Prometheus Contracts

Prometheus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Prometheus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Prometheus over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 384 368
Rank change year-on-year +44 -16 +60
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 260 362 605
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.62% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.10% 3.90% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 254 414
10th Percentile £405 £480 £464
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 24 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.00 £76.25
Median hourly rate - £66.25 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -14.52% +60.62%
75th Percentile - £79.13 £80.63
90th Percentile - £90.00 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,102 9,284 13,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 16.01% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,660 6,681 10,055
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 208 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.45 £13.88
25th Percentile £17.72 £24.56 £15.78
Median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -55.19% +152.75% -42.77%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.65 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.72% +124.38% -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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prometheus.

Daily rate trend for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prometheus over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Prometheus in the UK

Prometheus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prometheus.

Hourly rate trend for Prometheus in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prometheus within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +16 210 £538 -13.31% 95
London +24 132 £563 -9.27% 48
Work from Home +93 99 £600 - 44
UK excluding London +36 97 £538 -10.42% 51
North of England +11 33 £550 -15.38% 19
South West +24 23 £550 -22.81% 7
Scotland +45 21 £450 -11.33% 4
Yorkshire +19 17 £564 -9.80% 9
South East +23 13 £494 -8.09% 9
North West -9 9 £448 -31.15% 8
North East +13 7 - - 2
Wales +23 5 £645 -0.85%
East of England +2 2 - - 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 26 (10.00%) OpenStack
2 20 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (6.92%) Confluence
4 12 (4.62%) nginx
5 11 (4.23%) Apache
6 10 (3.85%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.77%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 149 (57.31%) AWS
2 69 (26.54%) Azure
3 42 (16.15%) Amazon S3
4 41 (15.77%) GCP
5 39 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
6 32 (12.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (11.15%) OpenShift
8 24 (9.23%) Route 53
9 23 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (8.85%) GitHub
10 22 (8.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (7.31%) Snowflake
12 18 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (5.77%) dbt
15 13 (5.00%) Slack
16 12 (4.62%) Serverless
17 11 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
18 9 (3.46%) Azure AKS
18 9 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.92%) Network Security
2 15 (5.77%) VPN
3 14 (5.38%) DNS
3 14 (5.38%) TCP/IP
4 12 (4.62%) Firewall
5 9 (3.46%) AMQP
6 7 (2.69%) HTTP
7 6 (2.31%) NAS
7 6 (2.31%) SAN
8 4 (1.54%) 5G
8 4 (1.54%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (1.54%) LTE
9 2 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.77%) SSL
10 1 (0.38%) DHCP
10 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.38%) SNMP
10 1 (0.38%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (19.23%) Elasticsearch
2 32 (12.31%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (10.38%) Relational Database
4 26 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 26 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (8.85%) MySQL
6 18 (6.92%) NoSQL
7 15 (5.77%) Big Data
7 15 (5.77%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (5.38%) Apache Arrow
8 14 (5.38%) Data Lake
8 14 (5.38%) Dremio
9 13 (5.00%) Redis
10 8 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (3.08%) InfluxDB
11 7 (2.69%) MariaDB
11 7 (2.69%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.31%) Couchbase
13 4 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 102 (39.23%) Jenkins
2 47 (18.08%) Git
3 41 (15.77%) GitLab
4 20 (7.69%) JIRA
5 11 (4.23%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (3.85%) JMeter
7 9 (3.46%) CircleCI
8 8 (3.08%) Travis CI
9 7 (2.69%) Burp Suite
10 6 (2.31%) AppScan
10 6 (2.31%) Cypress.io
10 6 (2.31%) Mockito
11 5 (1.92%) Gatling
11 5 (1.92%) Maven
11 5 (1.92%) Subversion
12 4 (1.54%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.54%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.54%) Selenium
12 4 (1.54%) Snyk
General
1 35 (13.46%) Finance
2 32 (12.31%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.77%) Banking
4 15 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.69%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.15%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.77%) Retail
