Proactive Monitoring Contracts in England

Proactive Monitoring
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Proactive Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 507 542
Rank change year-on-year +140 +35 -58
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 179 141 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.31% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 72 144
10th Percentile £250 £255 £168
25th Percentile £423 £359 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £418
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +19.76% -1.76%
75th Percentile £606 £628 £541
90th Percentile £700 £723 £636
UK median daily rate £506 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +6.53% +11.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 27
10th Percentile £16.21 - -
25th Percentile £19.20 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.18 £18.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% +8.82% -19.24%
75th Percentile £42.29 £22.50 £21.03
90th Percentile £53.15 £24.48 £23.75
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £18.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +30.70% - -12.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Proactive Monitoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Proactive Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in England.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in England.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Proactive Monitoring within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London +131 80 £563 -6.25% 37
South East +31 47 £605 -24.38% 18
North of England +38 21 £493 +14.32% 12
North West +33 21 £493 +14.32% 10
West Midlands +38 17 £450 +28.57% 15
Midlands +35 17 £450 +20.00% 18
South West +20 13 £475 -5.00% 5
Proactive Monitoring
UK

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.68%) IBM Domino
2 3 (1.68%) IBM Notes
2 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.76%) Azure
2 18 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (7.26%) OCI
4 12 (6.70%) AWS
5 6 (3.35%) WhatsApp
6 5 (2.79%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.23%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.23%) GitHub
8 3 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.12%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.56%) IaaS
10 1 (0.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 37 (20.67%) DNS
2 23 (12.85%) DHCP
3 19 (10.61%) Firewall
4 15 (8.38%) SAN
4 15 (8.38%) WAN
5 12 (6.70%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (5.59%) SD-WAN
7 9 (5.03%) TCP/IP
8 7 (3.91%) Network Security
9 6 (3.35%) SMTP
10 5 (2.79%) LAN
11 4 (2.23%) Wireless
12 3 (1.68%) Skype
12 3 (1.68%) Unified Communications
12 3 (1.68%) VoIP
12 3 (1.68%) VPN
13 2 (1.12%) BGP
13 2 (1.12%) HTTP
13 2 (1.12%) OSPF
13 2 (1.12%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.59%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.91%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.79%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.79%) Oracle Exadata
3 5 (2.79%) Power BI
4 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.68%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.56%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.56%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.23%) GitLab
2 3 (1.68%) JIRA
3 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.12%) Git
3 2 (1.12%) webpack
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 45 (25.14%) Finance
3 23 (12.85%) Front Office
4 14 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.26%) Banking
6 12 (6.70%) Retail
7 8 (4.47%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.47%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.79%) Law
9 4 (2.23%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.68%) Military
10 3 (1.68%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.12%) Legal
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing
11 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (15.08%) Analyst
2 21 (11.73%) Support Engineer
3 15 (8.38%) Applications Support
4 14 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (7.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 11 (6.15%) Applications Support Analyst
6 11 (6.15%) Problem Manager
6 11 (6.15%) Support Analyst
7 10 (5.59%) 1st Line Support
7 10 (5.59%) Unix Support
7 10 (5.59%) WAN Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) SQL Analyst
8 9 (5.03%) SQL Support Analyst
8 9 (5.03%) Storage Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (4.47%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Lead
11 6 (3.35%) Audio Visual Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) IT Support
11 6 (3.35%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.79%) Middleware
2 3 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.12%) Material-UI
3 2 (1.12%) Node.js
3 2 (1.12%) NumPy
3 2 (1.12%) Pandas
3 2 (1.12%) React
3 2 (1.12%) Redux
3 2 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.64%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.94%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.35%) Clustering
4 6 (3.35%) CMDB
4 6 (3.35%) Digital Signage
5 5 (2.79%) Derivative
5 5 (2.79%) Market Risk
5 5 (2.79%) OTC Derivatives
5 5 (2.79%) SCADA
6 4 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.68%) PKI
7 3 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.12%) Equities
8 2 (1.12%) iPad
8 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.12%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 79 (44.13%) Windows
2 37 (20.67%) Linux
3 25 (13.97%) Windows 10
4 20 (11.17%) Unix
4 20 (11.17%) Windows Server
5 15 (8.38%) Windows XP
6 14 (7.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (7.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (7.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (6.70%) Windows 7
9 7 (3.91%) Apple iOS
10 4 (2.23%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (23.46%) ITIL
3 34 (18.99%) Release Management
4 30 (16.76%) Risk Management
5 29 (16.20%) Disaster Recovery
6 27 (15.08%) Service Management
7 22 (12.29%) DevOps
7 22 (12.29%) Performance Tuning
7 22 (12.29%) Project Management
8 21 (11.73%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (11.73%) Root Cause Analysis
9 18 (10.06%) Agile
9 18 (10.06%) Performance Monitoring
10 17 (9.50%) Mentoring
10 17 (9.50%) Storage Management
11 16 (8.94%) Break/Fix
12 15 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (8.38%) Server Management
12 15 (8.38%) Statistics
13 14 (7.82%) Data Sharing
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.37%) SQL
2 47 (26.26%) PowerShell
3 35 (19.55%) Python
4 6 (3.35%) Bash
5 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.12%) Perl
5 2 (1.12%) Ruby
5 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (32.40%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.35%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.85%) Degree
4 21 (11.73%) DV Cleared
5 18 (10.06%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (8.94%) CCNP
7 14 (7.82%) CCNA
8 6 (3.35%) CISSP
9 5 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.23%) CISM
11 2 (1.12%) APMP
11 2 (1.12%) CCDP
11 2 (1.12%) MCITP
11 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.56%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.56%) CCIE
12 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.56%) GREM
12 1 (0.56%) OSCP
12 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) SLA
2 10 (5.59%) ISO 9000
3 3 (1.68%) COBIT
3 3 (1.68%) GRC
3 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.68%) NIST
3 3 (1.68%) QA
4 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 38 (21.23%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.82%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (7.26%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.23%) Firmware
5 4 (2.23%) vSphere
6 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.12%) Docker
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (11.73%) SCCM
2 16 (8.94%) SCOM
2 16 (8.94%) WSUS
3 13 (7.26%) EMC NetWorker
3 13 (7.26%) NetBackup
3 13 (7.26%) vCenter Server
4 10 (5.59%) Ansible
4 10 (5.59%) Grafana
5 9 (5.03%) ITRS Geneos
6 8 (4.47%) Terraform
7 6 (3.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.68%) OPNET
9 3 (1.68%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
10 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.12%) Puppet
11 1 (0.56%) logstash
11 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 49 (27.37%) Microsoft
2 32 (17.88%) Cisco
3 22 (12.29%) Oracle
3 22 (12.29%) VMware
4 17 (9.50%) Dell
5 16 (8.94%) Juniper
5 16 (8.94%) Palo Alto
6 15 (8.38%) HP
7 14 (7.82%) EMC
8 13 (7.26%) 3PAR
8 13 (7.26%) Extreme Networks
8 13 (7.26%) Symantec
8 13 (7.26%) Veeam
9 12 (6.70%) IBM
10 9 (5.03%) Dynatrace
11 8 (4.47%) Remedy
12 7 (3.91%) Virgin Media
13 6 (3.35%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.79%) BMC
14 5 (2.79%) Citrix