Hybrid/Remote Prometheus Job Trends

Prometheus
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work 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 305 333 453
Rank change year-on-year +28 +120 -21
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 91 85 120
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.00% 4.16% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 62 67 100
10th Percentile £40,875 £52,000 £54,875
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £67,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -32.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £85,375 £83,750 £118,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Prometheus falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,516 2,045 3,733
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.22% 13.99% 11.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 1,333 2,951
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,164 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

Prometheus
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Prometheus and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Prometheus job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Prometheus
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Prometheus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Prometheus

Prometheus
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Prometheus salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Prometheus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 66 (72.53%) AWS
2 36 (39.56%) Azure
3 23 (25.27%) GitHub
4 22 (24.18%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 20 (21.98%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (20.88%) GCP
8 18 (19.78%) Pulumi
9 12 (13.19%) Datadog
10 11 (12.09%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (10.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (8.79%) CloudFront
13 7 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 7 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (7.69%) Serverless
14 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
15 5 (5.49%) Amazon S3
15 5 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
16 4 (4.40%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.78%) Broadband
2 7 (7.69%) Firewall
2 7 (7.69%) VPN
3 4 (4.40%) DNS
3 4 (4.40%) HTTP
3 4 (4.40%) MQTT
3 4 (4.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 21 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 18 (19.78%) RDBMS
3 13 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (9.89%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.30%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.30%) MySQL
7 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.10%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.10%) Parquet
8 1 (1.10%) Redis
8 1 (1.10%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 22 (24.18%) GitLab
2 18 (19.78%) Jaeger
3 9 (9.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.59%) Git
5 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.10%) JIRA
6 1 (1.10%) JMeter
6 1 (1.10%) Locust
6 1 (1.10%) Maven
6 1 (1.10%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.10%) Selenium
6 1 (1.10%) Serenity BDD
General
1 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (9.89%) Finance
4 7 (7.69%) Retail
5 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Aviation
8 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (31.87%) Lead
2 21 (23.08%) Senior
3 19 (20.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (18.68%) Platform Engineer
5 16 (17.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (13.19%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 11 (12.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (10.99%) Lead DevOps
9 9 (9.89%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (9.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 8 (8.79%) Development Engineer
10 8 (8.79%) Site Engineer
10 8 (8.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (7.69%) Administrator
11 7 (7.69%) Junior
11 7 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 7 (7.69%) Senior Development Engineer
11 7 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (7.69%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 7 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.18%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (20.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (12.09%) Loki
4 9 (9.89%) Kafka
5 8 (8.79%) .NET
6 7 (7.69%) ADO
7 2 (2.20%) React
8 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (1.10%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.10%) gRPC
8 1 (1.10%) jQuery
8 1 (1.10%) Middleware
8 1 (1.10%) Node.js
8 1 (1.10%) OAuth
8 1 (1.10%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.10%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (1.10%) pytest
8 1 (1.10%) REST
8 1 (1.10%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.19%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.79%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (7.69%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Equities
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) PMI
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (53.85%) Linux
2 19 (20.88%) Unix
3 7 (7.69%) Windows
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.10%) CentOS
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (75.82%) DevOps
2 66 (72.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (64.84%) CI/CD
4 57 (62.64%) Observability
5 40 (43.96%) Agile
5 40 (43.96%) Containerisation
6 38 (41.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 29 (31.87%) High Availability
7 29 (31.87%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
9 27 (29.67%) Mentoring
10 24 (26.37%) GitOps
11 23 (25.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (20.88%) Task Automation
14 18 (19.78%) Budget Control
14 18 (19.78%) Cost Optimisation
14 18 (19.78%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (19.78%) Product Management
14 18 (19.78%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (67.03%) Python
2 41 (45.05%) Bash
3 31 (34.07%) Go
4 26 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 21 (23.08%) Java
6 8 (8.79%) Rust
7 5 (5.49%) SQL
8 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.20%) C++
10 1 (1.10%) Dart
Qualifications
1 27 (29.67%) AWS Certification
2 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) Security Cleared
3 15 (16.48%) Degree
4 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) QA
2 4 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.10%) MiFID
3 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (56.04%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 76 (83.52%) Kubernetes
2 75 (82.42%) Terraform
3 69 (75.82%) Grafana
4 47 (51.65%) Ansible
5 24 (26.37%) Argo
6 22 (24.18%) Kustomize
7 7 (7.69%) Proxmox
8 5 (5.49%) Puppet
9 4 (4.40%) Istio
9 4 (4.40%) Progress Chef
9 4 (4.40%) ZABBIX
10 3 (3.30%) Kibana
11 2 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (2.20%) Nagios
12 1 (1.10%) Graylog
12 1 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 18 (19.78%) Google
2 13 (14.29%) VMware
3 10 (10.99%) Splunk
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.40%) Cribl.io
5 4 (4.40%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.40%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.20%) Commvault
7 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.10%) Mercator
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Tenable