Network Monitoring Contracts

Network Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 488 562
Rank change year-on-year +115 +74 +131
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 150 99 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.27% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 56 92
10th Percentile £388 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.93% -2.25%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £568
90th Percentile £692 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +17.65% -3.41% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £18.80 - £41.62
25th Percentile £24.00 - £56.68
Median hourly rate £32.67 £23.80 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% -61.61% +14.81%
75th Percentile £41.33 - £63.23
90th Percentile £46.53 - £68.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.33 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,492 36,783 51,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.20% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,003 23,675 35,887
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 2,434 1,710
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.99
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.22
Median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.40
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +0.29% +41.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.43 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.08% +8.57% +75.00%

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 15 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Monitoring over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Top 14 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 15 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
England +105 130 £500 +11.11% 118
UK excluding London +57 73 £500 +17.65% 98
London +79 64 £480 -4.00% 54
Work from Home +80 53 £500 +30.72% 72
Midlands +37 27 £525 +16.67% 9
West Midlands +33 27 £525 +16.67% 7
North of England +15 16 £500 +47.06% 25
Scotland +19 13 £419 -24.55% 7
North West +11 12 £500 -11.11% 14
South West +51 8 £525 - 5
South East +28 8 £551 +37.75% 32
East of England +28 5 £475 -13.64% 4
Yorkshire +12 3 £506 +48.90% 8
Wales +3 2 £440 +67.62% 10

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 4 (2.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.67%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (13.33%) AWS
2 16 (10.67%) Azure
3 4 (2.67%) GCP
3 4 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (1.33%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (0.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (0.67%) Mimecast
5 1 (0.67%) Nutanix
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 86 (57.33%) Firewall
2 55 (36.67%) VPN
3 54 (36.00%) BGP
3 54 (36.00%) OSPF
4 46 (30.67%) WAN
5 44 (29.33%) Network Security
6 37 (24.67%) LAN
7 33 (22.00%) MPLS
8 26 (17.33%) SD-WAN
8 26 (17.33%) Wireless
9 24 (16.00%) EIGRP
10 18 (12.00%) Cisco ASA
10 18 (12.00%) DNS
11 17 (11.33%) Cisco Nexus
11 17 (11.33%) TCP/IP
11 17 (11.33%) Wireshark
12 15 (10.00%) IPsec
13 14 (9.33%) Cisco IOS
13 14 (9.33%) Cisco ISE
13 14 (9.33%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (10.00%) JIRA
2 4 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.00%) GitLab
4 2 (1.33%) Git
General
1 51 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.33%) Finance
3 14 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.67%) Legal
5 6 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.67%) Law
7 3 (2.00%) Banking
7 3 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.33%) Electronics
8 2 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.33%) Marketing
8 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Retail
9 1 (0.67%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (56.00%) Network Engineer
2 17 (11.33%) Security Engineer
3 15 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 15 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 15 (10.00%) Principal Network Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) Senior
5 11 (7.33%) Tester
6 9 (6.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Cisco Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Analyst
8 6 (4.00%) Architect
8 6 (4.00%) Deployment Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Principal Security Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Implementation Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Network Analyst
9 5 (3.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Juniper Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.00%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.67%) Middleware
3 2 (1.33%) JSON
3 2 (1.33%) XML
4 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.67%) REST
4 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 17 (11.33%) SCADA
3 7 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.67%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.00%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.33%) CMDB
8 2 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.33%) IoT
8 2 (1.33%) PKI
8 2 (1.33%) Replication
9 1 (0.67%) Clustering
9 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.67%) Linux
2 6 (4.00%) Unix
3 5 (3.33%) CatOS
3 5 (3.33%) Windows
4 4 (2.67%) zOS
5 3 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.33%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.33%) Windows 8
6 2 (1.33%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.67%) CentOS
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (18.67%) ITIL
1 28 (18.67%) Migration
2 24 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (15.33%) Service Management
4 16 (10.67%) Change Management
5 14 (9.33%) Agile
5 14 (9.33%) ITSM
5 14 (9.33%) Project Delivery
6 13 (8.67%) Network Design
7 11 (7.33%) Matrix Organization
7 11 (7.33%) Network Management
7 11 (7.33%) Systems Engineering
8 10 (6.67%) High Availability
8 10 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (6.67%) Roadmaps
9 9 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (6.00%) DevOps
9 9 (6.00%) Load Balancing
9 9 (6.00%) Process Improvement
10 8 (5.33%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.33%) Python
2 4 (2.67%) Bash
2 4 (2.67%) JCL
2 4 (2.67%) SQL
3 3 (2.00%) Java
4 2 (1.33%) REXX
5 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (37.33%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (22.00%) CCNP
3 31 (20.67%) Security Cleared
4 26 (17.33%) SC Cleared
5 19 (12.67%) CCIE
6 17 (11.33%) CCNA
7 13 (8.67%) Degree
8 8 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.33%) CCIE Service Provider
9 5 (3.33%) CCSA
10 4 (2.67%) CCSE
11 3 (2.00%) AWS Certification
11 3 (2.00%) DV Cleared
11 3 (2.00%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.33%) JNCIE
12 2 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.67%) CISA
13 1 (0.67%) CISM
13 1 (0.67%) ECDL
13 1 (0.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.67%) SLA
2 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.00%) NIST
3 2 (1.33%) NIST 800
3 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (11.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.00%) Firmware
2 6 (4.00%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.33%) FreeRADIUS
5 2 (1.33%) iptables
5 2 (1.33%) vSphere
5 2 (1.33%) XenApp
6 1 (0.67%) Docker
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (16.67%) Ansible
2 19 (12.67%) Terraform
3 13 (8.67%) ZABBIX
4 9 (6.00%) FortiGate
4 9 (6.00%) Nagios
5 8 (5.33%) Cisco Prime
6 4 (2.67%) CA Spectrum
6 4 (2.67%) HP ALM
6 4 (2.67%) Tivoli NetView
7 3 (2.00%) Grafana
7 3 (2.00%) Netcool
8 2 (1.33%) Cacti
8 2 (1.33%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (1.33%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (1.33%) OPNET
8 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.33%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.33%) Puppet
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.67%) Observium
Vendors
1 90 (60.00%) Cisco
2 49 (32.67%) SolarWinds
3 31 (20.67%) Palo Alto
4 26 (17.33%) Juniper
5 25 (16.67%) F5
5 25 (16.67%) VMware
6 19 (12.67%) CheckPoint
6 19 (12.67%) Fortinet
7 14 (9.33%) Meraki
8 10 (6.67%) Broadcom
9 9 (6.00%) Aruba
9 9 (6.00%) Nokia
9 9 (6.00%) ServiceNow
10 7 (4.67%) HP
11 6 (4.00%) Infoblox
12 5 (3.33%) Arista
12 5 (3.33%) IBM
12 5 (3.33%) Microsoft
13 4 (2.67%) MuleSoft
13 4 (2.67%) Zscaler