Monitoring Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Monitoring Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Monitoring Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 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
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 379 429
Rank change year-on-year +14 +50 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.033% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.035% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £518 - -
25th Percentile £526 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.73%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £533 £450 £438
% change year-on-year +18.33% +2.86% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,794 16,926 21,010
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 92.03% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,471 10,336 14,218
10th Percentile £217 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.02% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,203 1,766 1,146
10th Percentile £13.35 £14.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.95 £37.93
Median % change year-on-year -42.78% +15.89% +79.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

Monitoring Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Monitoring Engineer in the UK excluding London

Monitoring Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Monitoring Engineer in the UK excluding London

Monitoring Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Monitoring Engineer in the UK excluding London

Monitoring Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Midlands - 3 £540 - 3
West Midlands - 3 £540 - 2
South East - 1 £525 -
Monitoring Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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 UK excluding London region featuring Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (75.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (75.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) Proactive Management
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Log Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Log Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) Proactive Management
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
1 3 (75.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk