PromQL Contract Job Trends

PromQL (Prometheus Query Language)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PromQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 513 596
Rank change year-on-year -127 +83 -
Contract jobs citing PromQL 5 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.010% 0.009%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.039% 0.030% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £856 - -
90th Percentile £860 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 12,918 9,941 12,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.38% 34.02% 29.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,548 6,741 9,130
10th Percentile £355 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £769 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £489
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 245 485
10th Percentile £42.05 £22.49 £31.25
25th Percentile £54.78 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -0.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.87 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.20% -

PromQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PromQL job vacancy trend in the UK

PromQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

PromQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PromQL over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PromQL in the UK

PromQL
Top 3 Contract Job 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 30 April 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 -105 5 £800 - 1
London -48 4 £613 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £800 -

PromQL
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Loki
1 4 (80.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 3 (60.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes