Network Monitoring Contracts in the North West

Network Monitoring
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 108 129 153
Rank change year-on-year +21 +24 +12
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 12 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.29% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.34% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £444 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +40.63% +207.69%
75th Percentile £538 £594 -
90th Percentile £715 - -
England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Monitoring in the North West

Network Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Network Monitoring in the North West

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring in the North West

Network Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Monitoring in the North West

Network Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester +17 5 £450 -20.00% 6
Cheshire +1 4 £593 -
Merseyside - 3 £525 -
Network Monitoring
England

Network Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (8.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
1 7 (58.33%) MPLS
2 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 5 (41.67%) VPN
3 4 (33.33%) BGP
3 4 (33.33%) OSPF
3 4 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) Broadband
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (16.67%) DWDM
4 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 2 (16.67%) IPv6
4 2 (16.67%) Multicast
4 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 2 (16.67%) VLAN
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (8.33%) DHCP
5 1 (8.33%) DNS
5 1 (8.33%) LAN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Legal
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Designer
3 2 (16.67%) NOC Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Principal Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Network Performance Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) CentOS
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (33.33%) Use Case
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Network Design
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
3 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (33.33%) CCIE
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) CCNA
4 2 (16.67%) CCNP
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) JNCIE
4 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (41.67%) SolarWinds
4 2 (16.67%) F5
4 2 (16.67%) Infoblox
4 2 (16.67%) Meraki
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (8.33%) Aruba
5 1 (8.33%) Dell
5 1 (8.33%) HP
5 1 (8.33%) IBM
5 1 (8.33%) VMware