Check_MK Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Check_MK
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Check_MK 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.065% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £770 - -
25th Percentile £781 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - -
75th Percentile £881 - -
90th Percentile £900 - -
South East median daily rate £825 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

Check_MK falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 299 218 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.67% 13.28% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 116 195
10th Percentile £325 £250 £318
25th Percentile £400 £379 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £622 £550 £608
90th Percentile £670 £647 £645
South East median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 5
10th Percentile £30.63 - £21.60
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £30.00
Median hourly rate £60.87 £55.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.66% +61.76% -29.75%
75th Percentile £71.00 £83.00 £36.75
90th Percentile £78.11 £86.98 £37.50
South East median hourly rate £68.22 £32.77 £36.17
% change year-on-year +108.16% -9.39% -34.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Check_MK relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Check_MK job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Check_MK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Check_MK

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Check_MK within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 September 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 £825 -
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Rocky
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Podman
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat