Proactive Monitoring Contracts in England

Proactive Monitoring
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Proactive Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 502 530
Rank change year-on-year +134 +28 -23
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 176 139 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 71 151
10th Percentile £248 £243 £165
25th Percentile £420 £350 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £539
90th Percentile £700 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £509 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.85% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 29
10th Percentile £15.21 - -
25th Percentile £16.71 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.64 £18.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +8.82% -19.24%
75th Percentile £22.13 £23.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £23.36 £26.65 £23.75
UK median hourly rate £19.64 £18.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +6.18% +8.82% -19.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Proactive 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,359 43,239 64,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.26% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,563 30,348 45,861
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,528 1,759
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.02 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Proactive Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in England.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in England.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in England

Proactive Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2024. 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
London +116 74 £563 -2.17% 26
South East +34 47 £605 +0.83% 17
North West +36 22 £493 +14.32% 9
North of England +36 22 £493 +14.32% 20
Midlands +32 18 £450 +20.00% 13
West Midlands +28 18 £450 +28.57% 8
South West +18 13 £475 -5.00% 6
Proactive Monitoring
UK

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.57%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (18.18%) Azure
2 17 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (8.52%) AWS
4 14 (7.95%) OCI
5 5 (2.84%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.84%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.84%) WhatsApp
6 4 (2.27%) GitHub
7 3 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.14%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.57%) GCP
9 1 (0.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (19.89%) DNS
2 23 (13.07%) DHCP
2 23 (13.07%) Firewall
3 17 (9.66%) SAN
4 16 (9.09%) WAN
5 12 (6.82%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (5.68%) SD-WAN
7 8 (4.55%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.41%) LAN
8 6 (3.41%) Network Security
8 6 (3.41%) Wireless
9 5 (2.84%) VPN
10 4 (2.27%) SMTP
11 3 (1.70%) Skype
11 3 (1.70%) VoIP
12 2 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (1.14%) HTTP
12 2 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.14%) SNMP
12 2 (1.14%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.11%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.98%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.84%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.84%) Oracle Exadata
3 5 (2.84%) Power BI
4 4 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.57%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.57%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.27%) GitLab
1 4 (2.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.14%) Git
2 2 (1.14%) webpack
3 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (38.07%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.00%) Finance
3 20 (11.36%) Front Office
4 17 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.95%) Banking
6 13 (7.39%) Retail
7 8 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.84%) Law
9 4 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.70%) Military
10 3 (1.70%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.14%) Advertising
11 2 (1.14%) Marketing
11 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Legal
12 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (15.34%) Analyst
2 19 (10.80%) Support Engineer
3 17 (9.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (7.95%) Applications Support
5 12 (6.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 12 (6.82%) Problem Manager
6 10 (5.68%) 1st Line Support
6 10 (5.68%) Applications Support Analyst
6 10 (5.68%) Storage Engineer
6 10 (5.68%) Support Analyst
6 10 (5.68%) Unix Support
6 10 (5.68%) WAN Engineer
7 8 (4.55%) SQL Analyst
7 8 (4.55%) SQL Support Analyst
8 7 (3.98%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (3.98%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 7 (3.98%) IT Support
8 7 (3.98%) Lead
8 7 (3.98%) Senior
9 6 (3.41%) Audio Visual Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.84%) Middleware
2 3 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.14%) Material-UI
3 2 (1.14%) Node.js
3 2 (1.14%) NumPy
3 2 (1.14%) Pandas
3 2 (1.14%) React
3 2 (1.14%) Redux
3 2 (1.14%) RESTful
4 1 (0.57%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.91%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.98%) Digital Signage
3 7 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.41%) Clustering
4 6 (3.41%) CMDB
5 5 (2.84%) Derivative
5 5 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.84%) Market Risk
5 5 (2.84%) OTC Derivatives
5 5 (2.84%) SCADA
5 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.70%) PKI
6 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.70%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.14%) Equities
7 2 (1.14%) Replication
7 2 (1.14%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 78 (44.32%) Windows
2 38 (21.59%) Linux
3 28 (15.91%) Windows 10
4 23 (13.07%) Windows Server
5 21 (11.93%) Unix
6 16 (9.09%) Windows XP
7 15 (8.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (8.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (7.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (6.82%) Windows 7
10 8 (4.55%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (25.00%) ITIL
3 30 (17.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 30 (17.05%) Release Management
4 27 (15.34%) Service Management
5 25 (14.20%) Risk Management
6 23 (13.07%) Performance Tuning
7 22 (12.50%) DevOps
7 22 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 21 (11.93%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (11.36%) Project Management
10 19 (10.80%) Agile
10 19 (10.80%) Performance Monitoring
10 19 (10.80%) Storage Management
11 18 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (9.66%) Break/Fix
12 17 (9.66%) Mentoring
13 16 (9.09%) Server Management
14 15 (8.52%) Statistics
15 14 (7.95%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (26.70%) SQL
2 45 (25.57%) PowerShell
3 31 (17.61%) Python
4 7 (3.98%) Bash
5 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.14%) Perl
5 2 (1.14%) Ruby
5 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 59 (33.52%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.07%) Degree
4 21 (11.93%) DV Cleared
5 19 (10.80%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (9.66%) CCNP
7 15 (8.52%) CCNA
8 6 (3.41%) CISSP
9 5 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.27%) CISM
11 2 (1.14%) CCDP
11 2 (1.14%) MCITP
11 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.57%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.57%) CCIE
12 1 (0.57%) CCSA
12 1 (0.57%) GSEC
12 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.57%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.82%) SLA
2 10 (5.68%) ISO 9000
3 3 (1.70%) COBIT
3 3 (1.70%) GRC
3 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.70%) NIST
4 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 42 (23.86%) Active Directory
2 25 (14.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (7.95%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.84%) vSphere
6 4 (2.27%) Firmware
7 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.70%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.14%) Docker
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (14.20%) SCCM
2 19 (10.80%) WSUS
3 17 (9.66%) SCOM
4 14 (7.95%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (7.95%) NetBackup
4 14 (7.95%) vCenter Server
5 10 (5.68%) Ansible
6 9 (5.11%) Grafana
7 8 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (4.55%) Terraform
8 6 (3.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.70%) OPNET
10 3 (1.70%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
11 2 (1.14%) Nessus
11 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.14%) Puppet
12 1 (0.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 49 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 32 (18.18%) Cisco
3 26 (14.77%) VMware
4 22 (12.50%) Oracle
5 19 (10.80%) Dell
6 17 (9.66%) Juniper
6 17 (9.66%) Palo Alto
7 16 (9.09%) HP
8 15 (8.52%) EMC
9 14 (7.95%) 3PAR
9 14 (7.95%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (7.95%) Symantec
9 14 (7.95%) Veeam
10 9 (5.11%) IBM
11 8 (4.55%) Dynatrace
11 8 (4.55%) Remedy
12 7 (3.98%) Virgin Media
13 6 (3.41%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.84%) Apple
14 5 (2.84%) BMC