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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 503 527
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 +138
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 215 144 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.37% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 112 109 316
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,950 £26,000
25th Percentile £45,870 £41,250 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £87,375 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,074 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.93% +6.06% -

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 66,065 38,941 81,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.85% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,765 22,745 59,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 22 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 22 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 0 198 £57,500 +9.52% 48
UK excluding London -33 138 £50,000 +10.93% 40
London +14 62 £62,000 -0.80% 14
Work from Home -1 48 £58,750 +17.50% 18
Midlands -30 41 £33,000 -38.53% 5
North of England -35 36 £50,000 - 12
South East -25 33 £46,500 +16.25% 17
West Midlands -22 24 £70,000 +7.69% 3
North West -14 23 £49,375 -1.25% 5
East Midlands -33 17 £33,000 -13.16% 2
East of England -20 16 £46,160 -2.82%
Yorkshire -59 9 £50,000 - 5
South West -61 5 £54,749 +15.26% 4
North East - 4 £48,445 - 2
Wales -25 3 £68,500 +79.82%
Scotland -17 2 £97,500 +2.63%
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2

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 18 (8.37%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.40%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.40%) Confluence
3 3 (1.40%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.40%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 73 (33.95%) Azure
2 49 (22.79%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (17.67%) AWS
4 36 (16.74%) Entra ID
5 34 (15.81%) Power Platform
6 15 (6.98%) SaaS
7 14 (6.51%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (6.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (5.58%) GitHub
10 8 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.72%) OneDrive
11 7 (3.26%) Datadog
12 6 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.79%) GCP
12 6 (2.79%) Serverless
13 5 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (2.33%) IaaS
13 5 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (22.79%) WAN
2 47 (21.86%) Firewall
3 46 (21.40%) LAN
4 17 (7.91%) VPN
5 14 (6.51%) DNS
6 13 (6.05%) DHCP
7 12 (5.58%) Network Security
8 11 (5.12%) SD-WAN
9 10 (4.65%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (4.65%) TCP/IP
10 9 (4.19%) BGP
10 9 (4.19%) WAAS
10 9 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (3.72%) Wireless
11 8 (3.72%) WLAN
12 7 (3.26%) MPLS
13 5 (2.33%) OSPF
13 5 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
14 4 (1.86%) Asterisk PBX
14 4 (1.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.42%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.63%) Power BI
3 17 (7.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (6.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (2.33%) Couchbase
5 5 (2.33%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.33%) Redis
5 5 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.40%) Metadata
6 3 (1.40%) Power Query
7 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.93%) MySQL
7 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (4.65%) Git
2 8 (3.72%) GitLab
3 5 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.33%) JIRA
4 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.47%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 82 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 49 (22.79%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (21.40%) Finance
4 28 (13.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.12%) Marketing
7 9 (4.19%) Legal
8 8 (3.72%) Law
9 7 (3.26%) Banking
10 6 (2.79%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.33%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.86%) Advertising
13 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.93%) Games
14 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.93%) Public Speaking
14 2 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (21.86%) Support Engineer
2 31 (14.42%) Senior
3 25 (11.63%) IT Engineer
4 23 (10.70%) IT Support
5 21 (9.77%) IT Support Engineer
6 20 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (8.84%) Lead
7 19 (8.84%) Technical Support
8 18 (8.37%) Technical Engineer
8 18 (8.37%) Technical Support Engineer
9 17 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (7.44%) Analyst
11 12 (5.58%) Business Manager
11 12 (5.58%) Insight Manager
12 11 (5.12%) Data Engineer
13 9 (4.19%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.72%) Architect
14 8 (3.72%) Network Engineer
14 8 (3.72%) Support Analyst
15 7 (3.26%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.58%) REST
2 8 (3.72%) Lightning Web Components
2 8 (3.72%) Visualforce
3 7 (3.26%) SOAP
4 6 (2.79%) Kafka
4 6 (2.79%) Middleware
5 5 (2.33%) .NET
5 5 (2.33%) Memcached
5 5 (2.33%) Spring
