Proactive Monitoring Contracts in London

Proactive Monitoring
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 326 311 437
Rank change year-on-year -15 +126 +85
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 27 80 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.51% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 69 39
10th Percentile £248 £184 £245
25th Percentile £350 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% -6.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £596 £638
90th Percentile £556 £650 £684
England median daily rate £500 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.19% +1.20% +19.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £27.49 - -
25th Percentile £27.65 - -
Median hourly rate £28.28 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% - -
75th Percentile £28.79 - -
90th Percentile £28.86 - -
England median hourly rate £28.28 £24.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year +16.96% +30.70% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in London

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in London

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in London

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in London

Proactive Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +3 6 £455 +29.60% 6
South London +7 2 £525 +20.00%
West London - 2 £450 - 3
East London - 1 £225 - 2
Proactive Monitoring
England

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.41%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (11.11%) DHCP
3 3 (11.11%) DNS
3 3 (11.11%) VPN
3 3 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
4 2 (7.41%) VLAN
5 1 (3.70%) BGP
5 1 (3.70%) EIGRP
5 1 (3.70%) LAN
5 1 (3.70%) Network Security
5 1 (3.70%) OSPF
5 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) DB2
2 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Advertising
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Local Government
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (14.81%) Project Manager
3 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Applications Support
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Integration Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Integration Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) IT Support
4 2 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.70%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
1 2 (7.41%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) CMDB
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.41%) Apple iOS
3 2 (7.41%) Windows 7
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.70%) Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 5 (18.52%) Problem Management
4 4 (14.81%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (14.81%) DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (14.81%) ITSM
4 4 (14.81%) Service Management
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.11%) Change Management
5 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (11.11%) ITIL
5 3 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (11.11%) Observability
5 3 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
5 3 (11.11%) Project Management
5 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.41%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Bicep
3 1 (3.70%) C
3 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) CCNA
4 1 (3.70%) CCNP
4 1 (3.70%) CCSA
4 1 (3.70%) CCSE
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.70%) CISSP
4 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) GIAC
4 1 (3.70%) IBM Certification
4 1 (3.70%) JNCIA
4 1 (3.70%) JNCIS
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Ansible
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Kubeflow
2 1 (3.70%) SCCM
2 1 (3.70%) WSUS
2 1 (3.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Cisco
3 5 (18.52%) ServiceNow
4 3 (11.11%) Splunk
4 3 (11.11%) VMware
5 2 (7.41%) Facebook
5 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.41%) IBM
5 2 (7.41%) Instagram
5 2 (7.41%) Juniper
5 2 (7.41%) Meraki
5 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.41%) Remedy
6 1 (3.70%) BMC
6 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.70%) Citrix
6 1 (3.70%) Databricks
6 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds