Proactive Monitoring Contracts in the South East

Proactive Monitoring
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 192 179
Rank change year-on-year +39 -13 +10
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 47 34 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.85% 0.58% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.65% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 3 36
10th Percentile £378 - £255
25th Percentile £600 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £800 £433
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% +84.97% +44.17%
75th Percentile £700 £900 £500
90th Percentile £825 £960 £584
England median daily rate £506 £500 £418
% change year-on-year +1.20% +19.76% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 20
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.89 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £60.14 £18.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +225.08% +8.82% -19.24%
75th Percentile £60.39 £21.00 £20.25
90th Percentile - £24.60 £21.05
England median hourly rate £24.18 £18.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +30.70% - -12.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Proactive Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the South East

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the South East

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the South East

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the South East

Proactive Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +18 21 £605 -24.38% 6
Berkshire +8 21 £605 - 4
West Sussex - 10 £600 -
Hampshire -11 9 £250 - 4
Kent - 4 £813 - 1
Surrey - 3 £255 - 3
Proactive Monitoring
England

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.91%) Azure
2 13 (27.66%) OCI
3 7 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.38%) AWS
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 19 (40.43%) DNS
2 15 (31.91%) Firewall
3 14 (29.79%) SAN
4 13 (27.66%) DHCP
5 6 (12.77%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (10.64%) SD-WAN
6 5 (10.64%) WAN
7 2 (4.26%) Wireless
8 1 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.13%) Network Security
8 1 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.13%) VLAN
8 1 (2.13%) VPN
8 1 (2.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
1 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 20 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Finance
2 6 (12.77%) Retail
3 4 (8.51%) Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) 1st Line Support
3 6 (12.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) IT Support
4 5 (10.64%) WAN Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Lead
5 4 (8.51%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Server Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Database Specialist
7 2 (4.26%) Platform Architect
7 2 (4.26%) SIEM Specialist
7 2 (4.26%) SOC Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.89%) Onboarding
3 6 (12.77%) Digital Signage
4 2 (4.26%) Clustering
4 2 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.26%) Replication
4 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (57.45%) Windows
2 20 (42.55%) Windows 10
3 19 (40.43%) Linux
4 15 (31.91%) Windows Server
5 14 (29.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (29.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (27.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (27.66%) Windows XP
7 7 (14.89%) Apple iOS
8 6 (12.77%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Disaster Recovery
1 15 (31.91%) Performance Tuning
1 15 (31.91%) Storage Management
2 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (29.79%) Project Management
2 14 (29.79%) Server Management
3 13 (27.66%) Break/Fix
3 13 (27.66%) Converged Infrastructure
3 13 (27.66%) ITIL
3 13 (27.66%) Performance Monitoring
4 9 (19.15%) Agile
5 8 (17.02%) Vulnerability Management
6 7 (14.89%) Customer Service
6 7 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (14.89%) Data Security
6 7 (14.89%) Incident Response
6 7 (14.89%) Security Operations
7 6 (12.77%) CRM
8 5 (10.64%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) PowerShell
2 10 (21.28%) SQL
3 2 (4.26%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (29.79%) Degree
3 14 (29.79%) DV Cleared
4 13 (27.66%) CCNA
4 13 (27.66%) CCNP
4 13 (27.66%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.26%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) SLA
2 5 (10.64%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 22 (46.81%) Active Directory
2 17 (36.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (29.79%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (27.66%) Hyper-V
5 4 (8.51%) vSphere
6 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (34.04%) SCCM
1 16 (34.04%) WSUS
2 13 (27.66%) EMC NetWorker
2 13 (27.66%) NetBackup
2 13 (27.66%) SCOM
2 13 (27.66%) vCenter Server
3 3 (6.38%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.13%) Nessus
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (2.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (48.94%) Microsoft
2 19 (40.43%) Cisco
3 18 (38.30%) VMware
4 17 (36.17%) Oracle
5 15 (31.91%) Dell
6 14 (29.79%) EMC
7 13 (27.66%) 3PAR
7 13 (27.66%) Extreme Networks
7 13 (27.66%) HP
7 13 (27.66%) Juniper
7 13 (27.66%) Palo Alto
7 13 (27.66%) Symantec
7 13 (27.66%) Veeam
8 7 (14.89%) Virgin Media
9 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
9 3 (6.38%) SolarWinds
10 2 (4.26%) Apple
11 1 (2.13%) Avaya
11 1 (2.13%) Fujitsu
11 1 (2.13%) Qualys