Infrastructure Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Monitoring
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Infrastructure Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 - 187
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 5 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.087% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £502 - £423
25th Percentile £504 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.53%
75th Percentile £523 - £550
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £444 £536
% change year-on-year +12.68% -17.25% +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £22.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,678 2,752 4,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.56% 91.61% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,045 1,757 2,775
10th Percentile £285 £256 £231
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £621
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 168 431
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.80 £18.20
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80.40 £62.50 £62.23
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%

Infrastructure Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Infrastructure Monitoring job vacancy trend in the South East

Infrastructure Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
Berkshire - 2 £500 - 2
Hampshire - 2 £515 - 2
Thames Valley - 2 £500 - 2
Surrey - 1 - -
Infrastructure Monitoring
England

Infrastructure Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Akamai
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
1 3 (60.00%) SCOM
1 3 (60.00%) SCSM
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (20.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Trend Micro
1 3 (60.00%) Veeam
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Imperva
2 1 (20.00%) Okta
2 1 (20.00%) Proofpoint
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler