Network Monitoring Contracts

Network Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Network Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 484 525
Rank change year-on-year +117 +41 +189
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 163 110 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.30% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 55 101
10th Percentile £389 £288 £313
25th Percentile £425 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% +4.30%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £575
90th Percentile £698 £636 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £21.79 - £56.68
25th Percentile £28.25 - £62.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £23.80 £62.62
Median % change year-on-year +23.95% -61.99% +15.95%
75th Percentile £30.75 £28.75 £63.23
90th Percentile £40.38 - £69.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.33 £27.50 £62.62
% change year-on-year -44.25% -56.08% +15.95%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,057 37,061 49,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.99% 85.02% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,140 23,606 34,377
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,245 2,596 1,680
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.02 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.25 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Monitoring over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Monitoring over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Monitoring in the UK

Network Monitoring
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +115 141 £500 +11.11% 578
UK excluding London +45 81 £475 +11.76% 516
London +78 71 £480 -4.00% 151
Work from Home +75 54 £500 +17.65% 256
Midlands +31 30 £525 +16.67% 99
West Midlands +30 28 £525 +16.67% 58
North of England +8 17 £500 +17.65% 98
Scotland +9 15 £438 -10.26% 34
North West +17 14 £475 -15.56% 49
South West +39 9 £525 -27.59% 59
South East +22 9 £551 +37.75% 130
East of England - 5 £438 - 59
Yorkshire +8 2 £506 +53.41% 44
Wales +6 2 £440 +82.38% 15
East Midlands - 2 - - 41

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 (2.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.23%) nginx
3 1 (0.61%) Apache
3 1 (0.61%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.61%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.72%) AWS
2 22 (13.50%) Azure
3 8 (4.91%) GCP
4 4 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.23%) GitHub
5 2 (1.23%) Google Workspace
5 2 (1.23%) SaaS
5 2 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.61%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.61%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 94 (57.67%) Firewall
2 62 (38.04%) VPN
3 59 (36.20%) BGP
3 59 (36.20%) OSPF
4 52 (31.90%) WAN
5 48 (29.45%) Network Security
6 43 (26.38%) LAN
7 37 (22.70%) MPLS
8 28 (17.18%) SD-WAN
9 26 (15.95%) Wireless
10 22 (13.50%) EIGRP
11 20 (12.27%) Cisco Nexus
12 19 (11.66%) DNS
12 19 (11.66%) TCP/IP
13 18 (11.04%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (11.04%) IPsec
13 18 (11.04%) VLAN
14 16 (9.82%) Wireshark
15 15 (9.20%) DHCP
16 14 (8.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (9.20%) JIRA
2 5 (3.07%) GitLab
2 5 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (2.45%) Git
4 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 51 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.82%) Finance
3 16 (9.82%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.91%) Legal
5 7 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.07%) Banking
6 5 (3.07%) Law
6 5 (3.07%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.23%) Electronics
8 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.23%) Marketing
8 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 91 (55.83%) Network Engineer
2 16 (9.82%) Security Engineer
3 15 (9.20%) Network Security Engineer
3 15 (9.20%) Principal Engineer
3 15 (9.20%) Principal Network Engineer
4 11 (6.75%) Senior
4 11 (6.75%) Tester
5 10 (6.13%) Cisco Engineer
5 10 (6.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 8 (4.91%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (4.29%) Analyst
8 6 (3.68%) Architect
8 6 (3.68%) Deployment Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) Juniper Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) Network Deployment Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) Principal Security Engineer
9 5 (3.07%) Implementation Engineer
9 5 (3.07%) Network Implementation Engineer
10 4 (2.45%) Designer
10 4 (2.45%) Network Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.36%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.45%) Middleware
3 2 (1.23%) JSON
3 2 (1.23%) XML
4 1 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.61%) REST
4 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.27%) Data Centre
2 18 (11.04%) SCADA
3 9 (5.52%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.68%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.68%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.45%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.45%) Social Media
8 3 (1.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.84%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.23%) CMDB
9 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.23%) PKI
9 2 (1.23%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Replication
10 1 (0.61%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.52%) Linux
2 6 (3.68%) Unix
2 6 (3.68%) Windows
3 5 (3.07%) CatOS
4 4 (2.45%) zOS
5 3 (1.84%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.23%) CentOS
6 2 (1.23%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.23%) Windows 8
6 2 (1.23%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.63%) ITIL
2 28 (17.18%) Migration
3 23 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (14.11%) Service Management
4 18 (11.04%) ITSM
5 17 (10.43%) Change Management
6 16 (9.82%) Network Design
7 15 (9.20%) Agile
8 14 (8.59%) High Availability
8 14 (8.59%) Project Delivery
9 12 (7.36%) Load Balancing
9 12 (7.36%) Roadmaps
10 11 (6.75%) DevOps
10 11 (6.75%) Matrix Organization
10 11 (6.75%) Network Management
10 11 (6.75%) Systems Engineering
11 10 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (6.13%) Network Architecture
12 9 (5.52%) Patch Management
12 9 (5.52%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.04%) Python
2 7 (4.29%) Bash
3 4 (2.45%) JCL
3 4 (2.45%) SQL
4 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.23%) Java
5 2 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.23%) REXX
6 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 63 (38.65%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (23.31%) CCNP
3 36 (22.09%) Security Cleared
4 30 (18.40%) SC Cleared
5 21 (12.88%) CCNA
6 19 (11.66%) CCIE
7 16 (9.82%) Degree
8 9 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.68%) DV Cleared
10 5 (3.07%) CCIE Service Provider
10 5 (3.07%) CCSA
10 5 (3.07%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.45%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.45%) CCSE
11 4 (2.45%) JNCIE
12 3 (1.84%) JNCIA
13 2 (1.23%) JNCIS
13 2 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.61%) CEH
14 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.52%) SLA
2 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.84%) NIST
3 2 (1.23%) NIST 800
3 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 19 (11.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (4.91%) Firmware
3 7 (4.29%) VMware NSX
4 5 (3.07%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.23%) FreeRADIUS
6 2 (1.23%) iptables
6 2 (1.23%) vSphere
6 2 (1.23%) XenApp
7 1 (0.61%) Docker
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (19.02%) Ansible
2 19 (11.66%) Terraform
3 13 (7.98%) ZABBIX
4 11 (6.75%) Nagios
5 9 (5.52%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (5.52%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.45%) CA Spectrum
6 4 (2.45%) HP ALM
6 4 (2.45%) Tivoli NetView
7 3 (1.84%) Grafana
7 3 (1.84%) Netcool
8 2 (1.23%) Cacti
8 2 (1.23%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.23%) Icinga
8 2 (1.23%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (1.23%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (1.23%) Observium
8 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.23%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 96 (58.90%) Cisco
2 51 (31.29%) SolarWinds
3 36 (22.09%) Palo Alto
4 32 (19.63%) F5
5 28 (17.18%) Juniper
6 26 (15.95%) VMware
7 24 (14.72%) Fortinet
8 19 (11.66%) CheckPoint
9 14 (8.59%) Meraki
10 10 (6.13%) Aruba
10 10 (6.13%) Broadcom
11 9 (5.52%) Nokia
11 9 (5.52%) ServiceNow
12 7 (4.29%) HP
12 7 (4.29%) Microsoft
13 6 (3.68%) Arista
13 6 (3.68%) Infoblox
14 5 (3.07%) IBM
15 4 (2.45%) Oracle
15 4 (2.45%) Zscaler
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