Synthetic Monitoring Contracts

Synthetic Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Synthetic Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 569 680
Rank change year-on-year +26 +111 +182
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Monitoring 10 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.003% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £511 - -
25th Percentile £523 £638 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% - -
75th Percentile £545 £713 -
90th Percentile £551 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £536 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Synthetic 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 29,778 33,530 47,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.52% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,631 21,488 32,626
10th Percentile £300 £310 £322
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £731 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,664 1,872 1,558
10th Percentile £14.15 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +85.19%

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 6 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 4 August 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 +21 9 £536 -20.67% 15
UK excluding London - 8 £536 - 10
Midlands - 8 £536 - 8
West Midlands - 8 £536 - 7
Work from Home - 2 £540 - 9
London +1 1 - - 7

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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (90.00%) Apache
1 9 (90.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
1 9 (90.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (10.00%) Datadog
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk Engineer
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Unix
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 10 (100.00%) Observability
2 9 (90.00%) Analytics
2 9 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (90.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (90.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (90.00%) Incident Management
2 9 (90.00%) Log Analytics
2 9 (90.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 9 (90.00%) Proactive Management
2 9 (90.00%) Service Management
2 9 (90.00%) Test Strategy
2 9 (90.00%) Visualisation
3 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Anomaly Detection
5 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) AppDynamics
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
1 9 (90.00%) Dynatrace
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle
1 9 (90.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft