PromQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PromQL (Prometheus Query Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 306 334 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
Contract jobs citing PromQL 11 3 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.023% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.29% 0.065% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £590 £625
% change year-on-year -15.25% -5.60% +0.81%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,736 4,583 7,917
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.83% 34.63% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 3,318 5,817
10th Percentile £344 £340 £373
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £673
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 85 181
10th Percentile £31.25 £32.75 £26.75
25th Percentile £48.99 £37.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £85.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +10.09%

PromQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PromQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PromQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PromQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PromQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PromQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PromQL
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub
3 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 11 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Python Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) Observability
1 11 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) GitOps
3 7 (63.64%) Data Protection
3 7 (63.64%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (45.45%) Problem Management
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Workflow
6 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) High Availability
6 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
7 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (9.09%) Refactoring
7 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Go
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (81.82%) Bash
2 9 (81.82%) SQL
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Grafana
1 11 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Splunk