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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 445 456
Rank change year-on-year -67 +11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 410 681 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.66% 0.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.10% 4.47% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 176 393 409
10th Percentile £58,750 £50,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £110,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £100,000 £110,000
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 10,004 15,239 28,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 14.68% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,221 9,353 14,177
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,420 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,185 £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 2 May 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 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -114 295 £80,000 +6.67% 96
UK excluding London +21 277 £80,000 +18.52% 47
Work from Home +21 163 £100,000 +33.33% 43
London -69 129 £100,000 +25.00% 50
Scotland +14 98 £75,000 +19.61% 1
North of England +35 81 £60,000 -14.29% 17
North West +8 56 £75,000 +200.00% 6
South West -3 50 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Midlands -2 20 £87,500 +29.63% 6
East Midlands -3 20 £87,500 +29.63% 3
Yorkshire +75 18 £80,000 +14.29% 9
South East +4 13 £60,000 -17.24% 10
North East 0 9 £57,500 -34.29% 2
Wales +15 7 £55,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +13 7 £57,500 -23.33% 1
East of England +11 1 £82,500 +14.58% 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 78 (19.02%) Apache
2 37 (9.02%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (7.80%) nginx
4 21 (5.12%) GemFire
5 18 (4.39%) Apache Spark
6 17 (4.15%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.98%) Confluence
8 3 (0.73%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 215 (52.44%) AWS
2 140 (34.15%) Amazon S3
3 101 (24.63%) Azure
4 88 (21.46%) Datadog
5 79 (19.27%) Amazon EKS
6 63 (15.37%) OCI
7 59 (14.39%) Route 53
8 57 (13.90%) Amazon ECR
8 57 (13.90%) IBM Cloud
9 46 (11.22%) GCP
10 42 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (10.00%) Snowflake
12 37 (9.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (8.78%) dbt
14 33 (8.05%) OpenShift
15 28 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
17 20 (4.88%) Azure AKS
18 18 (4.39%) Serverless
19 17 (4.15%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 70 (17.07%) Firewall
2 64 (15.61%) VPN
3 57 (13.90%) Internet
4 54 (13.17%) IPsec
4 54 (13.17%) SNMP
5 20 (4.88%) TCP/IP
6 17 (4.15%) DNS
7 12 (2.93%) AMQP
8 10 (2.44%) Network Security
9 7 (1.71%) DHCP
10 5 (1.22%) HTTP
10 5 (1.22%) SAN
11 3 (0.73%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.24%) BGP
12 1 (0.24%) NAS
12 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.24%) SSH
12 1 (0.24%) SSL
12 1 (0.24%) tcpdump
12 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (21.46%) MongoDB
2 69 (16.83%) Elasticsearch
3 68 (16.59%) Amazon RDS
4 55 (13.41%) Big Data
5 40 (9.76%) Dremio
6 38 (9.27%) Relational Database
7 36 (8.78%) Amazon Athena
7 36 (8.78%) Apache Arrow
7 36 (8.78%) Data Lake
8 35 (8.54%) NoSQL
9 28 (6.83%) SQL Server
10 24 (5.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 24 (5.85%) InfluxDB
11 21 (5.12%) CockroachDB
11 21 (5.12%) Hazelcast
12 17 (4.15%) Hadoop
12 17 (4.15%) Presto
13 16 (3.90%) MySQL
13 16 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (3.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 106 (25.85%) Jenkins
2 47 (11.46%) GitLab
3 23 (5.61%) Git
4 21 (5.12%) Jaeger
5 17 (4.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (3.41%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.20%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.71%) Mocha
9 7 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.46%) JIRA
11 4 (0.98%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.98%) Maven
11 4 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.49%) Selenium
12 2 (0.49%) Spinnaker
13 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
13 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
General
1 192 (46.83%) Finance
2 139 (33.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 80 (19.51%) Law
4 61 (14.88%) Public Sector
5 55 (13.41%) Marketing
6 50 (12.20%) Social Skills
7 32 (7.80%) Banking
8 25 (6.10%) Investment Banking
9 14 (3.41%) Retail
10 12 (2.93%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.24%) Cantonese Language
13 1 (0.24%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.24%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (35.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 95 (23.17%) Senior
3 76 (18.54%) Lead
4 71 (17.32%) Senior DevOps
4 71 (17.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 67 (16.34%) Software Engineer
6 66 (16.10%) AWS Engineer
7 54 (13.17%) Consultant
7 54 (13.17%) NetApp Consultant
8 53 (12.93%) Big Data Engineer
9 44 (10.73%) Site Engineer
9 44 (10.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 43 (10.49%) Lead Software Engineer
11 36 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
12 25 (6.10%) AWS DevOps
13 24 (5.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 24 (5.85%) Java Engineer
14 23 (5.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 23 (5.61%) Java Software Engineer
14 23 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (21.46%) RabbitMQ
2 71 (17.32%) YAML
3 53 (12.93%) Elastic Stack
4 50 (12.20%) Spring
5 46 (11.22%) OpenTelemetry
6 43 (10.49%) gRPC
7 38 (9.27%) .NET
8 37 (9.02%) Spring Boot
9 36 (8.78%) Protocol Buffers
10 35 (8.54%) Kafka
11 25 (6.10%) REST
12 21 (5.12%) JPA
13 17 (4.15%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (4.15%) Apache NiFi
14 13 (3.17%) OAuth
15 11 (2.68%) Spring XD
16 10 (2.44%) ARM Templates
16 10 (2.44%) Node.js
17 9 (2.20%) OpenAPI
18 8 (1.95%) React
Miscellaneous
1 76 (18.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 59 (14.39%) Data Centre
3 58 (14.15%) Blockchain
4 57 (13.90%) e-Learning
5 48 (11.71%) Cloud Native
5 48 (11.71%) Public Cloud
6 42 (10.24%) Clustering
7 41 (10.00%) Hedge funds
8 38 (9.27%) Distributed Systems
9 34 (8.29%) Algorithms
10 26 (6.34%) Replication
11 22 (5.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (3.90%) Data Structures
13 14 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (3.17%) Product Ownership
15 10 (2.44%) Client/Server
16 9 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
17 6 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
17 6 (1.46%) Management Information System
17 6 (1.46%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 147 (35.85%) Linux
2 94 (22.93%) Windows
3 54 (13.17%) Data ONTAP
4 9 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.46%) Oracle Linux
6 6 (1.46%) Unix
7 4 (0.98%) CentOS
7 4 (0.98%) Solaris
7 4 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.98%) VMS
8 3 (0.73%) SUSE
8 3 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.24%) Debian
9 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (56.83%) DevOps
2 193 (47.07%) Agile
3 177 (43.17%) CI/CD
4 171 (41.71%) Observability
5 139 (33.90%) Containerisation
6 122 (29.76%) Software Engineering
7 105 (25.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 104 (25.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 93 (22.68%) Mentoring
10 92 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
11 87 (21.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 78 (19.02%) Community of Practice
13 74 (18.05%) SDLC
14 69 (16.83%) Microservices
15 67 (16.34%) Secrets Management
16 66 (16.10%) Actionable Insight
17 62 (15.12%) Coaching
17 62 (15.12%) Test Automation
18 61 (14.88%) Operational Stability
19 60 (14.63%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 200 (48.78%) Python
2 121 (29.51%) Java
3 82 (20.00%) Bash
4 69 (16.83%) Go
5 55 (13.41%) JavaScript
5 55 (13.41%) SQL
6 44 (10.73%) PowerShell
7 32 (7.80%) Groovy
8 26 (6.34%) Shell Script
9 21 (5.12%) C#
10 15 (3.66%) TypeScript
11 14 (3.41%) Ruby
12 8 (1.95%) Perl
12 8 (1.95%) PHP
13 7 (1.71%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.22%) C++
15 4 (0.98%) C
16 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (9.27%) Security Cleared
2 19 (4.63%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.15%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.17%) Degree
5 10 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.22%) CISSP
8 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.24%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.24%) GDPR
System Software
1 208 (50.73%) Docker
2 61 (14.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.95%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.46%) Ceph
5 5 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.98%) KVM
7 3 (0.73%) Gluster
7 3 (0.73%) oVirt
8 2 (0.49%) Firmware
9 1 (0.24%) NFS
9 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 322 (78.54%) Kubernetes
2 246 (60.00%) Terraform
3 232 (56.59%) Grafana
4 146 (35.61%) Ansible
5 54 (13.17%) vCenter Server
6 39 (9.51%) HAProxy
7 37 (9.02%) Kibana
8 26 (6.34%) Progress Chef
9 24 (5.85%) Puppet
10 21 (5.12%) ITRS Geneos
10 21 (5.12%) Zipkin
11 11 (2.68%) Istio
12 6 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (1.22%) Packer
13 5 (1.22%) SCOM
14 4 (0.98%) HP Data Protector
14 4 (0.98%) Rancher
14 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.73%) Observium
Vendors
1 142 (34.63%) Dynatrace
2 120 (29.27%) Red Hat
3 106 (25.85%) Splunk
4 61 (14.88%) VMware
5 57 (13.90%) IBM
6 54 (13.17%) NetApp
6 54 (13.17%) Palo Alto
6 54 (13.17%) SolidFire
7 35 (8.54%) Oracle
8 28 (6.83%) Google
9 12 (2.93%) Microsoft
9 12 (2.93%) New Relic
10 11 (2.68%) Sybase
11 10 (2.44%) SaltStack
12 6 (1.46%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.46%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.22%) Dell
13 5 (1.22%) HP
13 5 (1.22%) Serena
13 5 (1.22%) SolarWinds