Proactive Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Proactive Monitoring
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Proactive Monitoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 123 134
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +35
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 8 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.33% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.41% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £418 - £276
25th Percentile £425 £163 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £175 £625
Median % change year-on-year +157.14% -72.00% +155.10%
75th Percentile £475 £431 £694
90th Percentile £483 £578 £743
England median daily rate £500 £493 £508
% change year-on-year +1.42% -2.86% +19.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,235 2,192 2,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.48% 81.55% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 1,455 1,755
10th Percentile £235 £256 £250
25th Percentile £360 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £572 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £695 £706
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 85 93
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.27
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.70 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.39 £21.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -23.64% +52.78%
75th Percentile £26.69 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the Midlands

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Proactive Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Proactive Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
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 Proactive Monitoring within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
West Midlands -9 8 £450 +157.14% 7
Proactive Monitoring
England

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (62.50%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
1 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Help Desk Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Service Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (50.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) First Line Help Desk Support
4 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Project Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCIE
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Lotus
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk