Proactive Monitoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Proactive Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 285 332 336
Rank change year-on-year +47 +4 +27
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 111 106 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.46% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.52% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 53 99
10th Percentile £244 £335 £150
25th Percentile £420 £388 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +18.75% +10.34%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £500
90th Percentile £704 £635 £600
UK median daily rate £509 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.85% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 26
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.22 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.11 £18.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.35% +12.12% -21.62%
75th Percentile £15.99 £23.38 £20.00
90th Percentile - £26.65 £21.03
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,041 20,494 27,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.15% 89.42% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,189 14,100 19,120
10th Percentile £250 £259 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,063 1,256 1,368
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.29
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.73 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Proactive Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Proactive Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +34 47 £605 +0.83% 19
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
Scotland +28 11 £215 -60.91% 10
Proactive Monitoring
UK

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.42%) Azure
2 14 (12.61%) OCI
3 10 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.60%) GitHub
4 4 (3.60%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.70%) AWS
5 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.90%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.90%) IaaS
6 1 (0.90%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 27 (24.32%) DNS
2 19 (17.12%) Firewall
3 17 (15.32%) DHCP
4 16 (14.41%) SAN
5 12 (10.81%) WAN
6 10 (9.01%) SD-WAN
7 7 (6.31%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (5.41%) VoIP
9 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.80%) LAN
10 2 (1.80%) Network Security
10 2 (1.80%) Skype
10 2 (1.80%) SMTP
10 2 (1.80%) VLAN
10 2 (1.80%) Wireless
11 1 (0.90%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.60%) Power BI
3 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) JIRA
2 4 (3.60%) GitLab
3 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 53 (47.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.91%) Retail
4 9 (8.11%) Finance
5 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.60%) Banking
7 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.80%) Law
7 2 (1.80%) Military
7 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Advertising
8 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (10.81%) Analyst
2 12 (10.81%) Problem Manager
2 12 (10.81%) Support Engineer
3 11 (9.91%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 10 (9.01%) IT Support
4 10 (9.01%) Storage Engineer
4 10 (9.01%) WAN Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) IT Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Availability Manager
7 5 (4.50%) Service Manager
7 5 (4.50%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (4.50%) VoIP Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Lead
8 4 (3.60%) Senior
8 4 (3.60%) Server Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.50%) Middleware
2 1 (0.90%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) Data Centre
2 16 (14.41%) Virtual Team
3 7 (6.31%) Digital Signage
3 7 (6.31%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.50%) CMDB
4 5 (4.50%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.50%) SCADA
5 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) Clustering
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.80%) PKI
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.80%) Replication
6 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (31.53%) Windows
2 25 (22.52%) Linux
3 23 (20.72%) Windows 10
4 17 (15.32%) Windows Server
5 15 (13.51%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (13.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (12.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (12.61%) Windows XP
7 8 (7.21%) Apple iOS
8 7 (6.31%) Windows 7
9 5 (4.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.04%) ITIL
2 36 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (21.62%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (20.72%) Service Management
5 20 (18.02%) Break/Fix
6 18 (16.22%) Performance Monitoring
6 18 (16.22%) Project Management
7 17 (15.32%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (15.32%) Performance Tuning
7 17 (15.32%) Storage Management
8 16 (14.41%) Mentoring
8 16 (14.41%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (14.41%) Server Management
9 15 (13.51%) Agile
9 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (13.51%) Statistics
10 14 (12.61%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (12.61%) Problem Management
11 13 (11.71%) Quality Management
11 13 (11.71%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.12%) PowerShell
2 16 (14.41%) SQL
3 2 (1.80%) Bash
4 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 63 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 49 (44.14%) SC Cleared
3 22 (19.82%) Degree
4 21 (18.92%) DV Cleared
5 15 (13.51%) CCNA
5 15 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (12.61%) CCNP
7 5 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.90%) APMP
8 1 (0.90%) CISM
8 1 (0.90%) CISSP
8 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.51%) SLA
2 10 (9.01%) ISO 9000
3 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (24.32%) Active Directory
2 20 (18.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (14.41%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (12.61%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.50%) vSphere
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (17.12%) SCCM
2 17 (15.32%) WSUS
3 16 (14.41%) SCOM
4 14 (12.61%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (12.61%) NetBackup
4 14 (12.61%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.50%) Ansible
5 5 (4.50%) Terraform
6 3 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.80%) Nessus
7 2 (1.80%) OPNET
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.90%) Packer
8 1 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (31.53%) Microsoft
2 26 (23.42%) Cisco
3 21 (18.92%) VMware
4 17 (15.32%) Oracle
5 16 (14.41%) Dell
6 15 (13.51%) EMC
6 15 (13.51%) Juniper
7 14 (12.61%) 3PAR
7 14 (12.61%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (12.61%) HP
7 14 (12.61%) Palo Alto
7 14 (12.61%) Symantec
7 14 (12.61%) Veeam
8 7 (6.31%) Virgin Media
9 6 (5.41%) Remedy
10 5 (4.50%) BMC
10 5 (4.50%) SolarWinds
11 4 (3.60%) Fujitsu
12 2 (1.80%) Qualys
12 2 (1.80%) Red Hat