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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 554 689
Rank change year-on-year +87 +135 -113
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 81 114 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.25% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 70 63
10th Percentile £309 £305 £275
25th Percentile £386 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £598 £628 £569
90th Percentile £650 £704 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £477
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.75% +13.99%
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 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 25 April 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 25 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
London +100 28 £525 -4.55% 11
South East -2 23 £400 -16.76% 17
North of England +36 16 £355 -19.32% 17
West Midlands +31 9 £450 -29.41% 2
Midlands +27 9 £450 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire +25 9 £340 -22.73% 8
North West +19 7 £563 +40.63% 9
South West +11 1 - - 9
East of England -2 1 £550 -8.33% 5
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 (2.47%) IIS
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.05%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) AWS
3 3 (3.70%) GCP
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.47%) Mimecast
4 2 (2.47%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.47%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (48.15%) Firewall
2 26 (32.10%) DNS
3 22 (27.16%) Network Security
4 21 (25.93%) WAN
5 19 (23.46%) SD-WAN
6 15 (18.52%) DHCP
7 13 (16.05%) BGP
8 12 (14.81%) MPLS
9 11 (13.58%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (13.58%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (12.35%) Cisco Nexus
10 10 (12.35%) SNMP
10 10 (12.35%) VPN
10 10 (12.35%) Wireless
11 9 (11.11%) OSPF
12 7 (8.64%) LAN
12 7 (8.64%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (6.17%) HSRP
13 5 (6.17%) VLAN
13 5 (6.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.47%) Git
3 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 26 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.81%) Finance
3 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.88%) Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Billing
5 4 (4.94%) Legal
6 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (40.74%) Network Engineer
2 10 (12.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 10 (12.35%) WAN Engineer
3 9 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) Architect
5 7 (8.64%) Senior
6 6 (7.41%) Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Data Centre Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (6.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Service Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Network Manager
8 4 (4.94%) Network Support
8 4 (4.94%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.47%) .NET
1 2 (2.47%) Jinja
1 2 (2.47%) JSON
1 2 (2.47%) NETCONF
1 2 (2.47%) RESTful
1 2 (2.47%) Software Packaging
1 2 (2.47%) XML
1 2 (2.47%) YANG
2 1 (1.23%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.23%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.86%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.17%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.17%) PKI
3 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (4.94%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.70%) Clustering
5 2 (2.47%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.47%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.10%) Windows
2 15 (18.52%) Linux
3 8 (9.88%) Unix
4 7 (8.64%) Windows 10
4 7 (8.64%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (17.28%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (16.05%) Computer Science
4 11 (13.58%) Proactive Monitoring
5 10 (12.35%) Security Monitoring
6 9 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
7 8 (9.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (9.88%) High Availability
7 8 (9.88%) ITIL
7 8 (9.88%) Mentoring
7 8 (9.88%) Migration
8 7 (8.64%) Project Management
8 7 (8.64%) Runbook
9 6 (7.41%) Configuration Management
9 6 (7.41%) Load Balancing
9 6 (7.41%) Network Architecture
9 6 (7.41%) Network Design
10 5 (6.17%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (6.17%) Network Management
10 5 (6.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.88%) Python
2 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.47%) Bash
3 2 (2.47%) C#
3 2 (2.47%) Go
3 2 (2.47%) Java
3 2 (2.47%) Ruby
4 1 (1.23%) Groovy
4 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (37.04%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (27.16%) CCNP
3 21 (25.93%) Security Cleared
4 13 (16.05%) Degree
5 12 (14.81%) CCNA
5 12 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (14.81%) SC Cleared
6 9 (11.11%) CCIE
7 7 (8.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (4.94%) A+ Certification
8 4 (4.94%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (3.70%) CCDP
10 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.47%) JNCIA
10 2 (2.47%) VCAP
11 1 (1.23%) CCSA
11 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.23%) JNCIP
11 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) ISO 9000
2 5 (6.17%) QA
3 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.47%) GDPR
4 2 (2.47%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (2.47%) NCSC
4 2 (2.47%) SLA
5 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.23%) NIST
5 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (19.75%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.64%) KVM
3 7 (8.64%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (8.64%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (8.64%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (7.41%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.94%) vCloud
6 2 (2.47%) BitLocker
6 2 (2.47%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (9.88%) Ansible
2 7 (8.64%) vCenter Server
3 5 (6.17%) IBM BigFix
3 5 (6.17%) Tivoli
4 3 (3.70%) Kibana
4 3 (3.70%) Terraform
5 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.47%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.47%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.47%) SCCM
5 2 (2.47%) SCOM
5 2 (2.47%) SCVMM
5 2 (2.47%) VxRail
6 1 (1.23%) NetMRI
Vendors
1 40 (49.38%) Cisco
2 17 (20.99%) SolarWinds
3 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
4 11 (13.58%) Juniper
4 11 (13.58%) Palo Alto
4 11 (13.58%) VMware
5 10 (12.35%) CheckPoint
6 9 (11.11%) F5
7 7 (8.64%) Infoblox
8 6 (7.41%) Aruba
8 6 (7.41%) Meraki
8 6 (7.41%) Remedy
9 5 (6.17%) Arista
9 5 (6.17%) Oracle
9 5 (6.17%) ServiceNow
10 4 (4.94%) AlgoSec
10 4 (4.94%) Fujitsu
10 4 (4.94%) Splunk
10 4 (4.94%) Zscaler
11 3 (3.70%) HP