Proactive Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Proactive Monitoring
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Proactive Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 122 138
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 +31
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 11 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.59% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £470 - £210
25th Percentile £500 £603 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £605 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% +34.44% +3.15%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £522
90th Percentile £645 - £565
South East median daily rate £525 £343 £550
% change year-on-year +53.28% -37.73% +76.29%

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 1,664 1,863 2,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.17% 87.02% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 1,071 1,544
10th Percentile £268 £300 £240
25th Percentile £406 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £623
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.06% -1.83% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 68 100
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.74 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.91 £29.44 £24.46
Median hourly rate £25.04 £57.77 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.66% +15.55% +163.16%
75th Percentile £36.89 £62.77 £66.64
90th Percentile £73.50 £71.24 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +40.00%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Proactive Monitoring job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

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 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the Thames Valley

Proactive Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

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 5 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
Berkshire +6 5 £500 -17.36% 14
Oxfordshire - 3 - - 6
Buckinghamshire - 3 £615 - 6
Proactive Monitoring
South East

Proactive 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (27.27%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) OCI
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) BGP
2 1 (9.09%) OSPF
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) VLAN
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Database
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (9.09%) Data Vault
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Automotive
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) DBA
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Business IT Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Business Support Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Business Systems Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) IT Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) IT Support
2 3 (27.27%) IT Support Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Support Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Support
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (36.36%) Analytics
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Business Continuity
3 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Change Control
3 3 (27.27%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (27.27%) Database Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) ERP
3 3 (27.27%) Information Management
3 3 (27.27%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) SOA
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Perl
2 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) CCSA
2 1 (9.09%) CCSE
2 1 (9.09%) Check Point Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) Databricks
4 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto