Proactive Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Proactive Monitoring
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Proactive Monitoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 102 117
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 8 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.46% 0.47% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.58% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £418 - £416
25th Percentile £425 £163 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £175 £638
Median % change year-on-year +157.14% -72.55% +218.75%
75th Percentile £475 £431 £716
90th Percentile £483 £578 £744
England median daily rate £500 £493 £508
% change year-on-year +1.42% -2.86% +19.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,550 1,550 1,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.32% 81.36% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 989 1,018 1,236
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £396 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £653 £725 £728
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 51 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.18 £14.32
25th Percentile £14.81 £14.85 £20.49
Median hourly rate £24.34 £21.59 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% -21.49% +62.60%
75th Percentile £35.45 £36.25 £42.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Proactive Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the West Midlands

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Proactive Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Proactive Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Warwickshire -2 7 £450 - 2
Birmingham -1 1 - - 2
Proactive Monitoring
England

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (62.50%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
1 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Help Desk Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Service Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (50.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) First Line Help Desk Support
4 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Project Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCIE
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Lotus
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk