Proactive Monitoring Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Proactive Monitoring
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 309 418
Rank change year-on-year +28 +109 +117
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 23 36 59
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.27% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 44
10th Percentile £355 £300 £337
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £487
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +2.77% +29.73%
75th Percentile £498 £594 £638
90th Percentile £500 £610 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £475
% change year-on-year -1.19% +6.53% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Proactive Monitoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Proactive Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Proactive Monitoring trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Proactive Monitoring.

Proactive Monitoring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Proactive Monitoring daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Proactive Monitoring.

Proactive Monitoring hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (13.04%) IBM Notes
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (13.04%) Datadog
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.35%) Mimecast
4 1 (4.35%) Pulumi
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
1 2 (8.70%) Network Security
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.70%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.35%) Modbus
2 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Local Government
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Project Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Site Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Help Desk Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Service Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Integration Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Integration Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) IT Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) IT Support
5 2 (8.70%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) First Line Help Desk Support
6 1 (4.35%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) boto
1 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (8.70%) Flask
1 2 (8.70%) YAML
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) CMDB
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) SCADA
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Unix
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
3 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
3 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
3 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (17.39%) Incident Response
3 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
3 4 (17.39%) Observability
3 4 (17.39%) Problem Management
3 4 (17.39%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery
3 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (13.04%) Analytics
4 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
4 3 (13.04%) High Availability
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) C#
2 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CISM
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (4.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Ansible
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) CASB
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco
2 3 (13.04%) Lotus
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) BMC
4 1 (4.35%) BT
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) Forcepoint
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.35%) Proofpoint
4 1 (4.35%) Remedy
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) VMware