Proactive Monitoring Job Trends

Proactive Monitoring
UK

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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 500 511
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 +182
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 212 127 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.31% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.33% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 113 94 315
10th Percentile £35,500 £34,400 £26,000
25th Percentile £46,160 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,688 £59,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £77,425 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,324 £42,500
% change year-on-year +7.94% +9.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,872 38,072 78,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.33% 93.03% 86.34%
Number of salaries quoted 38,257 22,481 58,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,241
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,321 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.95% +8.64% -8.41%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Proactive Monitoring job vacancy trend in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Proactive Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Proactive Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 17 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 5 April 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
England +28 193 £57,500 +15.00% 66
UK excluding London -19 136 £50,000 +7.94% 49
London +5 61 £62,000 +6.71% 24
Work from Home +2 52 £57,500 +15.00% 20
Midlands -25 38 £33,000 -44.39% 10
North of England -35 37 £50,000 +5.26% 8
South East -15 30 £50,250 +25.63% 20
North West -11 24 £51,250 +2.50% 6
West Midlands -14 23 £70,000 - 7
East of England -14 17 £46,160 -2.82% 6
East Midlands -31 15 £33,000 -13.16% 3
Yorkshire -52 9 £50,000 +11.11% 1
South West -44 6 £54,498 +14.73% 5
North East - 4 £48,445 - 1
Wales -26 3 £68,500 +79.82%
Scotland -31 3 £97,500 +2.63% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1

