Network Monitoring Contracts in England

Network Monitoring
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Network Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Monitoring over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 527 678
Rank change year-on-year +67 +151 -101
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 89 119 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 72 72
10th Percentile £300 £306 £276
25th Percentile £366 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £494
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.67% +16.18%
75th Percentile £572 £609 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £495 £484
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.36% +15.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile - £41.62 £22.42
25th Percentile - £56.68 £29.58
Median hourly rate £23.80 £62.00 £41.52
Median % change year-on-year -61.61% +49.33% -26.51%
75th Percentile - £63.23 £41.64
90th Percentile - £68.33 £41.70
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £62.00 £41.52
% change year-on-year -61.61% +49.33% -26.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Network 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 31,794 44,158 63,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,826 30,977 45,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,739
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Monitoring in England

Network Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Monitoring in England

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring in England

Network Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Monitoring in England

Network 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 Network Monitoring within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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 +90 30 £500 -9.09% 12
South East +12 27 £400 -11.11% 18
North of England +36 19 £355 -19.32% 13
North West +29 10 £563 +40.63% 9
Midlands +28 9 £450 -21.74% 5
West Midlands +22 9 £450 -35.71% 3
Yorkshire +12 8 £340 -22.73% 2
South West +7 1 - - 7
East of England 0 1 £550 +10.00% 4
North East - 1 £425 - 2
Network Monitoring
UK

Network 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 2 (2.25%) IIS
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.85%) Azure
2 12 (13.48%) AWS
3 5 (5.62%) GCP
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.25%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.25%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.25%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (46.07%) Firewall
2 28 (31.46%) DNS
3 24 (26.97%) Network Security
3 24 (26.97%) WAN
4 23 (25.84%) SD-WAN
5 16 (17.98%) BGP
5 16 (17.98%) DHCP
6 15 (16.85%) VPN
7 14 (15.73%) MPLS
8 12 (13.48%) OSPF
8 12 (13.48%) Wireless
9 11 (12.36%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (12.36%) Cisco Nexus
9 11 (12.36%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (11.24%) SNMP
11 8 (8.99%) LAN
12 7 (7.87%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (7.87%) TCP/IP
12 7 (7.87%) VLAN
12 7 (7.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.25%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.11%) Finance
3 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.99%) Banking
5 5 (5.62%) Legal
6 4 (4.49%) Billing
7 1 (1.12%) Advertising
7 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (41.57%) Network Engineer
2 10 (11.24%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 10 (11.24%) Support Engineer
2 10 (11.24%) WAN Engineer
3 8 (8.99%) Architect
4 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Analyst
5 6 (6.74%) Data Centre Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Senior
6 5 (5.62%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Network Support
6 5 (5.62%) Network Support Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Service Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Network Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.49%) .NET
2 2 (2.25%) Jinja
2 2 (2.25%) JSON
2 2 (2.25%) NETCONF
2 2 (2.25%) RESTful
2 2 (2.25%) Software Packaging
2 2 (2.25%) Web Services
2 2 (2.25%) XML
2 2 (2.25%) YANG
3 1 (1.12%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.97%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.62%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.62%) PKI
3 4 (4.49%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.37%) Clustering
4 3 (3.37%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.25%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.25%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (29.21%) Windows
2 18 (20.22%) Linux
3 8 (8.99%) Unix
4 7 (7.87%) Windows 10
4 7 (7.87%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (19.10%) Computer Science
3 15 (16.85%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (13.48%) High Availability
5 11 (12.36%) Proactive Monitoring
6 10 (11.24%) Network Virtualisation
6 10 (11.24%) Security Monitoring
7 8 (8.99%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Management
7 8 (8.99%) ITIL
7 8 (8.99%) Mentoring
7 8 (8.99%) Migration
8 7 (7.87%) Project Management
8 7 (7.87%) Runbook
9 6 (6.74%) Configuration Management
9 6 (6.74%) Load Balancing
9 6 (6.74%) Network Architecture
9 6 (6.74%) Network Design
10 5 (5.62%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.74%) Python
2 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.25%) Bash
3 2 (2.25%) C#
3 2 (2.25%) Go
3 2 (2.25%) Java
3 2 (2.25%) Ruby
4 1 (1.12%) Groovy
4 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (38.20%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (30.34%) CCNP
3 26 (29.21%) Security Cleared
4 17 (19.10%) Degree
5 16 (17.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (16.85%) CCNA
7 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
8 11 (12.36%) CCIE
9 7 (7.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (5.62%) DV Cleared
11 4 (4.49%) A+ Certification
11 4 (4.49%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (4.49%) VCAP
12 3 (3.37%) CCDP
12 3 (3.37%) JNCIA
13 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
13 2 (2.25%) CISA
13 2 (2.25%) CISM
13 2 (2.25%) CISSP
13 2 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) ISO 9000
2 5 (5.62%) QA
3 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.25%) GDPR
4 2 (2.25%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (2.25%) NCSC
4 2 (2.25%) SLA
5 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (16.85%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.87%) KVM
3 7 (7.87%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (7.87%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (7.87%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (6.74%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.62%) VMware NSX
6 4 (4.49%) vCloud
7 2 (2.25%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (7.87%) Ansible
1 7 (7.87%) vCenter Server
2 5 (5.62%) IBM BigFix
2 5 (5.62%) Tivoli
3 3 (3.37%) Kibana
4 2 (2.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.25%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.25%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.25%) SCCM
4 2 (2.25%) SCOM
4 2 (2.25%) SCVMM
4 2 (2.25%) Terraform
4 2 (2.25%) VxRail
5 1 (1.12%) NetMRI
5 1 (1.12%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 40 (44.94%) Cisco
2 19 (21.35%) SolarWinds
3 15 (16.85%) VMware
4 13 (14.61%) Microsoft
5 12 (13.48%) Juniper
5 12 (13.48%) Palo Alto
6 11 (12.36%) F5
7 9 (10.11%) CheckPoint
8 7 (7.87%) Infoblox
9 6 (6.74%) Aruba
9 6 (6.74%) Meraki
9 6 (6.74%) Remedy
10 5 (5.62%) Oracle
10 5 (5.62%) ServiceNow
11 4 (4.49%) AlgoSec
11 4 (4.49%) Arista
11 4 (4.49%) Fujitsu
11 4 (4.49%) HP
11 4 (4.49%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (4.49%) Splunk