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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 537 660
Rank change year-on-year +23 +123 +137
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 25 43 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.099% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.12% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 18
10th Percentile - £413 £415
25th Percentile £375 £488 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.17% +6.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £594
90th Percentile £534 £692 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £525 £430
% change year-on-year -28.57% +22.09% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 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 27,318 37,049 49,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 84.91% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,274 23,584 34,309
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,292 2,612 1,701
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.70 £11.50
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +50 23 £413 -22.17% 104
UK excluding London +21 15 £375 -28.57% 72
London +52 8 £469 -22.52% 51
North of England +20 7 £500 -0.25% 18
West Midlands 0 7 £375 -31.82% 7
Midlands -10 7 £375 -29.41% 9
North West +6 5 - - 9
Work from Home +27 3 £560 +4.67% 47
Yorkshire +4 2 £500 -21.57% 7
Scotland - 1 - - 8

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 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Pulsar
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (12.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) VPN
2 5 (20.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.00%) LAN
3 3 (12.00%) DNS
4 2 (8.00%) BGP
4 2 (8.00%) HSRP
4 2 (8.00%) IGMP
4 2 (8.00%) Multicast
4 2 (8.00%) Network Security
4 2 (8.00%) OSPF
4 2 (8.00%) SSL
4 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.00%) VRRP
5 1 (4.00%) DHCP
5 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Flink
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) GitLab
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Jaeger
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Finance
5 3 (12.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Electronics
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Military
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Desktop Support
1 6 (24.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 5 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.00%) Loki
3 1 (4.00%) NumPy
3 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.00%) Pandas
3 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (8.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) CMDB
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Windows
1 8 (32.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (24.00%) Windows 10
2 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (20.00%) Windows 8
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (8.00%) Linux
5 1 (4.00%) CentOS
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) SIEM
2 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (32.00%) Observability
4 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) ITIL
5 5 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 5 (20.00%) Business Case
5 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
5 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
5 5 (20.00%) Time Management
6 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (16.00%) Release Management
6 4 (16.00%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) CCIE
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CCNP
5 1 (4.00%) CISSP
5 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
2 2 (8.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Puppet
1 5 (20.00%) SCCM
2 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 4 (16.00%) Grafana
2 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.00%) Terraform
4 2 (8.00%) Kustomize
5 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.00%) Istio
5 1 (4.00%) linkerd
5 1 (4.00%) Packer
5 1 (4.00%) SCOM
5 1 (4.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Splunk
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.00%) Canon
4 2 (8.00%) Arista
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco
4 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (4.00%) Black Duck
5 1 (4.00%) BMC
5 1 (4.00%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.00%) Remedy
5 1 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.00%) Tenable