Monitoring Specialist Job Trends in the North of England

Monitoring Specialist
England > North of England

The median Monitoring Specialist salary in the North of England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Monitoring Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.005% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £72,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 17,262 6,897 15,996
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 90.24% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,681 3,728 12,771
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,722 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

Monitoring Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Monitoring Specialist' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Monitoring Specialist job vacancy trend in the North of England

Monitoring Specialist
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Monitoring Specialist job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Monitoring Specialist job vacancies in the North of England

Monitoring Specialist
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Monitoring Specialist within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 1 £72,500 - 1
Monitoring Specialist
England

Monitoring Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 May 2026, Monitoring Specialist 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 permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Monitoring Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (100.00%) IPFIX
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX

Monitoring Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (100.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) IPFIX
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds