Proactive Monitoring Contracts

Proactive Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Proactive Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 514 581
Rank change year-on-year +124 +67 -24
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 187 174 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.31% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.34% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 96 172
10th Percentile £242 £300 £165
25th Percentile £413 £386 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £608 £625 £540
90th Percentile £675 £644 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +3.79% +18.75% +11.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 30
10th Percentile £15.21 - -
25th Percentile £16.71 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.64 £18.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +8.82% -19.24%
75th Percentile £22.13 £23.38 £20.75
90th Percentile £23.36 £26.65 £24.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.11 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -18.35% +12.12% -21.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Proactive 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 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
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% -4.99%

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 25 May 2024.

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 11 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 25 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 +123 172 £525 +10.53% 111
UK excluding London +58 110 £493 +3.79% 97
London +105 72 £563 -6.25% 33
South East +30 47 £605 +0.83% 38
Work from Home +102 37 £500 - 51
North of England +42 22 £493 +14.32% 20
North West +34 22 £493 +14.32% 10
Midlands +42 18 £450 +20.00% 14
West Midlands +24 18 £450 +28.57% 7
Scotland +21 12 £215 -60.91% 11
South West +19 11 £503 +0.60% 8

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 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.53%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 31 (16.58%) Azure
2 18 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (8.56%) AWS
4 14 (7.49%) OCI
5 6 (3.21%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.67%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.67%) WhatsApp
7 4 (2.14%) GitHub
8 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.07%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.53%) GCP
10 1 (0.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (18.72%) DNS
2 23 (12.30%) DHCP
2 23 (12.30%) Firewall
3 17 (9.09%) SAN
4 16 (8.56%) WAN
5 12 (6.42%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (5.35%) SD-WAN
7 8 (4.28%) TCP/IP
7 8 (4.28%) VoIP
8 7 (3.74%) Wireless
9 6 (3.21%) LAN
9 6 (3.21%) Network Security
10 5 (2.67%) VPN
11 4 (2.14%) SMTP
12 3 (1.60%) Skype
13 2 (1.07%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (1.07%) HTTP
13 2 (1.07%) OSPF
13 2 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (1.07%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.81%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.74%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.67%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.67%) Oracle Exadata
3 5 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.67%) Power BI
4 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.60%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.07%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.53%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.53%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.35%) JIRA
2 4 (2.14%) GitLab
3 2 (1.07%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.07%) Git
3 2 (1.07%) webpack
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (37.43%) Social Skills
2 44 (23.53%) Finance
3 20 (10.70%) Front Office
4 19 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.49%) Banking
6 13 (6.95%) Retail
7 12 (6.42%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.28%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.14%) Law
9 4 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Military
10 3 (1.60%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.07%) Advertising
11 2 (1.07%) Marketing
11 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (13.37%) Analyst
2 22 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 17 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (7.49%) Applications Support
5 12 (6.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 12 (6.42%) Problem Manager
6 11 (5.88%) Support Analyst
7 10 (5.35%) 1st Line Support
7 10 (5.35%) Applications Support Analyst
7 10 (5.35%) IT Support
7 10 (5.35%) Storage Engineer
7 10 (5.35%) Unix Support
7 10 (5.35%) WAN Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Senior
8 8 (4.28%) SQL Analyst
8 8 (4.28%) SQL Support Analyst
9 7 (3.74%) 2nd Line Support
9 7 (3.74%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (3.74%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.67%) Middleware
2 3 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.07%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.07%) Material-UI
3 2 (1.07%) Node.js
3 2 (1.07%) NumPy
3 2 (1.07%) Pandas
3 2 (1.07%) React
3 2 (1.07%) Redux
3 2 (1.07%) RESTful
4 1 (0.53%) EDI
4 1 (0.53%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.97%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.56%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.74%) Digital Signage
3 7 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.21%) Clustering
4 6 (3.21%) CMDB
5 5 (2.67%) Derivative
5 5 (2.67%) Market Risk
5 5 (2.67%) OTC Derivatives
5 5 (2.67%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.67%) SCADA
5 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.60%) PKI
7 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.07%) iPad
8 2 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 77 (41.18%) Windows
2 38 (20.32%) Linux
3 28 (14.97%) Windows 10
4 23 (12.30%) Windows Server
5 21 (11.23%) Unix
6 16 (8.56%) Windows XP
7 15 (8.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (8.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (7.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (6.42%) Windows 7
10 8 (4.28%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.07%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.81%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (24.06%) ITIL
3 30 (16.04%) Release Management
4 29 (15.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 27 (14.44%) Service Management
6 25 (13.37%) Risk Management
7 24 (12.83%) Performance Tuning
8 23 (12.30%) Break/Fix
9 22 (11.76%) DevOps
9 22 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
10 21 (11.23%) Project Management
11 20 (10.70%) Performance Monitoring
12 19 (10.16%) Agile
12 19 (10.16%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (10.16%) Storage Management
13 18 (9.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (9.09%) Mentoring
15 16 (8.56%) Server Management
16 15 (8.02%) Problem Management
16 15 (8.02%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 48 (25.67%) SQL
2 46 (24.60%) PowerShell
3 31 (16.58%) Python
4 7 (3.74%) Bash
5 2 (1.07%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.07%) Perl
5 2 (1.07%) Ruby
5 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 51 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.83%) Degree
4 19 (10.16%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (10.16%) DV Cleared
5 17 (9.09%) CCNP
6 15 (8.02%) CCNA
7 7 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.67%) CISSP
9 3 (1.60%) CISM
9 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.07%) CCDP
10 2 (1.07%) MCITP
11 1 (0.53%) CCIE
11 1 (0.53%) CCSA
11 1 (0.53%) GIAC
11 1 (0.53%) GSEC
11 1 (0.53%) HNC
11 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.53%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.63%) SLA
2 10 (5.35%) ISO 9000
3 2 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.07%) COBIT
3 2 (1.07%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.07%) GRC
3 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.07%) NIST
3 2 (1.07%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 43 (22.99%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (8.56%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (7.49%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.67%) vSphere
6 4 (2.14%) Firmware
7 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.07%) Docker
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (13.90%) SCCM
2 19 (10.16%) WSUS
3 17 (9.09%) SCOM
4 14 (7.49%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (7.49%) NetBackup
4 14 (7.49%) vCenter Server
5 10 (5.35%) Ansible
6 9 (4.81%) Grafana
7 8 (4.28%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (4.28%) Terraform
8 6 (3.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.60%) OPNET
10 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.07%) Kubernetes
11 2 (1.07%) Nessus
11 2 (1.07%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.07%) Puppet
12 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 32 (17.11%) Cisco
3 26 (13.90%) VMware
4 22 (11.76%) Oracle
5 19 (10.16%) Dell
6 17 (9.09%) Juniper
6 17 (9.09%) Palo Alto
7 16 (8.56%) HP
8 15 (8.02%) EMC
9 14 (7.49%) 3PAR
9 14 (7.49%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (7.49%) Symantec
9 14 (7.49%) Veeam
10 9 (4.81%) IBM
11 8 (4.28%) Dynatrace
11 8 (4.28%) Remedy
12 7 (3.74%) Virgin Media
13 6 (3.21%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.67%) Apple
14 5 (2.67%) BMC