Network Monitoring Engineer Contract Job Trends

Network Monitoring Engineer
UK

The median Network Monitoring Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 513 582
Rank change year-on-year -71 +69 +186
Contract jobs requiring a Network Monitoring Engineer 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.006% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.007% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £398 - -
25th Percentile £431 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
75th Percentile £556 - £525
90th Percentile £583 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 34,080 29,041 40,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 92.85% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,578 17,726 26,798
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,009 879 1,867
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -19.30% +15.07%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +41.67%

Network Monitoring Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Network Monitoring Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Network Monitoring Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Network Monitoring Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Network Monitoring Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring Engineer over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring Engineer in the UK

Network Monitoring Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Network Monitoring Engineer
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Monitoring Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 January 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
Work from Home -8 1 £400 -
England -57 1 £600 -
London - 1 £600 -

Network Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 January 2026, Network Monitoring Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Network Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) High-Frequency Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Loki
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Python

Network Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Loki
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (50.00%) Online Games
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) High-Frequency Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk