Check_MK Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Check_MK
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Check_MK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Check_MK 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.024% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £478 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 518 263 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.20% 13.40% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 176 215
10th Percentile £258 £200 £189
25th Percentile £406 £318 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +5.14% -13.37%
75th Percentile £550 £557 £575
90th Percentile £650 £672 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £524
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.24% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 6
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.00 £20.52
25th Percentile £25.65 £15.22 £25.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £18.13 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +258.52% -29.63% +18.90%
75th Percentile £74.00 £19.76 £26.15
90th Percentile £75.30 £21.39 £40.57
England median hourly rate £57.00 £28.00 £25.74
% change year-on-year +103.57% +8.79% -52.49%

Check_MK
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Check_MK job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Check_MK
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 2026. 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
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
Check_MK
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware