Proactive Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Proactive Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 657 700
Rank change year-on-year +110 +43 -55
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 378 330 601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.32% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 316 254 423
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,325
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,635 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £67,365 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
% change year-on-year - +3.03% -2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Proactive Monitoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Proactive Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Proactive Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +133 339 £47,250 +11.18% 94
UK excluding London +24 273 £42,500 - 58
Work from Home +74 111 £50,000 +5.26% 37
North of England +76 95 £41,250 -13.16% 11
London +160 90 £85,000 +47.83% 38
South East +9 59 £47,500 +11.76% 16
Midlands +31 56 £42,864 -14.22% 18
Yorkshire +101 47 £34,000 -33.33%
North West +42 46 £43,500 +20.94% 9
West Midlands +51 41 £42,500 +7.21% 15
South West -8 23 £30,000 +9.09% 5
East Midlands -16 15 £47,500 -9.52% 3
East of England -3 14 £57,500 - 3
Wales +16 13 £41,067 +49.33%
Scotland -56 13 £55,000 +3.77% 6
North East -15 2 £25,149 -37.13% 2

Proactive Monitoring
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 50 (13.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.61%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.12%) IIS
4 7 (1.85%) JBoss
4 7 (1.85%) Tomcat
4 7 (1.85%) WebLogic
4 7 (1.85%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.85%) WildFly
5 1 (0.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.26%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (1.85%) Teamcenter
2 5 (1.32%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.26%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 130 (34.39%) Azure
2 70 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (18.25%) AWS
4 13 (3.44%) SaaS
5 12 (3.17%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.17%) OCI
6 9 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (2.38%) Mimecast
7 8 (2.12%) GCP
8 7 (1.85%) PaaS
8 7 (1.85%) Slack
9 6 (1.59%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.32%) Azure Stack
10 5 (1.32%) DigitalOcean
10 5 (1.32%) Firebase
10 5 (1.32%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.32%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.32%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.06%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (21.69%) Firewall
2 61 (16.14%) DNS
3 55 (14.55%) DHCP
4 45 (11.90%) SAN
5 36 (9.52%) TCP/IP
5 36 (9.52%) WAN
6 26 (6.88%) LAN
7 20 (5.29%) VoIP
8 19 (5.03%) VPN
9 18 (4.76%) MPLS
10 17 (4.50%) SD-WAN
11 16 (4.23%) Network Security
12 14 (3.70%) VLAN
13 12 (3.17%) NAS
13 12 (3.17%) Wireless
14 11 (2.91%) Internet
15 10 (2.65%) WLAN
16 9 (2.38%) BGP
16 9 (2.38%) HTTP
17 8 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (15.61%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.29%) MySQL
3 13 (3.44%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (2.12%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.59%) Power BI
8 5 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.06%) InfluxDB
10 3 (0.79%) Ingres
11 2 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.53%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.53%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.23%) JIRA
2 5 (1.32%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.06%) Git
3 4 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.53%) Subversion
4 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 175 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 83 (21.96%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (19.31%) Finance
4 32 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (6.08%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.97%) Banking
6 15 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.70%) Law
7 14 (3.70%) Legal
8 13 (3.44%) Retail
9 10 (2.65%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.32%) Games
12 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.06%) Marketing
12 4 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.06%) Police
13 3 (0.79%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 84 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (14.29%) Analyst
3 42 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 38 (10.05%) Senior
5 34 (8.99%) Support Engineer
6 29 (7.67%) IT Support
7 28 (7.41%) Network Engineer
8 25 (6.61%) DBA
9 22 (5.82%) Service Analyst
10 18 (4.76%) Lead
11 17 (4.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 16 (4.23%) 1st Line Support
12 16 (4.23%) Applications Support
12 16 (4.23%) IT Support Engineer
13 15 (3.97%) Administrator
14 14 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support
15 13 (3.44%) Applications Support Manager
15 13 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
15 13 (3.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.44%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.65%) XML
2 9 (2.38%) CSS
2 9 (2.38%) EDI
2 9 (2.38%) React
