Network Monitoring Job Trends in the North West

Network Monitoring
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Network Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 197 189
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 +97
Permanent jobs citing Network Monitoring 3 10 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.046% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile - £65,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £65,313 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £66,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +39.47% +39.71%
75th Percentile £50,443 £67,813 £62,500
90th Percentile - £68,375 £68,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,989 £53,250
% change year-on-year +4.19% -9.88% +12.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Network Monitoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,227 4,621 3,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.90% 91.36% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,590 2,263 3,060
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,543 £66,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Network Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Network Monitoring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Network Monitoring job vacancy trend in the North West

Network Monitoring
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Network Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Network Monitoring

Network Monitoring
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Monitoring within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lancashire +9 2 £48,445 -26.88% 2
Cumbria - 1 - - 1
Network Monitoring
England

Network Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) NGFW
2 2 (66.67%) VXLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Network Operations Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Arista
1 2 (66.67%) Aruba
1 2 (66.67%) NetScout
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto