Network Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Network Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Network Monitoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 656 714 970
Rank change year-on-year +58 +256 -221
Permanent jobs citing Network Monitoring 241 262 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.26% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 207 222 209
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £38,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.72% -30.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,750 £53,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £86,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +30.67% -11.76% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Monitoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Top 16 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 27 April 2024. 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 +101 225 £50,500 +34.67% 62
UK excluding London -24 160 £49,000 +30.67% 56
London +158 77 £62,500 -10.71% 8
Work from Home +34 63 £50,000 +25.00% 31
South West +15 38 £45,000 +20.00% 8
Midlands +13 37 £49,000 +27.27% 4
West Midlands +43 36 £49,000 +28.95% 3
South East -19 34 £55,500 +94.74% 20
North of England +58 29 £48,250 +1.58% 15
North West +20 23 £47,500 +1.06% 7
Scotland -61 11 £32,500 -7.14% 5
East of England -3 8 £52,500 +50.00% 7
Yorkshire +94 6 £49,000 -2.00% 6
Wales +13 3 £52,500 +31.25%
Northern Ireland +28 1 - -
East Midlands -28 1 £65,000 +23.88% 1

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 10 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.49%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.66%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 60 (24.90%) Azure
2 57 (23.65%) AWS
3 28 (11.62%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (4.15%) GCP
6 7 (2.90%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.07%) DigitalOcean
7 5 (2.07%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.83%) Datadog
10 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.41%) SaaS
10 1 (0.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 143 (59.34%) Firewall
2 71 (29.46%) VPN
3 62 (25.73%) WAN
4 59 (24.48%) Network Security
5 55 (22.82%) LAN
6 42 (17.43%) Wireless
7 40 (16.60%) VLAN
8 37 (15.35%) TCP/IP
9 36 (14.94%) DNS
10 32 (13.28%) OSPF
11 31 (12.86%) BGP
12 28 (11.62%) MPLS
13 23 (9.54%) DHCP
14 21 (8.71%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (6.64%) VoIP
16 15 (6.22%) SAN
16 15 (6.22%) SD-WAN
17 13 (5.39%) Cisco Nexus
17 13 (5.39%) SSL
18 12 (4.98%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.24%) InfluxDB
2 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (1.24%) JIRA
2 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
General
1 94 (39.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (15.35%) Finance
3 23 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.30%) Retail
5 18 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.81%) Billing
7 9 (3.73%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.32%) Legal
9 7 (2.90%) Games
10 6 (2.49%) Law
10 6 (2.49%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.07%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Electronics
13 2 (0.83%) Local Government
13 2 (0.83%) Police
14 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 120 (49.79%) Network Engineer
2 49 (20.33%) Senior
3 37 (15.35%) Senior Network Engineer
4 25 (10.37%) Architect
5 22 (9.13%) Lead
6 17 (7.05%) Analyst
7 14 (5.81%) Infrastructure Architect
8 13 (5.39%) Security Analyst
9 12 (4.98%) Cisco Engineer
9 12 (4.98%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 11 (4.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 11 (4.56%) IT Analyst
10 11 (4.56%) IT Security Analyst
10 11 (4.56%) Network Architect
11 10 (4.15%) Network Support
11 10 (4.15%) Support Assistant
12 9 (3.73%) ICT Assistant
12 9 (3.73%) ICT Support
12 9 (3.73%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (3.73%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.49%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.83%) Web Services
3 1 (0.41%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.41%) Middleware
3 1 (0.41%) OAuth
3 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.41%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 60 (24.90%) Data Centre
2 31 (12.86%) Public Cloud
3 16 (6.64%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (5.81%) Replication
4 14 (5.81%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.98%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.56%) Driving Licence
6 11 (4.56%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.83%) Molecular Biology
11 2 (0.83%) PKI
11 2 (0.83%) SCADA
11 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.24%) Windows
2 46 (19.09%) Linux
3 36 (14.94%) Windows Server
4 20 (8.30%) Ubuntu
5 14 (5.81%) SUSE
5 14 (5.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (4.15%) Windows 10
6 10 (4.15%) Windows 7
7 8 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.90%) Debian
9 6 (2.49%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.24%) CentOS
11 2 (0.83%) Android
11 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.83%) Unix
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
4 30 (12.45%) ITIL
5 29 (12.03%) Mentoring
6 26 (10.79%) SIEM
7 24 (9.96%) Root Cause Analysis
8 23 (9.54%) Customer Service
8 23 (9.54%) Information Security
8 23 (9.54%) Network Design
8 23 (9.54%) Security Operations
9 22 (9.13%) Load Balancing
9 22 (9.13%) Project Delivery
10 21 (8.71%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (8.71%) Network Architecture
11 19 (7.88%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 18 (7.47%) Computer Science
12 18 (7.47%) Data Protection
12 18 (7.47%) Network Virtualisation
12 18 (7.47%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.20%) PowerShell
1 27 (11.20%) Python
2 25 (10.37%) SQL
3 8 (3.32%) C#
3 8 (3.32%) Java
4 7 (2.90%) Shell Script
5 4 (1.66%) Bash
6 3 (1.24%) Perl
7 2 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.41%) C++
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 72 (29.88%) Cisco Certification
2 56 (23.24%) CCNP
3 50 (20.75%) Degree
4 39 (16.18%) CCNA
5 24 (9.96%) Security Cleared
6 21 (8.71%) Master's Degree
7 20 (8.30%) MCSA
7 20 (8.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (7.47%) MCSE
9 17 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (5.81%) CCIE
10 14 (5.81%) CISSP
10 14 (5.81%) DBS Check
10 14 (5.81%) DV Cleared
10 14 (5.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (3.73%) CompTIA CySA+
12 8 (3.32%) SC Cleared
13 7 (2.90%) JNCIA
14 6 (2.49%) Azure Certification
14 6 (2.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.64%) PCI DSS
2 15 (6.22%) NIST
3 10 (4.15%) GDPR
4 6 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.66%) SLA
6 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.83%) QA
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (17.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (13.69%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.22%) vSphere
4 14 (5.81%) vCloud
5 8 (3.32%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.66%) Firmware
8 1 (0.41%) Docker
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.73%) CASB
1 9 (3.73%) Cisco Prime
2 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.32%) ZABBIX
3 7 (2.90%) Ansible
3 7 (2.90%) Icinga
3 7 (2.90%) Nagios
3 7 (2.90%) Terraform
4 6 (2.49%) vCenter Server
5 5 (2.07%) Grafana
5 5 (2.07%) Opsview
6 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.41%) Cacti
7 1 (0.41%) IBM BigFix
7 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.41%) Puppet
7 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.41%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 108 (44.81%) Cisco
2 55 (22.82%) Microsoft
3 42 (17.43%) Juniper
3 42 (17.43%) VMware
4 35 (14.52%) SolarWinds
5 30 (12.45%) HP
6 29 (12.03%) Aruba
7 28 (11.62%) Meraki
8 25 (10.37%) Palo Alto
9 22 (9.13%) Veeam
10 18 (7.47%) CheckPoint
11 15 (6.22%) Citrix
12 14 (5.81%) Fujitsu
13 13 (5.39%) Fortinet
14 8 (3.32%) F5
15 6 (2.49%) Logitech
15 6 (2.49%) MikroTik
15 6 (2.49%) TP-LINK
15 6 (2.49%) Yealink
15 6 (2.49%) ZyXEL