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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 326 389
Rank change year-on-year +14 +63 -2
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 220 271 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.63% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.83% 5.23% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 215 229
10th Percentile £404 £405 £463
25th Percentile £455 £460 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £620
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -13.31% +3.33%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £700
90th Percentile £747 £783 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 19
10th Percentile £47.14 - £65.00
25th Percentile £58.98 - £65.13
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £75.00
75th Percentile £79.35 - £90.00
90th Percentile £79.74 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.35 - £65.50

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 4,559 5,182 8,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.82% 12.10% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,104 3,765 6,332
10th Percentile £313 £272 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £515 £553
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -6.79% -1.78%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £494 £525
% change year-on-year -0.81% -5.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 101 206
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £17.02
25th Percentile £19.70 £20.00 £25.18
Median hourly rate £28.25 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -45.45% +151.26%
75th Percentile £63.29 £50.25 £71.19
90th Percentile £79.09 £71.25 £83.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +112.50%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 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
England +29 181 £530 -3.64% 1,497
London +23 103 £548 -5.81% 246
UK excluding London +47 90 £500 -6.98% 1,442
Work from Home +17 82 £550 -8.33% 1,084
North of England 0 28 £525 -4.55% 312
Yorkshire +7 18 £725 +27.47% 135
Midlands - 16 £500 - 273
West Midlands - 16 £500 - 148
South West +32 14 £600 +9.09% 167
Scotland +4 14 £475 +5.56% 59
South East +37 11 £402 -18.72% 420
North West +5 8 £425 -5.03% 142
East of England +35 6 £410 - 208
North East -7 2 £558 - 35
Wales 0 1 £586 -9.08% 36

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 (5.00%) Apache
2 10 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.27%) nginx
4 3 (1.36%) Confluence
5 2 (0.91%) IIS
5 2 (0.91%) Traefik
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) SAS
6 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 132 (60.00%) AWS
2 60 (27.27%) Azure
3 41 (18.64%) GitHub
4 37 (16.82%) GCP
5 36 (16.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 36 (16.36%) Amazon EC2
6 34 (15.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (14.55%) Amazon S3
7 32 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (11.36%) Serverless
9 23 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (10.45%) OpenShift
10 22 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (8.18%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (7.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (6.82%) Azure AKS
15 15 (6.82%) Datadog
16 13 (5.91%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.27%) DNS
2 18 (8.18%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.91%) Firewall
4 12 (5.45%) HTTP
5 8 (3.64%) Internet
5 8 (3.64%) SSL
6 7 (3.18%) 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
10 2 (0.91%) MQTT
10 2 (0.91%) SSH
11 1 (0.45%) DSLAM
11 1 (0.45%) FTP
11 1 (0.45%) SMTP
11 1 (0.45%) SNMP
11 1 (0.45%) Telnet
11 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (12.27%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (6.82%) DynamoDB
5 14 (6.36%) MongoDB
5 14 (6.36%) MySQL
6 12 (5.45%) Redis
7 9 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.09%) NoSQL
8 7 (3.18%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.27%) Big Data
9 5 (2.27%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.27%) Flink
9 5 (2.27%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.82%) MariaDB
10 4 (1.82%) Power BI
10 4 (1.82%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.36%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 74 (33.64%) Jenkins
2 54 (24.55%) GitLab
3 38 (17.27%) Git
4 18 (8.18%) Maven
5 17 (7.73%) CircleCI
6 14 (6.36%) JUnit
6 14 (6.36%) SonarQube
7 13 (5.91%) Mockito
8 11 (5.00%) JIRA
9 7 (3.18%) Bitbucket
9 7 (3.18%) Bitbucket Server
9 7 (3.18%) DbUnit
9 7 (3.18%) jMock
10 4 (1.82%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.82%) Jaeger
10 4 (1.82%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.36%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.36%) Gradle
11 3 (1.36%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.36%) TestNG
General
1 49 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.45%) Public Sector
3 26 (11.82%) Finance
4 21 (9.55%) Banking
5 15 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.09%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.64%) Military
8 5 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Legal
9 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.91%) Electronics
10 2 (0.91%) Games
10 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.91%) Marketing
10 2 (0.91%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (34.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (22.27%) Senior
3 30 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 29 (13.18%) Architect
5 28 (12.73%) Site Engineer
6 27 (12.27%) Developer
7 22 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
8 20 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
8 20 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
9 19 (8.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 18 (8.18%) Java Developer
11 17 (7.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.45%) Lead
12 12 (5.45%) Technical Architect
13 9 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.09%) Senior Architect
13 9 (4.09%) Senior Technical Architect
14 8 (3.64%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
16 6 (2.73%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (22.27%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (15.91%) Kafka
3 28 (12.73%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (11.82%) Spring
5 19 (8.64%) REST
5 19 (8.64%) RESTful
5 19 (8.64%) Spring Boot
6 17 (7.73%) AngularJS
7 13 (5.91%) ActiveMQ
8 12 (5.45%) Hibernate
9 11 (5.00%) .NET
9 11 (5.00%) Loki
9 11 (5.00%) Node.js
10 10 (4.55%) ARM Templates
10 10 (4.55%) GraphQL
10 10 (4.55%) JPA
10 10 (4.55%) SOAP
10 10 (4.55%) Spring Cloud
11 9 (4.09%) JSON
11 9 (4.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.45%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.09%) Clustering
5 7 (3.18%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.27%) Replication
7 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.36%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.36%) PKI
8 3 (1.36%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.91%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 71 (32.27%) Linux
2 17 (7.73%) Windows
3 14 (6.36%) Unix
4 6 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.27%) CentOS
6 3 (1.36%) Android
6 3 (1.36%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Debian
8 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (64.09%) DevOps
2 117 (53.18%) CI/CD
3 112 (50.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (41.82%) Containerisation
5 70 (31.82%) Microservices
5 70 (31.82%) Observability
6 51 (23.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 46 (20.91%) Agile
8 35 (15.91%) Configuration Management
8 35 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (15.45%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (15.00%) High Availability
11 26 (11.82%) Deployment Automation
11 26 (11.82%) Event-Driven
12 24 (10.91%) Software Engineering
13 23 (10.45%) Mentoring
13 23 (10.45%) Task Automation
13 23 (10.45%) TDD
14 20 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
15 18 (8.18%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 96 (43.64%) Python
2 57 (25.91%) Bash
3 55 (25.00%) Java
4 28 (12.73%) SQL
5 22 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 20 (9.09%) Go
7 19 (8.64%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.82%) Bicep
9 14 (6.36%) Shell Script
10 13 (5.91%) Kotlin
11 11 (5.00%) JavaScript
12 9 (4.09%) Perl
12 9 (4.09%) Ruby
13 6 (2.73%) Groovy
14 5 (2.27%) C#
14 5 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.45%) C
16 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 84 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 70 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.45%) Degree
4 12 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.73%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.91%) APMG
8 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.45%) CISSP
9 1 (0.45%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.45%) OCP
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.45%) RHCE
9 1 (0.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.09%) GDPR
2 8 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.64%) QA
3 5 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.27%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.82%) NCSC
4 4 (1.82%) NIST
5 2 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.91%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 98 (44.55%) Docker
2 10 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 8 (3.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 8 (3.64%) Postfix
5 7 (3.18%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.36%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.45%) Ceph
8 1 (0.45%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.45%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.45%) iptables
8 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 182 (82.73%) Grafana
2 161 (73.18%) Kubernetes
3 138 (62.73%) Terraform
4 81 (36.82%) Ansible
5 31 (14.09%) Puppet
6 25 (11.36%) Progress Chef
7 9 (4.09%) Istio
8 7 (3.18%) Nagios
9 6 (2.73%) Consul
9 6 (2.73%) Kibana
9 6 (2.73%) logstash
9 6 (2.73%) ZABBIX
10 5 (2.27%) Argo
10 5 (2.27%) Packer
11 4 (1.82%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.82%) linkerd
12 3 (1.36%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.36%) QRadar
12 3 (1.36%) Rundeck
12 3 (1.36%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 42 (19.09%) Splunk
2 21 (9.55%) Google
3 20 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 18 (8.18%) VMware
5 13 (5.91%) Dynatrace
6 11 (5.00%) Microsoft
7 9 (4.09%) Oracle
8 8 (3.64%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.64%) Veritas
9 7 (3.18%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (3.18%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.27%) Confluent
10 5 (2.27%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.82%) Cisco
11 4 (1.82%) IBM
12 3 (1.36%) AppDynamics
12 3 (1.36%) Dell
12 3 (1.36%) HP
13 2 (0.91%) Apple
13 2 (0.91%) Solace