Network Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Network Monitoring
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Network Monitoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 75 107
Rank change year-on-year -5 +32 +39
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 3 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.30% 0.77% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.88% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £335 £430 -
25th Percentile £350 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -24.00%
75th Percentile £450 £547 £488
90th Percentile £465 £575 -
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 907 1,025 1,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.62% 87.23% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 625 1,078
10th Percentile £311 £324 £280
25th Percentile £400 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £674 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 35 59
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.95 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.63 £16.74
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -
75th Percentile £46.94 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.38 £85.60 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Monitoring in Manchester

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (66.67%) MPLS
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Housing
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Fault Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto