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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 278 238
Rank change year-on-year +6 -40 +179
Permanent jobs citing Network Monitoring 19 52 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.21% 0.45% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.56% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 17 23 39
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,250 £70,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £63,250 - £64,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +7.69%

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 7,893 9,332 7,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 88.18% 81.25% 93.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,295 4,965 5,256
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.41% +0.42%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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
Hampshire +53 11 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Surrey +20 7 £31,500 -66.84%
Oxfordshire +10 1 £55,000 +24.75% 1
Thames Valley -16 1 £55,000 +30.81% 2
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 7 (36.84%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
1 7 (36.84%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (26.32%) Intranet
2 5 (26.32%) VPN
3 4 (21.05%) BGP
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (15.79%) MPLS
4 3 (15.79%) Network Security
4 3 (15.79%) Wireless
4 3 (15.79%) Wireshark
5 2 (10.53%) LTE
5 2 (10.53%) VSAT
5 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (5.26%) DNS
6 1 (5.26%) EIGRP
6 1 (5.26%) InfiniBand
6 1 (5.26%) IPsec
6 1 (5.26%) OSPF
6 1 (5.26%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) MSI
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
1 5 (26.32%) Legal
2 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Integration Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Support Manager
2 5 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Network Manager
2 5 (26.32%) Network Support
2 5 (26.32%) Support Assistant
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Support
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 7 (36.84%) CentOS
2 7 (36.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Batch Scripting
1 7 (36.84%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Data Protection
2 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Virtual Environments
3 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (15.79%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (15.79%) High Availability
4 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.79%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (15.79%) Workflow
4 3 (15.79%) Workflow Management
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Statistics
5 2 (10.53%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) PHP
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) DV Cleared
3 6 (31.58%) Degree
4 5 (26.32%) Master's Degree
4 5 (26.32%) MCSA
4 5 (26.32%) MCSE
4 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (21.05%) CCNA
5 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (10.53%) CCNP
6 2 (10.53%) JNCIA
7 1 (5.26%) CISSP
7 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Cisco
2 8 (42.11%) Aruba
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
4 6 (31.58%) HP
5 5 (26.32%) Sage
6 3 (15.79%) Fortinet
6 3 (15.79%) Juniper
7 2 (10.53%) Freshdesk
8 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
8 1 (5.26%) Citrix
8 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto