PromQL Contracts

PromQL (Prometheus Query Language)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring PromQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PromQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 556 684
Rank change year-on-year +20 +128 +172
Contract jobs citing PromQL 19 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.028% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.18% 0.090% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £325 £512 -
25th Percentile £369 £529 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -5.60% +0.81%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £688
90th Percentile £569 £641 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

PromQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,828 12,288 17,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.87% 31.15% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,298 8,681 12,620
10th Percentile £340 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% -0.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 417 441
10th Percentile £27.97 £27.45 £30.00
25th Percentile £36.19 £46.18 £47.73
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +10.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.48 £77.50 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year -1.54% +7.35% +10.09%

PromQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PromQL in the UK

PromQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PromQL in the UK

PromQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PromQL over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PromQL in the UK

PromQL
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PromQL within the UK over the 6 months to 1 August 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 +40 18 £500 -15.25% 3
London +32 17 £500 -15.25% 2
Work from Home +28 11 £425 - 4
UK excluding London +7 2 £575 - 1
South East - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £575 -

PromQL
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) GitHub
3 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.53%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Site Engineer
1 15 (78.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Python Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (10.53%) Loki
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 19 (100.00%) Observability
2 17 (89.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 13 (68.42%) DevOps
4 12 (63.16%) GitOps
5 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (42.11%) Data Protection
7 7 (36.84%) Problem Management
8 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
9 5 (26.32%) Microservices
10 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
11 3 (15.79%) Analytical Thinking
11 3 (15.79%) Dashboard Development
11 3 (15.79%) High Availability
11 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (15.79%) Workflow
12 2 (10.53%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Go
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) Bash
2 11 (57.89%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (100.00%) Grafana
2 16 (84.21%) Prometheus
3 13 (68.42%) Kubernetes
4 7 (36.84%) Terraform
5 3 (15.79%) Ansible
6 2 (10.53%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) PagerDuty