Infrastructure Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure Monitoring
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Infrastructure Monitoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 115 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.27% 0.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £365 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% - -
75th Percentile £338 £373 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £500 £555
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.91% -1.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Infrastructure 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,940 1,992 2,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.83% 83.31% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 1,157 1,649
10th Percentile £299 £294 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 108 162
10th Percentile £13.54 £16.43 £15.78
25th Percentile £17.36 £27.94 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% +21.43% +55.56%
75th Percentile £51.19 £57.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.32 £70.90 £66.80
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Infrastructure Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Monitoring in the North West

Infrastructure Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Lancashire - 5 - - 1
Cheshire - 1 £325 -
Infrastructure Monitoring
England

Infrastructure Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (83.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) LAN
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
1 5 (83.33%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 5 (83.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (83.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Desktop Support
1 5 (83.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 10
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 8
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (83.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Asset Management
1 5 (83.33%) Business Case
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
1 5 (83.33%) Proactive Maintenance
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (83.33%) Project Delivery
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Analysis
1 5 (83.33%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Canon
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle