Infrastructure Monitoring Contracts

Infrastructure Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Infrastructure Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure 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 499 541 689
Rank change year-on-year +42 +148 +103
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 21 41 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.094% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.11% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 18
10th Percentile £375 £413 £415
25th Percentile £398 £513 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +7.25% -5.66%
75th Percentile £543 £550 £594
90th Percentile £613 - £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £544 £440
% change year-on-year -31.03% +23.58% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Infrastructure Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Monitoring in the UK

Infrastructure Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Monitoring in the UK

Infrastructure Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Monitoring in the UK

Infrastructure Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Monitoring in the UK

Infrastructure Monitoring
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring within the UK 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
England +36 19 £444 -17.25% 20
London +40 10 £525 +9.38% 5
UK excluding London +41 9 £375 -31.03% 16
North of England +22 6 £475 - 6
North West +21 5 - - 3
Work from Home +41 2 £560 +16.67% 12
Midlands +4 2 £375 -31.82% 3
West Midlands -4 2 £375 -31.82% 3
Yorkshire +7 1 £475 - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 1

Infrastructure Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Pulsar
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (23.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
4 1 (4.76%) Datadog
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Route 53
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) LAN
1 5 (23.81%) VPN
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
3 2 (9.52%) BGP
3 2 (9.52%) HSRP
3 2 (9.52%) IGMP
3 2 (9.52%) Multicast
3 2 (9.52%) OSPF
3 2 (9.52%) VRRP
4 1 (4.76%) DHCP
4 1 (4.76%) DNS
4 1 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
1 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Flink
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jaeger
2 1 (4.76%) LoadRunner
2 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Electronics
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Desktop Support
1 6 (28.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 5 (23.81%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (23.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.76%) Loki
2 1 (4.76%) NumPy
2 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.76%) Pandas
2 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) CMDB
2 2 (9.52%) Hedge funds
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
1 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
2 6 (28.57%) Windows 10
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (23.81%) Windows 8
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (23.81%) Windows XP
4 2 (9.52%) Linux
5 1 (4.76%) CentOS
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps
1 7 (33.33%) ITIL
1 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
2 5 (23.81%) Business Case
2 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
2 5 (23.81%) Proactive Maintenance
2 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
2 5 (23.81%) Technical Analysis
2 5 (23.81%) Time Management
3 4 (19.05%) Observability
3 4 (19.05%) SIEM
4 3 (14.29%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 3 (14.29%) ITSM
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
5 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) CCIE
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) SCCM
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Puppet
3 2 (9.52%) Grafana
3 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.52%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.76%) Istio
4 1 (4.76%) linkerd
4 1 (4.76%) Packer
4 1 (4.76%) SCOM
4 1 (4.76%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Canon
3 3 (14.29%) Splunk
4 2 (9.52%) Arista
4 2 (9.52%) BMC
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco
4 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.52%) Remedy
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.52%) Zscaler
5 1 (4.76%) Black Duck
5 1 (4.76%) Brio
5 1 (4.76%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) Tenable