Monitoring Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Monitoring Engineer
UK > Scotland

As of 5 November 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Monitoring Engineer daily rate in Scotland.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 104 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 1 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.063% 0.56% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £613 -
UK median daily rate £540 £581 £500
% change year-on-year -7.10% +16.25% -2.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,439 1,642 2,240
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 91.68% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 976 1,418
10th Percentile £200 £190 £236
25th Percentile £360 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £572
90th Percentile £625 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 65 60
10th Percentile £16.84 £13.23 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.98 £14.73 £15.75
Median hourly rate £24.09 £18.38 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year +31.10% -3.57% +7.53%
75th Percentile £38.04 £24.18 £57.06
90th Percentile £64.60 £43.42 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.39 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.74% -16.91% +55.71%

Monitoring Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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 Scotland.

Monitoring Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Monitoring Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Monitoring Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 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
Glasgow - 1 - -
Monitoring Engineer
UK

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 5 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 Scotland region featuring Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

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

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk