Proactive Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Proactive Monitoring
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Proactive Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 117 134
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +17
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 8 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.53% 0.12% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.13% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £301 £464 £610
25th Percentile £326 £467 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £478 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.03% -26.54% +37.42%
75th Percentile £369 £486 £675
90th Percentile £461 £487 £690
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +22.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,301 1,484 2,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 85.65% 91.04% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 881 1,313
10th Percentile £232 £230 £264
25th Percentile £385 £365 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £487
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.60% +2.53%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 43 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £11.97
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.62 £16.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%
75th Percentile £31.50 £24.18 £60.38
90th Percentile £63.70 £40.90 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Proactive Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Proactive Monitoring job vacancy trend in Scotland

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in Scotland

Proactive Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Glasgow +11 5 £358 -24.63% 1
Edinburgh +5 2 - - 1
Aberdeen - 1 £300 -
Proactive Monitoring
UK

Proactive Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Business Transformation Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (50.00%) Observability
1 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Business Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Aruba
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft