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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 670 732 968
Rank change year-on-year +62 +236 -214
Permanent jobs citing Network Monitoring 240 265 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.27% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 207 222 213
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -31.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £89,750
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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 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 +80 224 £50,250 +34.00% 68
UK excluding London -45 164 £49,000 +30.67% 57
London +141 72 £58,750 -16.07% 11
Work from Home +18 61 £50,000 +25.00% 30
Midlands +8 39 £49,000 +27.27% 5
South West -13 39 £45,000 +20.00% 7
West Midlands +35 38 £49,000 +27.27% 3
South East -24 36 £55,500 +94.74% 19
North of England +51 29 £45,000 -7.69% 18
North West +19 22 £45,000 -4.26% 10
Scotland -60 11 £32,500 -7.14% 5
East of England -1 8 £52,500 +50.00% 4
Yorkshire +84 6 £49,000 -2.00% 6
Wales +12 3 £52,500 +31.25% 1
Northern Ireland +27 1 - -
North East -4 1 £31,000 -53.21% 2
East Midlands -29 1 £65,000 +23.88% 2

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 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.50%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 58 (24.17%) AWS
2 57 (23.75%) Azure
3 25 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.58%) GCP
4 11 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.08%) DigitalOcean
6 5 (2.08%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.83%) Datadog
10 1 (0.42%) SaaS
10 1 (0.42%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 140 (58.33%) Firewall
2 70 (29.17%) VPN
3 62 (25.83%) WAN
4 60 (25.00%) Network Security
5 55 (22.92%) LAN
6 41 (17.08%) Wireless
7 38 (15.83%) VLAN
8 37 (15.42%) TCP/IP
9 36 (15.00%) DNS
10 32 (13.33%) OSPF
11 31 (12.92%) BGP
12 27 (11.25%) MPLS
13 23 (9.58%) DHCP
14 21 (8.75%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (6.67%) SD-WAN
15 16 (6.67%) VoIP
16 13 (5.42%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (5.42%) SAN
17 12 (5.00%) IPsec
17 12 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.67%) InfluxDB
2 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 93 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.83%) Finance
3 22 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.33%) Retail
5 18 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.00%) Billing
7 10 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.33%) Legal
9 7 (2.92%) Games
9 7 (2.92%) Law
10 6 (2.50%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.08%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.67%) 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 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (50.83%) Network Engineer
2 51 (21.25%) Senior
3 39 (16.25%) Senior Network Engineer
4 23 (9.58%) Architect
5 21 (8.75%) Lead
6 17 (7.08%) Analyst
7 13 (5.42%) Security Analyst
8 12 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
8 12 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 12 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
9 11 (4.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 11 (4.58%) IT Analyst
9 11 (4.58%) IT Security Analyst
9 11 (4.58%) Network Architect
9 11 (4.58%) Support Engineer
10 10 (4.17%) Network Support
10 10 (4.17%) Support Assistant
11 9 (3.75%) ICT Assistant
11 9 (3.75%) ICT Support
11 9 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.83%) .NET
2 2 (0.83%) CSS
2 2 (0.83%) HTML
2 2 (0.83%) Web Services
3 1 (0.42%) Middleware
3 1 (0.42%) OAuth
3 1 (0.42%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.42%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.75%) Data Centre
2 29 (12.08%) Public Cloud
3 15 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (5.42%) Virtual Team
5 12 (5.00%) Replication
5 12 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 11 (4.58%) Driving Licence
6 11 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.58%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.25%) SCADA
11 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.83%) Molecular Biology
11 2 (0.83%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.83%) PKI
11 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.08%) Windows
2 41 (17.08%) Linux
3 34 (14.17%) Windows Server
4 18 (7.50%) Ubuntu
5 12 (5.00%) SUSE
5 12 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (4.17%) Windows 10
6 10 (4.17%) Windows 7
7 7 (2.92%) Debian
8 6 (2.50%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.83%) Android
9 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.83%) Unix
10 1 (0.42%) CentOS
10 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (13.75%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (13.75%) ITIL
4 27 (11.25%) Mentoring
5 26 (10.83%) SIEM
6 25 (10.42%) Root Cause Analysis
7 24 (10.00%) Security Operations
8 23 (9.58%) Network Design
9 22 (9.17%) Customer Service
9 22 (9.17%) Information Security
10 21 (8.75%) Load Balancing
10 21 (8.75%) Network Architecture
10 21 (8.75%) Project Delivery
11 19 (7.92%) Computer Science
11 19 (7.92%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (7.50%) Network Virtualisation
13 17 (7.08%) Data Protection
13 17 (7.08%) Proactive Monitoring
13 17 (7.08%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.42%) PowerShell
1 25 (10.42%) Python
1 25 (10.42%) SQL
2 10 (4.17%) C#
3 8 (3.33%) Java
4 7 (2.92%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.25%) Bash
6 2 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.42%) C++
7 1 (0.42%) Groovy
7 1 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 59 (24.58%) CCNP
3 52 (21.67%) Degree
4 39 (16.25%) CCNA
5 24 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 21 (8.75%) Master's Degree
7 18 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (7.08%) MCSA
8 17 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (6.67%) MCSE
10 15 (6.25%) CCIE
11 14 (5.83%) CISSP
11 14 (5.83%) DBS Check
11 14 (5.83%) DV Cleared
12 12 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (3.75%) CompTIA CySA+
14 8 (3.33%) SC Cleared
15 7 (2.92%) JNCIA
16 6 (2.50%) Azure Certification
16 6 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 15 (6.25%) NIST
3 10 (4.17%) GDPR
4 5 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.67%) SLA
6 2 (0.83%) QA
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (15.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (12.08%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.42%) vSphere
4 12 (5.00%) vCloud
5 7 (2.92%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.67%) Firmware
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.75%) CASB
1 9 (3.75%) Cisco Prime
2 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.92%) Icinga
3 7 (2.92%) Terraform
3 7 (2.92%) ZABBIX
4 6 (2.50%) Ansible
4 6 (2.50%) Nagios
4 6 (2.50%) vCenter Server
5 5 (2.08%) Grafana
5 5 (2.08%) Opsview
6 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.42%) IBM BigFix
6 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.42%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 109 (45.42%) Cisco
2 51 (21.25%) Microsoft
3 43 (17.92%) Juniper
4 38 (15.83%) VMware
5 35 (14.58%) SolarWinds
6 28 (11.67%) HP
6 28 (11.67%) Meraki
7 27 (11.25%) Aruba
8 25 (10.42%) Palo Alto
9 20 (8.33%) Veeam
10 19 (7.92%) CheckPoint
11 14 (5.83%) Citrix
11 14 (5.83%) Fortinet
12 12 (5.00%) Fujitsu
13 8 (3.33%) F5
14 6 (2.50%) Logitech
14 6 (2.50%) MikroTik
14 6 (2.50%) TP-LINK
14 6 (2.50%) Yealink
14 6 (2.50%) ZyXEL