Proactive Monitoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Proactive Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 317 324
Rank change year-on-year +26 +7 +41
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 111 113 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.50% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.56% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 58 105
10th Percentile £244 £344 £150
25th Percentile £406 £413 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +21.88% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £500
90th Percentile £700 £641 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 26
10th Percentile £15.00 £21.43 -
25th Percentile £16.16 £21.69 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.55 £22.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% +37.88% -21.62%
75th Percentile £20.50 £23.56 £19.25
90th Percentile £21.40 £23.68 £21.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year -3.30% +33.82% -19.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Proactive Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Proactive Monitoring
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 Proactive Monitoring within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 June 2024. 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 East +41 52 £605 +15.24% 20
North West +24 22 £493 +12.69% 9
North of England +22 22 £493 +12.69% 17
West Midlands +25 17 £450 -37.93% 7
Midlands +22 17 £450 +20.00% 12
Scotland +37 12 £215 -60.91% 6
South West +5 8 £463 -7.50% 5
Proactive Monitoring
UK

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.62%) Azure
2 14 (12.61%) OCI
3 10 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.41%) AWS
5 4 (3.60%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.80%) GitHub
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.90%) IaaS
7 1 (0.90%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.42%) DNS
2 24 (21.62%) Firewall
3 16 (14.41%) DHCP
3 16 (14.41%) SAN
4 11 (9.91%) WAN
5 10 (9.01%) SD-WAN
6 7 (6.31%) TCP/IP
6 7 (6.31%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (6.31%) Wireless
7 6 (5.41%) VLAN
7 6 (5.41%) VoIP
8 2 (1.80%) Network Security
9 1 (0.90%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.90%) LAN
9 1 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.90%) Skype
9 1 (0.90%) SMTP
9 1 (0.90%) VPN
9 1 (0.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.60%) Power BI
1 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.90%) GIS
3 1 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) JIRA
2 3 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 52 (46.85%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.71%) Finance
4 11 (9.91%) Retail
5 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.60%) Banking
6 4 (3.60%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.80%) Law
7 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Advertising
8 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.90%) Military
8 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (13.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 15 (13.51%) Support Engineer
2 12 (10.81%) Problem Manager
3 10 (9.01%) IT Support
3 10 (9.01%) Storage Engineer
3 10 (9.01%) WAN Engineer
4 9 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 9 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 9 (8.11%) Analyst
5 7 (6.31%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (5.41%) IT Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Availability Manager
7 5 (4.50%) Service Manager
7 5 (4.50%) VoIP Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Lead
8 4 (3.60%) Server Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Voice Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) PowerShell Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.50%) Middleware
2 1 (0.90%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) Data Centre
2 16 (14.41%) Virtual Team
3 7 (6.31%) Digital Signage
3 7 (6.31%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.50%) CMDB
4 5 (4.50%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.50%) SCADA
5 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.90%) Clustering
8 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.90%) NHS
8 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.90%) PKI
8 1 (0.90%) Replication
8 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (32.43%) Windows
2 26 (23.42%) Linux
3 23 (20.72%) Windows 10
4 17 (15.32%) Windows Server
4 17 (15.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (14.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (13.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (12.61%) Windows XP
8 9 (8.11%) Apple iOS
9 7 (6.31%) Windows 7
10 6 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (36.94%) ITIL
2 37 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (20.72%) Service Management
4 22 (19.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (18.02%) Break/Fix
6 17 (15.32%) Project Management
7 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (14.41%) Performance Monitoring
7 16 (14.41%) Server Management
7 16 (14.41%) Storage Management
8 15 (13.51%) Mentoring
8 15 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (13.51%) Statistics
9 14 (12.61%) Converged Infrastructure
9 14 (12.61%) Customer Service
10 13 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (11.71%) Problem Management
10 13 (11.71%) Quality Management
10 13 (11.71%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.02%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.61%) SQL
3 1 (0.90%) Bash
3 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 57 (51.35%) Security Cleared
2 47 (42.34%) SC Cleared
3 21 (18.92%) Degree
4 17 (15.32%) DV Cleared
5 15 (13.51%) CCNA
5 15 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (12.61%) CCNP
7 6 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.90%) APMP
8 1 (0.90%) CISM
8 1 (0.90%) CISSP
8 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.90%) HNC
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) SLA
2 10 (9.01%) ISO 9000
3 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.90%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (29.73%) Active Directory
2 21 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (16.22%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (12.61%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.41%) vSphere
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (20.72%) SCCM
2 21 (18.92%) WSUS
3 15 (13.51%) SCOM
4 14 (12.61%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (12.61%) NetBackup
4 14 (12.61%) vCenter Server
5 6 (5.41%) Nessus
6 3 (2.70%) Ansible
6 3 (2.70%) Terraform
7 2 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.90%) IBM BigFix
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.90%) OPNET
8 1 (0.90%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.90%) VxRail
8 1 (0.90%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 27 (24.32%) Cisco
3 22 (19.82%) VMware
4 17 (15.32%) Dell
5 16 (14.41%) Oracle
6 15 (13.51%) EMC
6 15 (13.51%) Juniper
7 14 (12.61%) 3PAR
7 14 (12.61%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (12.61%) HP
7 14 (12.61%) Palo Alto
7 14 (12.61%) Symantec
7 14 (12.61%) Veeam
8 7 (6.31%) Virgin Media
9 6 (5.41%) Qualys
9 6 (5.41%) Remedy
10 5 (4.50%) BMC
11 4 (3.60%) Avaya
11 4 (3.60%) Fujitsu
11 4 (3.60%) SolarWinds