Monitoring Engineer Contract Job Trends

Monitoring Engineer
UK

The median Monitoring Engineer daily rate in the UK is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 531 643
Rank change year-on-year -23 +112 +198
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 14 28 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.073% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.078% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £513 £313 £351
25th Percentile £519 £369 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £613 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +32.43% -7.50%
75th Percentile £549 £634 £550
90th Percentile £604 £650 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £613 £413
% change year-on-year -11.84% +48.48% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 30,003 35,798 46,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.95% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,960 22,064 31,748
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,684 1,483
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%

Monitoring Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Monitoring Engineer 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
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 6 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 18 September 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
England +13 14 £540 +20.00% 2
London +19 7 £525 -4.55%
UK excluding London -14 7 £540 -11.84% 2
Midlands - 7 £540 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £540 -
Work from Home +25 2 £540 +44.00% 1

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 featuring Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) Observability
2 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
3 8 (57.14%) Dynatrace
3 8 (57.14%) Splunk
4 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 7 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 7 (50.00%) Analytics
4 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 7 (50.00%) Azure
4 7 (50.00%) AWS
4 7 (50.00%) SQL
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle
4 7 (50.00%) Unix
4 7 (50.00%) Windows
4 7 (50.00%) Linux
4 7 (50.00%) Apache
4 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (50.00%) WebLogic
4 7 (50.00%) Service Management
4 7 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 7 (50.00%) AppDynamics
4 7 (50.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
4 7 (50.00%) Proactive Management
4 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 7 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (50.00%) Incident Response

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (50.00%) Apache
1 7 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (14.29%) IIS
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
1 7 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (14.29%) Loki
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
1 7 (50.00%) Unix
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Observability
2 7 (50.00%) Analytics
2 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 7 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 7 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 7 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 7 (50.00%) Proactive Management
2 7 (50.00%) Service Management
2 7 (50.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 7 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 7 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Release Management
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Grafana
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) WMI
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Dynatrace
1 8 (57.14%) Splunk
2 7 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle
3 6 (42.86%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) Citrix
5 1 (7.14%) Spotify