Network Monitoring Contracts

Network Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Network Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Monitoring over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 570 731
Rank change year-on-year +61 +161 -92
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 91 146 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.28% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 96 89
10th Percentile £302 £310 £318
25th Percentile £370 £400 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £496 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +1.71% +14.71%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile - £41.62 £22.42
25th Percentile - £56.68 £29.58
Median hourly rate £23.80 £62.00 £41.52
Median % change year-on-year -61.61% +49.33% -26.51%
75th Percentile - £63.23 £41.64
90th Percentile - £68.33 £41.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.00 £17.64
% change year-on-year - +251.47% -68.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Monitoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
England +82 83 £450 -6.36% 71
UK excluding London +15 56 £438 -2.78% 60
London +105 28 £513 -4.65% 11
South East +8 24 £400 -16.28% 20
Work from Home +100 18 £383 -30.45% 29
North of England +34 18 £355 -19.32% 18
North West +32 9 £563 +40.63% 9
Midlands +31 9 £450 -21.74% 4
West Midlands +27 9 £450 -35.71% 2
Yorkshire +15 9 £340 -22.73% 7
Scotland +29 3 £555 +11.00% 5
South West +12 1 - - 9
East of England +2 1 £550 +10.00% 5

Network Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.20%) IIS
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
1 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.68%) Azure
2 13 (14.29%) AWS
3 5 (5.49%) GCP
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.20%) Catchpoint
5 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.20%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.20%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.20%) Rubrik
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (49.45%) Firewall
2 31 (34.07%) DNS
3 27 (29.67%) WAN
4 25 (27.47%) Network Security
5 22 (24.18%) SD-WAN
6 19 (20.88%) BGP
7 17 (18.68%) MPLS
7 17 (18.68%) VPN
8 16 (17.58%) DHCP
9 14 (15.38%) OSPF
10 12 (13.19%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (13.19%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (13.19%) Wireless
11 11 (12.09%) SNMP
12 10 (10.99%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (9.89%) VLAN
14 8 (8.79%) LAN
14 8 (8.79%) SSL
15 7 (7.69%) TCP/IP
15 7 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.30%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.30%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.99%) Finance
5 8 (8.79%) Banking
6 4 (4.40%) Billing
6 4 (4.40%) Legal
7 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
8 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (38.46%) Network Engineer
2 10 (10.99%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 10 (10.99%) Senior
2 10 (10.99%) WAN Engineer
3 9 (9.89%) Support Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Architect
5 7 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Analyst
6 6 (6.59%) Data Centre Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Service Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) Network Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Network Support
8 4 (4.40%) Network Support Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) .NET
1 3 (3.30%) Jinja
1 3 (3.30%) JSON
1 3 (3.30%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.30%) RESTful
1 3 (3.30%) XML
1 3 (3.30%) YANG
2 2 (2.20%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.10%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.59%) PKI
3 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (4.40%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.30%) Clustering
6 2 (2.20%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.20%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (28.57%) Windows
2 16 (17.58%) Linux
3 8 (8.79%) Unix
4 7 (7.69%) Windows 10
4 7 (7.69%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.10%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (19.78%) Computer Science
3 15 (16.48%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (12.09%) Proactive Monitoring
5 10 (10.99%) Security Monitoring
6 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Management
7 8 (8.79%) Configuration Management
7 8 (8.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (8.79%) High Availability
7 8 (8.79%) ITIL
7 8 (8.79%) Mentoring
7 8 (8.79%) Migration
7 8 (8.79%) Network Architecture
8 7 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (7.69%) Project Management
8 7 (7.69%) Runbook
9 6 (6.59%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (6.59%) Load Balancing
9 6 (6.59%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.69%) Python
2 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.20%) Bash
3 2 (2.20%) C#
3 2 (2.20%) Go
3 2 (2.20%) Java
3 2 (2.20%) Ruby
4 1 (1.10%) Groovy
4 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (39.56%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (31.87%) CCNP
3 22 (24.18%) Security Cleared
4 19 (20.88%) Degree
5 17 (18.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (14.29%) CCIE
6 13 (14.29%) CCNA
7 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
8 7 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (4.40%) A+ Certification
9 4 (4.40%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (4.40%) VCAP
10 3 (3.30%) CCDP
11 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.20%) JNCIA
11 2 (2.20%) JNCIP
12 1 (1.10%) JNCIS
12 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
12 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) ISO 9000
2 5 (5.49%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.30%) NCSC
4 2 (2.20%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (2.20%) SLA
5 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
5 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (17.58%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.69%) KVM
3 7 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (7.69%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (6.59%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.40%) vCloud
6 3 (3.30%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.20%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) Ansible
2 7 (7.69%) vCenter Server
3 5 (5.49%) IBM BigFix
3 5 (5.49%) Tivoli
4 3 (3.30%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.30%) Kibana
4 3 (3.30%) Terraform
5 2 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.20%) Grafana
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.20%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.20%) SCCM
5 2 (2.20%) SCOM
5 2 (2.20%) SCVMM
5 2 (2.20%) VxRail
6 1 (1.10%) Icinga
6 1 (1.10%) Nagios
6 1 (1.10%) NetMRI
Vendors
1 41 (45.05%) Cisco
2 19 (20.88%) SolarWinds
3 15 (16.48%) Palo Alto
4 14 (15.38%) Juniper
5 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 13 (14.29%) VMware
6 8 (8.79%) CheckPoint
6 8 (8.79%) F5
7 7 (7.69%) Arista
7 7 (7.69%) Aruba
7 7 (7.69%) Infoblox
7 7 (7.69%) Meraki
8 6 (6.59%) Remedy
9 5 (5.49%) Oracle
9 5 (5.49%) ServiceNow
10 4 (4.40%) AlgoSec
10 4 (4.40%) Fujitsu
10 4 (4.40%) HP
10 4 (4.40%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (4.40%) Splunk