Prometheus Jobs

Prometheus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Prometheus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Prometheus over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 528 451
Rank change year-on-year +177 -77 -5
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 417 419 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.42% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.42% 4.23% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 144 193 375
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,788 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £94,375 £110,000 £88,125
90th Percentile £112,125 £118,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -15.63% +16.36% -1.79%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,617 9,903 14,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 9.98% 14.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,270 7,129 9,203
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,525
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,905
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.02% -3.49%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Prometheus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Prometheus.

Salary trend for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. 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
England +198 403 £75,000 -6.25% 313
Work from Home +197 302 £67,500 -32.50% 204
London +128 178 £82,500 -17.50% 198
UK excluding London +74 146 £67,500 -15.63% 193
South East +127 43 £77,500 +29.17% 76
Midlands +90 38 £65,000 -25.71% 22
West Midlands +79 32 £65,000 -0.71% 15
East of England +67 28 £57,500 -30.30% 11
North of England -10 22 £74,870 +24.78% 44
South West +84 14 £65,000 -18.75% 17
North West -29 13 £65,000 -13.33% 17
Yorkshire +60 8 £74,870 +2.94% 24
Scotland +38 7 £95,000 +26.67% 11
East Midlands +22 6 £41,250 -54.17% 7
Wales +38 5 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Northern Ireland +41 3 £55,000 -4.35% 6
North East +36 1 - - 3

Prometheus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (5.52%) Confluence
2 4 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.48%) GemFire
4 2 (0.48%) nginx
4 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Jetty
5 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 347 (83.21%) AWS
2 217 (52.04%) Pulumi
3 99 (23.74%) Azure
4 51 (12.23%) GCP
5 44 (10.55%) GitHub
6 42 (10.07%) Datadog
7 38 (9.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (9.11%) Serverless
8 33 (7.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 33 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (5.76%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (5.04%) Amazon S3
14 20 (4.80%) AWS KMS
15 17 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (3.12%) Cloud Computing
18 9 (2.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 217 (52.04%) Broadband
2 17 (4.08%) Firewall
2 17 (4.08%) Network Security
3 6 (1.44%) DNS
4 5 (1.20%) VPN
5 3 (0.72%) DHCP
5 3 (0.72%) FIX Connectivity
5 3 (0.72%) SSH
5 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.48%) FTP
6 2 (0.48%) HTTP
6 2 (0.48%) SMTP
6 2 (0.48%) VLAN
7 1 (0.24%) NAS
7 1 (0.24%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.24%) SAN
7 1 (0.24%) SNMP
7 1 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (55.16%) NoSQL
2 221 (53.00%) Relational Database
3 217 (52.04%) RDBMS
4 27 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (4.32%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.12%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (3.12%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.88%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.64%) MySQL
10 10 (2.40%) Redis
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.72%) Big Data
12 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.48%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.48%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.48%) DB2
13 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 217 (52.04%) Jaeger
2 58 (13.91%) Jenkins
3 36 (8.63%) GitLab
4 26 (6.24%) Git
5 22 (5.28%) JIRA
6 15 (3.60%) CircleCI
7 11 (2.64%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.92%) Maven
9 5 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.20%) Gradle
9 5 (1.20%) Vagrant
10 4 (0.96%) JUnit
10 4 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.96%) Selenium
10 4 (0.96%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.72%) Mockito
General
1 218 (52.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 92 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 48 (11.51%) Finance
4 28 (6.71%) Banking
5 15 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.88%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.40%) Games
8 9 (2.16%) Law
8 9 (2.16%) Public Sector
9 8 (1.92%) Retail
9 8 (1.92%) Retail Banking
10 7 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.20%) Marketing
12 4 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Advertising
14 2 (0.48%) Military
15 1 (0.24%) Back Office
15 1 (0.24%) Front Office
15 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 241 (57.79%) Lead
2 218 (52.28%) Team Leader
3 38 (9.11%) Site Engineer
3 38 (9.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 37 (8.87%) Senior
5 34 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (5.52%) Developer
6 23 (5.52%) Software Engineer
7 19 (4.56%) Architect
8 16 (3.84%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (3.60%) AWS Architect
9 15 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (3.36%) Senior Developer
11 13 (3.12%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (1.92%) Applications Support
12 8 (1.92%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (1.68%) Consultant
13 7 (1.68%) Support Engineer
14 6 (1.44%) Analyst
14 6 (1.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (63.07%) Elastic Stack
2 229 (54.92%) OpenTelemetry
3 47 (11.27%) Kafka
4 28 (6.71%) RESTful
5 20 (4.80%) Loki
6 18 (4.32%) .NET
6 18 (4.32%) React
7 17 (4.08%) Spring
8 15 (3.60%) GraphQL
8 15 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (3.36%) AngularJS
10 12 (2.88%) Spring Boot
11 11 (2.64%) Flask
12 10 (2.40%) FastAPI
12 10 (2.40%) REST
13 9 (2.16%) Django
14 8 (1.92%) pytest
15 7 (1.68%) ARM Templates
15 7 (1.68%) Node.js
16 6 (1.44%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.75%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.80%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.16%) Data Centre
3 9 (2.16%) Replication
4 7 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (1.68%) Hedge funds
4 7 (1.68%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.44%) Blockchain
5 6 (1.44%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.44%) Web3
6 5 (1.20%) Clustering
6 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.20%) Mobile Games
7 4 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (0.96%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.72%) Eurex
8 3 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 267 (64.03%) Linux
2 224 (53.72%) Unix
3 25 (6.00%) Windows
4 11 (2.64%) CentOS
5 8 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.68%) VMS
7 6 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.96%) Debian
8 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (83.45%) DevOps
2 303 (72.66%) Containerisation
3 300 (71.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 276 (66.19%) Agile
5 256 (61.39%) Mentoring
6 250 (59.95%) High Availability
7 238 (57.07%) Cost Optimisation
7 238 (57.07%) Performance Optimisation
8 231 (55.40%) Product Management
9 230 (55.16%) Continuous Integration
9 230 (55.16%) Resource Management
10 223 (53.48%) Task Automation
11 222 (53.24%) Roadmaps
12 221 (53.00%) GitOps
13 215 (51.56%) Budget Control
14 117 (28.06%) CI/CD
15 71 (17.03%) Microservices
16 70 (16.79%) Observability
17 50 (11.99%) Software Engineering
18 48 (11.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 330 (79.14%) Python
2 293 (70.26%) Java
3 261 (62.59%) Bash
4 237 (56.83%) JavaScript
5 236 (56.59%) Go
6 33 (7.91%) PowerShell
7 30 (7.19%) C#
7 30 (7.19%) SQL
8 28 (6.71%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.88%) Groovy
10 8 (1.92%) C++
11 5 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.96%) Bicep
12 4 (0.96%) Ruby
13 3 (0.72%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.72%) Perl
13 3 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.48%) C
14 2 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 242 (58.03%) AWS Certification
2 49 (11.75%) Degree
3 42 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (8.87%) Security Cleared
5 27 (6.47%) SC Cleared
6 24 (5.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.72%) OCP
9 3 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.48%) PhD
10 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.24%) MCSE
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.24%) VCAP
11 1 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.32%) HIPAA
2 17 (4.08%) GDPR
3 16 (3.84%) QA
4 11 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.96%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.72%) SLA
6 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 312 (74.82%) Docker
2 11 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.96%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.48%) Postfix
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 343 (82.25%) Kubernetes
2 322 (77.22%) Terraform
3 269 (64.51%) Ansible
4 233 (55.88%) Argo
5 216 (51.80%) Kustomize
6 158 (37.89%) Grafana
7 15 (3.60%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.36%) Puppet
9 8 (1.92%) Istio
10 6 (1.44%) Kibana
11 4 (0.96%) Consul
11 4 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.72%) Control-M
12 3 (0.72%) Nagios
13 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.48%) logstash
13 2 (0.48%) Packer
13 2 (0.48%) Proxmox
14 1 (0.24%) Bugsnag
14 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 235 (56.35%) Google
2 23 (5.52%) Splunk
3 19 (4.56%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.08%) Dynatrace
5 13 (3.12%) New Relic
6 11 (2.64%) Oracle
7 10 (2.40%) VMware
8 8 (1.92%) Databricks
8 8 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.44%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.72%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.72%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.72%) CQG
11 3 (0.72%) IBM
11 3 (0.72%) ION Trading
11 3 (0.72%) Reuters
11 3 (0.72%) Trayport
12 2 (0.48%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (0.48%) Patsystems