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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 301 397
Rank change year-on-year +15 +96 +69
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 30 38 51
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.31% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 33 41
10th Percentile £458 £330 £350
25th Percentile £488 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.10% +21.71%
75th Percentile £613 £594 £638
90th Percentile £673 £685 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £493 £513
% change year-on-year +1.42% -3.80% +13.89%

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 9,403 12,352 21,066
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.63% 87.31% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,334 8,355 14,844
10th Percentile £325 £325 £352
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 500 508
10th Percentile £12.62 £15.83 £17.68
25th Percentile £18.52 £25.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £80.48
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.83% +58.73%

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 19 July 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 4 (13.33%) IBM Notes
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (10.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.67%) OpenEdge
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (3.33%) SAP EHS
3 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
1 3 (10.00%) OCI
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.33%) GitHub
2 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) BGP
1 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (3.33%) Modbus
1 1 (3.33%) NX-OS
1 1 (3.33%) OSPF
1 1 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (3.33%) VLAN
1 1 (3.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.33%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Automotive
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) IT Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) DBA
3 6 (20.00%) IT Support
3 6 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Business IT Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Business Support Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Business Systems Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Systems Support
4 5 (16.67%) Systems Support Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Help Desk Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Service Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) XML
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Clustering
2 3 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) CMDB
3 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) AIX
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (23.33%) Analytics
3 7 (23.33%) Performance Monitoring
4 6 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 6 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
4 6 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 5 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (16.67%) Change Control
5 5 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (16.67%) DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) High Availability
5 5 (16.67%) Information Management
5 5 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 5 (16.67%) Release Management
5 5 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (13.33%) Bash
4 3 (10.00%) Perl
4 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) ABAP
6 1 (3.33%) AWK
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.33%) sed
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.33%) GPFS
2 1 (3.33%) NFS
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Liquidlogic
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) Lotus
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) BMC
5 1 (3.33%) BT
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks
5 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.33%) Remedy
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) VMware