Monitoring Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Monitoring Engineer
England > North West

The median Monitoring Engineer salary in the North West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 November 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 - 188
Rank change year-on-year - - +143
Permanent jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 2 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.041% - 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% - 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £43,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £66,250 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +26.19% +23.53% -21.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 4,453 6,580 3,796
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 95.16% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,591 3,668 2,915
10th Percentile £26,984 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,069
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

Monitoring Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Monitoring Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Monitoring Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Monitoring Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Monitoring Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Monitoring Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 1 £55,000 -
Cheshire - 1 - - 1
Monitoring Engineer
England

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Monitoring Engineer 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 West region featuring Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Fluentd
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis

Monitoring Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Fluentd
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk