Infrastructure Monitoring Contracts

Infrastructure Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Monitoring over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 680 765
Rank change year-on-year +130 +85 -103
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 37 26 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.045% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.050% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 47
10th Percentile £413 - £394
25th Percentile £509 £415 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile - £779 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £430 £428
% change year-on-year +25.00% +0.58% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £17.00
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile £27.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Monitoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 14 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Monitoring in the UK

Infrastructure Monitoring
Top 11 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 14 May 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
England +131 37 £530 +11.58% 17
UK excluding London +82 30 £538 +25.00% 13
Midlands +43 20 £550 +27.91% 4
West Midlands +40 20 £550 +27.91%
London +83 6 £500 -9.09% 5
South East +25 6 £525 +31.25% 2
North of England +24 3 - - 5
Work from Home +102 2 £480 -4.00% 9
Yorkshire +20 2 - - 1
North West +28 1 - - 4
South West +6 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 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (10.81%) Serverless
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.11%) Datadog
3 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) DNS
2 7 (18.92%) LAN
2 7 (18.92%) WAN
3 4 (10.81%) DHCP
3 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.11%) Firewall
4 3 (8.11%) HTTP
4 3 (8.11%) Network Security
5 2 (5.41%) VoIP
5 2 (5.41%) VPN
6 1 (2.70%) BGP
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.70%) EIGRP
6 1 (2.70%) IPsec
6 1 (2.70%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.70%) MPLS
6 1 (2.70%) OSPF
6 1 (2.70%) SAN
6 1 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 6 (16.22%) Back Office
2 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Local Government
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Military
5 1 (2.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) SIEM Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Support Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Technical Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Technical Support
2 6 (16.22%) Technical Support Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Network Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Python Developer
4 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Senior
5 1 (2.70%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.41%) Redfish
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (13.51%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.81%) AS400
4 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (59.46%) Windows
2 17 (45.95%) Linux
3 10 (27.03%) Ubuntu
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) SIEM
2 11 (29.73%) RBAC
2 11 (29.73%) Visualisation
3 8 (21.62%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (21.62%) DataOps
3 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (21.62%) ITIL
4 6 (16.22%) Batch Scheduling
4 6 (16.22%) Problem Management
5 5 (13.51%) Agile
5 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.81%) Scrum
7 3 (8.11%) API Development
7 3 (8.11%) Clean Code
7 3 (8.11%) Containerisation
7 3 (8.11%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) R
2 4 (10.81%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) CCNA
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.70%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) MCSA
4 1 (2.70%) MCSE
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 18 (48.65%) Active Directory
2 9 (24.32%) iptables
3 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (8.11%) Docker
5 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.70%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) Kibana
1 11 (29.73%) logstash
2 5 (13.51%) Terraform
3 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.11%) WSUS
5 2 (5.41%) Grafana
6 1 (2.70%) Ansible
6 1 (2.70%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.70%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) SAP
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.70%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.70%) Brio
4 1 (2.70%) Citrix
4 1 (2.70%) Dell
4 1 (2.70%) F5
4 1 (2.70%) HP
4 1 (2.70%) Juniper
4 1 (2.70%) Kepware
4 1 (2.70%) Rockwell
4 1 (2.70%) Siemens
4 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.70%) Wonderware