%) Spring
7 9 (3.64%) REST
8 8 (3.24%) Akka
8 8 (3.24%) Web Services
9 7 (2.83%) LDAP
10 6 (2.43%) LAPP Stack
10 6 (2.43%) Loki
10 6 (2.43%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.43%) XML
11 5 (2.02%) OpenTracing
11 5 (2.02%) pytest
12 4 (1.62%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.10%) Public Cloud
2 19 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 17 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.48%) Onboarding
5 15 (6.07%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (4.86%) Clustering
7 10 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 10 (4.05%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.05%) Hedge funds
8 8 (3.24%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.43%) CCTV
10 5 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.21%) PKI
13 2 (0.81%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.81%) CBDC
13 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 119 (48.18%) Linux
2 30 (12.15%) CentOS
3 29 (11.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (10.53%) Windows
5 21 (8.50%) Unix
6 14 (5.67%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.83%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.02%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (2.02%) VMS
9 4 (1.62%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (63.16%) DevOps
2 131 (53.04%) CI/CD
3 85 (34.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 80 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 72 (29.15%) Agile
6 53 (21.46%) Containerisation
7 48 (19.43%) Observability
8 40 (16.19%) Continuous Integration
9 37 (14.98%) Microservices
10 34 (13.77%) Configuration Management
11 31 (12.55%) Task Automation
12 28 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (10.93%) Software Engineering
14 25 (10.12%) Scrum
14 25 (10.12%) Test Automation
15 19 (7.69%) Project Management
16 15 (6.07%) GitOps
16 15 (6.07%) TDD
17 14 (5.67%) Collaborative Working
17 14 (5.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 157 (63.56%) Python
2 72 (29.15%) Java
3 54 (21.86%) Shell Script
4 47 (19.03%) Bash
5 43 (17.41%) Go
6 32 (12.96%) SQL
7 31 (12.55%) PowerShell
8 15 (6.07%) JavaScript
9 14 (5.67%) Scala
10 8 (3.24%) Ruby
11 7 (2.83%) C
11 7 (2.83%) C++
11 7 (2.83%) Groovy
12 6 (2.43%) PHP
13 5 (2.02%) Kotlin
13 5 (2.02%) Perl
14 3 (1.21%) C#
14 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.40%) Bicep
15 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 67 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.72%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.83%) Degree
5 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.62%) SANS
6 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.10%) QA
2 2 (0.81%) NCSC
2 2 (0.81%) NIST
3 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 115 (46.56%) Docker
2 24 (9.72%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (4.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.40%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 204 (82.59%) Grafana
2 190 (76.92%) Kubernetes
3 132 (53.44%) Terraform
4 118 (47.77%) Ansible
5 41 (16.60%) Kibana
6 34 (13.77%) Progress Chef
7 32 (12.96%) Puppet
8 30 (12.15%) logstash
9 20 (8.10%) Docker Swarm
9 20 (8.10%) Graylog
9 20 (8.10%) Nagios
10 15 (6.07%) Consul
11 14 (5.67%) Istio
12 13 (5.26%) ZABBIX
13 8 (3.24%) Argo
14 6 (2.43%) HP Fortify
14 6 (2.43%) Icinga
14 6 (2.43%) Nessus
14 6 (2.43%) WebInspect
15 5 (2.02%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 51 (20.65%) Splunk
2 32 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 16 (6.48%) Amdocs
4 16 (6.48%) VMware
5 11 (4.45%) Oracle
5 11 (4.45%) SaltStack
6 7 (2.83%) Checkmarx
7 6 (2.43%) Google
7 6 (2.43%) PagerDuty
7 6 (2.43%) Veracode
8 4 (1.62%) New Relic
8 4 (1.62%) Veritas
9 3 (1.21%) Commvault
10 2 (0.81%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.81%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.81%) MKS
11 1 (0.40%) Databricks
11 1 (0.40%) ForgeRock