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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 522 458
Rank change year-on-year +31 -64 -5
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 196 410 686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.42% 0.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.94% 4.10% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 143 179 395
10th Percentile £51,500 £57,500 £51,000
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 £91,000 £108,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.63% +18.52% -3.57%

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 4,972 9,994 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 10.16% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 7,234 9,375
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,842 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,525 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Top 16 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 30 April 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 +84 181 £74,935 -6.33% 219
London +86 111 £85,000 -15.00% 133
Work from Home +108 87 £67,500 -32.50% 132
UK excluding London +15 75 £67,500 -15.63% 92
Midlands +68 27 £65,000 -25.71% 14
West Midlands - 23 £65,000 - 9
North of England +20 20 £74,870 +24.78% 33
South East +113 13 £73,750 +22.92% 14
North West -11 12 £75,000 - 20
South West +77 11 £65,000 -18.75% 13
Yorkshire +57 8 £74,870 +5.08% 9
Wales +39 6 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Scotland +37 6 £95,000 +26.67% 5
Northern Ireland +34 5 £55,000 -4.35% 3
East Midlands +33 4 £41,250 -52.86% 5
East of England +59 2 £57,500 -30.30% 10

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 21 (10.71%) Confluence
2 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.02%) GemFire
4 2 (1.02%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.02%) nginx
4 2 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) Jetty
5 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 127 (64.80%) AWS
2 102 (52.04%) Azure
3 53 (27.04%) GCP
4 44 (22.45%) GitHub
5 42 (21.43%) Datadog
6 40 (20.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 36 (18.37%) Serverless
8 33 (16.84%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (15.82%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (11.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (11.73%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (8.67%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (8.16%) Amazon S3
15 13 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (6.63%) AWS KMS
16 12 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (5.61%) Azure AKS
18 8 (4.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.18%) Network Security
2 14 (7.14%) Firewall
3 7 (3.57%) VPN
4 6 (3.06%) DNS
5 3 (1.53%) DHCP
5 3 (1.53%) FIX Connectivity
5 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.53%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.02%) IPv6
6 2 (1.02%) Multicast
6 2 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.02%) VLAN
7 1 (0.51%) NAS
7 1 (0.51%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.51%) SAN
7 1 (0.51%) SNMP
7 1 (0.51%) SSH
7 1 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.78%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (8.67%) MongoDB
3 16 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (6.63%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (6.63%) MySQL
4 13 (6.63%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.61%) Redis
6 10 (5.10%) SQL Server
7 9 (4.59%) DynamoDB
8 7 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.53%) Big Data
9 3 (1.53%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.02%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.02%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.02%) DB2
11 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 50 (25.51%) Jenkins
2 39 (19.90%) GitLab
3 21 (10.71%) Git
4 18 (9.18%) JIRA
5 14 (7.14%) CircleCI
6 9 (4.59%) SonarQube
7 8 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (3.57%) Artifactory
8 7 (3.57%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.06%) Gradle
9 6 (3.06%) Maven
10 4 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (2.04%) Selenium
11 3 (1.53%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (1.02%) Apache Archiva
12 2 (1.02%) Jaeger
12 2 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (1.02%) Postman
12 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.02%) Vagrant
General
1 85 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.43%) Finance
3 27 (13.78%) Banking
4 13 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.63%) Games
5 12 (6.12%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.10%) Law
6 10 (5.10%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.08%) Retail
7 8 (4.08%) Retail Banking
8 7 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.57%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.55%) Marketing
10 4 (2.04%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.53%) Advertising
11 3 (1.53%) Military
12 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Back Office
13 1 (0.51%) Front Office
13 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (20.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 39 (19.90%) Senior
