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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 387 383
Rank change year-on-year +60 -4 +41
Contract jobs citing Prometheus 261 350 597
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.61% 0.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.14% 3.83% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 246 410
10th Percentile £405 £474 £463
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 £775 £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 21 2
10th Percentile - - £76.38
25th Percentile - £65.00 £76.56
Median hourly rate - £73.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -7.30% +63.21%
75th Percentile - £82.50 £81.56
90th Percentile - £90.00 £82.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.25 -

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 5,079 9,138 13,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 16.00% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,654 6,565 10,050
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -0.88% +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 -5.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 200 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.82
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.67 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.08 £62.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -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 15 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 15 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 +10 211 £550 -11.29% 89
London +35 131 £563 -9.27% 43
Work from Home +97 101 £600 - 54
UK excluding London +44 99 £538 -10.42% 48
North of England +9 35 £550 -13.73% 15
South West +28 23 £550 -22.81% 8
Scotland +52 21 £450 -11.33% 2
Yorkshire +23 20 £569 -9.00% 7
South East +18 13 £494 -8.09% 9
North West -2 8 £448 -31.15% 7
North East +12 7 - - 1
Wales +27 5 £645 -0.85%
East of England +7 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 25 (9.58%) OpenStack
2 22 (8.43%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (8.05%) Confluence
4 12 (4.60%) Apache
4 12 (4.60%) nginx
5 10 (3.83%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.77%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 151 (57.85%) AWS
2 70 (26.82%) Azure
3 42 (16.09%) GCP
4 41 (15.71%) Amazon S3
5 38 (14.56%) Amazon EC2
6 32 (12.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (11.11%) OpenShift
8 24 (9.20%) GitHub
8 24 (9.20%) Route 53
9 23 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (8.43%) Snowflake
10 22 (8.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (6.51%) dbt
13 13 (4.98%) Slack
14 12 (4.60%) Serverless
15 11 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (3.45%) Azure AKS
16 9 (3.45%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.90%) Network Security
1 18 (6.90%) VPN
2 17 (6.51%) DNS
2 17 (6.51%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.75%) Firewall
4 10 (3.83%) HTTP
5 9 (3.45%) AMQP
6 6 (2.30%) NAS
6 6 (2.30%) SAN
7 5 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.92%) SSL
8 4 (1.53%) 5G
8 4 (1.53%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (1.53%) LTE
9 3 (1.15%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.38%) DHCP
10 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.38%) SNMP
10 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (19.92%) Elasticsearch
2 32 (12.26%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.96%) MongoDB
5 23 (8.81%) MySQL
6 17 (6.51%) Big Data
6 17 (6.51%) NoSQL
7 16 (6.13%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (6.13%) Apache Arrow
7 16 (6.13%) Data Lake
7 16 (6.13%) Dremio
8 15 (5.75%) SQL Server
9 13 (4.98%) Redis
10 8 (3.07%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (3.07%) InfluxDB
11 7 (2.68%) MariaDB
11 7 (2.68%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.30%) Couchbase
13 4 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 103 (39.46%) Jenkins
2 50 (19.16%) Git
3 44 (16.86%) GitLab
4 23 (8.81%) JIRA
5 13 (4.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (4.60%) CircleCI
7 11 (4.21%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.21%) Travis CI
8 10 (3.83%) JMeter
9 7 (2.68%) Burp Suite
10 6 (2.30%) AppScan
10 6 (2.30%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.92%) Gatling
11 5 (1.92%) Mockito
11 5 (1.92%) Subversion
12 4 (1.53%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.53%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.53%) Maven
12 4 (1.53%) Selenium
12 4 (1.53%) Snyk
General
1 36 (13.79%) Finance
2 34 (13.03%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.75%) Banking
4 15 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.68%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.53%) 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%) 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
