Hybrid/Remote Monitoring Engineer Contract Job Trends

Monitoring Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Monitoring Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
6 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 315 397
Rank change year-on-year +15 +82 +185
Contract jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 9 8 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.090% 0.066% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.071% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £441 £334 -
25th Percentile - £366 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £463 £325
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% +42.31% -38.68%
75th Percentile - £541 -
90th Percentile - £561 -
UK median daily rate £540 £581 £500
% change year-on-year -7.10% +16.25% -2.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,410 11,305 17,430
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.20% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,159 7,102 12,209
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 196 379
10th Percentile £14.89 £19.45 £17.11
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.42 £25.98
Median hourly rate £41.68 £42.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.15 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +55.71%

Monitoring Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Monitoring Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Monitoring Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Monitoring Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Monitoring Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Monitoring Engineer job vacancies

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Observability
2 7 (77.78%) Analytics
2 7 (77.78%) Incident Response
2 7 (77.78%) Splunk
3 6 (66.67%) Visualisation
4 5 (55.56%) AppDynamics
4 5 (55.56%) AWS
4 5 (55.56%) Azure
4 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (55.56%) Cisco
4 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (55.56%) Dynatrace
4 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (55.56%) Incident Management
4 5 (55.56%) Log Analytics
4 5 (55.56%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (55.56%) Proactive Management
4 5 (55.56%) Service Management
4 5 (55.56%) Synthetic Monitoring
4 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
5 4 (44.44%) Linux
5 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Unix
6 3 (33.33%) Apache
6 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 3 (33.33%) Firewall
6 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 3 (33.33%) Oracle
6 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
3 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
3 1 (11.11%) Modbus
3 1 (11.11%) OSPF
3 1 (11.11%) SNMP
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Observability
2 7 (77.78%) Analytics
2 7 (77.78%) Incident Response
3 6 (66.67%) Visualisation
4 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (55.56%) Incident Management
4 5 (55.56%) Log Analytics
4 5 (55.56%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (55.56%) Proactive Management
4 5 (55.56%) Service Management
4 5 (55.56%) Synthetic Monitoring
4 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
5 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
7 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (22.22%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) PromQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CISM
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Fluentd
3 1 (11.11%) collectd
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Nagios
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Splunk
2 5 (55.56%) AppDynamics
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) Dynatrace
3 3 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (22.22%) Cribl.io
5 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
5 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
6 hybrid/remote Monitoring Engineer jobs