Monitoring Analyst Contracts

Monitoring Analyst
UK

The median Monitoring Analyst daily rate in the UK is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 661 849
Rank change year-on-year +96 +188 -145
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Analyst 5 29 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.051% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.054% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 12
10th Percentile £391 £250 £329
25th Percentile £397 £326 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £472 £518 £575
90th Percentile £474 £533 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £453 £325
% change year-on-year -6.08% +39.23% -40.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,467 53,505 83,509
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.60% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,700 37,347 58,712
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,724 1,494 2,029
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%

Monitoring Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Monitoring Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Monitoring Analyst in the UK

Monitoring Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Monitoring Analyst in the UK

Monitoring Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Monitoring Analyst in the UK

Monitoring Analyst
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Monitoring Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +84 4 £450 +38.46% 1
England +79 4 £450 +28.57% 1
Work from Home +107 1 £450 -
UK excluding London +49 1 £425 -6.08% 1
Scotland +39 1 £425 -5.56%

Monitoring Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Monitoring Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Monitoring Analyst in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Spreadsheet
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Line Management
1 2 (40.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (20.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) QRadar
2 1 (20.00%) Nessus
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM

Monitoring Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (40.00%) Line Management
1 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) GCIA
1 1 (20.00%) GCIH
1 1 (20.00%) GIAC
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CSIRT
1 1 (20.00%) Nessus
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle