Proactive Monitoring Contracts in the Thames Valley

Proactive Monitoring
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 89 124 140
Rank change year-on-year +35 +16 0
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 13 21 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 0.78% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.90% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 3
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £450 £603 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £605 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.87% -24.38% +77.78%
75th Percentile £536 £608 £900
90th Percentile - - £960
South East median daily rate £508 £605 £800
% change year-on-year -16.12% -24.38% +84.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile - £59.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate - £60.14 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +161.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile - £60.39 £27.00
90th Percentile - - £29.40
South East median hourly rate - £60.14 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +225.08% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the Thames Valley

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the Thames Valley

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the Thames Valley

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the Thames Valley

Proactive 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 Proactive Monitoring within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +16 6 £450 -25.62% 11
Buckinghamshire - 5 £508 - 6
Oxfordshire - 2 £250 - 7
Proactive Monitoring
South East

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (15.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Firewall
1 9 (69.23%) VLAN
2 5 (38.46%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (30.77%) BGP
3 4 (30.77%) Network Security
3 4 (30.77%) OSPF
3 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 4 (30.77%) VPN
General
1 5 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Police
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) IT Support
2 5 (38.46%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Change Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Network Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Support
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Content Management
1 5 (38.46%) Customer Service
1 5 (38.46%) Network Segmentation
1 5 (38.46%) Post-Production
1 5 (38.46%) Workflow
2 4 (30.77%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
2 4 (30.77%) SIEM
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Change Control
5 1 (7.69%) Information Management
5 1 (7.69%) ITSM
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CCNP
1 4 (30.77%) CCSA
1 4 (30.77%) CCSE
1 4 (30.77%) Check Point Certification
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Palo Alto
3 2 (15.38%) BMC
3 2 (15.38%) Remedy
4 1 (7.69%) BT
4 1 (7.69%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds