Synthetic Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the South West

Synthetic Monitoring
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Synthetic Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Monitoring 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.045% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £540 £675 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Synthetic 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,936 2,030 2,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 87.96% 84.76% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 1,222 1,829
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £385 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £721
England median daily rate £508 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 142 283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.51 £20.30
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.75 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% -18.92% +27.14%

Synthetic Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Synthetic Monitoring job vacancy trend in the South West

Synthetic Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Synthetic Monitoring within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Bristol - 1 £700 - 3
Synthetic Monitoring
England

Synthetic Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform