Proactive Monitoring Contracts

Proactive Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 427 389 546
Rank change year-on-year -38 +157 +44
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 93 195 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.52% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 149 93
10th Percentile £325 £236 £313
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +6.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £548 £606 £625
90th Percentile £631 £700 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £473
% change year-on-year +1.42% +4.23% +16.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £27.49 £16.21 -
25th Percentile £27.65 £19.20 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.28 £24.18 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% +30.70% -
75th Percentile £28.79 £42.29 £22.50
90th Percentile £28.86 £53.15 £24.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £37.62 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +103.36% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

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%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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 -39 81 £500 -1.19% 189
UK excluding London +11 58 £500 +1.42% 126
London -15 27 £465 -17.33% 72
Work from Home +28 23 £465 -7.10% 110
South East +18 19 £508 -16.12% 40
North of England +14 16 £421 -14.60% 42
Yorkshire - 10 £400 - 11
East of England - 7 £520 - 7
Midlands +11 6 £375 -16.67% 15
Scotland +6 6 £480 +123.26% 2
West Midlands +3 6 £375 -16.67% 12
South West +37 4 £550 +15.79% 23
North West -1 3 £550 +11.56% 30
North East - 3 £375 - 3

Proactive 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 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.23%) IBM Notes
4 2 (2.15%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.08%) Confluence
5 1 (1.08%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.08%) iTrent
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.35%) Azure
2 11 (11.83%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (10.75%) Google Workspace
4 9 (9.68%) AWS
5 6 (6.45%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.38%) GCP
7 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.23%) Datadog
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.08%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.08%) Pulumi
10 1 (1.08%) SaaS
10 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.51%) Firewall
2 14 (15.05%) VPN
3 12 (12.90%) Network Security
3 12 (12.90%) VLAN
4 10 (10.75%) Wireless
5 9 (9.68%) BGP
5 9 (9.68%) OSPF
5 9 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (8.60%) DNS
6 8 (8.60%) TCP/IP
7 6 (6.45%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (5.38%) DHCP
8 5 (5.38%) EIGRP
8 5 (5.38%) WAN
9 4 (4.30%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (2.15%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (2.15%) HTTP
10 2 (2.15%) LAN
10 2 (2.15%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) DB2
2 1 (1.08%) Big Data
2 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Git
1 3 (3.23%) GitLab
1 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.08%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.08%) ScriptRunner
General
1 36 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.58%) Finance
3 13 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.45%) Legal
6 6 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Local Government
7 3 (3.23%) Marketing
7 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Military
8 2 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.08%) Advertising
9 1 (1.08%) Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (10.75%) Analyst
1 10 (10.75%) IT Support
2 9 (9.68%) Lead
2 9 (9.68%) Project Manager
3 8 (8.60%) Support Engineer
4 6 (6.45%) Architect
4 6 (6.45%) Network Architect
5 5 (5.38%) Site Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Support Technician
6 4 (4.30%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (4.30%) Consultant
6 4 (4.30%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (4.30%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Help Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.23%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (3.23%) Service Analyst
7 3 (3.23%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (3.23%) JSON
2 2 (2.15%) .NET
2 2 (2.15%) boto
2 2 (2.15%) CSS
2 2 (2.15%) Flask
2 2 (2.15%) HTML
2 2 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (2.15%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (2.15%) XML
2 2 (2.15%) YAML
3 1 (1.08%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.08%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.23%) CMDB
3 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) Replication
4 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.08%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) IoT
5 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.88%) Windows
2 10 (10.75%) Windows Server
3 9 (9.68%) Windows 10
4 7 (7.53%) Linux
5 3 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.23%) Unix
5 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.15%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.08%) AIX
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.08%) VMS
7 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (15.05%) Customer Service
3 13 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (13.98%) Incident Management
3 13 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (12.90%) Incident Response
5 11 (11.83%) ITIL
5 11 (11.83%) ITSM
5 11 (11.83%) Problem Management
5 11 (11.83%) Project Management
6 10 (10.75%) DevOps
6 10 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (10.75%) Service Delivery
6 10 (10.75%) Workflow
7 9 (9.68%) Change Management
7 9 (9.68%) Decision-Making
7 9 (9.68%) Service Management
8 8 (8.60%) Agile
8 8 (8.60%) Mentoring
8 8 (8.60%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.90%) Python
2 10 (10.75%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.45%) SQL
4 4 (4.30%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.15%) Bicep
6 1 (1.08%) Bash
6 1 (1.08%) C
6 1 (1.08%) C#
6 1 (1.08%) C-shell
6 1 (1.08%) Groovy
6 1 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 18 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.60%) Degree
4 6 (6.45%) CCNP
4 6 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.38%) CCSA
5 5 (5.38%) CCSE
5 5 (5.38%) DBS Check
5 5 (5.38%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.30%) Check Point Certification
7 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.15%) CISSP
8 2 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.08%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) SLA
2 5 (5.38%) GDPR
3 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.15%) NIST
5 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.08%) GRC
5 1 (1.08%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.08%) PMO
5 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 13 (13.98%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.30%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.23%) Docker
4 3 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.08%) Firmware
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (11.83%) Ansible
2 6 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.45%) Terraform
3 5 (5.38%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.38%) SCCM
3 5 (5.38%) SmoothWall
4 4 (4.30%) SCOM
4 4 (4.30%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.23%) Grafana
6 2 (2.15%) Puppet
7 1 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.08%) CASB
7 1 (1.08%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (1.08%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.08%) Nagios
7 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.08%) vRealize
7 1 (1.08%) WSUS
7 1 (1.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.28%) Cisco
3 12 (12.90%) ServiceNow
4 11 (11.83%) Palo Alto
5 10 (10.75%) Google
6 9 (9.68%) VMware
7 5 (5.38%) CheckPoint
7 5 (5.38%) Remedy
7 5 (5.38%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.23%) BMC
8 3 (3.23%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.23%) IBM
8 3 (3.23%) Lotus
8 3 (3.23%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.23%) SAP
8 3 (3.23%) Splunk
9 2 (2.15%) Facebook
9 2 (2.15%) Instagram
9 2 (2.15%) Meraki
9 2 (2.15%) Oracle