Prometheus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Prometheus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Prometheus over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 460 469
Rank change year-on-year -72 +9 -31
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 400 678 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.65% 0.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.99% 4.38% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 171 414 404
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £105,000 £88,438 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £100,000 £105,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% -3.57% +12.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Prometheus is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 10,014 15,475 27,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 14.77% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,250 9,481 14,202
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,813
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -96 286 £80,000 +6.67% 86
UK excluding London +38 277 £80,000 +18.52% 46
Work from Home -1 159 £100,000 +33.33% 46
London -68 119 £100,000 +25.00% 46
Scotland +18 97 £75,000 +19.61% 5
North of England +45 84 £60,000 -14.29% 17
North West +13 56 £75,000 +104.72% 7
South West +4 48 £80,000 +33.33% 10
Yorkshire +85 21 £71,250 +1.79% 8
East Midlands -2 20 £87,500 +29.63% 2
Midlands -3 20 £87,500 +29.63% 3
South East +11 13 £60,000 -19.46% 7
North East +7 9 £57,500 -34.29% 2
Wales +13 7 £55,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +6 7 £57,500 -23.33%
East of England +18 1 £82,500 +14.58% 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 77 (19.25%) Apache
2 32 (8.00%) nginx
3 31 (7.75%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (5.25%) GemFire
5 18 (4.50%) Apache Spark
6 17 (4.25%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.00%) Confluence
8 3 (0.75%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 203 (50.75%) AWS
2 139 (34.75%) Amazon S3
3 98 (24.50%) Azure
4 85 (21.25%) Datadog
5 77 (19.25%) Amazon EKS
6 61 (15.25%) OCI
7 58 (14.50%) Route 53
8 55 (13.75%) Amazon ECR
8 55 (13.75%) IBM Cloud
9 44 (11.00%) GCP
10 42 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 35 (8.75%) Snowflake
13 31 (7.75%) OpenShift
14 30 (7.50%) dbt
15 29 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
17 20 (5.00%) Azure AKS
18 18 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
18 18 (4.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 70 (17.50%) Firewall
2 64 (16.00%) VPN
3 57 (14.25%) Internet
4 54 (13.50%) IPsec
4 54 (13.50%) SNMP
5 18 (4.50%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.00%) DNS
7 12 (3.00%) AMQP
8 10 (2.50%) Network Security
9 6 (1.50%) DHCP
10 5 (1.25%) HTTP
10 5 (1.25%) SAN
11 3 (0.75%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.25%) Anycast
12 1 (0.25%) BGP
12 1 (0.25%) NAS
12 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.25%) SSH
12 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (21.50%) MongoDB
2 68 (17.00%) Elasticsearch
3 67 (16.75%) Amazon RDS
4 49 (12.25%) Big Data
5 36 (9.00%) Relational Database
6 35 (8.75%) NoSQL
7 34 (8.50%) Dremio
8 30 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (7.50%) Apache Arrow
8 30 (7.50%) Data Lake
9 25 (6.25%) SQL Server
10 24 (6.00%) InfluxDB
11 23 (5.75%) Apache Cassandra
12 21 (5.25%) CockroachDB
12 21 (5.25%) Hazelcast
13 17 (4.25%) Hadoop
13 17 (4.25%) Presto
14 16 (4.00%) MySQL
15 15 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (3.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 107 (26.75%) Jenkins
2 49 (12.25%) GitLab
3 22 (5.50%) Git
4 21 (5.25%) Jaeger
5 17 (4.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (3.75%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.25%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (2.25%) TeamCity
8 8 (2.00%) Mocha
9 7 (1.75%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.75%) JIRA
9 7 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.00%) Maven
11 4 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.75%) Selenium
13 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.50%) Spinnaker
13 2 (0.50%) Travis CI
General
1 183 (45.75%) Finance
2 134 (33.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 77 (19.25%) Law
4 59 (14.75%) Public Sector
5 55 (13.75%) Marketing
6 46 (11.50%) Social Skills
7 32 (8.00%) Banking
8 24 (6.00%) Investment Banking
9 14 (3.50%) Retail
10 11 (2.75%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.25%) Cantonese Language
13 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.25%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (37.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 94 (23.50%) Senior
3 73 (18.25%) Lead
4 72 (18.00%) Senior DevOps
4 72 (18.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 64 (16.00%) Software Engineer
6 59 (14.75%) AWS Engineer
7 54 (13.50%) Consultant
7 54 (13.50%) NetApp Consultant
8 47 (11.75%) Big Data Engineer
9 41 (10.25%) Lead Software Engineer
10 37 (9.25%) Site Engineer
