Check_MK Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Check_MK
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Check_MK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 364 409
Rank change year-on-year -29 +45 +104
Contract jobs citing Check_MK 4 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.024% 0.029%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% 0.18% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - £346
25th Percentile - - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £540 £225 £465
% change year-on-year +140.00% -51.61% -22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £16.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £16.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £16.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +400.00% -73.33% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,756 2,244 2,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.67% 13.71% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 1,407 1,935
10th Percentile £257 £243 £252
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £666 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 45 124
10th Percentile £15.74 £12.91 £17.73
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £23.03
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -42.62% +84.72%
75th Percentile £67.00 £46.18 £72.81
90th Percentile £85.80 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.93 £27.13 £49.00
% change year-on-year +14.03% -44.64% +90.59%

Check_MK
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Check_MK relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Check_MK job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Check_MK
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Check_MK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Check_MK

Check_MK
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
South West -3 3 £540 -
Wales - 1 - - 2
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) 4G
2 3 (75.00%) 5G
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Tenable
3 1 (25.00%) VMware