Proactive Monitoring Contracts in Berkshire

Proactive Monitoring
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 103 107
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 6 21 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 1.06% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.19% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% - -
South East median daily rate £508 £605 £800
% change year-on-year -16.12% -24.38% +84.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile - £59.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate - £60.14 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +161.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile - £60.39 £27.00
90th Percentile - - £29.40
South East median hourly rate - £60.14 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +225.08% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in Berkshire

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in Berkshire

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in Berkshire

Proactive Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +21 6 £450 -25.62% 10
Proactive Monitoring
South East

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) BGP
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
1 4 (66.67%) OSPF
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (66.67%) VLAN
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Change Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Manager
1 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Major Incident Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Network Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Availability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CCNP
1 4 (66.67%) CCSA
1 4 (66.67%) CCSE
1 4 (66.67%) Check Point Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) BMC
2 2 (33.33%) Remedy
3 1 (16.67%) BT