Monitoring Engineer Jobs

Monitoring Engineer
UK

The median Monitoring Engineer salary in the UK is £58,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 897 924 1214
Rank change year-on-year +27 +290 -309
Permanent jobs requiring a Monitoring Engineer 10 23 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.024% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.027% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 37
10th Percentile £50,625 £40,725 £38,550
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £54,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.29% +14.21% +22.58%
75th Percentile £78,125 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 - £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £44,623
% change year-on-year -12.50% +34.46% +27.49%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Monitoring Engineer in the UK

Monitoring Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Monitoring Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Monitoring Engineer in the UK

Monitoring Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Monitoring Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England +25 10 £58,750 +3.52% 4
UK excluding London -40 6 £52,500 -12.50% 5
London +110 4 £80,000 +62.44%
Work from Home +33 3 £52,500 -4.55% 1
South East -8 3 £52,500 -12.50% 2
West Midlands -16 3 - -
Midlands -16 3 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Monitoring Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring Monitoring Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Observability
2 3 (30.00%) Automotive
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) New Relic
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Nagios
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Datadog
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 10

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Automotive
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Observability
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Nagios
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) NetCrunch
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) New Relic
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) Meraki
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) VMware