9 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (37.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (27.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 61 (23.37%) Site Engineer
4 30 (11.49%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (8.05%) Developer
6 18 (6.90%) Senior
7 16 (6.13%) Big Data Engineer
8 15 (5.75%) Python Engineer
9 13 (4.98%) Lead
10 11 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.83%) Architect
12 9 (3.45%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Operations Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Performance Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Performance Test Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (29.12%) Elastic Stack
2 53 (20.31%) Kafka
3 22 (8.43%) RESTful
4 21 (8.05%) RabbitMQ
5 18 (6.90%) gRPC
6 16 (6.13%) Protocol Buffers
7 15 (5.75%) YAML
8 13 (4.98%) JSON
8 13 (4.98%) Spring
9 9 (3.45%) XML
10 8 (3.07%) Akka
10 8 (3.07%) OpenTracing
10 8 (3.07%) REST
10 8 (3.07%) Spring Boot
10 8 (3.07%) Web Services
11 6 (2.30%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.30%) LAPP Stack
11 6 (2.30%) LDAP
12 5 (1.92%) pytest
12 5 (1.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.96%) Data Structures
2 21 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.66%) Public Cloud
4 18 (6.90%) Clustering
5 17 (6.51%) Hedge funds
6 15 (5.75%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (4.98%) Onboarding
8 11 (4.21%) Cloud Native
9 10 (3.83%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.30%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.53%) CCTV
12 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.15%) PKI
13 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.77%) CBDC
14 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
14 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 111 (42.53%) Linux
2 25 (9.58%) CentOS
2 25 (9.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (9.20%) Windows
4 20 (7.66%) Unix
5 13 (4.98%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.68%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.92%) VMS
8 4 (1.53%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (65.90%) DevOps
2 132 (50.57%) CI/CD
3 93 (35.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 77 (29.50%) Agile
5 74 (28.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (21.46%) Containerisation
7 51 (19.54%) Observability
8 45 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
9 44 (16.86%) Microservices
10 37 (14.18%) Task Automation
11 33 (12.64%) Configuration Management
11 33 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (11.11%) Software Engineering
12 29 (11.11%) Test Automation
13 27 (10.34%) Scrum
14 22 (8.43%) Project Management
15 19 (7.28%) Asset Management
15 19 (7.28%) Collaborative Working
16 16 (6.13%) GitOps
16 16 (6.13%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (61.69%) Python
2 87 (33.33%) Java
3 51 (19.54%) Go
3 51 (19.54%) Shell Script
4 47 (18.01%) Bash
5 33 (12.64%) SQL
6 30 (11.49%) PowerShell
7 24 (9.20%) JavaScript
8 20 (7.66%) Scala
9 10 (3.83%) Kotlin
10 8 (3.07%) Ruby
11 7 (2.68%) C
11 7 (2.68%) C++
11 7 (2.68%) Groovy
12 6 (2.30%) PHP
13 5 (1.92%) Perl
13 5 (1.92%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.15%) ActionScript
14 3 (1.15%) C#
15 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 73 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.20%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.68%) Degree
5 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.53%) SANS
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.81%) 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
1 121 (46.36%) Docker
2 19 (7.28%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (4.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 207 (79.31%) Grafana
1 207 (79.31%) Kubernetes
2 146 (55.94%) Terraform
3 115 (44.06%) Ansible
4 40 (15.33%) Kibana
5 37 (14.18%) Progress Chef
6 32 (12.26%) Puppet
7 28 (10.73%) logstash
8 23 (8.81%) Docker Swarm
9 18 (6.90%) Graylog
9 18 (6.90%) Nagios
10 16 (6.13%) Consul
10 16 (6.13%) Istio
11 11 (4.21%) ZABBIX
12 10 (3.83%) Argo
13 8 (3.07%) Zipkin
14 6 (2.30%) HP Fortify
14 6 (2.30%) Nessus
14 6 (2.30%) WebInspect
15 5 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (21.07%) Splunk
2 34 (13.03%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.90%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.36%) VMware
5 13 (4.98%) Amdocs
6 12 (4.60%) SaltStack
7 11 (4.21%) Oracle
8 7 (2.68%) Checkmarx
8 7 (2.68%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.30%) PagerDuty
9 6 (2.30%) Veracode
10 4 (1.53%) Google
10 4 (1.53%) Veritas
11 3 (1.15%) F5
12 2 (0.77%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.77%) Commvault
12 2 (0.77%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.77%) MKS
12 2 (0.77%) New Relic
13 1 (0.38%) BigPanda