Prometheus Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Prometheus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Prometheus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 410 522
Rank change year-on-year -68 +112 +36
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 121 123 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.42% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.35% 3.81% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 101 77 85
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -9.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -9.38% +6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,781 3,227 6,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.17% 10.90% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,150 1,600 4,276
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.66% -9.63%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Prometheus relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Prometheus job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Prometheus
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Prometheus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prometheus in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Prometheus in the UK excluding London

Prometheus
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South East -2 43 £62,500 -19.35% 19
North of England -24 40 £47,500 -32.14% 16
South West -38 24 £52,500 -19.23% 12
North West +16 21 £67,500 +12.50% 12
North East - 13 £47,500 -
Midlands -59 7 £77,500 +10.71% 6
Yorkshire -46 6 £66,250 -11.51% 4
West Midlands -65 4 £80,000 +10.34% 4
East of England -14 3 £85,000 +47.83% 2
East Midlands -19 3 £67,500 +28.57% 2
Scotland +6 2 £72,500 -27.50%
Wales -48 2 £62,500 -3.85% 1
Prometheus
UK

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.48%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) IIS
3 1 (0.83%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 91 (75.21%) AWS
2 73 (60.33%) Azure
3 44 (36.36%) GCP
3 44 (36.36%) GitHub
4 43 (35.54%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (34.71%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (24.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 25 (20.66%) Datadog
8 20 (16.53%) Serverless
9 16 (13.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (12.40%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (12.40%) Amazon S3
11 13 (10.74%) OpenShift
12 12 (9.92%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (6.61%) CloudFront
14 8 (6.61%) Entra ID
15 7 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (5.79%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (27.27%) Firewall
2 23 (19.01%) DNS
3 19 (15.70%) TCP/IP
4 18 (14.88%) HTTP
5 9 (7.44%) VPN
6 7 (5.79%) MQTT
6 7 (5.79%) Network Security
7 5 (4.13%) VLAN
8 4 (3.31%) BGP
8 4 (3.31%) IPFIX
8 4 (3.31%) OSPF
8 4 (3.31%) SNMP
9 3 (2.48%) DHCP
9 3 (2.48%) SSH
9 3 (2.48%) SSL
10 2 (1.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.57%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.13%) MySQL
3 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.65%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.65%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.65%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.65%) Redis
6 2 (1.65%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.83%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 36 (29.75%) Jenkins
2 33 (27.27%) GitLab
3 21 (17.36%) Git
4 7 (5.79%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.13%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.48%) JIRA
7 3 (2.48%) Maven
8 2 (1.65%) Checkstyle
8 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.65%) ESLint
8 2 (1.65%) Gradle
8 2 (1.65%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.65%) JUnit
8 2 (1.65%) Mockito
8 2 (1.65%) MSI
8 2 (1.65%) Selenium
8 2 (1.65%) TestNG
General
1 22 (18.18%) Law
2 20 (16.53%) Telecoms
3 18 (14.88%) Social Skills
4 13 (10.74%) Finance
5 12 (9.92%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.61%) Retail
8 5 (4.13%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 45 (37.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (17.36%) Senior
3 15 (12.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (11.57%) Senior DevOps
5 13 (10.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Administrator
6 11 (9.09%) Site Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
7 10 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) DevOps Administrator
8 8 (6.61%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 7 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Lead
10 6 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Junior
12 4 (3.31%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.49%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (12.40%) Loki
3 11 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (8.26%) Kafka
4 10 (8.26%) OAuth
4 10 (8.26%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (6.61%) REST
5 8 (6.61%) SAML
6 7 (5.79%) gRPC
6 7 (5.79%) Spring
6 7 (5.79%) YAML
7 6 (4.96%) ARM Templates
7 6 (4.96%) Node.js
7 6 (4.96%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.13%) React
9 3 (2.48%) ADO
9 3 (2.48%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.48%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.48%) Keycloak
9 3 (2.48%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.97%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.74%) Private Cloud
3 10 (8.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.13%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.31%) Replication
8 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.31%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.48%) Life Science
9 3 (2.48%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.65%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.65%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.83%) NHS
11 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.83%) PMI
11 1 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 40 (33.06%) Linux
2 10 (8.26%) Windows
3 5 (4.13%) Unix
4 3 (2.48%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.83%) VMS
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (84.30%) CI/CD
2 94 (77.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 91 (75.21%) DevOps
4 72 (59.50%) Observability
5 70 (57.85%) Containerisation
6 53 (43.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 35 (28.93%) Agile
7 35 (28.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (28.93%) DevSecOps
8 34 (28.10%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (23.14%) High Availability
10 25 (20.66%) Infrastructure Automation
11 24 (19.83%) Deployment Automation
12 23 (19.01%) Cloud Security
13 22 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (17.36%) AI
14 21 (17.36%) Mentoring
15 18 (14.88%) Continuous Delivery
16 17 (14.05%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 91 (75.21%) Python
2 85 (70.25%) Bash
3 34 (28.10%) PowerShell
4 27 (22.31%) Go
5 13 (10.74%) Java
6 10 (8.26%) Rust
7 8 (6.61%) SQL
8 4 (3.31%) Bicep
8 4 (3.31%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.48%) C
9 3 (2.48%) Elixir
9 3 (2.48%) Erlang
9 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.65%) C++
10 2 (1.65%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.65%) Ruby
10 2 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.83%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.22%) AWS Certification
4 15 (12.40%) Degree
5 9 (7.44%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.96%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.83%) CISSP
9 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) SLA
3 3 (2.48%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 67 (55.37%) Docker
2 7 (5.79%) iptables
3 4 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.31%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 117 (96.69%) Grafana
2 99 (81.82%) Terraform
3 78 (64.46%) Kubernetes
4 57 (47.11%) Ansible
5 16 (13.22%) Argo
6 14 (11.57%) Puppet
7 8 (6.61%) Proxmox
8 7 (5.79%) Kustomize
9 6 (4.96%) Istio
9 6 (4.96%) Nagios
10 5 (4.13%) Progress Chef
11 3 (2.48%) linkerd
11 3 (2.48%) Podman
11 3 (2.48%) Scalr
11 3 (2.48%) systemd
12 2 (1.65%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.83%) Graylog
13 1 (0.83%) Kibana
13 1 (0.83%) Mesos
Vendors
1 12 (9.92%) Red Hat
1 12 (9.92%) VMware
2 8 (6.61%) Dynatrace
2 8 (6.61%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.79%) Google
3 7 (5.79%) Splunk
4 6 (4.96%) SolarWinds
5 5 (4.13%) Tenable
6 4 (3.31%) Oracle
7 3 (2.48%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.83%) LogicMonitor