Prometheus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Prometheus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 460 544
Rank change year-on-year +3 +84 -71
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 270 200 366
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.89% 3.89% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 190 144 193
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £57,788
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £92,188 £94,375 £110,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £112,125 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -15.63% +14.29%

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 4,585 5,136 9,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.07% 11.70% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,223 3,328 7,125
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.86%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Prometheus job vacancy trend in the UK

Prometheus
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Prometheus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Top 15 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 11 May 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
England +11 244 £73,250 -2.33% 119
London -6 122 £85,000 +3.03% 62
UK excluding London -22 118 £60,000 -11.11% 64
Work from Home +28 91 £74,750 +10.74% 48
North of England -24 43 £47,500 -36.56% 15
South East 0 35 £62,500 -19.35% 30
South West -36 21 £52,500 -19.23% 8
North West -1 17 £60,000 -7.69% 12
North East - 17 £47,500 - 1
Yorkshire -48 9 £80,000 +6.85% 2
Scotland -2 8 £67,000 -29.47% 1
Midlands -63 6 £80,000 +23.08% 6
East of England -10 5 £85,000 +47.83% 3
West Midlands -50 4 £80,000 +23.08% 6
East Midlands -29 2 £75,000 +81.82%

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.96%) Apache
3 7 (2.59%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Weka
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 184 (68.15%) AWS
2 138 (51.11%) Azure
3 96 (35.56%) GCP
4 74 (27.41%) GitHub
5 70 (25.93%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (22.59%) Datadog
7 60 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 57 (21.11%) Serverless
9 53 (19.63%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (15.19%) Amazon S3
10 41 (15.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (14.44%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (14.07%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (7.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (6.67%) Pulumi
16 16 (5.93%) Cloud Computing
16 16 (5.93%) OpenShift
17 14 (5.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 12 (4.44%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 47 (17.41%) Firewall
2 33 (12.22%) DNS
3 22 (8.15%) HTTP
4 21 (7.78%) TCP/IP
5 18 (6.67%) Broadband
6 12 (4.44%) VPN
7 7 (2.59%) DHCP
8 6 (2.22%) MQTT
8 6 (2.22%) Network Security
9 4 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.48%) SSL
10 3 (1.11%) SSH
11 2 (0.74%) BGP
12 1 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
12 1 (0.37%) LAN
12 1 (0.37%) MPLS
12 1 (0.37%) Multicast
12 1 (0.37%) NAS
12 1 (0.37%) SAN
12 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.41%) NoSQL
2 37 (13.70%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 22 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (7.04%) DynamoDB
6 18 (6.67%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.96%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.59%) MySQL
8 7 (2.59%) Redis
8 7 (2.59%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.48%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.11%) TimescaleDB
11 2 (0.74%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.74%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.74%) SQLPlus
12 1 (0.37%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 87 (32.22%) Jenkins
2 77 (28.52%) GitLab
3 35 (12.96%) Git
4 26 (9.63%) CircleCI
5 20 (7.41%) Jaeger
6 9 (3.33%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.96%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.59%) JIRA
9 4 (1.48%) MLflow
10 3 (1.11%) Maven
10 3 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.11%) Selenium
11 2 (0.74%) Checkstyle
11 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.74%) ESLint
11 2 (0.74%) Gradle
11 2 (0.74%) JMeter
11 2 (0.74%) JUnit
11 2 (0.74%) Mockito
11 2 (0.74%) TestNG
General
1 85 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 69 (25.56%) Finance
3 26 (9.63%) Telecoms
4 24 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.15%) Banking
6 21 (7.78%) Law
7 19 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (5.56%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.96%) Retail
10 7 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.48%) Legal
12 3 (1.11%) Electronics
12 3 (1.11%) Marketing
13 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Front Office
13 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Aviation
