Monitoring Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Monitoring Engineer
England > North West

The median Monitoring Engineer daily rate in the North West is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 113 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.084% 0.26% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £540 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.00% -1.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,176 2,186 2,586
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 93.50% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,437 1,155 1,808
10th Percentile £215 £265 £270
25th Percentile £363 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £678 £656 £674
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 156 180
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.42 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.07 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.43 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -7.14% +55.56%
75th Percentile £51.02 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £71.66 £70.90 £63.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.94
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.66% +53.13%

Monitoring Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Monitoring Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Monitoring Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Monitoring Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Monitoring Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Cheshire - 2 £550 - 1
Monitoring Engineer
England

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 November 2025, Monitoring Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) VPN

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk