Proactive Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Proactive Monitoring
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Proactive Monitoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 119 162
Rank change year-on-year +7 +43 +15
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 11 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.61% 0.38% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.42% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile £565 £443 -
25th Percentile - £625 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +30.23% -0.46%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £556
90th Percentile £705 - -
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £494
% change year-on-year -7.69% +31.65% -8.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.39 - -
Median hourly rate £28.15 - -
75th Percentile £28.91 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,697 1,911 2,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.28% 91.70% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 1,244 1,962
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -35.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +7.67% -13.60% -25.60%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the City of London

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Proactive Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the City of London

Proactive Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Proactive Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) BGP
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (9.09%) IGMP
1 1 (9.09%) Multicast
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) OSPF
1 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Applications Support
1 5 (45.45%) Applications Support Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Database Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) DBA
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Ad Operations Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) High Availability
2 2 (18.18%) Change Management
2 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (18.18%) Runbook
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Optimisation
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (9.09%) Ad Operations
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
3 1 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) GitOps
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (9.09%) Observability
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Programmatic Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) AWK
4 2 (18.18%) sed
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CCIE
1 1 (9.09%) CCNP
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) GPFS
1 2 (18.18%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Arista
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) F5
2 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
2 1 (9.09%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk