Proactive Monitoring Contracts

Proactive Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 523 587
Rank change year-on-year +144 +64 -54
Contract jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 197 178 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.35% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 99 164
10th Percentile £228 £323 £165
25th Percentile £413 £400 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £608 £625 £534
90th Percentile £700 £684 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £415
% change year-on-year +4.53% +14.46% +16.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 31
10th Percentile £16.21 - -
25th Percentile £19.20 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.18 £18.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% +8.82% -19.24%
75th Percentile £42.29 £23.19 £21.00
90th Percentile £53.15 £25.93 £23.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.62 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year +103.36% +12.12% -21.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +134 181 £506 +1.20% 83
UK excluding London +54 115 £497 +4.53% 65
London +124 78 £556 -7.29% 24
South East +36 50 £605 -24.38% 15
Work from Home +104 36 £500 - 35
North of England +30 21 £493 +14.32% 18
North West +28 21 £493 +14.32% 9
Midlands +42 18 £450 +20.00% 13
West Midlands +32 18 £450 +28.57% 9
Scotland +35 13 £215 -60.91% 9
South West +26 13 £475 -5.00% 5

Proactive Monitoring
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.02%) IBM Domino
3 2 (1.02%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.24%) Azure
2 19 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (8.63%) AWS
4 14 (7.11%) OCI
5 6 (3.05%) WhatsApp
6 5 (2.54%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.54%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.03%) GitHub
8 3 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.02%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.51%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 38 (19.29%) DNS
2 25 (12.69%) Firewall
3 24 (12.18%) DHCP
4 17 (8.63%) SAN
5 16 (8.12%) WAN
6 13 (6.60%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (5.08%) SD-WAN
7 10 (5.08%) TCP/IP
8 8 (4.06%) VoIP
8 8 (4.06%) Wireless
9 7 (3.55%) Network Security
10 6 (3.05%) LAN
10 6 (3.05%) VPN
11 5 (2.54%) SMTP
12 3 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (1.52%) Skype
12 3 (1.52%) VLAN
13 2 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (1.02%) Unified Communications
13 2 (1.02%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.57%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.55%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.54%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.54%) Oracle Exadata
3 5 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.54%) Power BI
4 4 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.51%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.51%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.09%) JIRA
2 4 (2.03%) GitLab
3 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.02%) Git
3 2 (1.02%) webpack
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (36.55%) Social Skills
2 48 (24.37%) Finance
3 21 (10.66%) Front Office
4 20 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.11%) Banking
6 13 (6.60%) Retail
7 11 (5.58%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.06%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.54%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.54%) Law
10 4 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.52%) Military
11 3 (1.52%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.02%) Advertising
12 2 (1.02%) Legal
12 2 (1.02%) Marketing
12 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (14.21%) Analyst
2 23 (11.68%) Support Engineer
3 18 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (7.11%) Applications Support
5 13 (6.60%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 11 (5.58%) Problem Manager
7 10 (5.08%) 1st Line Support
7 10 (5.08%) Applications Support Analyst
7 10 (5.08%) IT Support
7 10 (5.08%) Storage Engineer
7 10 (5.08%) Support Analyst
7 10 (5.08%) Unix Support
7 10 (5.08%) WAN Engineer
8 8 (4.06%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (4.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (4.06%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.06%) Lead
8 8 (4.06%) Senior
8 8 (4.06%) SQL Analyst
8 8 (4.06%) SQL Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.54%) Middleware
2 3 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.02%) Material-UI
3 2 (1.02%) Node.js
3 2 (1.02%) NumPy
3 2 (1.02%) Pandas
3 2 (1.02%) React
3 2 (1.02%) Redux
3 2 (1.02%) RESTful
4 1 (0.51%) EDI
4 1 (0.51%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.21%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.12%) Virtual Team
3 8 (4.06%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.55%) Digital Signage
5 6 (3.05%) Clustering
5 6 (3.05%) CMDB
5 6 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.05%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.54%) Derivative
6 5 (2.54%) Market Risk
6 5 (2.54%) OTC Derivatives
6 5 (2.54%) SCADA
6 5 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.52%) PKI
7 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.02%) Equities
8 2 (1.02%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 82 (41.62%) Windows
2 37 (18.78%) Linux
3 29 (14.72%) Windows 10
4 25 (12.69%) Windows Server
5 20 (10.15%) Unix
6 16 (8.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 16 (8.12%) Windows XP
7 15 (7.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (7.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (6.60%) Windows 7
10 8 (4.06%) Apple iOS
11 4 (2.03%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (22.34%) ITIL
3 31 (15.74%) Release Management
4 30 (15.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 28 (14.21%) Service Management
6 26 (13.20%) Risk Management
7 24 (12.18%) Performance Tuning
7 24 (12.18%) Project Management
8 23 (11.68%) Break/Fix
9 22 (11.17%) DevOps
10 21 (10.66%) Agile
10 21 (10.66%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (10.66%) Root Cause Analysis
11 20 (10.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (10.15%) Performance Monitoring
12 19 (9.64%) Storage Management
13 17 (8.63%) Mentoring
14 16 (8.12%) Server Management
15 15 (7.61%) Vulnerability Management
16 14 (7.11%) Converged Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.38%) SQL
2 48 (24.37%) PowerShell
3 32 (16.24%) Python
4 6 (3.05%) Bash
5 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.02%) Perl
5 2 (1.02%) Ruby
5 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (34.52%) Security Cleared
2 50 (25.38%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.69%) Degree
4 22 (11.17%) DV Cleared
5 19 (9.64%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (8.63%) CCNP
7 15 (7.61%) CCNA
8 7 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.05%) CISSP
10 4 (2.03%) CISM
11 2 (1.02%) APMP
11 2 (1.02%) CCDP
11 2 (1.02%) MCITP
11 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.02%) PMP
12 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.51%) GREM
12 1 (0.51%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.64%) SLA
2 10 (5.08%) ISO 9000
3 3 (1.52%) COBIT
3 3 (1.52%) GRC
3 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.52%) NIST
3 3 (1.52%) QA
4 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (22.84%) Active Directory
2 26 (13.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (8.63%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (7.11%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.54%) vSphere
6 4 (2.03%) Firmware
7 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.02%) Docker
8 2 (1.02%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (13.20%) SCCM
2 20 (10.15%) WSUS
3 17 (8.63%) SCOM
4 14 (7.11%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (7.11%) NetBackup
4 14 (7.11%) vCenter Server
5 10 (5.08%) Ansible
6 9 (4.57%) Grafana
7 8 (4.06%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (4.06%) Terraform
8 6 (3.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 5 (2.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.52%) OPNET
10 3 (1.52%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.02%) Kubernetes
11 2 (1.02%) Nessus
11 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.02%) Puppet
12 1 (0.51%) logstash
Vendors
1 58 (29.44%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.26%) Cisco
3 28 (14.21%) VMware
4 23 (11.68%) Oracle
5 20 (10.15%) Dell
6 17 (8.63%) Juniper
6 17 (8.63%) Palo Alto
7 16 (8.12%) HP
8 15 (7.61%) EMC
9 14 (7.11%) 3PAR
9 14 (7.11%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (7.11%) Symantec
9 14 (7.11%) Veeam
10 10 (5.08%) IBM
11 8 (4.06%) Dynatrace
11 8 (4.06%) Remedy
12 7 (3.55%) Virgin Media
13 6 (3.05%) Apple
13 6 (3.05%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.54%) Citrix