Network Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Network Monitoring
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Network Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.66% 1.75% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.92% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £144 - -
25th Percentile £223 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
South West median daily rate £600 - £725
% change year-on-year - - +81.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.53 - -
South West median hourly rate £92.53 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 353 156 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 77.41% 91.23% 71.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 91 87
10th Percentile £325 £225 £208
25th Percentile £413 £346 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +4.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £600
90th Percentile £730 £732 £670
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 26 9
10th Percentile £29.90 £16.47 £12.45
25th Percentile £52.50 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% +15.69% -69.17%
75th Percentile £75.75 £62.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £99.29 £63.75 £62.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Network Monitoring job vacancy trend in Somerset

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring in Somerset over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring in Somerset

Network Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Network Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 9 August 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
Yeovil -19 3 £364 - 2
Network Monitoring
South West

Network Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) VSAN
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) VMware