Proactive Monitoring Contracts in England

Proactive Monitoring
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Proactive Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 508 535
Rank change year-on-year +148 +27 -22
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 179 140 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 73 150
10th Percentile £249 £258 £165
25th Percentile £422 £363 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% +12.57%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £536
90th Percentile £700 £696 £626
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 29
10th Percentile £16.21 - -
25th Percentile £19.20 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.18 £18.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% +8.82% -19.24%
75th Percentile £42.29 £23.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £53.15 £26.65 £23.75
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £18.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +30.70% +8.82% -19.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Proactive Monitoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

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 17 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 May 2024. 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 +105 76 £563 -6.25% 31
South East +32 49 £605 -24.38% 25
North of England +37 22 £493 +14.32% 20
North West +27 22 £493 +14.32% 8
Midlands +40 18 £450 +20.00% 14
West Midlands +38 18 £450 +28.57% 10
South West +10 13 £475 -5.00% 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 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) IBM Domino
3 2 (1.12%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.88%) Azure
2 18 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (7.82%) AWS
3 14 (7.82%) OCI
4 5 (2.79%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.79%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.79%) WhatsApp
5 4 (2.23%) GitHub
6 3 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.12%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (20.11%) DNS
2 23 (12.85%) DHCP
2 23 (12.85%) Firewall
3 17 (9.50%) SAN
4 16 (8.94%) WAN
5 12 (6.70%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (5.59%) SD-WAN
7 9 (5.03%) TCP/IP
8 7 (3.91%) Network Security
9 6 (3.35%) LAN
9 6 (3.35%) Wireless
10 5 (2.79%) SMTP
10 5 (2.79%) VPN
11 3 (1.68%) Skype
11 3 (1.68%) VoIP
12 2 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (1.12%) HTTP
12 2 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.12%) SNMP
12 2 (1.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.03%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.91%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.79%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.79%) Oracle Exadata
3 5 (2.79%) Power BI
4 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.68%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.56%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.56%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.23%) GitLab
1 4 (2.23%) JIRA
2 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.12%) Git
2 2 (1.12%) webpack
3 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (37.43%) Social Skills
2 46 (25.70%) Finance
3 21 (11.73%) Front Office
4 17 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.82%) Banking
6 13 (7.26%) Retail
7 8 (4.47%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.47%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.79%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.79%) Law
9 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Military
10 3 (1.68%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.12%) Advertising
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing
11 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Legal
12 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (15.08%) Analyst
2 19 (10.61%) Support Engineer
3 17 (9.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (7.82%) Applications Support
5 12 (6.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 12 (6.70%) Problem Manager
6 10 (5.59%) 1st Line Support
6 10 (5.59%) Applications Support Analyst
6 10 (5.59%) Storage Engineer
6 10 (5.59%) Support Analyst
6 10 (5.59%) Unix Support
6 10 (5.59%) WAN Engineer
7 8 (4.47%) SQL Analyst
7 8 (4.47%) SQL Support Analyst
8 7 (3.91%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (3.91%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 7 (3.91%) IT Support
8 7 (3.91%) Lead
8 7 (3.91%) Senior
9 6 (3.35%) Audio Visual Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.79%) Middleware
2 3 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.12%) Material-UI
3 2 (1.12%) Node.js
3 2 (1.12%) NumPy
3 2 (1.12%) Pandas
3 2 (1.12%) React
3 2 (1.12%) Redux
3 2 (1.12%) RESTful
4 1 (0.56%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.64%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.50%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.91%) Digital Signage
3 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.35%) Clustering
4 6 (3.35%) CMDB
4 6 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.79%) Derivative
5 5 (2.79%) Market Risk
5 5 (2.79%) OTC Derivatives
5 5 (2.79%) SCADA
5 5 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.68%) PKI
6 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.12%) Equities
7 2 (1.12%) Replication
7 2 (1.12%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 79 (44.13%) Windows
2 37 (20.67%) Linux
3 28 (15.64%) Windows 10
4 23 (12.85%) Windows Server
5 20 (11.17%) Unix
6 16 (8.94%) Windows XP
7 15 (8.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (8.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (7.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (6.70%) Windows 7
10 8 (4.47%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (24.58%) ITIL
3 31 (17.32%) Release Management
4 30 (16.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 27 (15.08%) Service Management
6 26 (14.53%) Risk Management
7 23 (12.85%) Performance Tuning
8 22 (12.29%) DevOps
8 22 (12.29%) Root Cause Analysis
9 21 (11.73%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (11.73%) Project Management
10 20 (11.17%) Agile
11 19 (10.61%) Performance Monitoring
11 19 (10.61%) Storage Management
12 18 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (9.50%) Break/Fix
13 17 (9.50%) Mentoring
14 16 (8.94%) Server Management
15 15 (8.38%) Statistics
16 14 (7.82%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.37%) SQL
2 46 (25.70%) PowerShell
3 32 (17.88%) Python
4 6 (3.35%) Bash
5 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.12%) Perl
5 2 (1.12%) Ruby
5 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (33.52%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.46%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.85%) Degree
4 22 (12.29%) DV Cleared
5 19 (10.61%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (9.50%) CCNP
7 15 (8.38%) CCNA
8 6 (3.35%) CISSP
9 5 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.23%) CISM
11 2 (1.12%) APMP
11 2 (1.12%) CCDP
11 2 (1.12%) MCITP
11 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.56%) GREM
12 1 (0.56%) GSEC
12 1 (0.56%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.56%) OSCP
12 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.70%) SLA
2 10 (5.59%) ISO 9000
3 3 (1.68%) COBIT
3 3 (1.68%) GRC
3 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.68%) NIST
4 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 42 (23.46%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (8.94%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (7.82%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.79%) vSphere
6 4 (2.23%) Firmware
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.12%) Docker
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (13.97%) SCCM
2 19 (10.61%) WSUS
3 17 (9.50%) SCOM
4 14 (7.82%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (7.82%) NetBackup
4 14 (7.82%) vCenter Server
5 10 (5.59%) Ansible
6 9 (5.03%) Grafana
7 8 (4.47%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (4.47%) Terraform
8 6 (3.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.68%) OPNET
10 3 (1.68%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
11 2 (1.12%) Nessus
11 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.12%) Puppet
12 1 (0.56%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 52 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 33 (18.44%) Cisco
3 26 (14.53%) VMware
4 23 (12.85%) Oracle
5 19 (10.61%) Dell
6 17 (9.50%) Juniper
6 17 (9.50%) Palo Alto
7 16 (8.94%) HP
8 15 (8.38%) EMC
9 14 (7.82%) 3PAR
9 14 (7.82%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (7.82%) Symantec
9 14 (7.82%) Veeam
10 10 (5.59%) IBM
11 8 (4.47%) Dynatrace
11 8 (4.47%) Remedy
12 7 (3.91%) Virgin Media
13 6 (3.35%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.79%) Apple
14 5 (2.79%) BMC