Network Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Network Monitoring
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Network Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 86 118
Rank change year-on-year -18 +32 0
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 5 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.32% 0.75% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.82% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £426 £418 £356
25th Percentile £445 £439 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £513 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +28.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £478 £560 -
90th Percentile £512 £606 £488
South East median daily rate £441 £551 £525
% change year-on-year -20.05% +4.95% -2.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Network 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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,336 1,218 1,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.14% 91.92% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 666 980
10th Percentile £293 £255 £210
25th Percentile £401 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -0.05%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £606
90th Percentile £650 £675 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 37 90
10th Percentile £16.12 £26.15 £23.88
25th Percentile £20.65 £42.88 £43.80
Median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £61.13
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +0.61% +1.88%
75th Percentile £89.88 £65.62 £69.75
90th Percentile £105.60 £76.18 £85.61
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -47.61% -5.26% +7.34%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Network Monitoring job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network Monitoring

Network Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network Monitoring

Network Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
Wokingham -26 3 £456 -5.25% 1
Reading +5 1 £523 - 2
Network Monitoring
South East

Network Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) VLAN
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Juniper
1 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds