Synthetic Monitoring Contracts with Work from Home Options

Synthetic Monitoring
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 471 616
Rank change year-on-year +123 +145 -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Monitoring 1 3 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.012% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.013% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - £750
UK median daily rate £500 £700 £744
% change year-on-year -28.57% -5.88% +35.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,465 23,106 40,645
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.81% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,984 16,334 29,499
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Synthetic Monitoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Synthetic Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Synthetic Monitoring trend for jobs with a WFH option

Synthetic Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Synthetic Monitoring.

Synthetic Monitoring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Synthetic 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:

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