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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 511 533
Rank change year-on-year -28 +22 +113
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 190 143 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.33% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.35% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 112 108 319
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £46,160 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% +16.55% +7.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £87,375 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -

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 68,019 40,426 81,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.51% 93.00% 85.53%
Number of salaries quoted 42,516 22,659 59,588
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -9.09%

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 6 May 2026.

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 6 May 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 +14 179 £56,500 +5.42% 85
UK excluding London -36 121 £50,000 +5.26% 73
London -20 56 £66,000 +4.35% 20
Midlands -17 41 £50,000 -6.87% 14
Work from Home -10 31 £60,000 +20.00% 48
North of England -39 30 £50,000 - 19
West Midlands -17 25 £59,250 -0.16% 12
South East -18 25 £43,750 +9.38% 23
North West -14 20 £49,375 -1.25% 7
East of England -4 17 £46,160 -2.82% 12
East Midlands -27 16 £33,000 -20.48% 2
Yorkshire -50 8 £50,000 - 8
South West -56 5 £54,749 +15.26% 4
Wales -34 2 £68,500 +79.82% 1
North East - 2 £48,445 - 4
Scotland -17 1 £97,500 +2.63% 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 (9.47%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.11%) IIS
5 3 (1.58%) Confluence
6 2 (1.05%) Apache
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.53%) CMS
7 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.11%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.58%) SPSS
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 55 (28.95%) Azure
2 46 (24.21%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (18.95%) Entra ID
4 32 (16.84%) AWS
5 18 (9.47%) SaaS
6 16 (8.42%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (6.32%) GitHub
9 8 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (4.21%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.68%) Datadog
11 6 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.16%) GCP
11 6 (3.16%) Serverless
12 5 (2.63%) IaaS
12 5 (2.63%) Mimecast
12 5 (2.63%) PaaS
13 4 (2.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (2.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (24.21%) WAN
2 45 (23.68%) Firewall
3 43 (22.63%) LAN
4 18 (9.47%) VPN
5 13 (6.84%) DNS
6 12 (6.32%) DHCP
6 12 (6.32%) Network Security
7 11 (5.79%) SD-WAN
8 10 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (4.74%) BGP
9 9 (4.74%) TCP/IP
9 9 (4.74%) WAAS
9 9 (4.74%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (4.21%) WLAN
11 7 (3.68%) MPLS
11 7 (3.68%) Wireless
12 5 (2.63%) OSPF
13 4 (2.11%) Asterisk PBX
13 4 (2.11%) VLAN
13 4 (2.11%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.95%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.68%) Power BI
3 5 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.58%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.58%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.58%) MySQL
4 3 (1.58%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.58%) Redis
4 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.05%) Metadata
5 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.53%) Big Data
6 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 11 (5.79%) Git
2 8 (4.21%) GitLab
3 5 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.84%) Finance
3 30 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.79%) Marketing
6 7 (3.68%) Advertising
6 7 (3.68%) Banking
6 7 (3.68%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.16%) Legal
8 5 (2.63%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.63%) Law
8 5 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.58%) Automotive
9 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.05%) Retail
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (20.53%) Support Engineer
2 30 (15.79%) Senior
3 25 (13.16%) IT Engineer
4 21 (11.05%) IT Support
5 19 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 19 (10.00%) Lead
5 19 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (8.42%) Technical Support
8 15 (7.89%) Technical Engineer
8 15 (7.89%) Technical Support Engineer
9 12 (6.32%) Analyst
10 11 (5.79%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Network Engineer
12 7 (3.68%) Architect
12 7 (3.68%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.63%) Account Manager
13 5 (2.63%) Developer
13 5 (2.63%) Field Service Engineer
13 5 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.74%) REST
2 8 (4.21%) Lightning Web Components
2 8 (4.21%) Visualforce
3 6 (3.16%) Middleware
4 5 (2.63%) .NET
4 5 (2.63%) CSS
4 5 (2.63%) HTML
5 4 (2.11%) ADO
5 4 (2.11%) Kafka
5 4 (2.11%) NETCONF
5 4 (2.11%) OAuth
5 4 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.11%) RESTCONF
5 4 (2.11%) SAML
5 4 (2.11%) SOAP
5 4 (2.11%) YAML
6 3 (1.58%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.58%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.58%) Memcached
6 3 (1.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.16%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.79%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.79%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.74%) CMDB
5 8 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.21%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.63%) Robotics
7 5 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.11%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.11%) PKI
8 4 (2.11%) Replication
8 4 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.11%) Social Media
8 4 (2.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (38.42%) Windows
2 22 (11.58%) Windows Server
3 21 (11.05%) Linux
4 16 (8.42%) Android
5 11 (5.79%) Apple iOS
5 11 (5.79%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.11%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.11%) Unix
7 4 (2.11%) VMS
8 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.53%) Solaris
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (38.95%) Continuous Improvement
2 53 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (21.05%) ITIL
4 35 (18.42%) Agile
5 32 (16.84%) AI
6 31 (16.32%) CI/CD
7 30 (15.79%) DevOps
7 30 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 29 (15.26%) Incident Response
8 29 (15.26%) SIEM
9 27 (14.21%) Root Cause Analysis
10 24 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (12.63%) Roadmaps
11 22 (11.58%) Computer Science
11 22 (11.58%) Observability
12 21 (11.05%) Information Security
13 20 (10.53%) Analytics
13 20 (10.53%) Change Management
13 20 (10.53%) Mentoring
13 20 (10.53%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.32%) Python
2 29 (15.26%) PowerShell
3 15 (7.89%) SQL
4 8 (4.21%) Apex Code
4 8 (4.21%) Bash
4 8 (4.21%) Java
5 6 (3.16%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.16%) Ruby
6 5 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (2.63%) Scala
7 4 (2.11%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.11%) SOQL
7 4 (2.11%) SOSL
7 4 (2.11%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.58%) C#
8 3 (1.58%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.58%) Perl
9 2 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.05%) PHP
10 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 62 (32.63%) Degree
2 27 (14.21%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (13.16%) Security Cleared
4 17 (8.95%) CCNP
4 17 (8.95%) SC Cleared
5 16 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (7.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (6.32%) CCIE
7 12 (6.32%) CISSP
8 10 (5.26%) CCNA
8 10 (5.26%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.68%) CISA
9 7 (3.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (3.16%) CISM
11 5 (2.63%) JNCIP
11 5 (2.63%) OSCP
12 4 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (2.11%) CCSP
12 4 (2.11%) CompTIA CySA+
12 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.74%) SLA
2 24 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.26%) GDPR
4 8 (4.21%) QA
4 8 (4.21%) SOC 2
5 6 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.63%) GRC
7 4 (2.11%) NIST
8 3 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (22.11%) Active Directory
2 26 (13.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (7.89%) Docker
4 11 (5.79%) Firmware
5 9 (4.74%) vSphere
6 8 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (4.21%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.11%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (16.84%) Terraform
2 25 (13.16%) Ansible
3 21 (11.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (6.32%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.79%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (5.26%) SCCM
7 5 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.63%) WSUS
8 4 (2.11%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.58%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.05%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.05%) PowerCLI
10 2 (1.05%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.53%) Argo
11 1 (0.53%) Grafana
11 1 (0.53%) Nagios
11 1 (0.53%) Nessus
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.53%) Podman
11 1 (0.53%) QRadar
Vendors
1 75 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 40 (21.05%) Cisco
3 26 (13.68%) VMware
4 19 (10.00%) Juniper
5 16 (8.42%) Dell
5 16 (8.42%) Splunk
6 14 (7.37%) McAfee
7 10 (5.26%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.21%) New Relic
8 8 (4.21%) Salesforce
9 7 (3.68%) Palo Alto
10 6 (3.16%) Apple
10 6 (3.16%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.63%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.63%) Logitech
11 5 (2.63%) Sophos
11 5 (2.63%) TOWER Software
11 5 (2.63%) Zscaler
12 4 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (2.11%) SAP