Proactive Monitoring Contracts in England

Proactive Monitoring
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 404 365 512
Rank change year-on-year -39 +147 +27
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 81 179 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.48% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.56% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 141 72
10th Percentile £313 £250 £255
25th Percentile £425 £423 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +1.20% +19.76%
75th Percentile £539 £606 £628
90th Percentile £633 £700 £723
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £475
% change year-on-year -1.19% +6.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £27.49 £16.21 -
25th Percentile £27.65 £19.20 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.28 £24.18 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% +30.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £28.79 £42.29 £22.50
90th Percentile £28.86 £53.15 £24.48
UK median hourly rate £28.28 £24.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year +16.96% +30.70% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
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 Proactive Monitoring within the England 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
London -15 27 £465 -17.33% 71
South East +18 19 £508 -16.12% 62
North of England +14 16 £421 -14.60% 59
Yorkshire - 10 £400 - 18
East of England - 7 £520 - 19
Midlands +11 6 £375 -16.67% 31
West Midlands +3 6 £375 -16.67% 20
South West +37 4 £550 +15.79% 32
North West -1 3 £550 +11.56% 38
North East - 3 £375 - 5
Proactive Monitoring
UK

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.70%) IBM Notes
2 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.47%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.23%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.05%) Azure
2 10 (12.35%) Google Workspace
3 8 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (7.41%) AWS
5 3 (3.70%) GCP
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.23%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.23%) Datadog
7 1 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.23%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.23%) OCI
7 1 (1.23%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.99%) Firewall
2 11 (13.58%) VLAN
3 9 (11.11%) Network Security
3 9 (11.11%) VPN
3 9 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (9.88%) Wireless
5 7 (8.64%) BGP
5 7 (8.64%) OSPF
6 6 (7.41%) DNS
6 6 (7.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (6.17%) DHCP
8 4 (4.94%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (4.94%) WAN
9 3 (3.70%) EIGRP
10 2 (2.47%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (2.47%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (2.47%) LAN
10 2 (2.47%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.23%) Skype
11 1 (1.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.47%) DB2
2 1 (1.23%) Big Data
2 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Git
1 1 (1.23%) GitLab
1 1 (1.23%) Jasmine
1 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 29 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.69%) Finance
3 11 (13.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.94%) Legal
8 3 (3.70%) Local Government
8 3 (3.70%) Marketing
8 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.47%) Military
9 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.23%) Advertising
10 1 (1.23%) Banking
10 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (12.35%) IT Support
2 9 (11.11%) Lead
3 8 (9.88%) Project Manager
3 8 (9.88%) Support Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Analyst
5 5 (6.17%) Support Technician
6 4 (4.94%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (4.94%) Architect
6 4 (4.94%) Network Architect
7 3 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Consultant
7 3 (3.70%) Help Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (3.70%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Service Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Site Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.47%) .NET
1 2 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (2.47%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.23%) JSON
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.23%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.47%) Replication
4 1 (1.23%) CMDB
4 1 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) IoT
4 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.23%) PKI
4 1 (1.23%) PMI
4 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (29.63%) Windows
2 9 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 9 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.17%) Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.47%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.23%) AIX
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.23%) Unix
6 1 (1.23%) VMS
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (17.28%) Customer Service
3 11 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (12.35%) Incident Management
4 10 (12.35%) Incident Response
4 10 (12.35%) Problem Management
4 10 (12.35%) Project Management
5 9 (11.11%) Change Management
5 9 (11.11%) ITIL
5 9 (11.11%) ITSM
5 9 (11.11%) Service Management
5 9 (11.11%) Workflow
6 8 (9.88%) Decision-Making
6 8 (9.88%) DevOps
6 8 (9.88%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (9.88%) Service Delivery
7 7 (8.64%) Project Delivery
7 7 (8.64%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.35%) Python
2 9 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.41%) SQL
4 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.23%) Bash
5 1 (1.23%) Bicep
5 1 (1.23%) C
5 1 (1.23%) C#
5 1 (1.23%) C-shell
5 1 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) CCNP
3 6 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (7.41%) Degree
4 5 (6.17%) CCSA
4 5 (6.17%) CCSE
4 5 (6.17%) DBS Check
4 5 (6.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.94%) Check Point Certification
6 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) CCIE
7 1 (1.23%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.23%) CCNA
7 1 (1.23%) CISSP
7 1 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) SLA
2 5 (6.17%) GDPR
3 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.47%) NIST
4 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.23%) PMO
4 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.94%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.47%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.23%) Docker
5 1 (1.23%) Firmware
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (11.11%) Ansible
2 5 (6.17%) SCCM
2 5 (6.17%) SmoothWall
3 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.94%) SCOM
3 4 (4.94%) Terraform
3 4 (4.94%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.47%) Puppet
6 1 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.23%) Grafana
6 1 (1.23%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.23%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.23%) Nagios
6 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.23%) vRealize
6 1 (1.23%) WSUS
6 1 (1.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.28%) Cisco
3 10 (12.35%) Google
4 9 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 9 (11.11%) VMware
5 8 (9.88%) Palo Alto
6 5 (6.17%) CheckPoint
6 5 (6.17%) Remedy
6 5 (6.17%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.70%) BMC
7 3 (3.70%) IBM
7 3 (3.70%) Lotus
7 3 (3.70%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.70%) SAP
7 3 (3.70%) Splunk
8 2 (2.47%) Facebook
8 2 (2.47%) Juniper
8 2 (2.47%) McAfee
8 2 (2.47%) Oracle
8 2 (2.47%) Salesforce