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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 143 194
Rank change year-on-year +5 +51 -21
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 27 47 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.79% 0.85% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.03% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 3
10th Percentile - £243 £465
25th Percentile £450 £266 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +10.00% +37.50%
75th Percentile £536 £608 £600
90th Percentile £565 £798 £615
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
England median hourly rate £28.15 £23.09 £22.75
% change year-on-year +21.91% +1.49% +33.82%

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 3,081 4,554 5,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.98% 82.74% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,918 2,684 3,532
10th Percentile £250 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £668 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 405 247
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.35 £22.07
Median hourly rate £22.29 £54.36 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% +8.72% +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.56 £70.00 £64.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.68% -9.41% +63.46%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +22 23 £475 -21.49% 6
Berkshire +14 12 £450 -25.62% 5
Oxfordshire - 6 £250 - 1
Hampshire +26 5 £550 +15.79% 6
Buckinghamshire - 5 £508 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (14.81%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (7.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Google Workspace
1 5 (18.52%) OCI
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) Firewall
1 11 (40.74%) VLAN
2 6 (22.22%) BGP
2 6 (22.22%) Network Security
2 6 (22.22%) OSPF
2 6 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 6 (22.22%) VPN
3 5 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Automotive
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) IT Support
2 7 (25.93%) Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Business IT Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Business Support Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Business Systems Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) IT Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
3 5 (18.52%) Support Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Systems Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Systems Support
3 5 (18.52%) Systems Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) DBA
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Computer Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) IT Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
1 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Workflow
2 7 (25.93%) Analytics
2 7 (25.93%) Security Monitoring
2 7 (25.93%) Security Operations
2 7 (25.93%) Service Delivery
3 6 (22.22%) Business Continuity
3 6 (22.22%) SIEM
4 5 (18.52%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (18.52%) Change Control
4 5 (18.52%) Content Management
4 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (18.52%) Information Management
4 5 (18.52%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (18.52%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (18.52%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (18.52%) Post-Production
4 5 (18.52%) Process Improvement
4 5 (18.52%) Release Management
4 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) SQL
2 6 (22.22%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) Perl
3 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) CCNP
1 6 (22.22%) CCSA
1 6 (22.22%) CCSE
1 6 (22.22%) Check Point Certification
1 6 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (11.11%) SCCM
3 3 (11.11%) SCOM
4 2 (7.41%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) CheckPoint
1 6 (22.22%) Cisco
1 6 (22.22%) Palo Alto
2 5 (18.52%) Google
2 5 (18.52%) Liquidlogic
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle
4 3 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 2 (7.41%) BMC
5 2 (7.41%) McAfee
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.41%) Remedy
6 1 (3.70%) BT
6 1 (3.70%) Databricks
6 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow