Prometheus Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Prometheus
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 252 334
Rank change year-on-year +31 +82 +14
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 83 93 144
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.84% 0.61% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.41% 5.65% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 77 94
10th Percentile £428 £393 £483
25th Percentile £463 £450 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £653 £688 £700
90th Percentile £738 £850 -
UK median daily rate £528 £530 £613
% change year-on-year -0.47% -13.47% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £67.10
25th Percentile - - £71.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £86.25
90th Percentile - - £88.50
UK median hourly rate £61.60 - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - -15.48%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Prometheus falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Prometheus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Prometheus trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Prometheus.

Prometheus daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Prometheus daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Prometheus.

Prometheus hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (8.43%) nginx
2 5 (6.02%) Traefik
3 4 (4.82%) Apache
4 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.20%) IIS
5 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 57 (68.67%) AWS
2 31 (37.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 30 (36.14%) Azure
4 19 (22.89%) GCP
5 18 (21.69%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (20.48%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (19.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (18.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 14 (16.87%) GitHub
10 12 (14.46%) Amazon S3
10 12 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (10.84%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (10.84%) Serverless
13 8 (9.64%) Entra ID
14 7 (8.43%) AWS Fargate
14 7 (8.43%) OpenShift
15 6 (7.23%) Azure AKS
15 6 (7.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (25.30%) DNS
2 19 (22.89%) TCP/IP
3 12 (14.46%) HTTP
4 7 (8.43%) Internet
5 4 (4.82%) SSL
6 3 (3.61%) Firewall
6 3 (3.61%) Network Security
6 3 (3.61%) VPN
7 2 (2.41%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.20%) DHCP
8 1 (1.20%) MQTT
8 1 (1.20%) SAN
8 1 (1.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) MongoDB
2 12 (14.46%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (12.05%) MySQL
3 10 (12.05%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.05%) Redis
4 9 (10.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.61%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.41%) Big Data
8 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.41%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.20%) Flink
9 1 (1.20%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.20%) Power Query
9 1 (1.20%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 38 (45.78%) Jenkins
2 32 (38.55%) GitLab
3 15 (18.07%) Git
4 6 (7.23%) Maven
5 4 (4.82%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.61%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.61%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.61%) Gradle
6 3 (3.61%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.61%) JIRA
6 3 (3.61%) JUnit
6 3 (3.61%) Mockito
6 3 (3.61%) TestNG
7 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.20%) Gatling
7 1 (1.20%) JMeter
7 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.20%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (14.46%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.64%) Finance
4 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.02%) Banking
5 4 (4.82%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.41%) Legal
6 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Games
7 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (49.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (30.12%) Senior
3 19 (22.89%) Senior DevOps
4 15 (18.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 13 (15.66%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (14.46%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (13.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (10.84%) Site Engineer
8 9 (10.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (9.64%) Developer
10 6 (7.23%) Architect
11 5 (6.02%) Java Developer
12 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (3.61%) DevOps Specialist
12 3 (3.61%) Digital Developer
12 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Lead
12 3 (3.61%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (34.94%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (30.12%) Kafka
3 8 (9.64%) Keycloak
3 8 (9.64%) Spring
4 7 (8.43%) cloud-init
5 5 (6.02%) RESTful
6 4 (4.82%) Loki
6 4 (4.82%) OAuth
6 4 (4.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (4.82%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.82%) YAML
7 3 (3.61%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.61%) Hibernate
7 3 (3.61%) JWT
7 3 (3.61%) Node.js
7 3 (3.61%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.61%) Playwright
7 3 (3.61%) React
7 3 (3.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Cloud Native
1 7 (8.43%) PKI
2 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.20%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.20%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.96%) Linux
2 11 (13.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (13.25%) Unix
3 9 (10.84%) CentOS
4 5 (6.02%) Windows
5 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (72.29%) DevOps
2 49 (59.04%) CI/CD
2 49 (59.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (48.19%) Containerisation
4 24 (28.92%) Microservices
5 23 (27.71%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (25.30%) Observability
7 17 (20.48%) Configuration Management
8 15 (18.07%) Agile
9 13 (15.66%) Mentoring
9 13 (15.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (14.46%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (14.46%) Task Automation
11 11 (13.25%) Cloud Security
11 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (12.05%) High Availability
13 9 (10.84%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 9 (10.84%) Secrets Management
13 9 (10.84%) Software Engineering
13 9 (10.84%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (61.45%) Python
2 31 (37.35%) Bash
3 16 (19.28%) Java
4 15 (18.07%) Go
5 9 (10.84%) PowerShell
6 6 (7.23%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.02%) Shell Script
7 5 (6.02%) SQL
8 4 (4.82%) Ruby
8 4 (4.82%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.61%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.61%) Perl
10 2 (2.41%) Bicep
11 1 (1.20%) C
11 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.20%) Groovy
11 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 35 (42.17%) Security Cleared
2 32 (38.55%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.87%) AWS Certification
4 9 (10.84%) Degree
5 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) NCSC
2 2 (2.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.41%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) NIST
3 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (56.63%) Docker
2 3 (3.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (3.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.41%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.20%) Ceph
4 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (84.34%) Grafana
2 69 (83.13%) Kubernetes
3 61 (73.49%) Terraform
4 38 (45.78%) Ansible
5 19 (22.89%) Puppet
6 18 (21.69%) Progress Chef
7 11 (13.25%) Istio
8 9 (10.84%) Packer
8 9 (10.84%) ZABBIX
9 8 (9.64%) Consul
9 8 (9.64%) linkerd
10 7 (8.43%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (8.43%) Rancher
11 5 (6.02%) HAProxy
12 4 (4.82%) logstash
13 3 (3.61%) Control-M
13 3 (3.61%) Kibana
13 3 (3.61%) Nagios
13 3 (3.61%) Rundeck
14 2 (2.41%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Red Hat
2 15 (18.07%) Splunk
3 11 (13.25%) Google
4 7 (8.43%) Okta
4 7 (8.43%) VMware
5 5 (6.02%) Apple
5 5 (6.02%) ESET
6 4 (4.82%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.41%) Cisco
7 2 (2.41%) Dell
7 2 (2.41%) HP
7 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.41%) Veritas
8 1 (1.20%) Commvault
8 1 (1.20%) EMC
8 1 (1.20%) IBM
8 1 (1.20%) New Relic
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle
8 1 (1.20%) SolarWinds