6 4 (1.86%) ADO
6 4 (1.86%) CSS
6 4 (1.86%) HTML
6 4 (1.86%) NETCONF
6 4 (1.86%) OAuth
6 4 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.86%) RESTCONF
6 4 (1.86%) RESTful
6 4 (1.86%) SAML
6 4 (1.86%) YAML
7 3 (1.40%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.56%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.51%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (6.51%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.58%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.12%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.19%) CMDB
6 7 (3.26%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.79%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.79%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.79%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.33%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.33%) Robotics
8 5 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.86%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 76 (35.35%) Windows
2 25 (11.63%) Linux
3 21 (9.77%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.98%) Android
5 10 (4.65%) Apple iOS
5 10 (4.65%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.26%) Unix
7 6 (2.79%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.86%) VMS
10 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.47%) Solaris
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (44.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 74 (34.42%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (21.86%) AI
4 43 (20.00%) ITIL
5 42 (19.53%) Agile
6 36 (16.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 34 (15.81%) Analytics
8 33 (15.35%) CI/CD
9 31 (14.42%) SIEM
10 30 (13.95%) DevOps
11 27 (12.56%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (12.09%) Process Improvement
12 26 (12.09%) Root Cause Analysis
13 24 (11.16%) Computer Science
13 24 (11.16%) Customer Service
13 24 (11.16%) Incident Response
14 23 (10.70%) Decision-Making
14 23 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 22 (10.23%) Data Modelling
15 22 (10.23%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 39 (18.14%) Python
2 37 (17.21%) SQL
3 28 (13.02%) PowerShell
4 18 (8.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (6.51%) Java
6 10 (4.65%) C#
7 9 (4.19%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.19%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (3.72%) Apex Code
8 8 (3.72%) Bash
9 7 (3.26%) Scala
9 7 (3.26%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.79%) Ruby
11 5 (2.33%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.86%) SOQL
12 4 (1.86%) SOSL
12 4 (1.86%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.40%) Perl
14 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 68 (31.63%) Degree
2 27 (12.56%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (10.70%) Security Cleared
4 18 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.91%) CCNP
5 17 (7.91%) SC Cleared
6 13 (6.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (5.58%) CCIE
7 12 (5.58%) CISSP
7 12 (5.58%) Master's Degree
7 12 (5.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 9 (4.19%) CCNA
9 7 (3.26%) CISA
10 6 (2.79%) CISM
10 6 (2.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.33%) JNCIP
11 5 (2.33%) OSCP
12 4 (1.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.86%) CCSP
12 4 (1.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.42%) SLA
2 24 (11.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (6.05%) GDPR
4 12 (5.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (3.72%) QA
5 8 (3.72%) SOC 2
6 6 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.33%) GRC
8 4 (1.86%) NIST
9 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (20.47%) Active Directory
2 29 (13.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (8.37%) Docker
4 10 (4.65%) Firmware
4 10 (4.65%) vSphere
5 9 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.86%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (14.88%) Terraform
2 25 (11.63%) Ansible
3 23 (10.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (6.98%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.12%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.65%) SCCM
7 5 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.33%) WSUS
8 4 (1.86%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.93%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.93%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.93%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.47%) Argo
11 1 (0.47%) Control-M
11 1 (0.47%) Nagios
11 1 (0.47%) Nessus
11 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.47%) Podman
11 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 79 (36.74%) Microsoft
2 43 (20.00%) Cisco
3 29 (13.49%) VMware
4 22 (10.23%) Juniper
5 20 (9.30%) Dell
6 17 (7.91%) McAfee
7 16 (7.44%) Splunk
8 9 (4.19%) Fortinet
9 8 (3.72%) New Relic
9 8 (3.72%) Salesforce
10 7 (3.26%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.26%) SAP
11 6 (2.79%) Apple
11 6 (2.79%) Dynatrace
11 6 (2.79%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.33%) IBM
12 5 (2.33%) Oracle
12 5 (2.33%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.86%) Sophos
13 4 (1.86%) TOWER Software