Proactive Monitoring Contracts

Proactive Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 406 548 582
Rank change year-on-year +142 +34 -69
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 195 172 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.32% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 93 160
10th Percentile £236 £313 £168
25th Percentile £420 £400 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £528
90th Percentile £700 £696 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £473 £400
% change year-on-year +4.23% +18.25% +10.34%
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 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% -7.50% -4.99%
75th Percentile £42.29 £22.50 £21.05
90th Percentile £53.15 £24.48 £24.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.62 £18.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +103.36% +8.82% -19.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +164 179 £506 +1.20% 94
UK excluding London +76 111 £493 +4.23% 58
London +125 80 £563 -6.25% 38
South East +39 47 £605 -24.38% 16
Work from Home +109 36 £500 +2.77% 37
North of England +42 21 £493 +14.32% 11
North West +25 21 £493 +14.32% 9
West Midlands +40 17 £450 +28.57% 15
Midlands +30 17 £450 +20.00% 18
South West +30 13 £475 -5.00% 5
Scotland +21 13 £215 -60.91% 6

Proactive Monitoring
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 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.54%) IBM Domino
2 3 (1.54%) IBM Notes
2 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.38%) Azure
2 18 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (7.18%) AWS
4 13 (6.67%) OCI
5 6 (3.08%) WhatsApp
6 5 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.05%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.05%) GitHub
8 3 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.03%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.51%) IaaS
10 1 (0.51%) SaaS
10 1 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 38 (19.49%) DNS
2 23 (11.79%) DHCP
3 20 (10.26%) Firewall
4 15 (7.69%) SAN
4 15 (7.69%) WAN
5 12 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (5.13%) SD-WAN
6 10 (5.13%) TCP/IP
7 8 (4.10%) VoIP
8 7 (3.59%) Network Security
9 6 (3.08%) SMTP
10 5 (2.56%) LAN
10 5 (2.56%) Wireless
11 3 (1.54%) Skype
11 3 (1.54%) Unified Communications
11 3 (1.54%) VPN
12 2 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (1.03%) HTTP
12 2 (1.03%) SNMP
12 2 (1.03%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.13%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.59%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.56%) Oracle Exadata
3 5 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.56%) Power BI
4 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.54%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.51%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.51%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.13%) JIRA
2 4 (2.05%) GitLab
3 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.03%) Git
3 2 (1.03%) webpack
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.59%) Finance
3 23 (11.79%) Front Office
4 16 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.67%) Banking
6 12 (6.15%) Retail
7 11 (5.64%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.10%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.56%) Law
10 4 (2.05%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.54%) Military
11 3 (1.54%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.03%) Legal
12 2 (1.03%) Marketing
12 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.51%) Advertising
13 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (13.85%) Analyst
2 24 (12.31%) Support Engineer
3 15 (7.69%) Applications Support
3 15 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 11 (5.64%) Applications Support Analyst
5 11 (5.64%) Problem Manager
5 11 (5.64%) Support Analyst
6 10 (5.13%) 1st Line Support
6 10 (5.13%) Unix Support
6 10 (5.13%) WAN Engineer
7 9 (4.62%) IT Support
7 9 (4.62%) SQL Analyst
7 9 (4.62%) SQL Support Analyst
7 9 (4.62%) Storage Engineer
8 8 (4.10%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (4.10%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (4.10%) Lead
9 7 (3.59%) IT Engineer
9 7 (3.59%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.56%) Middleware
2 3 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.03%) Material-UI
3 2 (1.03%) Node.js
3 2 (1.03%) NumPy
3 2 (1.03%) Pandas
3 2 (1.03%) React
3 2 (1.03%) Redux
3 2 (1.03%) RESTful
4 1 (0.51%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.36%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.21%) Virtual Team
3 8 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.08%) Clustering
4 6 (3.08%) CMDB
4 6 (3.08%) Digital Signage
4 6 (3.08%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.56%) Derivative
5 5 (2.56%) Market Risk
5 5 (2.56%) OTC Derivatives
5 5 (2.56%) SCADA
6 4 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.54%) PKI
7 3 (1.54%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.03%) iPad
8 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.03%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 80 (41.03%) Windows
2 37 (18.97%) Linux
3 25 (12.82%) Windows 10
4 21 (10.77%) Windows Server
5 20 (10.26%) Unix
6 15 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (7.69%) Windows XP
7 14 (7.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (6.15%) Windows 7
10 7 (3.59%) Apple iOS
11 4 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (22.05%) ITIL
3 34 (17.44%) Release Management
4 30 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 29 (14.87%) Disaster Recovery
6 28 (14.36%) Service Management
7 24 (12.31%) Project Management
8 23 (11.79%) Performance Tuning
9 22 (11.28%) Break/Fix
9 22 (11.28%) DevOps
10 21 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
11 19 (9.74%) Agile
11 19 (9.74%) Performance Monitoring
12 17 (8.72%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.72%) Storage Management
13 16 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (7.69%) Server Management
14 15 (7.69%) Statistics
15 14 (7.18%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.64%) SQL
2 48 (24.62%) PowerShell
3 35 (17.95%) Python
4 6 (3.08%) Bash
5 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.03%) Perl
5 2 (1.03%) Ruby
5 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (34.36%) Security Cleared
2 49 (25.13%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.31%) Degree
4 21 (10.77%) DV Cleared
5 18 (9.23%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (8.21%) CCNP
7 14 (7.18%) CCNA
8 7 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.08%) CISSP
10 4 (2.05%) CISM
11 2 (1.03%) APMP
11 2 (1.03%) CCDP
11 2 (1.03%) MCITP
11 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.03%) PMP
12 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.51%) GREM
12 1 (0.51%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.23%) SLA
2 10 (5.13%) ISO 9000
3 4 (2.05%) QA
4 3 (1.54%) COBIT
4 3 (1.54%) GRC
4 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.54%) NIST
5 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (6.67%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.05%) Firmware
5 4 (2.05%) vSphere
6 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.03%) Docker
7 2 (1.03%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (10.77%) SCCM
2 16 (8.21%) SCOM
2 16 (8.21%) WSUS
3 13 (6.67%) EMC NetWorker
3 13 (6.67%) NetBackup
3 13 (6.67%) vCenter Server
4 10 (5.13%) Ansible
4 10 (5.13%) Grafana
5 9 (4.62%) ITRS Geneos
6 8 (4.10%) Terraform
7 6 (3.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 5 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.54%) OPNET
9 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.03%) Kubernetes
10 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.03%) Puppet
11 1 (0.51%) Kibana
11 1 (0.51%) logstash
Vendors
1 53 (27.18%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.41%) Cisco
3 23 (11.79%) VMware
4 22 (11.28%) Oracle
5 17 (8.72%) Dell
6 16 (8.21%) Juniper
6 16 (8.21%) Palo Alto
7 15 (7.69%) HP
8 14 (7.18%) EMC
9 13 (6.67%) 3PAR
9 13 (6.67%) Extreme Networks
9 13 (6.67%) Symantec
9 13 (6.67%) Veeam
10 12 (6.15%) IBM
11 9 (4.62%) Dynatrace
12 8 (4.10%) Remedy
13 7 (3.59%) Virgin Media
14 6 (3.08%) SolarWinds
15 5 (2.56%) BMC
15 5 (2.56%) Citrix