Network Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Chester

Network Monitoring
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Network Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £522 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £547 - -
90th Percentile £549 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £525 £475 -
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 65 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 72.63% 82.28% 82.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 30 15
10th Percentile £288 £312 £453
25th Percentile £413 £350 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% -6.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £597 £675 £738
90th Percentile £656 £768 -
Cheshire median daily rate £474 £437 £478
% change year-on-year +8.40% -8.53% -8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 11
10th Percentile - £12.61 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.01 £12.75 £25.50
Median hourly rate £32.06 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.49% -28.14% +9.80%
75th Percentile £37.50 £33.40 £41.25
90th Percentile £78.68 £43.36 £47.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £35.00
% change year-on-year +85.48% -46.09% +14.60%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Network Monitoring job vacancy trend in Chester

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Network Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) SNMP
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk