Check_MK Contract Job Trends in England

Check_MK
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Check_MK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 496 534
Rank change year-on-year -45 +38 +198
Contract jobs citing Check_MK 4 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.013% 0.032% 0.051%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.080% 0.22% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile £472 - £375
25th Percentile £485 £213 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £225 £453
Median % change year-on-year +129.33% -50.28% -24.58%
75th Percentile £540 £238 £556
90th Percentile - - £638
UK median daily rate £516 £225 £475
% change year-on-year +129.33% -52.63% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.33% -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £16.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +415.63% -73.33% -

All Systems Management Skills
England

Check_MK falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,010 4,130 5,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.76% 14.48% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,438 2,676 3,632
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.23%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 51 156
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £16.77
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.02 £21.81
Median hourly rate £48.72 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +83.85% -42.62% +31.94%
75th Percentile £64.88 £61.25 £67.13
90th Percentile £79.60 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +96.44% -47.64% +34.83%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Check_MK relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Check_MK job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Check_MK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Check_MK

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Check_MK within the England region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
South West -6 2 £540 -
East of England - 2 £485 - 5
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (50.00%) 4G
1 2 (50.00%) 5G
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) CentOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (50.00%) Information Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) MATLAB
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Podman
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
1 2 (50.00%) VMware