Monitoring Engineer Contracts

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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 569 673
Rank change year-on-year +28 +104 +190
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 7 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.037% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.040% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £523 - £353
25th Percentile £539 £119 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £386 £450
Median % change year-on-year +50.49% -14.17% -6.49%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £575
90th Percentile £644 - £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - -

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 29,294 40,276 53,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 93.01% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,671 25,908 37,253
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,326 2,804 1,565
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Monitoring Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Monitoring Engineer in the UK

Monitoring Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Monitoring Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Monitoring Engineer in the UK

Monitoring Engineer
Top 4 Contract 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 6 July 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 +49 7 £581 -10.58% 22
London +36 6 £638 -1.92% 13
UK excluding London +43 1 £525 - 11
South East - 1 £525 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) WMI
3 2 (28.57%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) Fault Management
3 2 (28.57%) Skype for Business
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) IIS
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Spotify
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Arista
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
4 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (14.29%) Terraform

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 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) Skype for Business
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Fault Management
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) WMI
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Arista
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Spotify