Network Monitoring Jobs

Network Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Network Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Network Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 661 716
Rank change year-on-year +99 +55 +224
Permanent jobs citing Network Monitoring 144 243 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.29% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 114 210 224
10th Percentile £33,200 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,438 £40,000 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +33.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £71,875 £62,875 £53,750
90th Percentile £85,950 £67,625 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +30.67% -11.76%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,302 84,920 96,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.59% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,015 59,883 56,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,008 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Monitoring.

Salary trend for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +69 136 £51,500 +1.98% 101
UK excluding London +106 84 £50,000 +2.04% 82
London +97 60 £65,000 +13.04% 53
Midlands +54 28 £51,500 +5.10% 8
West Midlands +50 28 £51,500 +5.10% 7
Work from Home +122 27 £62,500 +25.00% 52
South East +87 23 £49,500 -10.81% 30
North of England +43 10 £37,500 -11.76% 17
East of England +42 9 £50,000 -4.76% 4
South West +74 6 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Wales +42 6 £46,367 -11.68% 8
Yorkshire +66 5 £37,500 -23.47% 6
North West -15 5 - - 10
Scotland +113 2 £57,500 +76.92% 6

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 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.39%) GNU Octave
2 2 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (43.75%) Azure
2 37 (25.69%) AWS
3 20 (13.89%) Azure Sentinel
4 16 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.56%) SaaS
7 4 (2.78%) GCP
8 3 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.08%) IaaS
8 3 (2.08%) Slack
9 2 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.39%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 90 (62.50%) Firewall
2 69 (47.92%) WAN
3 45 (31.25%) LAN
4 44 (30.56%) BGP
5 40 (27.78%) VPN
6 39 (27.08%) OSPF
6 39 (27.08%) SD-WAN
7 38 (26.39%) Network Security
8 33 (22.92%) VLAN
9 32 (22.22%) TCP/IP
10 24 (16.67%) MPLS
11 13 (9.03%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (8.33%) Wireless
13 11 (7.64%) Spanning Tree
14 10 (6.94%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (6.94%) Intrusion Detection
15 8 (5.56%) EIGRP
16 7 (4.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.69%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 38 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.28%) Finance
3 14 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.64%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.56%) Retail
6 7 (4.86%) Mandarin Language
6 7 (4.86%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.47%) Local Government
7 5 (3.47%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.78%) Aviation
8 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.08%) Advertising
9 3 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.39%) Electronics
10 2 (1.39%) Police
10 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) German Language
11 1 (0.69%) Marketing
11 1 (0.69%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 67 (46.53%) Network Engineer
2 29 (20.14%) Senior
3 17 (11.81%) Senior Network Engineer
4 16 (11.11%) NOC Engineer
5 9 (6.25%) IT Support
5 9 (6.25%) Service Desk Support
6 8 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.56%) Junior
7 7 (4.86%) Lead
7 7 (4.86%) WAN Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Network Security Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) SCADA Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Test Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Architect
10 4 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.17%) Middleware
2 4 (2.78%) REST
3 3 (2.08%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.81%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.17%) SCADA
3 6 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.08%) CPLD
4 3 (2.08%) FPGA
4 3 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.39%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.39%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (1.39%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.69%) CCTV
6 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.69%) Verilog
6 1 (0.69%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.58%) Windows
2 15 (10.42%) Linux
3 8 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.47%) VMS
4 5 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.39%) CentOS
6 2 (1.39%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (11.81%) Incident Response
5 16 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 16 (11.11%) ITIL
5 16 (11.11%) Network Management
6 14 (9.72%) Business Continuity
6 14 (9.72%) Customer Service
6 14 (9.72%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 13 (9.03%) Service Delivery
7 13 (9.03%) SIEM
8 12 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
9 11 (7.64%) Agile
9 11 (7.64%) Computer Science
10 10 (6.94%) Incident Management
10 10 (6.94%) Information Security
10 10 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (6.94%) Migration
10 10 (6.94%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.25%) Python
2 7 (4.86%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.78%) Bash
4 3 (2.08%) R
4 3 (2.08%) SQL
5 2 (1.39%) C
5 2 (1.39%) MATLAB
5 2 (1.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (26.39%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (18.75%) CCNA
2 27 (18.75%) Degree
3 24 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 21 (14.58%) CCNP
4 21 (14.58%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.25%) CISSP
6 8 (5.56%) CISM
7 4 (2.78%) CCSE
7 4 (2.78%) CCSM
7 4 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (2.08%) CISA
9 2 (1.39%) IISP
9 2 (1.39%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.39%) SANS
10 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.69%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 5 (3.47%) GDPR
3 5 (3.47%) NIST
4 4 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.78%) ISO 9000
4 4 (2.78%) QA
5 3 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (17.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (6.94%) Firmware
3 9 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.56%) Active Directory
5 7 (4.86%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.47%) Docker
6 5 (3.47%) vSphere
7 4 (2.78%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (6.25%) Ansible
2 7 (4.86%) Terraform
3 6 (4.17%) HP ALM
4 5 (3.47%) FortiGate
4 5 (3.47%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.39%) Grafana
5 2 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.69%) CASB
6 1 (0.69%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.69%) Istio
6 1 (0.69%) linkerd
6 1 (0.69%) Opsview
6 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 87 (60.42%) Cisco
2 32 (22.22%) SolarWinds
3 31 (21.53%) VMware
4 28 (19.44%) Microsoft
5 27 (18.75%) Juniper
6 25 (17.36%) Fortinet
7 18 (12.50%) CheckPoint
8 14 (9.72%) Palo Alto
8 14 (9.72%) Zscaler
9 12 (8.33%) HP
10 9 (6.25%) Oracle
11 8 (5.56%) F5
11 8 (5.56%) Meraki
12 6 (4.17%) Avaya
12 6 (4.17%) Citrix
12 6 (4.17%) Google
12 6 (4.17%) MuleSoft
13 5 (3.47%) ADVA
14 3 (2.08%) Extreme Networks
14 3 (2.08%) LogicMonitor