Monitoring Engineer Contract Job Trends

Monitoring Engineer
UK

The median Monitoring Engineer daily rate in the UK is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 549 570
Rank change year-on-year -82 +21 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 18 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.022% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.023% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 4
10th Percentile £403 £523 -
25th Percentile £417 £539 £119
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £581 £386
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +50.49% -14.17%
75th Percentile £775 £627 £650
90th Percentile - £644 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £525 -
% change year-on-year +28.57% - -

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 48,692 29,793 39,772
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.81% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,483 18,982 25,593
10th Percentile £325 £288 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,276 1,398 2,720
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% -33.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.19 £63.41
90th Percentile £80.07 £73.75 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.13% -37.13% +6.67%

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 15 July 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 10 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 15 July 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 -105 15 £675 +16.13% 9
UK excluding London -94 14 £675 +28.57% 6
East of England - 8 £750 - 6
Work from Home - 6 £484 -
North of England - 3 £389 -
North West - 3 £389 -
South East -63 2 £499 -5.00% 4
London -68 1 £500 -21.57% 3
Midlands - 1 £581 -
West Midlands - 1 £581 -

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 6 (33.33%) Analytics
3 6 (33.33%) Observability
4 5 (27.78%) Log Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 5 (27.78%) Windows
5 4 (22.22%) Azure
5 4 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (22.22%) ITIL
5 4 (22.22%) SCOM
6 3 (16.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 3 (16.67%) Backtesting
6 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
6 3 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (16.67%) KYC
6 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 3 (16.67%) Model Validation
6 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 3 (16.67%) Scorecard
6 3 (16.67%) Splunk
6 3 (16.67%) Validation
6 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
7 2 (11.11%) Analytical Modelling
7 2 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (11.11%) Data Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Linux

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 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) SNMP
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Analytics
1 6 (33.33%) Observability
2 5 (27.78%) Log Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 3 (16.67%) Backtesting
4 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (16.67%) KYC
4 3 (16.67%) Model Validation
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Scorecard
4 3 (16.67%) Validation
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Modelling
5 2 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) MCSE
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) SCOM
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Nagios
2 1 (5.56%) Netcool
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) BMC
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) F5
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds