Network Monitoring Contracts in England

Network Monitoring
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Network Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 462 536
Rank change year-on-year +99 +74 +156
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 122 80 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.22% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 48 71
10th Percentile £400 £307 £310
25th Percentile £463 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £562 £583 £619
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £18.80 - £41.62
25th Percentile £24.00 - £56.68
Median hourly rate £32.67 £23.80 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% -61.61% +49.33%
75th Percentile £41.33 - £63.23
90th Percentile £46.53 - £68.33
UK median hourly rate £32.67 £23.80 £62.00
% change year-on-year +37.25% -61.61% +49.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 May 2025. 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 +70 59 £500 -3.61% 31
Midlands +37 24 £538 +19.56% 7
West Midlands +29 24 £538 +19.56% 6
North of England +18 16 £500 +40.85% 12
North West +21 12 £500 -11.11% 8
South East +33 9 £551 +37.75% 23
South West +52 7 £525 - 6
East of England +34 5 £475 -13.64% 11
Yorkshire +2 3 £506 +48.90% 4
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 1 (0.82%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (0.82%) Confluence
1 1 (0.82%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.75%) AWS
2 12 (9.84%) Azure
3 2 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (1.64%) GCP
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (0.82%) Mimecast
4 1 (0.82%) Nutanix
4 1 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 67 (54.92%) Firewall
2 45 (36.89%) BGP
2 45 (36.89%) OSPF
3 41 (33.61%) VPN
4 38 (31.15%) Network Security
5 36 (29.51%) WAN
6 31 (25.41%) MPLS
7 25 (20.49%) LAN
8 22 (18.03%) EIGRP
9 21 (17.21%) SD-WAN
10 17 (13.93%) Wireshark
11 14 (11.48%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (11.48%) Cisco IOS
11 14 (11.48%) Wireless
12 13 (10.66%) Broadband
12 13 (10.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 12 (9.84%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (9.84%) IPv6
13 12 (9.84%) Multicast
13 12 (9.84%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (9.02%) JIRA
2 3 (2.46%) GitLab
3 2 (1.64%) Git
3 2 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.56%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.92%) Legal
5 5 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.10%) Finance
6 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.46%) Law
8 1 (0.82%) Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Retail
8 1 (0.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 66 (54.10%) Network Engineer
2 16 (13.11%) Security Engineer
3 14 (11.48%) Network Security Engineer
3 14 (11.48%) Principal Engineer
3 14 (11.48%) Principal Network Engineer
4 12 (9.84%) Senior
5 10 (8.20%) Tester
6 7 (5.74%) Cisco Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Architect
7 6 (4.92%) Deployment Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Network Deployment Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Analyst
8 5 (4.10%) Implementation Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Principal Security Engineer
9 4 (3.28%) Juniper Engineer
9 4 (3.28%) Network Analyst
10 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.84%) 802.1X
2 4 (3.28%) Middleware
3 2 (1.64%) JSON
3 2 (1.64%) XML
4 1 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.82%) REST
4 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.11%) SCADA
2 12 (9.84%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.10%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.46%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.64%) CMDB
7 2 (1.64%) IoT
7 2 (1.64%) PKI
7 2 (1.64%) Replication
8 1 (0.82%) Clustering
8 1 (0.82%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.82%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) CatOS
2 5 (4.10%) Unix
3 2 (1.64%) Windows
3 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.82%) CentOS
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (21.31%) Migration
2 22 (18.03%) Service Management
3 19 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (14.75%) ITIL
5 13 (10.66%) ITSM
5 13 (10.66%) Project Delivery
6 11 (9.02%) Matrix Organization
6 11 (9.02%) Network Design
7 10 (8.20%) Change Management
7 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (8.20%) Systems Engineering
8 9 (7.38%) Agile
9 8 (6.56%) Computer Science
9 8 (6.56%) Network Management
10 7 (5.74%) Performance Testing
10 7 (5.74%) Roadmaps
11 6 (4.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (4.92%) DevOps
11 6 (4.92%) Patch Management
11 6 (4.92%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.66%) Python
2 4 (3.28%) Bash
3 3 (2.46%) Java
4 2 (1.64%) SQL
5 1 (0.82%) JCL
5 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.82%) REXX
Qualifications
1 44 (36.07%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (22.95%) Security Cleared
3 26 (21.31%) CCNP
4 24 (19.67%) SC Cleared
5 19 (15.57%) CCIE
6 13 (10.66%) CCNA
7 11 (9.02%) Degree
8 8 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (4.10%) CCIE Service Provider
9 5 (4.10%) CCSA
10 4 (3.28%) CCSE
11 3 (2.46%) AWS Certification
11 3 (2.46%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.64%) JNCIE
12 2 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.82%) CISA
13 1 (0.82%) CISM
13 1 (0.82%) CISSP
13 1 (0.82%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) SLA
2 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.46%) NIST
3 2 (1.64%) NIST 800
3 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
System Software
1 15 (12.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.10%) Firmware
2 5 (4.10%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.64%) FreeRADIUS
4 2 (1.64%) iptables
5 1 (0.82%) Docker
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (17.21%) Ansible
2 18 (14.75%) Terraform
3 12 (9.84%) ZABBIX
4 7 (5.74%) Nagios
5 5 (4.10%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (4.10%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.28%) CA Spectrum
6 4 (3.28%) HP ALM
7 3 (2.46%) Grafana
7 3 (2.46%) Netcool
8 2 (1.64%) Cacti
8 2 (1.64%) OPNET
8 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.64%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.64%) Puppet
9 1 (0.82%) Cisco LMS
9 1 (0.82%) Iperf
9 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.82%) logstash
9 1 (0.82%) Observium
Vendors
1 68 (55.74%) Cisco
2 39 (31.97%) SolarWinds
3 21 (17.21%) Palo Alto
3 21 (17.21%) VMware
4 20 (16.39%) Juniper
5 19 (15.57%) F5
6 17 (13.93%) CheckPoint
7 14 (11.48%) Fortinet
8 12 (9.84%) Meraki
9 9 (7.38%) Broadcom
9 9 (7.38%) Nokia
10 8 (6.56%) Aruba
11 5 (4.10%) HP
12 4 (3.28%) Infoblox
12 4 (3.28%) MuleSoft
12 4 (3.28%) Oracle
12 4 (3.28%) Zscaler
13 3 (2.46%) Arista
13 3 (2.46%) Foundry
13 3 (2.46%) ServiceNow