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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 128 149
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 +22
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 13 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.41% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.48% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 3
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £453 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +40.63% +207.69%
75th Percentile £538 £594 -
90th Percentile £697 - -
England median daily rate £500 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -5.00%

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 1,767 2,287 2,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.06% 85.91% 90.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,459 1,960
10th Percentile £300 £311 £313
25th Percentile £390 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £566 £594 £588
90th Percentile £663 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 253 139
10th Percentile £15.23 £10.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.74 £13.50 £22.47
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.19 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year +33.32% -30.94% +50.85%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £49.08
90th Percentile £85.03 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

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 20 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 20 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 +18 5 £450 -20.00% 4
Cheshire +1 5 £475 - 2
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 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
1 8 (61.54%) MPLS
2 6 (46.15%) Network Security
2 6 (46.15%) VPN
3 5 (38.46%) BGP
3 5 (38.46%) OSPF
4 4 (30.77%) WAN
5 3 (23.08%) VLAN
6 2 (15.38%) Broadband
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (15.38%) DWDM
6 2 (15.38%) Ethernet
6 2 (15.38%) IPv6
6 2 (15.38%) Multicast
6 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
7 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (7.69%) DHCP
7 1 (7.69%) DNS
7 1 (7.69%) LAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Designer
2 3 (23.08%) Network Designer
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) NOC Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) CentOS
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Use Case
2 4 (30.77%) Network Architecture
2 4 (30.77%) Network Design
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 3 (23.08%) High Availability
3 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) ITSM
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Service Design
3 3 (23.08%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (38.46%) CCIE
3 3 (23.08%) CCNP
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) JNCIE
3 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) CCNA
4 2 (15.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) Nagios
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) Fortinet
3 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
4 3 (23.08%) F5
5 2 (15.38%) Infoblox
5 2 (15.38%) Meraki
5 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
5 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (7.69%) Aruba
6 1 (7.69%) Dell
6 1 (7.69%) HP
6 1 (7.69%) IBM
6 1 (7.69%) VMware