Monitoring Engineer Contracts

Monitoring Engineer
UK

The median Monitoring Engineer daily rate in the UK is £123 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 711 823
Rank change year-on-year +143 +112 -168
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 18 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.018% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.019% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile - £363 £429
25th Percentile £119 £422 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £123 £475 £484
Median % change year-on-year -74.21% -1.78% +15.14%
75th Percentile £126 £544 £522
90th Percentile - £567 £528
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £490
% change year-on-year - - +16.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Monitoring Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Monitoring Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Monitoring Engineer in the UK

Monitoring Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Monitoring Engineer in the UK

Monitoring Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Monitoring Engineer in the UK

Monitoring Engineer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Monitoring Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +123 9 - - 1
London +110 9 - -
Work from Home +120 4 £123 -74.21%

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Monitoring Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (77.78%) Splunk
2 13 (72.22%) Linux
2 13 (72.22%) Unix
3 12 (66.67%) Windows
3 12 (66.67%) Python
3 12 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 12 (66.67%) Bash
3 12 (66.67%) Ansible
3 12 (66.67%) Docker
3 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 11 (61.11%) Puppet
4 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
4 11 (61.11%) Containerisation
5 8 (44.44%) Prometheus
5 8 (44.44%) Grafana
6 7 (38.89%) Data Centre
6 7 (38.89%) Loki
6 7 (38.89%) Graylog
6 7 (38.89%) Icinga
6 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Management
6 7 (38.89%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (38.89%) ZABBIX
6 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
6 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
6 7 (38.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (38.89%) CCTV
6 7 (38.89%) Nagios
7 3 (16.67%) Finance
7 3 (16.67%) Agile
8 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (38.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Loki
2 1 (5.56%) XML
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) CCTV
1 7 (38.89%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Linux
1 13 (72.22%) Unix
2 12 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Containerisation
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.11%) ITSM
5 1 (5.56%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (5.56%) Change Management
5 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) Kanban
5 1 (5.56%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.56%) Observability
5 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Project Management
5 1 (5.56%) Risk Management
5 1 (5.56%) Scrum
5 1 (5.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Bash
1 12 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) CCNA
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Ansible
1 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (61.11%) Puppet
3 8 (44.44%) Grafana
3 8 (44.44%) Prometheus
4 7 (38.89%) Graylog
4 7 (38.89%) Icinga
4 7 (38.89%) Nagios
4 7 (38.89%) ZABBIX
5 1 (5.56%) SCOM
5 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) BigPanda
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Remedy