Synthetic Monitoring Contracts

Synthetic Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Synthetic Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Synthetic Monitoring over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 710 850
Rank change year-on-year +120 +140 -165
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Monitoring 1 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.010% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.011% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 14
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £744
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -5.88% +35.23%
75th Percentile - £780 £794
90th Percentile - £828 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Synthetic 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 37,777 54,764 81,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 89.85% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,469 37,878 57,177
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
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% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,408 1,780 1,951
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.90 £24.82
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +44.64% -0.72%
75th Percentile £57.87 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.55 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £35.00 £19.91
% change year-on-year -1.13% +75.79% -8.42%

Synthetic Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Synthetic Monitoring in the UK

Synthetic Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Synthetic Monitoring in the UK

Synthetic Monitoring
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Synthetic Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 17 April 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 +138 1 £500 -28.57% 3
London +117 1 £500 -28.57%
Work from Home +115 1 £500 -

Synthetic 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Chaos Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode