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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 671 694
Rank change year-on-year +129 +23 -42
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 377 333 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.33% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.34% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 317 262 423
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,645
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,093 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £59,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £65,225 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%

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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +110 338 £47,500 +11.76% 88
UK excluding London -7 270 £42,500 - 59
Work from Home +58 115 £50,000 +8.11% 32
North of England +65 93 £42,500 -10.53% 16
London +159 92 £80,543 +40.07% 35
Midlands +30 61 £43,227 -13.55% 12
South East -4 56 £49,329 +16.07% 17
Yorkshire +88 47 £34,000 -33.33% 4
West Midlands +41 46 £42,864 +7.16% 10
North West +35 44 £43,500 +9.45% 8
South West -40 20 £30,000 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -16 15 £47,500 -9.52% 2
East of England -6 14 £57,500 - 3
Wales +10 13 £41,067 +49.33% 1
Scotland -52 13 £55,000 +3.77% 8
North East -15 2 £25,149 -37.13% 5

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 51 (13.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.63%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.12%) IIS
4 7 (1.86%) JBoss
4 7 (1.86%) Tomcat
4 7 (1.86%) WebLogic
4 7 (1.86%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.86%) WildFly
5 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 31 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (1.86%) Teamcenter
2 5 (1.33%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Endur
5 1 (0.27%) Findur
5 1 (0.27%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.27%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 128 (33.95%) Azure
2 69 (18.30%) AWS
3 65 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.18%) OCI
5 11 (2.92%) Entra ID
5 11 (2.92%) Mimecast
5 11 (2.92%) SaaS
6 10 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.12%) GCP
8 7 (1.86%) PaaS
8 7 (1.86%) Slack
9 5 (1.33%) Azure Stack
9 5 (1.33%) DigitalOcean
9 5 (1.33%) Firebase
9 5 (1.33%) Nutanix
9 5 (1.33%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.33%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.33%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.06%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (21.75%) Firewall
2 62 (16.45%) DNS
3 56 (14.85%) DHCP
4 43 (11.41%) SAN
5 36 (9.55%) TCP/IP
6 35 (9.28%) WAN
7 25 (6.63%) LAN
8 20 (5.31%) Network Security
9 18 (4.77%) MPLS
9 18 (4.77%) VoIP
9 18 (4.77%) VPN
10 17 (4.51%) SD-WAN
11 13 (3.45%) VLAN
12 10 (2.65%) Internet
12 10 (2.65%) NAS
12 10 (2.65%) WLAN
13 9 (2.39%) BGP
13 9 (2.39%) HTTP
14 8 (2.12%) Wireless
15 7 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (14.85%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.77%) MySQL
3 13 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (2.39%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.33%) InfluxDB
8 5 (1.33%) Power BI
9 4 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.80%) 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 (0.27%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (4.24%) JIRA
2 6 (1.59%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.06%) Git
3 4 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.53%) Subversion
4 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 171 (45.36%) Social Skills
2 82 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (20.42%) Finance
4 33 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.31%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.98%) Banking
6 15 (3.98%) Legal
6 15 (3.98%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.18%) Retail
8 11 (2.92%) Law
9 10 (2.65%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.33%) Games
12 4 (1.06%) Automotive
12 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.06%) Electronics
12 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.06%) Marketing
12 4 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.06%) Police
Job Titles
1 82 (21.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 52 (13.79%) Analyst
3 44 (11.67%) IT Engineer
4 39 (10.34%) Senior
5 31 (8.22%) Support Engineer
6 28 (7.43%) IT Support
7 27 (7.16%) Network Engineer
8 25 (6.63%) DBA
9 19 (5.04%) Lead
9 19 (5.04%) Service Analyst
10 17 (4.51%) Applications Support
10 17 (4.51%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 16 (4.24%) 1st Line Support
11 16 (4.24%) IT Support Engineer
12 15 (3.98%) Administrator
13 14 (3.71%) 3rd Line Support
13 14 (3.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.71%) Support Manager
14 13 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.65%) EDI
1 10 (2.65%) React
2 9 (2.39%) CSS
3 8 (2.12%) .NET
3 8 (2.12%) XML
4 7 (1.86%) JSON
5 5 (1.33%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.33%) HTML
5 5 (1.33%) Jest
5 5 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.33%) Svelte
5 5 (1.33%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (1.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 5 (1.33%) 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 (11.41%) Data Centre
2 36 (9.55%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.18%) Clustering
6 11 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.65%) Replication
8 8 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (1.86%) CMDB
10 6 (1.59%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.59%) PMI
10 6 (1.59%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.33%) Eurex
12 4 (1.06%) IoT
12 4 (1.06%) PKI
12 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.80%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 158 (41.91%) Windows
2 92 (24.40%) Windows Server
3 88 (23.34%) Linux
4 23 (6.10%) Windows 10
5 21 (5.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (4.24%) Windows Server 2012
6 16 (4.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (3.45%) Mac OS
8 12 (3.18%) Unix
8 12 (3.18%) Windows XP
9 6 (1.59%) CentOS
9 6 (1.59%) VMS
10 4 (1.06%) Debian
10 4 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.53%) Solaris
12 1 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.27%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (28.38%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (26.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 95 (25.20%) ITIL
4 73 (19.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 70 (18.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 64 (16.98%) Incident Management
7 54 (14.32%) Customer Service
8 33 (8.75%) Project Management
9 32 (8.49%) Server Management
9 32 (8.49%) Service Delivery
10 31 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (7.69%) Change Management
11 29 (7.69%) Mentoring
12 27 (7.16%) Agile
13 26 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
14 24 (6.37%) ITSM
15 22 (5.84%) DevOps
15 22 (5.84%) Incident Response
15 22 (5.84%) Service Management
15 22 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (17.77%) SQL
2 56 (14.85%) PowerShell
3 26 (6.90%) Python
4 23 (6.10%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.98%) T-SQL
6 12 (3.18%) C#
6 12 (3.18%) C++
7 11 (2.92%) Bash
8 9 (2.39%) Java
9 8 (2.12%) Perl
10 7 (1.86%) Ruby
11 6 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.06%) ActionScript
13 4 (1.06%) ActionScript 2.0
13 4 (1.06%) VB
13 4 (1.06%) VBScript
14 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.53%) PHP
15 2 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (13.26%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (13.00%) Degree
3 48 (12.73%) CCNA
4 37 (9.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 36 (9.55%) Security Cleared
6 29 (7.69%) CCNP
6 29 (7.69%) SC Cleared
7 21 (5.57%) DV Cleared
8 19 (5.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 17 (4.51%) MCSA
10 15 (3.98%) MCSE
11 8 (2.12%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.86%) HND
13 6 (1.59%) DBS Check
13 6 (1.59%) PMI Certification
14 5 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (1.06%) CISM
15 4 (1.06%) HNC
16 3 (0.80%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.49%) SLA
2 9 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.59%) GDPR
4 5 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.06%) NIST
5 4 (1.06%) QA
6 2 (0.53%) COBIT
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) GxP
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) PMO
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (27.32%) Active Directory
2 63 (16.71%) Hyper-V
3 61 (16.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.98%) Docker
5 13 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.33%) vSphere
8 4 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (1.06%) Firmware
8 4 (1.06%) NFS
8 4 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.27%) Ceph
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.27%) XenApp
9 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (6.90%) SCCM
2 25 (6.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (5.31%) SCOM
4 18 (4.77%) WSUS
5 17 (4.51%) Kubernetes
6 14 (3.71%) Ansible
6 14 (3.71%) Terraform
7 13 (3.45%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.18%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (3.18%) NetBackup
9 8 (2.12%) Grafana
10 4 (1.06%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.53%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.53%) Nessus
12 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.53%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 2 (0.53%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.27%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 159 (42.18%) Microsoft
2 94 (24.93%) VMware
3 59 (15.65%) Cisco
4 42 (11.14%) Oracle
5 31 (8.22%) Citrix
5 31 (8.22%) HP
6 29 (7.69%) Dell
7 24 (6.37%) Palo Alto
8 19 (5.04%) Veeam
9 15 (3.98%) Juniper
9 15 (3.98%) ServiceNow
10 14 (3.71%) Symantec
11 13 (3.45%) Extreme Networks
11 13 (3.45%) NetApp
12 12 (3.18%) 3PAR
12 12 (3.18%) EMC
12 12 (3.18%) Remedy
13 11 (2.92%) Red Hat
14 9 (2.39%) Google
14 9 (2.39%) Salesforce