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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 238 338
Rank change year-on-year -39 +100 0
Permanent jobs citing Network Monitoring 4 17 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.032% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% 0.27% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 27
10th Percentile £57,300 £26,850 £38,525
25th Percentile £57,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +19.05% +50.00%
75th Percentile £59,250 £77,500 £58,000
90th Percentile £59,700 - £78,500
England median annual salary £54,068 £51,943 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.09% -1.06% +28.83%

All Process & 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 9,524 6,283 12,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 75.56% 89.99% 85.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,045 3,285 9,299
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,769 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £77,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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
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 23 March 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
Thames Valley -20 3 £58,500 +33.71% 5
Buckinghamshire -25 2 £58,500 +23.16% 5
Berkshire -3 1 - -
West Sussex - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (25.00%) ICMP
2 1 (25.00%) IPsec
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) NOC Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Fault Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Presales
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) CCSE
2 1 (25.00%) CCSM
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft