Network Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Network Monitoring
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Network Monitoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 145 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 87.20% 69.05% 90.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 59 135
10th Percentile £363 £259 £353
25th Percentile £425 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -10.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £678 £646 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 53
10th Percentile £18.87 £25.87 £20.58
25th Percentile £23.32 £35.36 £37.75
Median hourly rate £47.12 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -12.68% +22.18%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £49.52
90th Percentile £73.36 £51.35 £71.80
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% +21.43% +57.30%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Monitoring in Lancashire

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Network Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Preston - 1 £335 -
Network Monitoring
North West

Network Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds