Network Monitoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 346 342
Rank change year-on-year +77 -4 +102
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 70 53 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.30% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 28 65
10th Percentile £394 £316 £307
25th Percentile £422 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £544 £560 £519
90th Percentile £700 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £497
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.40% +4.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £41.62
25th Percentile - - £56.68
Median hourly rate £15.33 - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £68.33
UK median hourly rate £32.67 £23.80 £62.00
% change year-on-year +37.25% -61.61% +49.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Network Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Network Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Network Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Network Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands +34 24 £538 +19.56% 22
West Midlands +30 24 £538 +19.56% 14
North of England +22 16 £500 +40.85% 26
Scotland +23 13 £419 -24.55% 7
North West +18 12 £500 -11.11% 13
South East +33 9 £551 +37.75% 41
South West +49 7 £525 - 15
East of England +33 5 £475 -13.64% 23
Yorkshire +1 3 £506 +48.90% 11
Wales - 2 £440 - 11
Network Monitoring
UK

Network Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.71%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.29%) AWS
2 2 (2.86%) Azure
2 2 (2.86%) GCP
3 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
3 1 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (37.14%) Firewall
2 23 (32.86%) VPN
3 21 (30.00%) WAN
4 19 (27.14%) LAN
5 16 (22.86%) BGP
5 16 (22.86%) OSPF
6 12 (17.14%) MPLS
6 12 (17.14%) Network Security
7 11 (15.71%) TCP/IP
8 8 (11.43%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (10.00%) SD-WAN
9 7 (10.00%) Wireless
10 6 (8.57%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (7.14%) EIGRP
11 5 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (7.14%) WLAN
12 4 (5.71%) Broadband
12 4 (5.71%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (5.71%) Ethernet
12 4 (5.71%) SNA
Development Applications
1 14 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Finance
4 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Legal
5 2 (2.86%) Law
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (41.43%) Network Engineer
2 10 (14.29%) Tester
3 6 (8.57%) Architect
3 6 (8.57%) Senior
4 5 (7.14%) Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Network Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) NOC Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Principal Network Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Designer
7 2 (2.86%) Mainframe Specialist
7 2 (2.86%) Principal Security Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Solutions Designer
7 2 (2.86%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) Middleware
2 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.86%) SCADA
2 11 (15.71%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.71%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.29%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.86%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.86%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.43%) Clustering
7 1 (1.43%) CMDB
7 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.43%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) zOS
2 2 (2.86%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Unix
2 2 (2.86%) Windows
2 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.43%) CentOS
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.71%) Change Management
1 11 (15.71%) ITIL
2 10 (14.29%) Agile
2 10 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
3 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (12.86%) ITSM
3 9 (12.86%) Network Management
4 7 (10.00%) Performance Testing
4 7 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.00%) Service Management
5 6 (8.57%) DevOps
5 6 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (8.57%) Functional Testing
5 6 (8.57%) High Availability
5 6 (8.57%) Migration
5 6 (8.57%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (8.57%) Scrum
6 5 (7.14%) Network Design
6 5 (7.14%) Project Delivery
6 5 (7.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.71%) JCL
1 4 (5.71%) Python
2 2 (2.86%) Bash
2 2 (2.86%) REXX
3 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (32.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (27.14%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (14.29%) CCNP
5 8 (11.43%) CCNA
6 7 (10.00%) CCIE
6 7 (10.00%) Degree
7 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.29%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.86%) JNCIE
9 2 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.43%) CEH
10 1 (1.43%) CISA
10 1 (1.43%) CISM
10 1 (1.43%) CISSP
10 1 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.43%) ECDL
10 1 (1.43%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) SLA
2 1 (1.43%) NIST
2 1 (1.43%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.57%) VMware NSX
3 4 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.43%) Docker
5 1 (1.43%) Firmware
5 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (17.14%) Ansible
2 8 (11.43%) FortiGate
2 8 (11.43%) Terraform
3 4 (5.71%) Cisco Prime
3 4 (5.71%) HP ALM
3 4 (5.71%) Tivoli NetView
4 3 (4.29%) Nagios
5 1 (1.43%) Iperf
5 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (44.29%) Cisco
2 18 (25.71%) VMware
3 16 (22.86%) SolarWinds
4 11 (15.71%) Fortinet
4 11 (15.71%) Palo Alto
5 7 (10.00%) Broadcom
6 6 (8.57%) F5
6 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
7 5 (7.14%) HP
7 5 (7.14%) IBM
7 5 (7.14%) Juniper
8 4 (5.71%) Meraki
8 4 (5.71%) MuleSoft
8 4 (5.71%) Oracle
9 3 (4.29%) Foundry
10 2 (2.86%) Aruba
10 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
10 2 (2.86%) Infoblox
11 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.43%) Splunk