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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 391 395
Rank change year-on-year +68 +4 +38
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 269 320 573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.57% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.15% 3.62% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 229 391
10th Percentile £401 £467 £469
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £838 £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 20 2
10th Percentile - £65.00 £76.38
25th Percentile - £65.19 £76.56
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £90.00 £81.56
90th Percentile - - £82.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.50 -

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 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +32 222 £550 -11.29% 78
London +48 137 £600 -4.00% 37
Work from Home +99 104 £600 - 41
UK excluding London +43 103 £538 -10.42% 45
North of England +17 37 £550 -12.00% 18
South West +18 25 £550 -24.14% 5
Yorkshire +23 21 £569 -9.00% 7
Scotland +43 19 £450 -10.00% 1
South East +11 17 £494 -5.90% 6
North East +14 8 - - 2
North West +4 8 £448 -29.80% 9
Wales +22 5 £645 -0.85%
East of England +2 2 - - 1

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 24 (8.92%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (8.18%) Confluence
3 18 (6.69%) OpenStack
4 10 (3.72%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.97%) nginx
6 7 (2.60%) Apache
7 2 (0.74%) Traefik
8 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 157 (58.36%) AWS
2 72 (26.77%) Azure
3 50 (18.59%) GCP
4 42 (15.61%) Amazon S3
5 39 (14.50%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (13.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 34 (12.64%) OpenShift
8 28 (10.41%) GitHub
9 24 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (8.92%) Route 53
9 24 (8.92%) Snowflake
10 22 (8.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (7.06%) dbt
12 16 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (5.58%) Slack
14 14 (5.20%) Serverless
15 13 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (3.35%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.06%) Network Security
2 18 (6.69%) DNS
3 17 (6.32%) TCP/IP
3 17 (6.32%) VPN
4 15 (5.58%) Firewall
5 11 (4.09%) AMQP
6 10 (3.72%) HTTP
7 9 (3.35%) SSL
8 5 (1.86%) Kerberos
8 5 (1.86%) NAS
8 5 (1.86%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.86%) SAN
9 4 (1.49%) 5G
9 4 (1.49%) Diameter Protocol
9 4 (1.49%) LTE
10 3 (1.12%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (0.37%) DHCP
11 1 (0.37%) SNMP
11 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.22%) Elasticsearch
2 33 (12.27%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (10.41%) Relational Database
4 27 (10.04%) MongoDB
5 25 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (8.55%) MySQL
7 19 (7.06%) Big Data
8 18 (6.69%) Amazon Athena
8 18 (6.69%) Apache Arrow
8 18 (6.69%) Data Lake
8 18 (6.69%) Dremio
9 14 (5.20%) SQL Server
10 13 (4.83%) Redis
11 12 (4.46%) NoSQL
12 9 (3.35%) InfluxDB
13 8 (2.97%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (2.60%) MariaDB
15 6 (2.23%) RDBMS
16 4 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
17 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 106 (39.41%) Jenkins
2 48 (17.84%) Git
3 47 (17.47%) GitLab
4 24 (8.92%) JIRA
5 13 (4.83%) CircleCI
6 11 (4.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (4.09%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.72%) JMeter
7 10 (3.72%) Travis CI
8 7 (2.60%) Burp Suite
8 7 (2.60%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.23%) AppScan
9 6 (2.23%) Mockito
10 5 (1.86%) Gatling
10 5 (1.86%) Selenium
10 5 (1.86%) Subversion
11 4 (1.49%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.49%) Jaeger
11 4 (1.49%) ScalaTest
11 4 (1.49%) Snyk
General
1 41 (15.24%) Finance
2 38 (14.13%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.95%) Banking
5 15 (5.58%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.49%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.12%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.74%) Retail
9 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.37%) Electronics
10 1 (0.37%) French Language
10 1 (0.37%) Front Office
10 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.37%) Marketing
10 1 (0.37%) Military
10 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (36.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (27.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 65 (24.16%) Site Engineer
4 31 (11.52%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (8.92%) Senior
6 23 (8.55%) Developer
7 18 (6.69%) Big Data Engineer
8 15 (5.58%) Python Engineer
9 13 (4.83%) Lead
10 12 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.09%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.09%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.97%) Architect
13 8 (2.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.97%) Operations Engineer
13 8 (2.97%) Performance Engineer
13 8 (2.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (25.28%) Elastic Stack
2 62 (23.05%) Kafka
3 24 (8.92%) RESTful
4 23 (8.55%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (7.81%) gRPC
6 18 (6.69%) Protocol Buffers
7 15 (5.58%) YAML
8 13 (4.83%) JSON
9 12 (4.46%) Spring
10 9 (3.35%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.35%) XML
11 8 (2.97%) Akka
11 8 (2.97%) OpenTracing
11 8 (2.97%) Web Services
12 7 (2.60%) GraphQL
12 7 (2.60%) REST
13 6 (2.23%) LDAP
13 6 (2.23%) React
14 5 (1.86%) Loki
14 5 (1.86%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.41%) Data Structures
2 21 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.43%) Clustering
4 19 (7.06%) Hedge funds
5 16 (5.95%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (5.95%) Public Cloud
6 14 (5.20%) Cloud Native
7 13 (4.83%) Onboarding
8 12 (4.46%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.86%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.12%) PKI
12 3 (1.12%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.74%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.74%) CBDC
13 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 108 (40.15%) Linux
2 27 (10.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (8.18%) Unix
4 21 (7.81%) Windows
5 18 (6.69%) CentOS
6 10 (3.72%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.86%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (1.49%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (67.29%) DevOps
2 131 (48.70%) CI/CD
3 94 (34.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 86 (31.97%) Agile
5 75 (27.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 63 (23.42%) Containerisation
7 50 (18.59%) Microservices
7 50 (18.59%) Observability
8 46 (17.10%) Continuous Integration
9 44 (16.36%) Task Automation
10 38 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (12.64%) Software Engineering
12 33 (12.27%) Configuration Management
13 30 (11.15%) Test Automation
14 28 (10.41%) Scrum
15 22 (8.18%) GitOps
16 21 (7.81%) Asset Management
16 21 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
16 21 (7.81%) Project Management
17 18 (6.69%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 160 (59.48%) Python
2 95 (35.32%) Java
3 54 (20.07%) Shell Script
4 50 (18.59%) Go
5 41 (15.24%) Bash
6 30 (11.15%) PowerShell
7 27 (10.04%) SQL
8 26 (9.67%) JavaScript
9 23 (8.55%) Scala
10 11 (4.09%) Kotlin
11 9 (3.35%) C++
11 9 (3.35%) Ruby
12 7 (2.60%) C
13 6 (2.23%) Groovy
14 5 (1.86%) PHP
14 5 (1.86%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.49%) Perl
16 3 (1.12%) ActionScript
17 2 (0.74%) C#
18 1 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 76 (28.25%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.92%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.60%) Degree
5 4 (1.49%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.49%) SANS
6 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.18%) QA
2 5 (1.86%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.74%) NCSC
5 2 (0.74%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 128 (47.58%) Docker
2 13 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (4.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 7 (2.60%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.37%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 218 (81.04%) Kubernetes
2 215 (79.93%) Grafana
3 151 (56.13%) Terraform
4 115 (42.75%) Ansible
5 38 (14.13%) Kibana
5 38 (14.13%) Progress Chef
6 31 (11.52%) Puppet
7 26 (9.67%) logstash
8 24 (8.92%) Docker Swarm
9 18 (6.69%) Istio
10 16 (5.95%) Argo
11 15 (5.58%) Graylog
12 14 (5.20%) Consul
13 13 (4.83%) Nagios
14 8 (2.97%) Zipkin
15 7 (2.60%) Packer
16 6 (2.23%) HP Fortify
16 6 (2.23%) Nessus
16 6 (2.23%) WebInspect
17 5 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (18.59%) Splunk
2 33 (12.27%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.81%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.83%) Amdocs
4 13 (4.83%) VMware
5 12 (4.46%) SaltStack
6 10 (3.72%) Oracle
7 8 (2.97%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.60%) Checkmarx
8 7 (2.60%) Google
8 7 (2.60%) PagerDuty
9 6 (2.23%) Confluent
9 6 (2.23%) Veracode
10 4 (1.49%) New Relic
11 3 (1.12%) F5
11 3 (1.12%) Veritas
12 2 (0.74%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.74%) CyberArk
13 1 (0.37%) BigPanda
13 1 (0.37%) Zscaler