Proactive Monitoring Contracts in the South East

Proactive Monitoring
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 158 188
Rank change year-on-year +18 +30 -7
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 19 47 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.85% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.00% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 3
10th Percentile - £378 -
25th Percentile £450 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £605 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.12% -24.38% +84.97%
75th Percentile £543 £700 £900
90th Percentile £603 £825 £960
England median daily rate £500 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.19% +1.20% +19.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £59.89 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £60.14 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +225.08% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £60.39 £21.00
90th Percentile - - £24.60
England median hourly rate £28.28 £24.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year +16.96% +30.70% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the South East

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the South East

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the South East

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the South East

Proactive 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 Proactive Monitoring within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +35 13 £479 -20.87% 12
Berkshire +16 6 £450 -25.62% 6
Hampshire +22 5 £550 +120.00% 12
Buckinghamshire - 5 £508 - 4
Oxfordshire - 2 £250 - 5
Surrey +15 1 - - 2
Proactive Monitoring
England

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Google Workspace
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Datadog
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) OCI
3 1 (5.26%) Pulumi
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) Firewall
1 9 (47.37%) VLAN
2 5 (26.32%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (21.05%) BGP
3 4 (21.05%) Network Security
3 4 (21.05%) OSPF
3 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
3 4 (21.05%) VPN
4 1 (5.26%) DHCP
4 1 (5.26%) DNS
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Police
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) IT Support
1 6 (31.58%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Incident Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Director
4 1 (5.26%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Content Management
1 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
1 5 (26.32%) Network Segmentation
1 5 (26.32%) Post-Production
1 5 (26.32%) Security Monitoring
1 5 (26.32%) Security Operations
1 5 (26.32%) SIEM
1 5 (26.32%) Workflow
2 4 (21.05%) ITIL
3 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
3 3 (15.79%) ITSM
3 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
3 3 (15.79%) Service Management
4 2 (10.53%) Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.53%) Patch Management
4 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) CCNP
1 4 (21.05%) CCSA
1 4 (21.05%) CCSE
1 4 (21.05%) Check Point Certification
1 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) NIST 800
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) SCCM
2 3 (15.79%) SCOM
3 2 (10.53%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Google
2 4 (21.05%) CheckPoint
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco
2 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
3 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
4 2 (10.53%) BMC
4 2 (10.53%) McAfee
4 2 (10.53%) Remedy
5 1 (5.26%) BT
5 1 (5.26%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (5.26%) LogRhythm
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.26%) PagerDuty
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow