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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 451 514
Rank change year-on-year -134 +63 -27
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 209 224 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.51% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 129 126 208
10th Percentile £34,800 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +18.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,438 £56,563
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £44,274
% change year-on-year +17.65% -4.01% -1.61%

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 80,408 44,155 65,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.60% 80.85%
Number of salaries quoted 55,868 25,145 40,215
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.58%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -111 187 £51,411 -4.24% 172
UK excluding London -113 152 £50,000 +17.65% 93
Work from Home -10 69 £52,500 +7.69% 75
London -56 48 £56,500 -16.30% 88
Midlands -39 40 £50,000 +10.75% 15
South East -49 35 £42,000 -1.18% 22
North of England -53 32 £50,000 +5.26% 24
East Midlands -8 23 - - 4
North West -2 22 £50,000 +36.39% 15
East of England -8 21 £80,000 +201.89% 12
West Midlands -45 17 £50,000 +10.75% 11
South West -89 12 £57,500 +9.52% 16
Wales -66 10 £36,961 -2.97% 1
Yorkshire -62 6 £40,000 -27.27% 5
Scotland +3 4 - - 2
North East -54 4 - - 4

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 26 (12.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (12.44%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.96%) Apache
3 2 (0.96%) Confluence
3 2 (0.96%) IIS
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (8.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 68 (32.54%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (22.97%) Azure
3 29 (13.88%) AWS
4 28 (13.40%) Entra ID
5 22 (10.53%) Mimecast
6 17 (8.13%) GCP
7 15 (7.18%) OneDrive
8 13 (6.22%) GitHub
9 9 (4.31%) SaaS
10 8 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (2.87%) Cloud Functions
11 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.87%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.91%) dbt
13 4 (1.91%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.91%) Serverless
14 3 (1.44%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 71 (33.97%) Firewall
2 46 (22.01%) LAN
3 40 (19.14%) WAN
4 26 (12.44%) DNS
5 23 (11.00%) DHCP
6 22 (10.53%) TCP/IP
7 20 (9.57%) Network Security
8 19 (9.09%) Wireless
9 17 (8.13%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (6.22%) VPN
11 10 (4.78%) VLAN
12 6 (2.87%) Broadband
13 5 (2.39%) VoIP
14 3 (1.44%) PBX
14 3 (1.44%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.96%) SAN
15 2 (0.96%) Wireless Security
16 1 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
16 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
16 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.70%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.35%) MySQL
3 6 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.91%) Power BI
5 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.44%) Metadata
6 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.48%) Adabas
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.48%) Big Data
7 1 (0.48%) DTS
7 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.78%) Git
3 5 (2.39%) GitLab
4 4 (1.91%) JIRA
5 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.96%) Maven
6 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 62 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.70%) Finance
3 22 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.13%) Advertising
6 14 (6.70%) Telecoms
7 13 (6.22%) Marketing
7 13 (6.22%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.26%) Legal
9 10 (4.78%) Banking
10 9 (4.31%) Aerospace
11 7 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.87%) Automotive
13 5 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.39%) Retail
13 5 (2.39%) Welsh Language
14 4 (1.91%) Law
14 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.96%) Digital Economy
15 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 45 (21.53%) Senior
2 30 (14.35%) IT Engineer
3 25 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (10.53%) Analyst
4 22 (10.53%) IT Support
5 21 (10.05%) Support Engineer
6 17 (8.13%) Field Engineer
6 17 (8.13%) Field Service Engineer
7 15 (7.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.70%) Security Analyst
9 13 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (4.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (4.78%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Senior Security Analyst
12 9 (4.31%) 3rd Line Support
12 9 (4.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.83%) Terraform
2 8 (3.83%) .NET
2 8 (3.83%) React
3 3 (1.44%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.44%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (1.44%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (1.44%) Spring
3 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.96%) HTML
4 2 (0.96%) Jest
4 2 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (0.96%) Next.js
4 2 (0.96%) Node.js
4 2 (0.96%) Playwright
4 2 (0.96%) RESTful
4 2 (0.96%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.48%) CSS
5 1 (0.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.48%) Security Posture
2 17 (8.13%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.22%) Social Media
4 11 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.78%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.31%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.31%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.35%) Clustering
8 6 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.39%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.91%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.91%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.91%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.91%) Replication
11 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (34.93%) Windows
2 40 (19.14%) Windows Server
3 26 (12.44%) Windows 10
4 25 (11.96%) Linux
5 21 (10.05%) Apple iOS
6 17 (8.13%) Android
7 9 (4.31%) Unix
8 4 (1.91%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.44%) AIX
10 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.48%) Solaris
11 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (31.10%) Continuous Improvement
2 61 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (22.49%) ITIL
4 46 (22.01%) Incident Response
5 40 (19.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (17.70%) Agile
7 33 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 29 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (13.40%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (12.92%) Customer Service
10 27 (12.92%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (12.92%) Disaster Recovery
10 27 (12.92%) SIEM
11 25 (11.96%) Collaborative Working
12 23 (11.00%) DevOps
12 23 (11.00%) High Availability
13 22 (10.53%) Incident Management
13 22 (10.53%) Observability
13 22 (10.53%) Project Delivery
14 21 (10.05%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.97%) Python
2 37 (17.70%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.61%) Bash
3 18 (8.61%) SQL
4 15 (7.18%) Java
5 9 (4.31%) Go
6 7 (3.35%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.87%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.87%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (2.39%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.39%) Ruby
9 3 (1.44%) C
9 3 (1.44%) C#
9 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.96%) PHP
11 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.48%) Natural
11 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (21.05%) Degree
2 29 (13.88%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.18%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.22%) CCNA
6 12 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.74%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.39%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.39%) CCNP
8 5 (2.39%) CISSP
9 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.44%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.44%) MCSA
10 3 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.44%) SSCP
11 2 (0.96%) CCSP
11 2 (0.96%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (8.13%) SLA
3 13 (6.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (4.78%) NIST
4 10 (4.78%) QA
5 8 (3.83%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.39%) GDPR
7 4 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.96%) WCAG
9 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (18.66%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.22%) Docker
3 12 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.48%) Firmware
6 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (10.05%) Ansible
1 21 (10.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (7.66%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.78%) Grafana
4 9 (4.31%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.39%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.44%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.44%) Istio
6 3 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.44%) linkerd
6 3 (1.44%) Puppet
7 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) Autotask
8 1 (0.48%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.48%) Podman
8 1 (0.48%) QRadar
8 1 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 89 (42.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.09%) Cisco
3 17 (8.13%) Logitech
3 17 (8.13%) Sophos
3 17 (8.13%) TOWER Software
3 17 (8.13%) VMware
4 15 (7.18%) Splunk
5 9 (4.31%) Oracle
5 9 (4.31%) Zscaler
6 8 (3.83%) Dell
6 8 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.83%) Tanium
7 6 (2.87%) Apple
7 6 (2.87%) Google
8 5 (2.39%) Juniper
8 5 (2.39%) McAfee
8 5 (2.39%) Meraki
8 5 (2.39%) YouTube
9 4 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.91%) RedGate