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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 462 449
Rank change year-on-year -60 -13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Prometheus 418 652 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.65% 0.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.22% 4.42% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 193 375 405
10th Percentile £57,788 £50,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £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 £88,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £101,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +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 9,900 14,758 28,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 14.61% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,125 9,159 14,065
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,500 £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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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 -86 308 £80,000 +6.67% 89
UK excluding London +23 274 £80,000 +14.29% 48
Work from Home +17 172 £100,000 +33.33% 39
London -48 141 £100,000 +25.00% 45
Scotland +16 96 £75,000 +20.00% 4
North of England +43 82 £60,000 -14.29% 17
North West +6 54 £75,000 +200.00% 8
South West 0 49 £80,000 +28.00% 6
Yorkshire +74 20 £72,732 +3.90% 8
Midlands -23 19 £87,500 +29.63% 7
East Midlands -3 18 £90,000 +33.33% 4
South East -6 15 £60,000 -20.00% 9
North East +2 10 £58,750 -32.86% 1
Wales +8 6 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +1 6 £57,500 -23.33% 2
East of England +14 1 £82,500 +14.58% 3
West Midlands -20 1 £65,465 -6.48% 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 80 (19.14%) Apache
2 43 (10.29%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (7.89%) nginx
4 21 (5.02%) GemFire
5 18 (4.31%) Apache Spark
6 17 (4.07%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.96%) Confluence
8 3 (0.72%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 232 (55.50%) AWS
2 140 (33.49%) Amazon S3
3 93 (22.25%) Azure
4 87 (20.81%) Datadog
5 81 (19.38%) Amazon EKS
6 65 (15.55%) OCI
7 58 (13.88%) Amazon ECR
7 58 (13.88%) IBM Cloud
7 58 (13.88%) Route 53
8 47 (11.24%) GCP
8 47 (11.24%) Snowflake
9 42 (10.05%) dbt
10 34 (8.13%) OpenShift
11 29 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (6.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (4.55%) Azure AKS
15 19 (4.55%) Serverless
16 17 (4.07%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 70 (16.75%) Firewall
2 64 (15.31%) VPN
3 57 (13.64%) Internet
4 54 (12.92%) IPsec
4 54 (12.92%) SNMP
5 23 (5.50%) TCP/IP
6 19 (4.55%) DNS
7 12 (2.87%) AMQP
8 10 (2.39%) Network Security
9 9 (2.15%) DHCP
10 6 (1.44%) SAN
11 5 (1.20%) HTTP
12 3 (0.72%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.48%) NAS
13 2 (0.48%) tcpdump
13 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
14 1 (0.24%) BGP
14 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
14 1 (0.24%) SSH
14 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (21.29%) MongoDB
2 69 (16.51%) Amazon RDS
2 69 (16.51%) Elasticsearch
3 61 (14.59%) Big Data
4 46 (11.00%) Dremio
5 42 (10.05%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (10.05%) Apache Arrow
5 42 (10.05%) Data Lake
6 39 (9.33%) Relational Database
7 35 (8.37%) NoSQL
8 30 (7.18%) SQL Server
9 24 (5.74%) Apache Cassandra
10 21 (5.02%) CockroachDB
10 21 (5.02%) Hazelcast
11 17 (4.07%) Hadoop
11 17 (4.07%) Presto
12 16 (3.83%) MySQL
12 16 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (3.59%) Redis
14 13 (3.11%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 96 (22.97%) Jenkins
2 42 (10.05%) GitLab
3 24 (5.74%) Git
4 21 (5.02%) Jaeger
5 17 (4.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (2.39%) TeamCity
7 9 (2.15%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.67%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.67%) Mocha
8 7 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.44%) JIRA
10 4 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.96%) Maven
10 4 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.48%) Selenium
11 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.48%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
General
1 201 (48.09%) Finance
2 140 (33.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 80 (19.14%) Law
4 68 (16.27%) Public Sector
5 55 (13.16%) Marketing
6 54 (12.92%) Social Skills
7 32 (7.66%) Banking
8 25 (5.98%) Investment Banking
9 14 (3.35%) Retail
10 12 (2.87%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.72%) 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
1 142 (33.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 98 (23.44%) Senior
3 79 (18.90%) Lead
4 73 (17.46%) Senior DevOps
4 73 (17.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 72 (17.22%) AWS Engineer
6 67 (16.03%) Software Engineer
7 59 (14.11%) Big Data Engineer
8 54 (12.92%) Consultant
8 54 (12.92%) NetApp Consultant
9 52 (12.44%) Site Engineer
9 52 (12.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 43 (10.29%) Lead Software Engineer
11 26 (6.22%) AWS DevOps
12 25 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (5.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 24 (5.74%) Java Engineer
14 23 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (5.50%) Java Software Engineer
15 21 (5.02%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (21.29%) RabbitMQ
2 71 (16.99%) YAML
3 51 (12.20%) Spring
4 49 (11.72%) gRPC
5 46 (11.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 42 (10.05%) Protocol Buffers
7 41 (9.81%) Elastic Stack
8 40 (9.57%) .NET
9 37 (8.85%) Kafka
9 37 (8.85%) Spring Boot
10 25 (5.98%) REST
11 21 (5.02%) JPA
12 17 (4.07%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (4.07%) Apache NiFi
13 13 (3.11%) OAuth
14 12 (2.87%) Spring XD
15 11 (2.63%) Node.js
16 9 (2.15%) ARM Templates
16 9 (2.15%) OpenAPI
17 8 (1.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 77 (18.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 59 (14.11%) Blockchain
2 59 (14.11%) Data Centre
3 58 (13.88%) e-Learning
4 49 (11.72%) Clustering
5 48 (11.48%) Cloud Native
6 47 (11.24%) Hedge funds
7 36 (8.61%) Public Cloud
8 34 (8.13%) Algorithms
9 27 (6.46%) Replication
10 26 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (3.83%) Data Structures
13 14 (3.35%) Product Ownership
14 13 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (2.63%) Client/Server
16 10 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (1.67%) Onboarding
18 6 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
18 6 (1.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 143 (34.21%) Linux
2 82 (19.62%) Windows
3 54 (12.92%) Data ONTAP
4 12 (2.87%) Unix
5 11 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.91%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (1.67%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.44%) CentOS
9 5 (1.20%) Solaris
10 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.96%) VMS
11 3 (0.72%) SUSE
11 3 (0.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (56.70%) DevOps
2 190 (45.45%) Agile
3 176 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 174 (41.63%) Observability
5 129 (30.86%) Containerisation
6 112 (26.79%) Software Engineering
7 106 (25.36%) Artificial Intelligence
8 101 (24.16%) Mentoring
8 101 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
9 98 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 95 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 84 (20.10%) Community of Practice
12 74 (17.70%) SDLC
13 69 (16.51%) Coaching
14 68 (16.27%) Secrets Management
15 63 (15.07%) Test Automation
16 61 (14.59%) Operational Stability
17 60 (14.35%) Infrastructure Management
18 59 (14.11%) Continuous Delivery
18 59 (14.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 207 (49.52%) Python
2 131 (31.34%) Java
3 74 (17.70%) Go
4 69 (16.51%) Bash
5 62 (14.83%) JavaScript
6 55 (13.16%) SQL
7 32 (7.66%) Groovy
7 32 (7.66%) PowerShell
8 27 (6.46%) Shell Script
9 23 (5.50%) C#
10 15 (3.59%) TypeScript
11 13 (3.11%) Ruby
12 10 (2.39%) Perl
13 8 (1.91%) PHP
14 7 (1.67%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.20%) C++
16 4 (0.96%) C
17 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (4.78%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.07%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.35%) Degree
5 13 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.39%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.20%) CISSP
9 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.48%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.48%) RHCE
12 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.24%) GDPR
System Software
1 197 (47.13%) Docker
2 62 (14.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.91%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.44%) Ceph
4 6 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.20%) KVM
6 3 (0.72%) Gluster
6 3 (0.72%) oVirt
7 2 (0.48%) Firmware
8 1 (0.24%) NFS
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 321 (76.79%) Kubernetes
2 250 (59.81%) Terraform
3 230 (55.02%) Grafana
4 136 (32.54%) Ansible
5 54 (12.92%) vCenter Server
6 39 (9.33%) HAProxy
7 37 (8.85%) Kibana
8 27 (6.46%) Progress Chef
9 25 (5.98%) Puppet
10 21 (5.02%) ITRS Geneos
10 21 (5.02%) Zipkin
11 12 (2.87%) Istio
12 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (1.20%) Packer
13 5 (1.20%) SCOM
14 4 (0.96%) HP Data Protector
14 4 (0.96%) Nagios
14 4 (0.96%) Rancher
14 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 145 (34.69%) Dynatrace
2 123 (29.43%) Red Hat
3 109 (26.08%) Splunk
4 62 (14.83%) VMware
5 58 (13.88%) IBM
6 54 (12.92%) NetApp
6 54 (12.92%) Palo Alto
6 54 (12.92%) SolidFire
7 39 (9.33%) Oracle
8 29 (6.94%) Google
9 13 (3.11%) New Relic
10 12 (2.87%) Microsoft
10 12 (2.87%) Sybase
11 10 (2.39%) SaltStack
12 6 (1.44%) Dell
12 6 (1.44%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.44%) HP
12 6 (1.44%) Serena
12 6 (1.44%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.20%) SolarWinds