Monitoring Engineer Contracts in London

Monitoring Engineer
England > London

The median Monitoring Engineer daily rate in London is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 389 469
Rank change year-on-year +45 +80 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 6 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.028% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.030% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £619 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +44.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £581 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -10.58% +44.44% -7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,802 16,538 23,816
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.75% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,993 11,885 17,371
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 321 274
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.56 £46.48 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.38 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

Monitoring Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Monitoring Engineer in London

Monitoring Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Monitoring Engineer in London

Monitoring Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Monitoring Engineer in London

Monitoring Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 25 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
Central London - 1 - - 8
Monitoring Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, 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 across the London region featuring Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) WMI
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) Fault Management
3 2 (33.33%) Skype for Business
4 1 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Kafka
4 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Confluence

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) Skype for Business
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Fault Management
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) WMI
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Spotify