Proactive Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Proactive Monitoring
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Proactive Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 10 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.39% - 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% - 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £298
25th Percentile - - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile - - £644
90th Percentile - - £690
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £175 £625
% change year-on-year +157.14% -72.00% +115.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 634 616 637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.42% 85.79% 84.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 406 427
10th Percentile £229 £198 £275
25th Percentile £370 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 16 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +205.56%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £24.60
% change year-on-year -6.82% -10.57% +38.98%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Proactive Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Proactive Monitoring job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Proactive Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Proactive Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Site Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) IT Security Officer
2 3 (30.00%) Security Officer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
1 7 (70.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 7 (70.00%) Change Management
2 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
2 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (70.00%) Dashboard Development
2 7 (70.00%) Data Ingestion
2 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (70.00%) Migration
2 7 (70.00%) Observability
2 7 (70.00%) Performance Metrics
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (70.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Validation
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Management
3 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Bash
1 7 (70.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Ansible
1 7 (70.00%) Kibana
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (70.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Splunk