Monitoring Engineer Contract Job Trends

Monitoring Engineer
UK

The median Monitoring Engineer daily rate in the UK is £507, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 519 565
Rank change year-on-year -101 +46 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 10 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.017% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.018% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £432 £513 £119
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £123
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +328.57% -74.21%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £126
90th Percentile £618 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 -
% change year-on-year -14.25% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 43,629 27,082 40,416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.55% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,928 17,690 26,310
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £492
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.46% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,807 1,034 2,664
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.15 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -20.37% -19.07%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year +62.36% -29.20% -6.94%

Monitoring Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Monitoring Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Monitoring Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Monitoring Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Monitoring Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Monitoring Engineer in the UK

Monitoring Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Monitoring Engineer
Top 8 Contract Job 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 1 May 2026. 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 -95 9 £500 -4.76% 9
UK excluding London -91 6 £450 -14.25% 7
London -53 3 £520 - 2
North West - 3 £389 -
North of England - 3 £389 -
South East -55 2 £499 -5.00% 2
Work from Home - 2 £499 - 1
East of England - 1 £750 - 6

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2026, 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 featuring Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Observability
2 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Splunk
4 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Log Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Python
4 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Grafana
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) Linux
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) SCOM
5 2 (20.00%) SIEM
5 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SNMP
1 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Loki
1 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Media Streaming
2 1 (10.00%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Nagios
2 1 (10.00%) Netcool
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (10.00%) BMC
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow