Monitoring Engineer Contract Job Trends

Monitoring Engineer
UK

The median Monitoring Engineer daily rate in the UK is £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 524 580
Rank change year-on-year -77 +56 +137
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 17 4 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.014% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.015% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 2
10th Percentile £395 £514 -
25th Percentile £500 £516 £119
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £123
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +338.78% -75.50%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £126
90th Percentile £598 £571 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £538 -

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 42,056 27,143 40,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 92.76% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,180 17,855 26,652
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.05%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,649 962 2,545
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% -6.59% -23.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.62 £30.93 £35.00
% change year-on-year +34.55% -11.63% -17.38%

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 7 April 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 9 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 7 April 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 -94 13 £535 +1.90% 3
UK excluding London -99 9 £538 - 5
Work from Home -24 7 £540 -1.82% 4
London -59 5 £520 - 1
Midlands - 4 £540 - 1
North West - 4 £417 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £540 - 1
North of England - 4 £417 - 1
Scotland +7 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 April 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 13 (76.47%) Observability
2 11 (64.71%) Splunk
3 9 (52.94%) Analytics
4 8 (47.06%) Azure
5 7 (41.18%) AWS
5 7 (41.18%) Incident Response
6 6 (35.29%) GCP
6 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
7 5 (29.41%) AppDynamics
7 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 5 (29.41%) Cisco
7 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
7 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 5 (29.41%) Firewall
7 5 (29.41%) Log Analytics
7 5 (29.41%) Performance Monitoring
7 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (29.41%) Proactive Management
7 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
8 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (23.53%) CISM
8 4 (23.53%) CISSP
8 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (23.53%) Cribl.io
8 4 (23.53%) DevOps
8 4 (23.53%) Dynatrace
8 4 (23.53%) Fluentd
8 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (23.53%) GitLab

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) GCP
4 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
3 1 (5.88%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.88%) Modbus
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) OSPF
3 1 (5.88%) SNMP
3 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (5.88%) VLAN
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jaeger
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.88%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Media Streaming
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.88%) Online Games
1 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
1 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Observability
2 9 (52.94%) Analytics
3 7 (41.18%) Incident Response
4 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Log Analytics
5 5 (29.41%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Proactive Management
5 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
6 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
6 4 (23.53%) Service Management
6 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
6 4 (23.53%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Bash
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Perl
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CISM
1 4 (23.53%) CISSP
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CCNA
3 1 (5.88%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (23.53%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Fluentd
3 3 (17.65%) Grafana
4 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.88%) collectd
5 1 (5.88%) Nagios
5 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Splunk
2 5 (29.41%) AppDynamics
2 5 (29.41%) Cisco
3 4 (23.53%) Cribl.io
3 4 (23.53%) Dynatrace
4 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.76%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (5.88%) F5
6 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle