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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 354 501
Rank change year-on-year -36 +147 +29
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 88 179 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.57% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 139 72
10th Percentile £325 £249 £243
25th Percentile £425 £422 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +8.33%
75th Percentile £544 £608 £625
90th Percentile £666 £700 £671
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
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 £23.38
90th Percentile £28.86 £53.15 £26.65
UK median hourly rate £28.28 £24.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year +16.96% +30.70% +8.82%

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 22,200 31,464 43,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.22% 86.38% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,506 20,624 30,476
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 2,249 1,526
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.20
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 19 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 19 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 -1 29 £488 -13.33% 66
South East +13 25 £508 -16.12% 49
North of England +11 16 £411 -16.73% 51
Yorkshire - 11 £400 - 23
Midlands +6 6 £375 -16.67% 22
West Midlands -7 6 £375 -16.67% 15
East of England - 6 £500 - 10
South West +31 4 £600 +26.32% 23
North East - 3 £375 - 5
North West -6 2 £595 +20.69% 25
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 4 (4.55%) IBM Notes
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.41%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (3.41%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.27%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.14%) MS Project Server
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.41%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.41%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.50%) Azure
1 11 (12.50%) Google Workspace
2 6 (6.82%) AWS
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.55%) OCI
4 3 (3.41%) GCP
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.14%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.14%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (20.45%) Firewall
2 13 (14.77%) VLAN
3 10 (11.36%) VPN
4 9 (10.23%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (9.09%) BGP
5 8 (9.09%) Network Security
5 8 (9.09%) OSPF
5 8 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 8 (9.09%) Wireless
6 6 (6.82%) DNS
7 5 (5.68%) DHCP
8 4 (4.55%) WAN
9 2 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (2.27%) EIGRP
9 2 (2.27%) LAN
9 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.27%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (1.14%) Cisco Wireless
10 1 (1.14%) Skype
10 1 (1.14%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (2.27%) DB2
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.14%) Big Data
3 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Git
1 1 (1.14%) GitLab
1 1 (1.14%) Jasmine
1 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 30 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.45%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.95%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Legal
6 3 (3.41%) Marketing
6 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.14%) Advertising
8 1 (1.14%) Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.14%) Local Government
8 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.14%) Military
8 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (14.77%) Analyst
1 13 (14.77%) IT Support
2 11 (12.50%) Lead
3 10 (11.36%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.95%) IT Analyst
4 7 (7.95%) Support Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) IT Support Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Support Technician
6 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Manager
6 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 5 (5.68%) Support Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Business IT Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Business Support Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Business Systems Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Help Desk Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Service Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Systems Support
7 4 (4.55%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.27%) .NET
1 2 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (2.27%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.14%) JSON
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.14%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.27%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.27%) Replication
4 1 (1.14%) CMDB
4 1 (1.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) IoT
4 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.14%) PKI
4 1 (1.14%) PMI
4 1 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (27.27%) Windows
2 9 (10.23%) Windows 10
2 9 (10.23%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.68%) Linux
4 4 (4.55%) Unix
5 3 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.27%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.14%) AIX
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.14%) VMS
7 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 15 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (12.50%) Workflow
6 10 (11.36%) Incident Management
6 10 (11.36%) Incident Response
7 9 (10.23%) Capacity Planning
7 9 (10.23%) Change Management
7 9 (10.23%) ITIL
7 9 (10.23%) ITSM
7 9 (10.23%) Service Management
8 8 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (9.09%) Problem Management
8 8 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 8 (9.09%) Project Management
8 8 (9.09%) SIEM
9 7 (7.95%) Decision-Making
9 7 (7.95%) Proactive Maintenance
9 7 (7.95%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.36%) Python
2 8 (9.09%) SQL
3 7 (7.95%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.41%) Perl
4 3 (3.41%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.14%) Bash
6 1 (1.14%) Bicep
6 1 (1.14%) C
6 1 (1.14%) C-shell
6 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.95%) CCNP
2 7 (7.95%) CCSA
2 7 (7.95%) CCSE
2 7 (7.95%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) Check Point Certification
3 6 (6.82%) DBS Check
3 6 (6.82%) Degree
4 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) CISSP
6 1 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.14%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.14%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) SLA
2 7 (7.95%) GDPR
3 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.14%) PMO
4 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 11 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.27%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.14%) Firmware
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Ansible
2 6 (6.82%) SmoothWall
3 5 (5.68%) SCCM
4 4 (4.55%) SCOM
4 4 (4.55%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (3.41%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.41%) Terraform
6 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.14%) Grafana
6 1 (1.14%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.14%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.14%) Nagios
6 1 (1.14%) Puppet
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.14%) WSUS
6 1 (1.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.91%) Cisco
3 11 (12.50%) Google
4 9 (10.23%) Palo Alto
4 9 (10.23%) ServiceNow
4 9 (10.23%) VMware
5 7 (7.95%) CheckPoint
6 5 (5.68%) Oracle
6 5 (5.68%) Remedy
6 5 (5.68%) SolarWinds
7 4 (4.55%) Liquidlogic
7 4 (4.55%) Lotus
8 3 (3.41%) BMC
8 3 (3.41%) IBM
8 3 (3.41%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.41%) SAP
8 3 (3.41%) Splunk
9 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.27%) McAfee
9 2 (2.27%) Veeam