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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 388 526
Rank change year-on-year -30 +138 +50
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 100 198 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.53% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 150 98
10th Percentile £343 £239 £321
25th Percentile £444 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £625
90th Percentile £641 £700 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +14.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
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% +8.82%
75th Percentile £28.79 £42.29 £23.00
90th Percentile £28.86 £53.15 £25.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £37.62 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +103.36% +12.12%

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 26,789 37,090 51,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.94% 86.26% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,213 23,884 36,030
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 2,438 1,721
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.16% +0.69% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.34 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.81% +8.74% +75.00%

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 11 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 11 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 -9 88 £500 -1.82% 195
UK excluding London +4 64 £500 - 148
Work from Home +37 27 £465 -7.10% 94
London -18 27 £475 -14.61% 64
South East +21 25 £504 -16.74% 41
North of England +12 16 £421 -14.60% 55
Yorkshire - 10 £400 - 33
East of England - 7 £520 - 7
Midlands +9 6 £375 -16.67% 16
West Midlands +8 6 £375 -16.67% 11
South West +33 5 £550 +15.79% 19
Scotland +1 5 £488 +126.98% 8
North West -4 3 £550 +11.56% 19
North East - 3 £375 - 5

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 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.00%) IBM Notes
3 3 (3.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.00%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.00%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.00%) Confluence
5 1 (1.00%) MS Project Server
5 1 (1.00%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.00%) Azure
2 11 (11.00%) Google Workspace
3 9 (9.00%) AWS
3 9 (9.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.00%) GCP
5 4 (4.00%) OCI
6 3 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.00%) Datadog
8 1 (1.00%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.00%) GitHub
8 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.00%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (22.00%) Firewall
2 16 (16.00%) VPN
3 14 (14.00%) VLAN
4 12 (12.00%) Network Security
5 11 (11.00%) BGP
5 11 (11.00%) OSPF
5 11 (11.00%) Wireless
6 10 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 9 (9.00%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (8.00%) DNS
9 6 (6.00%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (5.00%) DHCP
10 5 (5.00%) EIGRP
10 5 (5.00%) WAN
11 4 (4.00%) Cisco Wireless
12 2 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (2.00%) HTTP
12 2 (2.00%) LAN
12 2 (2.00%) SD-WAN
12 2 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (2.00%) DB2
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.00%) Big Data
3 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Git
1 3 (3.00%) GitLab
1 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.00%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 36 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.00%) Finance
3 12 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.00%) Legal
4 7 (7.00%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.00%) Marketing
6 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Local Government
6 2 (2.00%) Military
6 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.00%) Advertising
7 1 (1.00%) Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (12.00%) Analyst
1 12 (12.00%) IT Support
2 10 (10.00%) Lead
2 10 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 8 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 6 (6.00%) Architect
4 6 (6.00%) IT Analyst
4 6 (6.00%) Network Architect
4 6 (6.00%) Support Technician
5 5 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 5 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 5 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (5.00%) Support Analyst
6 4 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (4.00%) Consultant
6 4 (4.00%) DBA
6 4 (4.00%) Help Desk Analyst
6 4 (4.00%) Service Analyst
6 4 (4.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (4.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (3.00%) JSON
2 2 (2.00%) .NET
2 2 (2.00%) boto
2 2 (2.00%) CSS
2 2 (2.00%) Flask
2 2 (2.00%) HTML
2 2 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (2.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (2.00%) XML
2 2 (2.00%) YAML
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.00%) CMDB
2 3 (3.00%) Replication
3 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.00%) Clustering
4 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.00%) IoT
4 1 (1.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.00%) PKI
4 1 (1.00%) PMI
4 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.00%) SCADA
4 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (26.00%) Windows
2 10 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 10 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.00%) Linux
4 6 (6.00%) Unix
5 3 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.00%) AIX
7 1 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.00%) VMS
7 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (16.00%) Customer Service
3 14 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (13.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (13.00%) Incident Management
5 12 (12.00%) Workflow
6 11 (11.00%) Incident Response
6 11 (11.00%) ITIL
6 11 (11.00%) ITSM
7 10 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (10.00%) Problem Management
7 10 (10.00%) Project Management
7 10 (10.00%) Service Delivery
8 9 (9.00%) Change Management
8 9 (9.00%) DevOps
8 9 (9.00%) Risk Assessment
8 9 (9.00%) Service Management
9 8 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (8.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.00%) Python
2 10 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.00%) SQL
4 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.00%) Perl
5 3 (3.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.00%) Bash
6 2 (2.00%) Bicep
7 1 (1.00%) C
7 1 (1.00%) C-shell
7 1 (1.00%) Groovy
7 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 18 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.00%) CCNP
3 8 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (7.00%) CCSA
4 7 (7.00%) CCSE
4 7 (7.00%) Degree
5 6 (6.00%) Check Point Certification
5 6 (6.00%) DBS Check
6 5 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.00%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.00%) IBM Certification
9 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.00%) SLA
2 6 (6.00%) GDPR
3 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.00%) NIST
5 1 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.00%) GRC
5 1 (1.00%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.00%) PMO
5 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 13 (13.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.00%) Docker
5 2 (2.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.00%) Firmware
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (12.00%) Ansible
2 6 (6.00%) SmoothWall
3 5 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.00%) SCCM
3 5 (5.00%) Terraform
4 4 (4.00%) SCOM
4 4 (4.00%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (3.00%) Grafana
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.00%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.00%) Nagios
6 1 (1.00%) Puppet
6 1 (1.00%) vRealize
6 1 (1.00%) WSUS
6 1 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (19.00%) Cisco
1 19 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.00%) Palo Alto
3 12 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 11 (11.00%) Google
5 9 (9.00%) VMware
6 7 (7.00%) CheckPoint
7 5 (5.00%) Oracle
7 5 (5.00%) Remedy
7 5 (5.00%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.00%) Lotus
9 3 (3.00%) BMC
9 3 (3.00%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.00%) IBM
9 3 (3.00%) Liquidlogic
9 3 (3.00%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.00%) SAP
9 3 (3.00%) Splunk
10 2 (2.00%) Facebook
10 2 (2.00%) Instagram