3 8 (2.12%) .NET
4 7 (1.85%) HTML
4 7 (1.85%) JSON
5 5 (1.32%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.32%) Jest
5 5 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.32%) Svelte
5 5 (1.32%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (1.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 5 (1.32%) Vue
6 4 (1.06%) CSS3
6 4 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.06%) HTML5
6 4 (1.06%) jQuery
6 4 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.38%) Data Centre
2 39 (10.32%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.44%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.17%) Clustering
6 10 (2.65%) Replication
7 7 (1.85%) CMDB
7 7 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.59%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.59%) PMI
8 6 (1.59%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.32%) Eurex
10 4 (1.06%) IoT
10 4 (1.06%) Life Science
10 4 (1.06%) PKI
10 4 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 161 (42.59%) Windows
2 94 (24.87%) Windows Server
3 89 (23.54%) Linux
4 23 (6.08%) Windows 10
5 22 (5.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 18 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
7 17 (4.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (3.70%) Mac OS
9 12 (3.17%) Unix
9 12 (3.17%) Windows XP
10 6 (1.59%) CentOS
10 6 (1.59%) VMS
11 4 (1.06%) Debian
12 3 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.53%) Solaris
14 1 (0.26%) Android
14 1 (0.26%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (29.10%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (26.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 91 (24.07%) ITIL
4 73 (19.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 71 (18.78%) Disaster Recovery
6 62 (16.40%) Incident Management
7 57 (15.08%) Customer Service
8 33 (8.73%) Project Management
8 33 (8.73%) Server Management
9 32 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
10 29 (7.67%) Mentoring
11 28 (7.41%) Change Management
12 27 (7.14%) Service Delivery
13 26 (6.88%) ITSM
13 26 (6.88%) Performance Tuning
14 24 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (6.08%) Service Management
16 22 (5.82%) Agile
17 21 (5.56%) DevOps
17 21 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 67 (17.72%) SQL
2 54 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 24 (6.35%) Python
4 22 (5.82%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.97%) T-SQL
6 12 (3.17%) C#
7 11 (2.91%) Bash
7 11 (2.91%) C++
8 9 (2.38%) Java
9 8 (2.12%) Perl
10 7 (1.85%) Ruby
11 5 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.32%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.06%) ActionScript
12 4 (1.06%) ActionScript 2.0
12 4 (1.06%) VB
12 4 (1.06%) VBScript
13 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.53%) PHP
14 2 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (14.02%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (13.76%) Degree
3 51 (13.49%) CCNA
4 39 (10.32%) Security Cleared
5 38 (10.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (8.20%) SC Cleared
7 29 (7.67%) CCNP
8 21 (5.56%) DV Cleared
9 20 (5.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (4.50%) MCSA
11 16 (4.23%) MCSE
12 9 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (2.12%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (1.85%) DBS Check
14 7 (1.85%) HND
15 6 (1.59%) PMI Certification
16 5 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (1.06%) CISM
17 4 (1.06%) HNC
17 4 (1.06%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.26%) SLA
2 9 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.12%) GDPR
4 5 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.32%) QA
5 4 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.06%) NIST
6 2 (0.53%) COBIT
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) GxP
7 1 (0.26%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 64 (16.93%) Hyper-V
2 64 (16.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.97%) Docker
4 13 (3.44%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.32%) vSphere
7 4 (1.06%) NFS
7 4 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.79%) Firmware
9 1 (0.26%) Ceph
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (6.61%) SCCM
2 24 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (5.29%) SCOM
4 18 (4.76%) WSUS
5 17 (4.50%) Kubernetes
6 14 (3.70%) Ansible
7 13 (3.44%) Terraform
7 13 (3.44%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.17%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (3.17%) NetBackup
9 7 (1.85%) Grafana
10 4 (1.06%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.53%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 2 (0.53%) Nessus
11 2 (0.53%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 2 (0.53%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 162 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 96 (25.40%) VMware
3 58 (15.34%) Cisco
4 42 (11.11%) Oracle
5 30 (7.94%) Citrix
5 30 (7.94%) HP
6 28 (7.41%) Dell
7 24 (6.35%) Palo Alto
8 20 (5.29%) Veeam
9 15 (3.97%) Juniper
10 14 (3.70%) ServiceNow
10 14 (3.70%) Symantec
11 13 (3.44%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (3.17%) 3PAR
12 12 (3.17%) EMC
12 12 (3.17%) NetApp
12 12 (3.17%) Remedy
13 11 (2.91%) Red Hat
14 9 (2.38%) Google
14 9 (2.38%) Salesforce