Prometheus Job Trends in the South East

Prometheus
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Prometheus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 239 385
Rank change year-on-year -27 +146 +2
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 30 14 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.21% 0.20% 0.043%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.77% 2.17% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 27 13 3
10th Percentile - £50,250 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +25.00% -17.24%
75th Percentile £66,250 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,500 £80,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

Prometheus falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 520 646 1,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.66% 9.41% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 408 401 1,308
10th Percentile £34,925 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +12.73% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £88,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Prometheus relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Prometheus job vacancy trend in the South East

Prometheus
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Prometheus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Prometheus

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in the South East over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Prometheus in the South East

Prometheus
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -24 9 £80,000 +6.67% 2
Surrey - 8 £62,500 - 2
West Sussex - 8 £50,000 -
Thames Valley 0 5 £62,500 -13.79% 6
Berkshire +4 3 £62,500 -15.25% 3
Oxfordshire -5 1 - - 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Prometheus
England

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 18 (60.00%) AWS
3 16 (53.33%) GitHub
3 16 (53.33%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (43.33%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (36.67%) Datadog
7 10 (33.33%) OpenShift
8 8 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (20.00%) GCP
10 4 (13.33%) Serverless
11 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
11 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
11 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) VPN
3 4 (13.33%) MQTT
4 1 (3.33%) DHCP
4 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) GitLab
2 13 (43.33%) Git
3 3 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.33%) JIRA
5 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.33%) Selenium
5 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.33%) TestRail
General
1 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Retail
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Legal
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Administrator
2 8 (26.67%) DevOps Administrator
2 8 (26.67%) Senior
2 8 (26.67%) Senior DevOps
2 8 (26.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 8 (26.67%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Site Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) DBA
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Manual Tester
6 1 (3.33%) MySQL DBA
6 1 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) OAuth
1 8 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (26.67%) SAML
2 5 (16.67%) Loki
3 4 (13.33%) Kafka
4 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (10.00%) YAML
5 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Private Cloud
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
4 3 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.33%) Life Science
6 1 (3.33%) NHS
6 1 (3.33%) PMI
6 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (3.33%) Replication
6 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (96.67%) CI/CD
2 27 (90.00%) Observability
3 25 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (76.67%) DevOps
5 14 (46.67%) Containerisation
5 14 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (33.33%) Cloud Security
8 10 (33.33%) Configuration Management
9 8 (26.67%) Agile
9 8 (26.67%) AI
9 8 (26.67%) Batch Processing
10 7 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (16.67%) Microservices
12 5 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 5 (16.67%) Scrum
12 5 (16.67%) Software Delivery
12 5 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (80.00%) Bash
2 21 (70.00%) Python
3 12 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (26.67%) Go
5 5 (16.67%) Rust
6 3 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) AWS Certification
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (63.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (100.00%) Grafana
2 28 (93.33%) Terraform
3 27 (90.00%) Kubernetes
4 15 (50.00%) Ansible
5 8 (26.67%) Proxmox
6 3 (10.00%) Argo
6 3 (10.00%) Scalr
7 2 (6.67%) Istio
7 2 (6.67%) Kustomize
8 1 (3.33%) Graylog
8 1 (3.33%) Nessus
8 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Red Hat
2 9 (30.00%) VMware
3 8 (26.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.33%) Tenable