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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 520 484
Rank change year-on-year +191 -36 -55
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 457 432 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.42% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.06% 4.38% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 157 202 340
10th Percentile £57,500 £58,938 £52,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £83,230 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +10.97% -6.25%
75th Percentile £93,750 £111,250 £87,813
90th Percentile £113,500 £119,875 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 5,670 9,873 13,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 9.52% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,113 7,021 8,779
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,200
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%

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 31 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 31 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 +222 440 £74,935 -9.97% 303
Work from Home +201 303 £71,250 -28.75% 169
London +129 190 £82,500 -17.50% 171
UK excluding London +98 175 £72,500 -9.38% 154
South East +118 55 £77,500 +29.17% 25
Midlands +89 45 £67,500 -22.86% 32
West Midlands +98 43 £67,500 +3.11% 20
East of England - 28 £57,500 - 13
North of England -17 27 £70,000 +16.67% 45
North West -36 14 £60,000 - 23
South West +75 12 £65,000 -18.75% 15
Yorkshire +46 12 £74,870 -6.41% 20
Scotland +37 10 £100,000 +33.33% 13
Wales +40 5 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Northern Ireland +40 3 £55,000 - 6
East Midlands +25 2 - - 12
North East +41 1 - - 2

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 33 (7.22%) Confluence
2 5 (1.09%) nginx
3 4 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) GemFire
4 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 390 (85.34%) AWS
2 218 (47.70%) Pulumi
3 118 (25.82%) Azure
4 66 (14.44%) GCP
5 52 (11.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 46 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 44 (9.63%) Datadog
7 44 (9.63%) GitHub
8 42 (9.19%) Amazon EC2
8 42 (9.19%) Serverless
9 41 (8.97%) Azure Monitor
10 40 (8.75%) Amazon S3
11 37 (8.10%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (6.78%) AWS KMS
14 26 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (5.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
17 21 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
18 17 (3.72%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 217 (47.48%) Broadband
2 28 (6.13%) Firewall
3 16 (3.50%) Network Security
4 11 (2.41%) DNS
5 9 (1.97%) HTTP
5 9 (1.97%) SSH
6 8 (1.75%) FTP
6 8 (1.75%) SMTP
7 5 (1.09%) VPN
8 4 (0.88%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.66%) IMAP
9 3 (0.66%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.44%) NAS
10 2 (0.44%) SAN
10 2 (0.44%) SNMP
10 2 (0.44%) VLAN
10 2 (0.44%) WAN
11 1 (0.22%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (0.22%) RTP
11 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (51.64%) NoSQL
2 220 (48.14%) Relational Database
3 216 (47.26%) RDBMS
4 41 (8.97%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.94%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.28%) DynamoDB
7 15 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (2.41%) MySQL
9 9 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (1.75%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.53%) Redis
12 3 (0.66%) Big Data
12 3 (0.66%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.44%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.44%) DB2
14 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 216 (47.26%) Jaeger
2 84 (18.38%) Jenkins
3 44 (9.63%) GitLab
4 40 (8.75%) Git
5 32 (7.00%) JIRA
6 17 (3.72%) CircleCI
6 17 (3.72%) Vagrant
7 11 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (2.19%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.97%) Maven
10 6 (1.31%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.09%) Gradle
12 4 (0.88%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.88%) JUnit
12 4 (0.88%) Mockito
12 4 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.66%) DbUnit
13 3 (0.66%) jMock
13 3 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 228 (49.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 110 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 73 (15.97%) Finance
4 32 (7.00%) Banking
5 26 (5.69%) Law
6 18 (3.94%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.84%) Legal
9 12 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.19%) Games
11 9 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.75%) Marketing
12 8 (1.75%) Retail
12 8 (1.75%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.53%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.66%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.44%) Advertising
16 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 245 (53.61%) Lead
2 218 (47.70%) Team Leader
3 54 (11.82%) Senior
4 44 (9.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (9.63%) Site Engineer
4 44 (9.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 26 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
6 25 (5.47%) Software Engineer
7 24 (5.25%) Developer
8 19 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (3.72%) Architect
10 14 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (2.84%) AWS Architect