Proactive Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 20 (9.43%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.83%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.89%) IIS
5 3 (1.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.42%) SPSS
5 2 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (35.38%) Azure
2 51 (24.06%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (16.98%) AWS
4 35 (16.51%) Entra ID
5 33 (15.57%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.08%) SaaS
7 13 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (5.19%) GitHub
10 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.77%) OneDrive
11 7 (3.30%) Datadog
11 7 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.83%) Boomi
12 6 (2.83%) iPaaS
12 6 (2.83%) Serverless
12 6 (2.83%) Workato
13 5 (2.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (21.23%) WAN
2 41 (19.34%) Firewall
3 38 (17.92%) LAN
4 16 (7.55%) VPN
5 13 (6.13%) SD-WAN
6 12 (5.66%) DHCP
6 12 (5.66%) DNS
7 11 (5.19%) Network Security
8 10 (4.72%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (4.25%) BGP
9 9 (4.25%) WAAS
10 8 (3.77%) Wireless
10 8 (3.77%) WLAN
11 7 (3.30%) MPLS
11 7 (3.30%) TCP/IP
11 7 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (2.36%) OSPF
12 5 (2.36%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (1.89%) VLAN
13 4 (1.89%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.15%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.79%) Power BI
3 17 (8.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (7.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.36%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.36%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.36%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.36%) Redis
7 3 (1.42%) Power Query
8 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.94%) Metadata
8 2 (0.94%) MySQL
8 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.47%) Big Data
9 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (4.72%) Git
2 7 (3.30%) GitLab
3 5 (2.36%) JIRA
4 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.47%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 87 (41.04%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.17%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (22.17%) Finance
3 27 (12.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (6.13%) Marketing
5 12 (5.66%) Legal
5 12 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.19%) Law
7 7 (3.30%) Banking
8 6 (2.83%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.36%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.89%) Advertising
10 4 (1.89%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.94%) Games
12 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (21.70%) Support Engineer
2 29 (13.68%) Senior
3 22 (10.38%) IT Support
4 21 (9.91%) IT Engineer
4 21 (9.91%) Lead
5 20 (9.43%) IT Support Engineer
5 20 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (8.49%) Technical Support
7 17 (8.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (7.55%) Technical Engineer
8 16 (7.55%) Technical Support Engineer
9 14 (6.60%) Analyst
10 12 (5.66%) Business Manager
10 12 (5.66%) Insight Manager
11 11 (5.19%) Data Engineer
12 9 (4.25%) Development Engineer
12 9 (4.25%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.77%) Architect
13 8 (3.77%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.77%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.60%) REST
2 9 (4.25%) SOAP
3 8 (3.77%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (3.77%) Visualforce
4 6 (2.83%) Middleware
4 6 (2.83%) RESTful
5 5 (2.36%) .NET
5 5 (2.36%) JSON
5 5 (2.36%) Kafka
5 5 (2.36%) Memcached
5 5 (2.36%) Spring
5 5 (2.36%) Web Services
5 5 (2.36%) XML
6 4 (1.89%) ADO
6 4 (1.89%) CSS
6 4 (1.89%) NETCONF
6 4 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.89%) RESTCONF
6 4 (1.89%) SAML
6 4 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.26%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.60%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.19%) CMDB
5 9 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.30%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.83%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.83%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.83%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.36%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.36%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.36%) Robotics
8 5 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 71 (33.49%) Windows
2 25 (11.79%) Linux
3 20 (9.43%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.66%) Android
5 9 (4.25%) Unix
6 7 (3.30%) Apple iOS
6 7 (3.30%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.83%) Windows 10
8 5 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.89%) VMS
10 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.47%) AIX
11 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.47%) Solaris
11 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (46.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 77 (36.32%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (21.70%) AI
4 44 (20.75%) Agile
5 42 (19.81%) ITIL
6 40 (18.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 34 (16.04%) Analytics
8 31 (14.62%) CI/CD
9 29 (13.68%) DevOps
10 28 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (13.21%) SIEM
11 27 (12.74%) Process Improvement
11 27 (12.74%) Root Cause Analysis
12 24 (11.32%) Change Management
12 24 (11.32%) Computer Science
13 23 (10.85%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (10.85%) Decision-Making
13 23 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 22 (10.38%) Data Modelling
14 22 (10.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 41 (19.34%) SQL
2 36 (16.98%) Python
3 23 (10.85%) PowerShell
4 18 (8.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (7.08%) Java
6 11 (5.19%) C#
7 10 (4.72%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (4.25%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.77%) Apex Code
10 7 (3.30%) Bash
11 6 (2.83%) Ruby
11 6 (2.83%) Scala
12 5 (2.36%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.89%) SOQL
13 4 (1.89%) SOSL
13 4 (1.89%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.42%) Perl
15 1 (0.47%) Go
15 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (30.19%) Degree
2 25 (11.79%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (10.85%) Security Cleared
4 18 (8.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (8.02%) SC Cleared
6 15 (7.08%) CCNP
7 14 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (5.66%) CCIE
8 12 (5.66%) Master's Degree
8 12 (5.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 11 (5.19%) CISSP
10 8 (3.77%) CCNA
11 7 (3.30%) CISA
12 5 (2.36%) CISM
12 5 (2.36%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.89%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.89%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.89%) OSCP
14 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.15%) SLA
2 19 (8.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.60%) GDPR
4 12 (5.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (3.77%) QA
6 7 (3.30%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.36%) GRC
8 3 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.42%) NIST
9 2 (0.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (19.34%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (8.96%) Docker
4 10 (4.72%) Firmware
4 10 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.72%) vSphere
5 8 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.89%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.89%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (14.15%) Terraform
2 26 (12.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (10.85%) Ansible
4 16 (7.55%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.72%) SCCM
7 5 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.36%) WSUS
8 3 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.94%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.94%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.94%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.94%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.47%) Control-M
10 1 (0.47%) Grafana
10 1 (0.47%) Nagios
10 1 (0.47%) Nessus
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.47%) Podman
10 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (36.32%) Microsoft
2 42 (19.81%) Cisco
3 28 (13.21%) VMware
4 22 (10.38%) Dell
5 21 (9.91%) Juniper
6 16 (7.55%) McAfee
7 15 (7.08%) Splunk
8 11 (5.19%) SAP
9 9 (4.25%) Fortinet
9 9 (4.25%) IBM
9 9 (4.25%) Oracle
9 9 (4.25%) Salesforce
10 8 (3.77%) New Relic
11 7 (3.30%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.83%) IFS
12 6 (2.83%) Jitterbit
12 6 (2.83%) MuleSoft
12 6 (2.83%) SnapLogic
12 6 (2.83%) Talend
12 6 (2.83%) Workday