Network Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Network Monitoring
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Network Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.29% 0.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 0.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £181 - -
25th Percentile £183 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 - -
75th Percentile £326 - -
90th Percentile £405 - -
North West median daily rate £469 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -1.37% +2.70% -2.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 248 156 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.74% 85.25% 69.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 96 74
10th Percentile £150 £129 £172
25th Percentile £300 £198 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £430 £420
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% +2.38% -13.85%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £511
90th Percentile £675 £683 £600
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £490
% change year-on-year +9.89% -7.14% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 9
10th Percentile £14.68 - £16.24
25th Percentile £20.87 £12.21 £18.11
Median hourly rate £42.50 £14.76 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +188.04% -35.50% +14.38%
75th Percentile £43.96 £17.44 £40.00
90th Percentile - - £54.00
North West median hourly rate £46.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +86.76% -40.84% +28.79%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Network Monitoring job vacancy trend in Merseyside

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Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring in Merseyside over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring in Merseyside

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Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
Liverpool - 4 £190 - 6
Network Monitoring
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) SNMP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) Release Management
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk