Network Monitoring Contracts in Scotland

Network Monitoring
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 103 126 142
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 13 3 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.14% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.15% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 17
10th Percentile £362 £531 £462
25th Percentile £395 £539 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +11.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £508 £566 £511
90th Percentile £519 £572 £521
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Monitoring in Scotland

Network Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Network Monitoring in Scotland

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring in Scotland

Network Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Monitoring in Scotland

Network Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 7 £513 - 2
Glasgow +6 6 £399 -28.11% 5
Network Monitoring
UK

Network Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) LAN
2 9 (69.23%) Firewall
2 9 (69.23%) VPN
2 9 (69.23%) WAN
3 7 (53.85%) TCP/IP
4 5 (38.46%) BGP
4 5 (38.46%) OSPF
4 5 (38.46%) Wireless
5 4 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (30.77%) Network Security
5 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
5 4 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (23.08%) IPsec
6 3 (23.08%) SNA
6 3 (23.08%) Unified Communications
7 1 (7.69%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Mainframe Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) z/OS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) zOS
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Change Management
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Capacity Management
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (23.08%) High Availability
3 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Network Design
4 2 (15.38%) Network Management
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) JCL
2 1 (7.69%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (23.08%) CCNA
2 3 (23.08%) CCNP
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) FortiGate
2 3 (23.08%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco
2 8 (61.54%) Palo Alto
3 4 (30.77%) F5
3 4 (30.77%) Juniper
3 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
4 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
4 3 (23.08%) IBM
5 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
6 1 (7.69%) Aruba
6 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 1 (7.69%) VMware