14 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (28.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 62 (22.96%) Senior
3 37 (13.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (12.59%) Lead
5 33 (12.22%) Developer
6 27 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (6.30%) Senior DevOps
10 16 (5.93%) Senior Developer
11 15 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 13 (4.81%) Administrator
12 13 (4.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.81%) Site Engineer
13 12 (4.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 12 (4.44%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 12 (4.44%) Systems Administrator
14 10 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (22.59%) Elastic Stack
2 51 (18.89%) Kafka
3 32 (11.85%) OpenTelemetry
3 32 (11.85%) RabbitMQ
4 20 (7.41%) gRPC
4 20 (7.41%) RESTful
5 18 (6.67%) Loki
6 16 (5.93%) web3js
7 15 (5.56%) Node.js
8 13 (4.81%) React
9 12 (4.44%) REST
10 11 (4.07%) OAuth
11 10 (3.70%) Spring
12 9 (3.33%) .NET
12 9 (3.33%) Spring Boot
13 8 (2.96%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.96%) SAML
14 7 (2.59%) ADO
15 6 (2.22%) YAML
16 5 (1.85%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 65 (24.07%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.78%) Blockchain
3 16 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.93%) Web3
4 15 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.81%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.22%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.48%) Replication
10 4 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.11%) Life Science
11 3 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.74%) SIMD
12 2 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 92 (34.07%) Linux
2 26 (9.63%) Windows
3 23 (8.52%) Unix
4 9 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.22%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.85%) VMS
7 3 (1.11%) CentOS
7 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.11%) SUSE
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (77.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 205 (75.93%) CI/CD
3 186 (68.89%) DevOps
4 153 (56.67%) Containerisation
5 152 (56.30%) Observability
6 86 (31.85%) High Availability
7 79 (29.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 71 (26.30%) Continuous Integration
9 70 (25.93%) Agile
10 66 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (24.07%) Software Engineering
12 61 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (21.85%) Platform Engineering
14 56 (20.74%) Test Automation
15 48 (17.78%) Mentoring
16 47 (17.41%) Continuous Delivery
16 47 (17.41%) DevSecOps
16 47 (17.41%) Performance Optimisation
17 44 (16.30%) Microservices
18 42 (15.56%) AI
Programming Languages
1 178 (65.93%) Python
2 130 (48.15%) Bash
3 82 (30.37%) Go
4 45 (16.67%) Java
5 40 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 35 (12.96%) PowerShell
7 27 (10.00%) SQL
8 18 (6.67%) Rust
9 9 (3.33%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.96%) Bicep
10 8 (2.96%) C++
11 4 (1.48%) C
11 4 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.11%) Elixir
12 3 (1.11%) Erlang
13 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.74%) VB
14 1 (0.37%) Dart
14 1 (0.37%) Ruby
14 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 37 (13.70%) AWS Certification
3 29 (10.74%) Degree
4 28 (10.37%) SC Cleared
5 19 (7.04%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (1.11%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.37%) RHCE
11 1 (0.37%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.78%) QA
2 12 (4.44%) GDPR
2 12 (4.44%) SOC 2
3 10 (3.70%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 176 (65.19%) Docker
2 11 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.96%) iptables
4 6 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) KVM
Systems Management
1 222 (82.22%) Terraform
2 210 (77.78%) Grafana
3 207 (76.67%) Kubernetes
4 131 (48.52%) Ansible
5 35 (12.96%) Argo
6 22 (8.15%) Kustomize
7 18 (6.67%) Puppet
8 12 (4.44%) Istio
9 9 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (3.33%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.96%) Proxmox
11 7 (2.59%) linkerd
11 7 (2.59%) Mesos
11 7 (2.59%) Nagios
12 5 (1.85%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.48%) Kibana
14 3 (1.11%) Rancher
14 3 (1.11%) Scalr
14 3 (1.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (11.85%) Google
2 25 (9.26%) VMware
3 22 (8.15%) Splunk
4 15 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 14 (5.19%) Red Hat
6 13 (4.81%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.22%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.85%) Databricks
9 4 (1.48%) Cribl.io
9 4 (1.48%) Tenable
10 3 (1.11%) Arista
10 3 (1.11%) Oracle
10 3 (1.11%) SAP
10 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.74%) Commvault
11 2 (0.74%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.74%) Okta
11 2 (0.74%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.74%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.37%) Moogsoft