Proactive Monitoring Contracts in England

Proactive Monitoring
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Proactive Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 502 522
Rank change year-on-year +113 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 162 134 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.28% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.32% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 71 170
10th Percentile £252 £225 £165
25th Percentile £413 £350 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +4.97% +13.27%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £540
90th Percentile £673 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 30
10th Percentile £15.77 £21.43 -
25th Percentile £18.11 £21.69 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +33.82% -19.24%
75th Percentile £23.09 £23.56 £20.00
90th Percentile £23.74 £23.68 £24.89
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year -3.30% +33.82% -19.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Proactive Monitoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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
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 12 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
London +95 61 £556 +11.25% 21
South East +41 52 £605 +15.24% 19
North West +24 22 £493 +12.69% 10
North of England +22 22 £493 +12.69% 21
West Midlands +25 17 £450 -37.93% 6
Midlands +22 17 £450 +20.00% 12
South West +5 8 £463 -7.50% 6
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 9 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.28%) Azure
2 18 (11.11%) AWS
3 14 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (8.64%) OCI
4 5 (3.09%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.47%) WhatsApp
6 3 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.85%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.23%) GitHub
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.62%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.62%) GCP
8 1 (0.62%) IaaS
8 1 (0.62%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 32 (19.75%) DNS
2 27 (16.67%) Firewall
3 21 (12.96%) DHCP
4 17 (10.49%) SAN
5 14 (8.64%) WAN
6 12 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (6.79%) Wireless
8 10 (6.17%) SD-WAN
9 9 (5.56%) TCP/IP
10 6 (3.70%) VLAN
10 6 (3.70%) VPN
11 5 (3.09%) Network Security
12 4 (2.47%) LAN
13 3 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (1.85%) VoIP
14 2 (1.23%) BGP
14 2 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
14 2 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
14 2 (1.23%) OSPF
14 2 (1.23%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.94%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.09%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.09%) Oracle Exadata
3 5 (3.09%) Power BI
4 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.62%) GIS
6 1 (0.62%) HDInsight
6 1 (0.62%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.70%) JIRA
2 3 (1.85%) GitLab
3 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.23%) Git
3 2 (1.23%) webpack
4 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 44 (27.16%) Finance
3 18 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.49%) Front Office
5 14 (8.64%) Banking
6 11 (6.79%) Retail
7 9 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.94%) Investment Banking
9 5 (3.09%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.47%) Law
10 4 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.85%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.23%) Advertising
12 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.62%) Military
13 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (12.35%) Analyst
1 20 (12.35%) Support Engineer
2 18 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (9.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 13 (8.02%) Applications Support
5 12 (7.41%) Problem Manager
6 10 (6.17%) 1st Line Support
6 10 (6.17%) Storage Engineer
6 10 (6.17%) Unix Support
6 10 (6.17%) WAN Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Applications Support Analyst
7 9 (5.56%) Support Analyst
8 7 (4.32%) IT Support
8 7 (4.32%) SQL Analyst
8 7 (4.32%) SQL Support Analyst
9 6 (3.70%) Audio Visual Engineer
9 6 (3.70%) Senior
10 5 (3.09%) Availability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.09%) Middleware
2 3 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.23%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.23%) Material-UI
3 2 (1.23%) Node.js
3 2 (1.23%) NumPy
3 2 (1.23%) Pandas
3 2 (1.23%) React
3 2 (1.23%) Redux
3 2 (1.23%) RESTful
4 1 (0.62%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.88%) Virtual Team
3 7 (4.32%) Digital Signage
3 7 (4.32%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.70%) CMDB
4 6 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.09%) Clustering
5 5 (3.09%) Derivative
5 5 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.09%) Market Risk
5 5 (3.09%) OTC Derivatives
5 5 (3.09%) SCADA
6 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.23%) Equities
7 2 (1.23%) iPad
7 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.62%) PKI
8 1 (0.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 71 (43.83%) Windows
2 38 (23.46%) Linux
3 28 (17.28%) Windows 10
4 22 (13.58%) Unix
5 21 (12.96%) Windows Server
6 17 (10.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (9.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (9.88%) Windows XP
8 15 (9.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (7.41%) Windows 7
10 9 (5.56%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.85%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (25.93%) ITIL
3 26 (16.05%) Release Management
4 24 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (14.20%) Service Management
6 21 (12.96%) Performance Tuning
7 20 (12.35%) DevOps
7 20 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (12.35%) Risk Management
7 20 (12.35%) Root Cause Analysis
8 19 (11.73%) Project Management
9 18 (11.11%) Storage Management
10 17 (10.49%) Agile
10 17 (10.49%) Break/Fix
10 17 (10.49%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (9.88%) Customer Service
11 16 (9.88%) Mentoring
11 16 (9.88%) Performance Monitoring
11 16 (9.88%) Server Management
12 15 (9.26%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 40 (24.69%) PowerShell
1 40 (24.69%) SQL
2 27 (16.67%) Python
3 6 (3.70%) Bash
4 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.23%) Perl
4 2 (1.23%) Ruby
4 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 39 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.96%) Degree
4 18 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (10.49%) CCNP
5 17 (10.49%) DV Cleared
6 15 (9.26%) CCNA
7 6 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.23%) CCDP
8 2 (1.23%) CISSP
8 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.62%) APMP
9 1 (0.62%) CCSA
9 1 (0.62%) CISM
9 1 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.62%) GIAC
9 1 (0.62%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.17%) ISO 9000
1 10 (6.17%) SLA
2 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.23%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (27.16%) Active Directory
2 25 (15.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (8.64%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.70%) vSphere
6 4 (2.47%) Firmware
7 2 (1.23%) Docker
7 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (16.67%) SCCM
2 23 (14.20%) WSUS
3 15 (9.26%) SCOM
4 14 (8.64%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (8.64%) NetBackup
4 14 (8.64%) vCenter Server
5 8 (4.94%) Ansible
5 8 (4.94%) Grafana
6 7 (4.32%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (3.70%) Nessus
7 6 (3.70%) Terraform
8 5 (3.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.85%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
10 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.23%) Puppet
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.62%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (27.16%) Microsoft
2 31 (19.14%) Cisco
3 26 (16.05%) VMware
4 21 (12.96%) Oracle
5 20 (12.35%) Dell
6 17 (10.49%) Palo Alto
7 16 (9.88%) HP
7 16 (9.88%) Juniper
8 15 (9.26%) EMC
9 14 (8.64%) 3PAR
9 14 (8.64%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (8.64%) Symantec
9 14 (8.64%) Veeam
10 7 (4.32%) Dynatrace
10 7 (4.32%) IBM
10 7 (4.32%) Remedy
10 7 (4.32%) Virgin Media
11 6 (3.70%) Qualys
12 5 (3.09%) Apple
12 5 (3.09%) BMC