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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 538 700
Rank change year-on-year +63 +162 -39
Contract jobs citing Network Monitoring 109 160 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.29% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.32% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 100 98
10th Percentile £288 £313 £358
25th Percentile £372 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £489 £473
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +3.44% +11.18%
75th Percentile £566 £578 £572
90th Percentile £636 £700 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 11
10th Percentile - £56.68 £41.52
25th Percentile - £62.00 £46.88
Median hourly rate £23.80 £62.62 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.99% +15.95% -4.42%
75th Percentile £28.75 £63.23 £56.00
90th Percentile - £69.61 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £62.62 £54.00
% change year-on-year -56.08% +15.95% -4.42%

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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 2024.

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
Top 14 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 12 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +47 93 £450 -6.36% 51
UK excluding London -20 67 £425 -10.53% 45
London +83 34 £500 -14.89% 14
South East +2 28 £400 -16.76% 19
Work from Home +87 18 £425 -21.95% 19
North of England +7 15 £425 -3.41% 6
North West +20 11 £563 +40.63% 1
Scotland +40 9 £488 -2.50% 8
West Midlands +20 9 £450 -35.71% 6
Midlands +16 9 £450 -14.69% 7
South West -5 4 £725 +81.25% 6
Wales +21 2 £241 -37.74%
Yorkshire -5 2 £330 -25.00% 5
North East - 2 £425 -

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 (2.75%) IIS
1 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.83%) Apache
2 2 (1.83%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (15.60%) Azure
2 16 (14.68%) AWS
3 5 (4.59%) GCP
3 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.75%) Mimecast
4 3 (2.75%) Nutanix
4 3 (2.75%) Rubrik
5 2 (1.83%) Catchpoint
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 62 (56.88%) Firewall
2 33 (30.28%) Network Security
2 33 (30.28%) WAN
3 30 (27.52%) SD-WAN
4 28 (25.69%) DNS
5 27 (24.77%) VPN
6 24 (22.02%) BGP
7 21 (19.27%) MPLS
8 17 (15.60%) Wireless
9 16 (14.68%) Cisco ASA
9 16 (14.68%) LAN
9 16 (14.68%) OSPF
10 14 (12.84%) Cisco Nexus
11 12 (11.01%) DHCP
12 11 (10.09%) SNMP
12 11 (10.09%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (7.34%) IPsec
13 8 (7.34%) SSL
13 8 (7.34%) TCP/IP
13 8 (7.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.75%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.92%) Power BI
2 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.75%) Git
3 1 (0.92%) JIRA
General
1 28 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.68%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.26%) Finance
5 5 (4.59%) Legal
6 4 (3.67%) Billing
7 3 (2.75%) Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Electronics
8 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.83%) Marketing
8 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.92%) Advertising
9 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (45.87%) Network Engineer
2 13 (11.93%) Support Engineer
3 10 (9.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 10 (9.17%) Senior
3 10 (9.17%) WAN Engineer
4 7 (6.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 6 (5.50%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 6 (5.50%) Analyst
5 6 (5.50%) Architect
5 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.50%) Network Support
5 6 (5.50%) Network Support Engineer
5 6 (5.50%) Security Engineer
5 6 (5.50%) Service Analyst
5 6 (5.50%) Service Desk Analyst
6 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (4.59%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (3.67%) Network Manager
7 4 (3.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.59%) .NET
2 4 (3.67%) Web Services
3 3 (2.75%) Jinja
3 3 (2.75%) JSON
3 3 (2.75%) NETCONF
3 3 (2.75%) RESTful
3 3 (2.75%) Software Packaging
3 3 (2.75%) XML
3 3 (2.75%) YANG
4 1 (0.92%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 29 (26.61%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.42%) PKI
3 5 (4.59%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.67%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.75%) Clustering
5 3 (2.75%) Fat Client
5 3 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.75%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.94%) Linux
2 23 (21.10%) Windows
3 10 (9.17%) Unix
4 2 (1.83%) CentOS
4 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.83%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.83%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (18.35%) Computer Science
3 19 (17.43%) High Availability
4 14 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (11.93%) Network Virtualisation
6 12 (11.01%) Capacity Planning
6 12 (11.01%) ITIL
6 12 (11.01%) Proactive Monitoring
7 10 (9.17%) Security Monitoring
8 9 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (7.34%) Configuration Management
9 8 (7.34%) Converged Infrastructure
9 8 (7.34%) Infrastructure Management
9 8 (7.34%) Load Balancing
9 8 (7.34%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.42%) Kalman Filter
10 7 (6.42%) Project Management
11 6 (5.50%) Incident Response
11 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (5.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.42%) Python
2 5 (4.59%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.83%) Bash
3 2 (1.83%) C#
3 2 (1.83%) Go
3 2 (1.83%) Java
3 2 (1.83%) PHP
3 2 (1.83%) Ruby
4 1 (0.92%) Groovy
4 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (38.53%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (33.03%) CCNP
3 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
4 17 (15.60%) CCNA
4 17 (15.60%) Degree
5 16 (14.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (11.93%) CCIE
7 11 (10.09%) SC Cleared
8 10 (9.17%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.67%) JNCIA
9 4 (3.67%) VCAP
10 3 (2.75%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.75%) CCDP
10 3 (2.75%) CISA
10 3 (2.75%) CISM
10 3 (2.75%) CISSP
10 3 (2.75%) HND
10 3 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.83%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) ISO 9000
2 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.67%) QA
3 3 (2.75%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (2.75%) NCSC
3 3 (2.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (11.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (10.09%) Active Directory
3 8 (7.34%) VMware NSX
4 5 (4.59%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.67%) vCloud
6 3 (2.75%) BitLocker
6 3 (2.75%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (1.83%) KVM
7 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.83%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (9.17%) Ansible
2 4 (3.67%) IBM BigFix
2 4 (3.67%) Tivoli
3 3 (2.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (2.75%) FortiGate
3 3 (2.75%) Kibana
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.75%) NetBackup
3 3 (2.75%) SCCM
3 3 (2.75%) SCOM
3 3 (2.75%) SCVMM
3 3 (2.75%) Terraform
3 3 (2.75%) VxRail
4 2 (1.83%) Grafana
4 2 (1.83%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (1.83%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.92%) NetMRI
5 1 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (53.21%) Cisco
2 20 (18.35%) Palo Alto
3 19 (17.43%) SolarWinds
4 16 (14.68%) F5
4 16 (14.68%) Juniper
5 14 (12.84%) VMware
6 11 (10.09%) CheckPoint
7 8 (7.34%) Infoblox
7 8 (7.34%) Microsoft
8 7 (6.42%) Aruba
8 7 (6.42%) Meraki
8 7 (6.42%) Remedy
9 6 (5.50%) Arista
9 6 (5.50%) ServiceNow
10 5 (4.59%) Fortinet
10 5 (4.59%) HP
11 4 (3.67%) AlgoSec
11 4 (3.67%) Fujitsu
11 4 (3.67%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (3.67%) Splunk