2 39 (19.90%) Site Engineer
3 37 (18.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (12.76%) Lead
5 21 (10.71%) Developer
5 21 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 18 (9.18%) Architect
7 17 (8.67%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (8.16%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.14%) AWS Architect
9 14 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Applications Support
12 7 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.57%) Consultant
12 7 (3.57%) Technical Leader
13 6 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.06%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.06%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (27.55%) Elastic Stack
2 46 (23.47%) Kafka
3 27 (13.78%) RESTful
4 19 (9.69%) Loki
5 16 (8.16%) .NET
5 16 (8.16%) GraphQL
5 16 (8.16%) React
6 15 (7.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (7.65%) RabbitMQ
7 13 (6.63%) Spring
8 12 (6.12%) AngularJS
8 12 (6.12%) Flask
9 11 (5.61%) FastAPI
10 10 (5.10%) Django
11 7 (3.57%) ARM Templates
11 7 (3.57%) pytest
11 7 (3.57%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.57%) WebSockets
12 6 (3.06%) Keycloak
12 6 (3.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.98%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.69%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.59%) Blockchain
3 9 (4.59%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.06%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.06%) Mobile Games
6 6 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.55%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.55%) Replication
7 5 (2.55%) Web3
8 4 (2.04%) Clustering
8 4 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.04%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (22.96%) Linux
2 23 (11.73%) Windows
3 10 (5.10%) CentOS
4 8 (4.08%) Unix
5 7 (3.57%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.04%) Debian
7 4 (2.04%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.04%) VMS
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (66.33%) DevOps
2 113 (57.65%) CI/CD
3 91 (46.43%) Containerisation
4 82 (41.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (38.27%) Observability
6 66 (33.67%) Microservices
7 60 (30.61%) Agile
8 50 (25.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 47 (23.98%) Mentoring
9 47 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (23.98%) Software Engineering
10 43 (21.94%) Computer Science
11 35 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
11 35 (17.86%) Incident Response
12 34 (17.35%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (16.84%) High Availability
14 31 (15.82%) Performance Tuning
15 29 (14.80%) Event-Driven
15 29 (14.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 28 (14.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 113 (57.65%) Python
2 72 (36.73%) Java
3 46 (23.47%) Bash
4 30 (15.31%) PowerShell
5 28 (14.29%) C#
5 28 (14.29%) SQL
5 28 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 23 (11.73%) JavaScript
7 19 (9.69%) Go
8 8 (4.08%) C++
9 6 (3.06%) Groovy
10 5 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.04%) Bicep
11 4 (2.04%) Ruby
12 3 (1.53%) C
12 3 (1.53%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (23.47%) Degree
2 41 (20.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (17.35%) Security Cleared
4 27 (13.78%) AWS Certification
5 25 (12.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (11.22%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.53%) OCP
9 3 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (1.02%) PhD
10 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.51%) MCSE
11 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.51%) VCAP
11 1 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.18%) HIPAA
2 17 (8.67%) GDPR
2 17 (8.67%) QA
3 10 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.53%) SLA
6 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (47.45%) Docker
2 7 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.55%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 145 (73.98%) Grafana
2 135 (68.88%) Kubernetes
3 106 (54.08%) Terraform
4 57 (29.08%) Ansible
5 22 (11.22%) Argo
6 15 (7.65%) Progress Chef
7 14 (7.14%) Puppet
8 8 (4.08%) Istio
9 6 (3.06%) Kibana
10 4 (2.04%) Consul
10 4 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.53%) Control-M
11 3 (1.53%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.53%) Nagios
12 2 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.02%) logstash
12 2 (1.02%) Packer
12 2 (1.02%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 24 (12.24%) Splunk
2 22 (11.22%) Dynatrace
3 21 (10.71%) Google
4 19 (9.69%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.14%) New Relic
6 10 (5.10%) VMware
7 9 (4.59%) Oracle
8 8 (4.08%) Databricks
8 8 (4.08%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.57%) IBM
10 4 (2.04%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.53%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.53%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.53%) CQG
11 3 (1.53%) ION Trading
11 3 (1.53%) Reuters
11 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.53%) Trayport
12 2 (1.02%) Commvault
12 2 (1.02%) Patsystems