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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 331 336
Rank change year-on-year +74 +5 +97
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 83 61 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.29% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.35% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 27 63
10th Percentile £397 £262 £306
25th Percentile £419 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £470
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -9.57% +4.44%
75th Percentile £538 £516 £506
90th Percentile £700 £590 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.36% +0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - - £41.62
25th Percentile - £26.25 £56.68
Median hourly rate £15.33 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.25% -55.65% +14.81%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £63.23
90th Percentile - - £68.33
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £25.65 £62.00
% change year-on-year +15.01% -58.63% +14.81%

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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 +38 30 £525 +16.67% 117
West Midlands +35 28 £525 +16.67% 65
North of England +15 18 £500 +17.65% 119
Scotland +17 15 £438 -20.81% 24
North West +13 14 £475 -15.56% 54
South West +49 9 £525 -27.59% 63
South East +40 9 £551 +37.75% 154
East of England - 6 £438 - 84
Yorkshire +20 3 £506 +53.41% 51
Wales +4 2 £440 +82.38% 17
East Midlands - 2 - - 45
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 (4.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) Apache
2 1 (1.20%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.64%) AWS
1 8 (9.64%) Azure
2 6 (7.23%) GCP
3 2 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (1.20%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 36 (43.37%) Firewall
2 29 (34.94%) VPN
3 25 (30.12%) WAN
4 23 (27.71%) LAN
5 22 (26.51%) BGP
5 22 (26.51%) OSPF
6 16 (19.28%) Network Security
7 15 (18.07%) MPLS
8 11 (13.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 11 (13.25%) TCP/IP
9 10 (12.05%) Wireless
10 9 (10.84%) SD-WAN
11 8 (9.64%) EIGRP
11 8 (9.64%) VLAN
12 7 (8.43%) IPsec
12 7 (8.43%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (7.23%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (7.23%) WLAN
14 5 (6.02%) DHCP
14 5 (6.02%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 15 (18.07%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.43%) Finance
4 5 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Legal
6 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.41%) Law
7 1 (1.20%) Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (40.96%) Network Engineer
2 11 (13.25%) Tester
3 7 (8.43%) Analyst
4 6 (7.23%) Architect
4 6 (7.23%) Senior
5 4 (4.82%) Designer
5 4 (4.82%) Network Analyst
5 4 (4.82%) Network Designer
5 4 (4.82%) Security Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Solutions Designer
6 3 (3.61%) Field Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Network Field Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) NOC Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Principal Network Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (2.41%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (2.41%) Mainframe Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) Middleware
2 1 (1.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) SCADA
2 13 (15.66%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.43%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.23%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.02%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.82%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.41%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.20%) Clustering
8 1 (1.20%) CMDB
8 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) zOS
2 3 (3.61%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
3 2 (2.41%) CentOS
3 2 (2.41%) Unix
3 2 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (16.87%) ITIL
2 13 (15.66%) Agile
2 13 (15.66%) Change Management
2 13 (15.66%) ITSM
3 11 (13.25%) High Availability
3 11 (13.25%) Network Management
3 11 (13.25%) Systems Engineering
4 9 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (9.64%) DevOps
5 8 (9.64%) Load Balancing
5 8 (9.64%) Network Design
5 8 (9.64%) Performance Testing
5 8 (9.64%) Roadmaps
5 8 (9.64%) Scrum
6 7 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (8.43%) Functional Testing
6 7 (8.43%) Network Architecture
6 7 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (8.43%) Service Management
7 6 (7.23%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.43%) Python
2 5 (6.02%) Bash
3 4 (4.82%) JCL
4 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.41%) REXX
6 1 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (30.12%) Cisco Certification
1 25 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 21 (25.30%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.87%) CCNP
4 12 (14.46%) CCNA
5 10 (12.05%) Degree
6 9 (10.84%) CCIE
7 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (6.02%) Master's Degree
9 4 (4.82%) JNCIE
10 3 (3.61%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.41%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (1.20%) CEH
12 1 (1.20%) CISA
12 1 (1.20%) CISM
12 1 (1.20%) CISSP
12 1 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (1.20%) ECDL
12 1 (1.20%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) SLA
2 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.20%) NIST
2 1 (1.20%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 14 (16.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (7.23%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.20%) Docker
5 1 (1.20%) Firmware
5 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (16.87%) Ansible
2 9 (10.84%) Terraform
3 8 (9.64%) FortiGate
4 6 (7.23%) Nagios
5 5 (6.02%) Cisco Prime
6 4 (4.82%) HP ALM
6 4 (4.82%) Tivoli NetView
7 1 (1.20%) Iperf
7 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (45.78%) Cisco
2 20 (24.10%) SolarWinds
3 18 (21.69%) VMware
4 14 (16.87%) Fortinet
5 13 (15.66%) Palo Alto
6 10 (12.05%) F5
7 7 (8.43%) Broadcom
7 7 (8.43%) Juniper
8 6 (7.23%) ServiceNow
9 5 (6.02%) HP
9 5 (6.02%) IBM
10 4 (4.82%) Meraki
10 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
10 4 (4.82%) MuleSoft
10 4 (4.82%) Oracle
11 3 (3.61%) Foundry
11 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
12 2 (2.41%) Aruba
12 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
12 2 (2.41%) Infoblox