Prometheus Job Trends in the South West

Prometheus
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Prometheus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 150 247
Rank change year-on-year -36 +97 -28
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 24 7 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.31% 0.25% 0.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.87% 2.67% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 42
10th Percentile £45,000 - £61,250
25th Percentile £48,125 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -18.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,500 - -
England median annual salary £74,750 £74,870 £83,230
% change year-on-year -0.16% -10.04% +10.97%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 409 262 867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.33% 9.47% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 291 180 704
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,675 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £73,250 £73,784 £72,450
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.11% +9.60% -7.41%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Prometheus job vacancy trend in the South West

Prometheus
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in the South West over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Prometheus in the South West

Prometheus
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Gloucestershire -18 8 £50,000 -23.08% 4
Wiltshire -12 5 £75,000 -
Dorset - 5 £45,000 -
Devon -17 4 £52,500 -
Bristol - 1 £80,000 - 2
Cornwall - 1 - -
Prometheus
England

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) AWS
2 12 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (41.67%) GCP
4 9 (37.50%) Amazon S3
4 9 (37.50%) Serverless
5 8 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) CloudFront
8 3 (12.50%) GitHub
9 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (8.33%) Slack
10 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
10 1 (4.17%) Datadog
10 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (4.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) CockroachDB
4 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.83%) Bitbucket
2 5 (20.83%) GitLab
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 3 (12.50%) Maven
4 2 (8.33%) Checkstyle
4 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.33%) ESLint
4 2 (8.33%) Git
4 2 (8.33%) Gradle
4 2 (8.33%) JUnit
4 2 (8.33%) Mockito
4 2 (8.33%) Selenium
4 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.33%) TestNG
5 1 (4.17%) Jaeger
General
1 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (25.00%) Spring
3 5 (20.83%) Spring Boot
4 4 (16.67%) Node.js
5 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (12.50%) React
5 3 (12.50%) REST
6 2 (8.33%) JWT
6 2 (8.33%) OAuth
6 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 2 (8.33%) OpenAPI
6 2 (8.33%) Spring MVC
6 2 (8.33%) Spring Security
6 2 (8.33%) Swagger
7 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
7 1 (4.17%) jQuery
7 1 (4.17%) Loki
7 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Blockchain
2 2 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Unix
2 4 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) DevOps
2 22 (91.67%) CI/CD
3 16 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (62.50%) Containerisation
5 11 (45.83%) Agile
6 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
7 8 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (20.83%) Migration
9 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
10 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
10 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
10 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (16.67%) Observability
10 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) Python
2 18 (75.00%) Bash
3 9 (37.50%) Java
4 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.50%) Elixir
5 3 (12.50%) Erlang
6 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
6 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.33%) SQL
7 1 (4.17%) C
7 1 (4.17%) Go
7 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) AWS Certification
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) Degree
6 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) iptables
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (95.83%) Grafana
2 19 (79.17%) Terraform
3 16 (66.67%) Ansible
4 15 (62.50%) Kubernetes
5 7 (29.17%) Puppet
6 4 (16.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (8.33%) Argo
8 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (4.17%) Istio
8 1 (4.17%) Kibana
8 1 (4.17%) Kustomize
8 1 (4.17%) linkerd
8 1 (4.17%) Mesos
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) Splunk