11 13 (2.84%) Senior Manager
12 12 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (2.63%) Senior Developer
12 12 (2.63%) Support Engineer
13 9 (1.97%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (1.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (1.75%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (56.67%) Elastic Stack
2 232 (50.77%) OpenTelemetry
3 49 (10.72%) Kafka
4 29 (6.35%) RESTful
5 21 (4.60%) Loki
6 19 (4.16%) .NET
7 18 (3.94%) React
7 18 (3.94%) Spring
8 16 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (3.06%) PyTorch
9 14 (3.06%) TensorFlow
10 13 (2.84%) AngularJS
10 13 (2.84%) GraphQL
10 13 (2.84%) Hugging Face
10 13 (2.84%) LangChain
10 13 (2.84%) REST
10 13 (2.84%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.97%) Flask
12 8 (1.75%) gRPC
12 8 (1.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 61 (13.35%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.72%) Replication
3 16 (3.50%) Management Information System
4 8 (1.75%) Blockchain
4 8 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 8 (1.75%) Public Cloud
4 8 (1.75%) Web3
5 7 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.53%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.31%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.31%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.09%) Mobile Games
8 4 (0.88%) Client/Server
8 4 (0.88%) Hackathon
8 4 (0.88%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.66%) Clustering
9 3 (0.66%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 286 (62.58%) Linux
2 225 (49.23%) Unix
3 35 (7.66%) Windows
4 19 (4.16%) VMS
5 13 (2.84%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.41%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.97%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (1.75%) CentOS
8 8 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.31%) Debian
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (81.40%) DevOps
2 312 (68.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 307 (67.18%) Containerisation
4 280 (61.27%) Agile
5 267 (58.42%) High Availability
6 255 (55.80%) Mentoring
7 242 (52.95%) Performance Optimisation
8 240 (52.52%) Continuous Integration
9 235 (51.42%) Roadmaps
10 234 (51.20%) Cost Optimisation
11 228 (49.89%) Product Management
11 228 (49.89%) Resource Management
12 222 (48.58%) Task Automation
13 221 (48.36%) GitOps
14 215 (47.05%) Budget Control
15 142 (31.07%) CI/CD
16 93 (20.35%) Observability
17 75 (16.41%) Microservices
18 58 (12.69%) Computer Science
18 58 (12.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 347 (75.93%) Python
2 297 (64.99%) Java
3 264 (57.77%) Bash
4 244 (53.39%) Go
5 234 (51.20%) JavaScript
6 41 (8.97%) PowerShell
7 37 (8.10%) SQL
8 29 (6.35%) C#
9 26 (5.69%) TypeScript
10 23 (5.03%) Groovy
11 8 (1.75%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.53%) C++
12 7 (1.53%) Perl
13 5 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.88%) Bicep
14 4 (0.88%) Ruby
15 3 (0.66%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 249 (54.49%) AWS Certification
2 67 (14.66%) Degree
3 56 (12.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (9.85%) Security Cleared
5 37 (8.10%) SC Cleared
6 22 (4.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (4.60%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.09%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.66%) OCP
10 3 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.44%) PhD
11 2 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.22%) MCSE
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) VCAP
12 1 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.81%) QA
2 16 (3.50%) HIPAA
3 15 (3.28%) GDPR
4 11 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.66%) SLA
6 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 328 (71.77%) Docker
2 18 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.84%) DFS Replication
4 6 (1.31%) Postfix
5 4 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.66%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.66%) Squid
6 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.22%) Corosync
7 1 (0.22%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.22%) KVM
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 352 (77.02%) Kubernetes
1 352 (77.02%) Terraform
2 277 (60.61%) Ansible
3 233 (50.98%) Argo
4 217 (47.48%) Kustomize
5 200 (43.76%) Grafana
6 15 (3.28%) Progress Chef
7 11 (2.41%) Puppet
8 9 (1.97%) Istio
9 8 (1.75%) Kibana
10 5 (1.09%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.88%) Consul
11 4 (0.88%) Nagios
12 3 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.66%) Control-M
12 3 (0.66%) logstash
12 3 (0.66%) Nessus
13 2 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.44%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 236 (51.64%) Google
2 31 (6.78%) Splunk
3 20 (4.38%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.50%) Dynatrace
4 16 (3.50%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.84%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.63%) New Relic
7 9 (1.97%) Oracle
7 9 (1.97%) VMware
8 8 (1.75%) Databricks
8 8 (1.75%) Juniper
9 7 (1.53%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (1.31%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.88%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.66%) Commvault
12 3 (0.66%) IBM
12 3 (0.66%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.44%) SAP
13 2 (0.44%) TIBCO