Proactive Monitoring Job Trends in the North West

Proactive Monitoring
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Proactive Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 180 160
Rank change year-on-year +15 -20 +116
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 18 23 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.29% 0.45% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.50% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 30
10th Percentile £34,164 £37,500 £30,725
25th Percentile £36,659 £44,244 £36,708
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +9.20% +8.75%
75th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £47,066
90th Percentile £69,000 - £68,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Proactive Monitoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,119 4,629 3,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.33% 90.64% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,478 2,256 2,801
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,114 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,389 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Proactive Monitoring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Proactive Monitoring job vacancy trend in the North West

Proactive Monitoring
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Proactive Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring in the North West over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the North West

Proactive Monitoring
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 Proactive Monitoring within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
Manchester +30 14 £52,500 +13.51% 1
Cheshire -22 3 £40,000 -15.79% 4
Merseyside - 1 - -
Proactive Monitoring
England

Proactive Monitoring
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 8 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Anypoint
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (55.56%) Power Platform
3 9 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (50.00%) SaaS
4 8 (44.44%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (44.44%) OneDrive
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) AWS
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.56%) Boomi
6 1 (5.56%) Datadog
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) iPaaS
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 12 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (61.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Law
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Business Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Insight Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 11 (61.11%) Agile
3 11 (61.11%) User Experience
4 10 (55.56%) AI
4 10 (55.56%) DevOps
4 10 (55.56%) Incident Response
5 9 (50.00%) Change Management
5 9 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 9 (50.00%) Observability
6 8 (44.44%) BPR
6 8 (44.44%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (44.44%) E-Discovery
6 8 (44.44%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (44.44%) RBAC
7 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
8 3 (16.67%) Co-Creation
8 3 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (44.44%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Argo
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) New Relic
2 8 (44.44%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) Epicor
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) IFS
3 1 (5.56%) Infor
3 1 (5.56%) Informatica
3 1 (5.56%) Jitterbit
3 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) SnapLogic
3 1 (5.56%) Software AG
3 1 (5.56%) Talend
3 1 (5.56%) TIBCO
3 1 (5.56%) Workday