10 37 (9.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 36 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
12 25 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
13 24 (6.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 23 (5.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 23 (5.75%) Java Engineer
14 23 (5.75%) Java Software Engineer
15 22 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (21.75%) RabbitMQ
2 71 (17.75%) YAML
3 53 (13.25%) Elastic Stack
4 48 (12.00%) Spring
5 44 (11.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 37 (9.25%) gRPC
6 37 (9.25%) Spring Boot
7 35 (8.75%) .NET
8 34 (8.50%) Kafka
9 30 (7.50%) Protocol Buffers
10 25 (6.25%) REST
11 21 (5.25%) JPA
12 17 (4.25%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (4.25%) Apache NiFi
13 13 (3.25%) OAuth
14 10 (2.50%) ARM Templates
14 10 (2.50%) Node.js
15 9 (2.25%) OpenAPI
15 9 (2.25%) Spring XD
16 7 (1.75%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 74 (18.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 59 (14.75%) Data Centre
3 56 (14.00%) Blockchain
4 55 (13.75%) e-Learning
5 47 (11.75%) Cloud Native
5 47 (11.75%) Public Cloud
6 37 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (9.00%) Clustering
8 35 (8.75%) Hedge funds
9 34 (8.50%) Algorithms
10 26 (6.50%) Replication
11 22 (5.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (4.00%) Data Structures
13 14 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (3.25%) Product Ownership
15 9 (2.25%) Client/Server
15 9 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
16 6 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (1.50%) Onboarding
17 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 147 (36.75%) Linux
2 94 (23.50%) Windows
3 54 (13.50%) Data ONTAP
4 9 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.50%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.25%) Unix
8 4 (1.00%) Solaris
8 4 (1.00%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.00%) VMS
9 3 (0.75%) CentOS
9 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 3 (0.75%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.50%) Debian
11 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (57.00%) DevOps
2 189 (47.25%) Agile
3 176 (44.00%) CI/CD
4 167 (41.75%) Observability
5 137 (34.25%) Containerisation
6 118 (29.50%) Software Engineering
7 105 (26.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 101 (25.25%) Artificial Intelligence
9 91 (22.75%) Mentoring
10 89 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
11 79 (19.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 76 (19.00%) Community of Practice
13 74 (18.50%) SDLC
14 67 (16.75%) Microservices
15 66 (16.50%) Actionable Insight
16 65 (16.25%) Secrets Management
17 60 (15.00%) Coaching
17 60 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
17 60 (15.00%) Operational Stability
18 59 (14.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 193 (48.25%) Python
2 110 (27.50%) Java
3 82 (20.50%) Bash
4 63 (15.75%) Go
5 56 (14.00%) SQL
6 49 (12.25%) JavaScript
7 45 (11.25%) PowerShell
8 32 (8.00%) Groovy
9 25 (6.25%) Shell Script
10 20 (5.00%) C#
11 16 (4.00%) Ruby
12 14 (3.50%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.00%) PHP
14 7 (1.75%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.50%) Perl
16 5 (1.25%) C++
17 4 (1.00%) C
18 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.25%) Rust
18 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (9.50%) Security Cleared
2 19 (4.75%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.25%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.25%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.75%) Degree
6 10 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.25%) CISSP
10 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.25%) GDPR
3 1 (0.25%) QA
System Software
1 207 (51.75%) Docker
2 60 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.50%) Ceph
5 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.75%) Gluster
7 3 (0.75%) KVM
7 3 (0.75%) oVirt
8 2 (0.50%) Firmware
9 1 (0.25%) NFS
9 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 313 (78.25%) Kubernetes
2 238 (59.50%) Terraform
3 229 (57.25%) Grafana
4 146 (36.50%) Ansible
5 54 (13.50%) vCenter Server
6 39 (9.75%) HAProxy
7 38 (9.50%) Kibana
8 26 (6.50%) Progress Chef
9 25 (6.25%) Puppet
10 21 (5.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 21 (5.25%) Zipkin
11 11 (2.75%) Istio
12 6 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (1.25%) Packer
13 5 (1.25%) SCOM
14 4 (1.00%) HP Data Protector
14 4 (1.00%) Rancher
14 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.75%) Consul
Vendors
1 140 (35.00%) Dynatrace
2 117 (29.25%) Red Hat
3 104 (26.00%) Splunk
4 60 (15.00%) VMware
5 55 (13.75%) IBM
6 54 (13.50%) NetApp
6 54 (13.50%) Palo Alto
6 54 (13.50%) SolidFire
7 33 (8.25%) Oracle
8 28 (7.00%) Google
9 13 (3.25%) New Relic
10 12 (3.00%) Microsoft
11 9 (2.25%) SaltStack
11 9 (2.25%) Sybase
12 6 (1.50%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.50%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.25%) Dell
13 5 (1.25%) HP
13 5 (1.25%) Serena
13 5 (1.25%) SolarWinds