Proactive Monitoring Contracts in the West Midlands

Proactive Monitoring
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 133 146
Rank change year-on-year +41 +13 -29
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 17 7 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 0.29% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.33% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 19
10th Percentile £294 - -
25th Percentile £397 - £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £225
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +55.56% +50.00%
75th Percentile £475 - £450
90th Percentile £488 - £788
England median daily rate £506 £500 £420
% change year-on-year +1.20% +19.05% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the West Midlands

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the West Midlands

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the West Midlands

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the West Midlands

Proactive Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham +14 8 £425 - 6
Warwickshire +2 5 £450 - 2
Solihull - 3 £175 - 1
Proactive Monitoring
England

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.88%) GitHub
1 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) SD-WAN
1 5 (29.41%) WAN
2 4 (23.53%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Support Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) WAN Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) DBA
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) SQL DBA
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared DBA
5 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
1 5 (29.41%) SCADA
2 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.88%) CMDB
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
1 5 (29.41%) Unix
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) Analytical Thinking
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
3 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (29.41%) Data Centre Operations
3 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
3 5 (29.41%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (29.41%) Release Management
3 5 (29.41%) Security Monitoring
3 5 (29.41%) Service Management
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (11.76%) Statistics
6 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity
6 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.88%) High Availability
6 1 (5.88%) Performance Analysis
6 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (5.88%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Degree
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CCNA
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) ISO 9000
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (5.88%) Packer
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco
2 5 (29.41%) BMC
3 3 (17.65%) Fujitsu
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) Juniper
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow