Network Monitoring Contracts

Network Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 578 724
Rank change year-on-year +86 +146 -100
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 94 138 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.25% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 94 88
10th Percentile £313 £310 £314
25th Percentile £400 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £477
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +4.75% +15.72%
75th Percentile £615 £573 £575
90th Percentile £695 £696 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £445
% change year-on-year -5.26% +6.74% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - £41.62 £22.42
25th Percentile - £56.68 £29.58
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £41.52
Median % change year-on-year - +49.33% -26.51%
75th Percentile - £63.23 £41.64
90th Percentile - £68.33 £41.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.00 £17.64
% change year-on-year - +251.47% -68.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +89 81 £475 -5.00% 48
UK excluding London +33 56 £450 -5.26% 50
London +102 28 £525 -4.55% 3
South East +7 23 £400 -16.28% 15
Work from Home +101 22 £538 +3.57% 23
North of England +41 14 £355 -11.25% 14
Midlands +36 9 £450 -7.69% 3
West Midlands +30 9 £450 -29.41% 2
Yorkshire +21 9 £340 -19.05% 6
Scotland +25 6 £555 +11.00% 6
North West +24 5 £563 +40.63% 8
South West +15 3 £769 +92.19% 8
East of England +2 1 £550 +10.00% 5

Network 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 2 (2.13%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.89%) Azure
2 8 (8.51%) AWS
3 3 (3.19%) GCP
4 2 (2.13%) Catchpoint
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 47 (50.00%) Firewall
2 31 (32.98%) WAN
3 30 (31.91%) DNS
4 25 (26.60%) Network Security
5 24 (25.53%) SD-WAN
6 22 (23.40%) BGP
7 17 (18.09%) DHCP
7 17 (18.09%) OSPF
8 15 (15.96%) MPLS
9 14 (14.89%) VPN
10 13 (13.83%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (12.77%) SNMP
12 10 (10.64%) LAN
12 10 (10.64%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (9.57%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (9.57%) Wireless
14 8 (8.51%) SSL
14 8 (8.51%) VLAN
15 7 (7.45%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (6.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.19%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.19%) Git
3 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 31 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.83%) Finance
3 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.51%) Banking
6 5 (5.32%) Legal
7 4 (4.26%) Billing
8 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (38.30%) Network Engineer
2 12 (12.77%) WAN Engineer
3 11 (11.70%) Senior
4 10 (10.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Architect
6 8 (8.51%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Data Centre Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Service Analyst
8 5 (5.32%) Service Desk Analyst
9 4 (4.26%) IT Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Network Architect
9 4 (4.26%) Network Manager
9 4 (4.26%) Network Support
9 4 (4.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.19%) Jinja
1 3 (3.19%) JSON
1 3 (3.19%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.19%) RESTful
1 3 (3.19%) XML
1 3 (3.19%) YANG
2 2 (2.13%) .NET
3 1 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.06%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 28 (29.79%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.26%) PKI
3 4 (4.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.19%) Clustering
5 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.13%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (25.53%) Windows
2 18 (19.15%) Linux
3 7 (7.45%) Unix
3 7 (7.45%) Windows 10
3 7 (7.45%) Windows 7
4 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.06%) Debian
5 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (15.96%) Computer Science
3 14 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (11.70%) Proactive Monitoring
5 10 (10.64%) Security Monitoring
6 9 (9.57%) Network Architecture
7 8 (8.51%) Configuration Management
7 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (8.51%) ITIL
7 8 (8.51%) Mentoring
7 8 (8.51%) Migration
7 8 (8.51%) Network Design
8 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (7.45%) Network Management
8 7 (7.45%) Project Management
8 7 (7.45%) Runbook
9 6 (6.38%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (6.38%) High Availability
9 6 (6.38%) Load Balancing
9 6 (6.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.77%) Python
2 3 (3.19%) Bash
2 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.13%) C#
3 2 (2.13%) Go
3 2 (2.13%) Java
3 2 (2.13%) Ruby
3 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.13%) SQL
4 1 (1.06%) Groovy
4 1 (1.06%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (36.17%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (27.66%) CCNP
3 24 (25.53%) Security Cleared
4 17 (18.09%) Degree
5 14 (14.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
7 12 (12.77%) CCNA
8 11 (11.70%) CCIE
9 7 (7.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (4.26%) A+ Certification
10 4 (4.26%) DV Cleared
10 4 (4.26%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (3.19%) CCDP
12 2 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (2.13%) JNCIA
12 2 (2.13%) JNCIP
12 2 (2.13%) VCAP
13 1 (1.06%) JNCIS
13 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
13 1 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) ISO 9000
2 5 (5.32%) QA
3 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.19%) NCSC
4 2 (2.13%) GDPR
4 2 (2.13%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (14.89%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.45%) KVM
3 7 (7.45%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (7.45%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (7.45%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (4.26%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.26%) vCloud
5 2 (2.13%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.06%) iptables
6 1 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (10.64%) Ansible
2 7 (7.45%) vCenter Server
3 5 (5.32%) IBM BigFix
3 5 (5.32%) Terraform
3 5 (5.32%) Tivoli
4 3 (3.19%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.19%) Kibana
5 2 (2.13%) Grafana
6 1 (1.06%) Icinga
6 1 (1.06%) Nagios
6 1 (1.06%) NetMRI
6 1 (1.06%) Salt
6 1 (1.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (46.81%) Cisco
2 17 (18.09%) SolarWinds
3 16 (17.02%) Palo Alto
4 14 (14.89%) Juniper
5 11 (11.70%) CheckPoint
5 11 (11.70%) Microsoft
5 11 (11.70%) VMware
6 9 (9.57%) Meraki
7 8 (8.51%) F5
7 8 (8.51%) Infoblox
8 7 (7.45%) Arista
8 7 (7.45%) Aruba
9 6 (6.38%) Remedy
10 5 (5.32%) Oracle
10 5 (5.32%) ServiceNow
10 5 (5.32%) Zscaler
11 4 (4.26%) AlgoSec
11 4 (4.26%) Fujitsu
11 4 (4.26%) Splunk
12 3 (3.19%) Fortinet