Check_MK Contract Job Trends

Check_MK
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 587 562 597
Rank change year-on-year -25 +35 +222
Contract jobs citing Check_MK 4 10 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.028% 0.050%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.069% 0.19% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 14
10th Percentile - - £315
25th Percentile - £213 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £225 £465
Median % change year-on-year +140.00% -51.61% -22.50%
75th Percentile - £238 £556
90th Percentile - - £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £16.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -73.33% -
75th Percentile £85.00 £16.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £16.00 -
% change year-on-year +400.00% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,791 5,205 6,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.18% 14.33% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 3,304 4,618
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 70 170
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.47 £17.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.77 £25.19
Median hourly rate £30.93 £27.13 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.03% -44.64% +90.59%
75th Percentile £64.31 £57.31 £74.22
90th Percentile £79.38 £74.04 £78.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.66% -42.62% +84.72%

Check_MK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Check_MK job vacancy trend in the UK

Check_MK
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Check_MK
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 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
UK excluding London -29 4 £540 - 2
Work from Home +11 3 £540 +140.00%
South West -3 3 £540 -
England -22 3 £540 +140.00%
Wales - 1 - - 2

Check_MK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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