Infrastructure Monitoring Contracts

Infrastructure Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Infrastructure Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 671 783
Rank change year-on-year +130 +112 -95
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 43 26 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.047% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.052% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 45
10th Percentile £413 - £391
25th Percentile £488 £415 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £692 £660 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £430 £425
% change year-on-year +22.09% +1.18% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £17.00
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile £35.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Monitoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Infrastructure Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Monitoring in the UK

Infrastructure Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Monitoring in the UK

Infrastructure Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Monitoring in the UK

Infrastructure Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Monitoring in the UK

Infrastructure Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Monitoring in the UK

Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +109 43 £530 +11.58% 15
UK excluding London +49 33 £525 +22.09% 12
Midlands +39 24 £531 +23.55% 5
West Midlands +34 18 £550 +27.91% 1
London +84 9 £605 +15.24% 5
Work from Home +107 7 £535 +7.00% 4
South East +19 6 £525 +31.25%
East Midlands - 6 £450 - 4
North of England +16 3 £501 +16.57% 3
North West +16 2 £365 -15.12% 3
Yorkshire +12 1 £638 +48.26%

Infrastructure 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 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.33%) AutoCAD
3 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.63%) Azure
4 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (9.30%) Datadog
4 4 (9.30%) Serverless
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.65%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.33%) GCP
7 1 (2.33%) IaaS
7 1 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.91%) DNS
2 8 (18.60%) DHCP
3 6 (13.95%) WAN
4 5 (11.63%) LAN
5 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
6 3 (6.98%) Firewall
6 3 (6.98%) HTTP
6 3 (6.98%) Network Security
7 2 (4.65%) SAN
7 2 (4.65%) VoIP
7 2 (4.65%) VPN
8 1 (2.33%) BGP
8 1 (2.33%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (2.33%) EIGRP
8 1 (2.33%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.33%) IPsec
8 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.33%) MPLS
8 1 (2.33%) OSPF
8 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.91%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
2 2 (4.65%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.30%) Back Office
2 4 (9.30%) Local Government
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (2.33%) Legal
4 1 (2.33%) Marketing
4 1 (2.33%) Military
4 1 (2.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) SIEM Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Network Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Support Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Technical Support
3 4 (9.30%) Technical Support Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Python Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Senior
5 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Exchange Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (32.56%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.65%) AS400
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Windows
2 14 (32.56%) Linux
3 10 (23.26%) Ubuntu
3 10 (23.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (13.95%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) SIEM
2 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (25.58%) RBAC
2 11 (25.58%) Visualisation
3 8 (18.60%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (18.60%) DataOps
4 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (16.28%) ITIL
4 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
5 5 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (11.63%) DevOps
5 5 (11.63%) Migration
6 4 (9.30%) Agile
6 4 (9.30%) Batch Scheduling
6 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (9.30%) Problem Management
7 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) R
2 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.30%) Python
4 3 (6.98%) Java
4 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.33%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) CCNA
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.33%) MCSA
4 1 (2.33%) MCSE
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (58.14%) Active Directory
2 10 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (20.93%) iptables
4 6 (13.95%) Docker
4 6 (13.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (25.58%) Kibana
1 11 (25.58%) logstash
2 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.28%) Terraform
3 5 (11.63%) SCOM
4 3 (6.98%) WSUS
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.33%) Ansible
6 1 (2.33%) Grafana
6 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.26%) VMware
3 6 (13.95%) SolarWinds
4 5 (11.63%) Citrix
5 4 (9.30%) SAP
6 2 (4.65%) Cisco
7 1 (2.33%) Autodesk
7 1 (2.33%) Brio
7 1 (2.33%) F5
7 1 (2.33%) Google
7 1 (2.33%) Juniper
7 1 (2.33%) Kepware
7 1 (2.33%) New Relic
7 1 (2.33%) Rockwell
7 1 (2.33%) Siemens
7 1 (2.33%) Wonderware