8 2 (0.77%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.38%) Electronics
9 1 (0.38%) French Language
9 1 (0.38%) Front Office
9 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.38%) Marketing
9 1 (0.38%) Military
9 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (36.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (28.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 61 (23.46%) Site Engineer
4 28 (10.77%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (8.08%) Developer
6 18 (6.92%) Senior
7 15 (5.77%) Python Engineer
8 14 (5.38%) Big Data Engineer
9 13 (5.00%) Lead
10 11 (4.23%) Architect
10 11 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.46%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.46%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (3.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.08%) Operations Engineer
12 8 (3.08%) Performance Engineer
12 8 (3.08%) Performance Test Engineer
12 8 (3.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (28.85%) Elastic Stack
2 55 (21.15%) Kafka
3 22 (8.46%) RabbitMQ
3 22 (8.46%) RESTful
4 16 (6.15%) gRPC
5 14 (5.38%) Protocol Buffers
6 13 (5.00%) Spring
7 12 (4.62%) YAML
8 10 (3.85%) JSON
9 9 (3.46%) REST
9 9 (3.46%) Spring Boot
10 8 (3.08%) Akka
10 8 (3.08%) OpenTracing
10 8 (3.08%) Web Services
11 6 (2.31%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.31%) LAPP Stack
11 6 (2.31%) LDAP
11 6 (2.31%) XML
12 5 (1.92%) pytest
12 5 (1.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.85%) Data Structures
2 21 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 16 (6.15%) Clustering
5 15 (5.77%) Hedge funds
5 15 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (5.00%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.23%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.85%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.31%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.54%) CCTV
11 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.15%) PKI
12 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.77%) CBDC
13 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 113 (43.46%) Linux
2 26 (10.00%) CentOS
2 26 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (9.23%) Windows
4 20 (7.69%) Unix
5 13 (5.00%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.69%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.92%) VMS
8 4 (1.54%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (65.00%) DevOps
2 133 (51.15%) CI/CD
3 93 (35.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 76 (29.23%) Agile
5 75 (28.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (21.15%) Containerisation
7 52 (20.00%) Observability
8 45 (17.31%) Microservices
9 43 (16.54%) Continuous Integration
10 34 (13.08%) Task Automation
11 33 (12.69%) Configuration Management
12 31 (11.92%) Software Engineering
13 30 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (11.15%) Test Automation
15 25 (9.62%) Scrum
16 19 (7.31%) Project Management
17 17 (6.54%) Asset Management
18 16 (6.15%) Collaborative Working
18 16 (6.15%) GitOps
19 15 (5.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 158 (60.77%) Python
2 87 (33.46%) Java
3 52 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 49 (18.85%) Go
5 44 (16.92%) Bash
6 32 (12.31%) SQL
7 28 (10.77%) PowerShell
8 22 (8.46%) JavaScript
9 20 (7.69%) Scala
10 10 (3.85%) Kotlin
11 8 (3.08%) Ruby
12 7 (2.69%) C
12 7 (2.69%) C++
12 7 (2.69%) Groovy
13 6 (2.31%) PHP
14 5 (1.92%) Perl
14 5 (1.92%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.15%) C#
16 1 (0.38%) Bicep
16 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 74 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 43 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.23%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.08%) Degree
5 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.54%) SANS
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.77%) NCSC
3 2 (0.77%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 120 (46.15%) Docker
2 20 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (4.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 207 (79.62%) Grafana
2 205 (78.85%) Kubernetes
3 143 (55.00%) Terraform
4 113 (43.46%) Ansible
5 38 (14.62%) Kibana
6 34 (13.08%) Progress Chef
7 29 (11.15%) Puppet
8 26 (10.00%) logstash
9 20 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
10 18 (6.92%) Graylog
10 18 (6.92%) Nagios
11 16 (6.15%) Consul
11 16 (6.15%) Istio
12 11 (4.23%) ZABBIX
13 10 (3.85%) Argo
14 8 (3.08%) Zipkin
15 6 (2.31%) HP Fortify
15 6 (2.31%) Nessus
15 6 (2.31%) WebInspect
16 5 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (19.62%) Splunk
2 34 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.92%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.38%) VMware
5 13 (5.00%) Amdocs
6 12 (4.62%) SaltStack
7 11 (4.23%) Oracle
8 7 (2.69%) Checkmarx
8 7 (2.69%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.31%) PagerDuty
9 6 (2.31%) Veracode
10 5 (1.92%) Google
11 4 (1.54%) Veritas
12 3 (1.15%) New Relic
13 2 (0.77%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.77%) Commvault
13 2 (0.77%) Confluent
13 2 (0.77%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.77%) MKS
14 1 (0.38%) Informatica