Infrastructure Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Monitoring
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 148 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.069% - 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% - 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South East median daily rate £515 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +23.53%
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 - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £40.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,411 1,403 2,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.97% 92.67% 87.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 846 1,342
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £412 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £601 £600
90th Percentile £670 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 57 174
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.20 £15.59
25th Percentile £20.79 £15.25 £20.04
Median hourly rate £78.38 £32.05 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +144.56% -28.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85.47 £62.24 £64.57
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.31 £85.53
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -9.09%

Infrastructure Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Infrastructure Monitoring job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Infrastructure Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
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 Infrastructure Monitoring within the Thames Valley 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
Infrastructure Monitoring
South East

Infrastructure Monitoring
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro
1 1 (50.00%) Veeam
1 1 (50.00%) VMware