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 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 590 834
Rank change year-on-year +69 +244 +38
Permanent jobs citing Network Monitoring 220 221 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.29% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.32% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 140 190 162
10th Percentile £33,200 £31,025 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,219 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £52,500 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,000 £64,438
90th Percentile £85,250 £69,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +1.05% +18.75% -5.88%

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 56,244 68,518 105,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.36% 88.70% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25,028 51,131 64,340
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,484 £34,452
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,621
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +7.61%

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 18 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Top 17 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 18 February 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 +67 200 £51,500 -1.90% 31
UK excluding London +85 139 £48,000 +1.05% 29
London +29 81 £61,250 -5.77% 9
Work from Home +109 61 £60,000 +9.09% 27
South East +49 36 £61,250 +28.95% 3
Midlands +10 28 £50,250 +2.55% 10
South West +64 27 £42,500 +0.59% 2
West Midlands -12 23 £51,500 +5.10% 10
North of England +32 15 £65,000 +36.84% 5
Wales +49 14 £37,500 -11.76% 4
East of England +9 13 £58,500 +11.43% 2
North West 0 10 £66,250 +39.47% 2
East Midlands +28 5 £40,000 -38.46%
North East - 4 - -
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Scotland +59 2 £57,500 +76.92% 3
Yorkshire +46 1 £37,500 -21.05% 3

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 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) GNU Octave
2 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.91%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 64 (29.09%) Azure
2 23 (10.45%) AWS
3 18 (8.18%) SaaS
4 13 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 12 (5.45%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.09%) IaaS
7 7 (3.18%) Slack
8 3 (1.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.36%) GCP
9 2 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.91%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.45%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.45%) PaaS
10 1 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 129 (58.64%) Firewall
2 84 (38.18%) WAN
3 67 (30.45%) LAN
4 65 (29.55%) BGP
5 60 (27.27%) OSPF
6 54 (24.55%) Network Security
7 53 (24.09%) MPLS
8 48 (21.82%) VPN
9 42 (19.09%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (18.64%) TCP/IP
11 36 (16.36%) SD-WAN
12 29 (13.18%) VLAN
13 27 (12.27%) Wireshark
14 25 (11.36%) Internet
15 22 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (10.00%) Wireless
16 21 (9.55%) DNS
17 18 (8.18%) VXLAN
17 18 (8.18%) WLAN
18 17 (7.73%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (1.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.82%) JIRA
2 3 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.45%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 55 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.91%) Public Sector
3 19 (8.64%) Telecoms
4 17 (7.73%) Finance
5 12 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.18%) Legal
6 7 (3.18%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.27%) Retail
8 4 (1.82%) Local Government
9 3 (1.36%) Aviation
9 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.91%) Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Electronics
10 2 (0.91%) German Language
10 2 (0.91%) Law
10 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.45%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 122 (55.45%) Network Engineer
2 51 (23.18%) Senior
3 32 (14.55%) Senior Network Engineer
4 22 (10.00%) NOC Engineer
5 15 (6.82%) Junior
5 15 (6.82%) Lead
6 11 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (5.00%) IP Engineer
7 10 (4.55%) Analyst
8 9 (4.09%) IP Network Engineer
8 9 (4.09%) Linux Support
9 8 (3.64%) Network Manager
9 8 (3.64%) Network Security Engineer
9 8 (3.64%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 7 (3.18%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
10 7 (3.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (2.73%) Operations Technician
11 6 (2.73%) SQL Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.73%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.45%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.18%) PKI
3 10 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.27%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (1.82%) IoT
9 3 (1.36%) CPLD
9 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.36%) FPGA
10 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.91%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.91%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.91%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.91%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.18%) Windows
2 26 (11.82%) Linux
3 9 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.18%) VMS
5 3 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.91%) Android
6 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
2 30 (13.64%) ITSM
3 28 (12.73%) Load Balancing
4 27 (12.27%) ITIL
5 24 (10.91%) Mentoring
6 23 (10.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (10.45%) Service Delivery
7 22 (10.00%) Patch Management
8 21 (9.55%) Service Management
9 20 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (7.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (7.73%) Network Virtualisation
11 16 (7.27%) Coaching
11 16 (7.27%) Network Architecture
12 15 (6.82%) High Availability
13 14 (6.36%) Business Continuity
13 14 (6.36%) Project Delivery
14 12 (5.45%) Agile
14 12 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.18%) Python
2 19 (8.64%) Bash
3 12 (5.45%) SQL
4 11 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.91%) C
5 2 (0.91%) C++
5 2 (0.91%) Java
5 2 (0.91%) MATLAB
5 2 (0.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (22.27%) CCNA
3 47 (21.36%) CCNP
4 39 (17.73%) Security Cleared
5 28 (12.73%) Degree
6 18 (8.18%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.64%) CISSP
8 8 (3.64%) MCSA
9 7 (3.18%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.18%) MCSE
10 6 (2.73%) JNCIA
11 5 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.27%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.82%) CCIE
12 4 (1.82%) CCSE
12 4 (1.82%) CCSM
12 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.82%) GDPR
3 3 (1.36%) NIST
4 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) QA
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.09%) Firmware
5 7 (3.18%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.45%) Docker
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (11.36%) Ansible
2 23 (10.45%) Terraform
3 15 (6.82%) FortiGate
4 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.82%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.82%) Puppet
6 3 (1.36%) Nagios
7 2 (0.91%) Grafana
7 2 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.91%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.45%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.45%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.45%) Istio
8 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.45%) linkerd
8 1 (0.45%) Opsview
8 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 118 (53.64%) Cisco
2 60 (27.27%) SolarWinds
3 59 (26.82%) Juniper
4 32 (14.55%) Fortinet
5 31 (14.09%) Microsoft
5 31 (14.09%) Palo Alto
6 21 (9.55%) CheckPoint
7 20 (9.09%) Aruba
7 20 (9.09%) F5
8 19 (8.64%) Meraki
9 18 (8.18%) VMware
9 18 (8.18%) Zscaler
10 16 (7.27%) Arista
10 16 (7.27%) BMC
10 16 (7.27%) NetScout
11 15 (6.82%) HP
12 13 (5.91%) Riverbed
13 10 (4.55%) ServiceNow
14 4 (1.82%) LogicMonitor
15 3 (1.36%) Extreme Networks