Network Monitoring Contracts in the Midlands

Network Monitoring
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 87 124 160
Rank change year-on-year +37 +36 +49
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 24 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.25% 0.33% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.40% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 7
10th Percentile £451 £268 £313
25th Percentile £481 £425 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +19.56% -21.74% +91.67%
75th Percentile £689 £475 £700
90th Percentile £700 - -
England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Monitoring in the Midlands

Network Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Monitoring in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Network Monitoring in the Midlands

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring in the Midlands

Network Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Monitoring in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Network Monitoring in the Midlands

Network Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +29 24 £538 +19.56% 6
Network Monitoring
England

Network Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) BGP
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.17%) EIGRP
2 1 (4.17%) LAN
2 1 (4.17%) Modbus
2 1 (4.17%) MPLS
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) OSPF
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
2 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Tester
2 5 (20.83%) Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Senior
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) SCADA
2 6 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Systems Engineering
2 7 (29.17%) ITSM
2 7 (29.17%) Service Management
3 6 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 6 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 5 (20.83%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Change Management
5 4 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Test Assurance
5 4 (16.67%) Test Management
5 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 4 (16.67%) User Stories
6 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (4.17%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.17%) Validation
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CCIE
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) VMware
2 7 (29.17%) Broadcom
3 5 (20.83%) SolarWinds
4 4 (16.67%) HP
4 4 (16.67%) MuleSoft
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle
5 3 (12.50%) Foundry
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco
6 1 (4.17%) Meraki