Proactive Monitoring Contracts in the North of England

Proactive Monitoring
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 158 196
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 +15
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 15 22 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.55% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 20 10
10th Percentile £288 £308 £340
25th Percentile £344 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £493 £431
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% +14.32% +32.69%
75th Percentile £475 £495 £488
90th Percentile £591 £515 £519
England median daily rate £500 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -0.89% +6.21% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.22 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £15.11 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -32.87% -2.17%
75th Percentile - £15.99 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.28 £19.64 £20.50
% change year-on-year +43.97% -4.18% +20.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,986 3,985 5,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.91% 84.73% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,922 2,416 3,435
10th Percentile £265 £300 £303
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 380 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.34 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -30.18% +45.44%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.96 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the North of England

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the North of England

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the North of England

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the North of England

Proactive Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
Yorkshire - 11 £400 - 34
North East - 3 £375 - 11
North West -11 1 £700 +41.99% 32
Proactive Monitoring
England

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Google Workspace
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Wireless
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) OSPF
2 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Support Technician
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AIX Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AIX Support
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Leader
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support
3 1 (6.67%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Support
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Unix Support
3 1 (6.67%) Unix Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.67%) AIX
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Unix
5 1 (6.67%) VMS
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Proactive Management
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Budget Management
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (6.67%) Information Security
5 1 (6.67%) Network Design
5 1 (6.67%) Project Management
5 1 (6.67%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (6.67%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) DBS Check
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) GDPR
1 6 (40.00%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) SmoothWall
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Google
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) Veeam
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow