Network Monitoring Job Trends in the South East

Network Monitoring
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Network Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 268 220
Rank change year-on-year +3 -48 +147
Permanent jobs citing Network Monitoring 11 37 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.10% 0.40% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.45% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 35
10th Percentile - - £33,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £57,350 £63,250 £55,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +14.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,489 8,189 6,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.89% 87.54% 90.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,071 4,082 4,914
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,914 £43,790 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.96% -2.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 South East

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

Network Monitoring job vacancy trend in the South East

Network Monitoring
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Network Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Network Monitoring

Network Monitoring
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring in the South East over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Monitoring in the South East

Network Monitoring
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Monitoring within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Surrey +5 6 £31,500 - 2
Hampshire +29 4 £45,000 -25.00% 2
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £57,000 +42.50%
Thames Valley -5 1 £57,000 +42.50% 4
Network Monitoring
England

Network Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) BGP
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (36.36%) Intranet
3 4 (36.36%) Network Security
3 4 (36.36%) VPN
3 4 (36.36%) Wireless
4 3 (27.27%) MPLS
4 3 (27.27%) Wireshark
5 2 (18.18%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (18.18%) IPsec
5 2 (18.18%) LTE
5 2 (18.18%) OSPF
5 2 (18.18%) VSAT
5 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (9.09%) BIG-IP
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
6 1 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (9.09%) NGFW
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Legal
2 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Network Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (36.36%) 2nd Line Support Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Network Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Network Support
2 4 (36.36%) Support Assistant
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Support
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (45.45%) Virtual Environments
2 4 (36.36%) Data Protection
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
3 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (27.27%) Workflow
3 3 (27.27%) Workflow Management
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Statistics
4 2 (18.18%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Master's Degree
1 4 (36.36%) MCSA
1 4 (36.36%) MCSE
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (27.27%) CCNA
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) JNCIA
4 1 (9.09%) CCNP
4 1 (9.09%) CISSP
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
2 7 (63.64%) Aruba
3 5 (45.45%) HP
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
4 4 (36.36%) Sage
5 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
5 3 (27.27%) Juniper
6 2 (18.18%) Freshdesk
6 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
7 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
7 1 (9.09%) Citrix
7 1 (9.09%) F5
7 1 (9.09%) VMware