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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 472 518
Rank change year-on-year -111 +46 -28
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 210 225 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.45% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.51% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 132 127 208
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £40,000 £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 £68,125 £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 80,366 44,460 65,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.73% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55,743 25,365 40,240
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
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% -7.07%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -105 188 £50,321 -6.11% 90
UK excluding London -135 151 £50,000 +17.65% 61
Work from Home -20 69 £52,500 +10.53% 36
London -44 50 £56,500 -16.30% 40
Midlands -34 39 £50,000 +10.93% 11
South East -41 36 £41,000 -3.53% 12
North of England -71 32 £50,000 +5.26% 11
North West +3 22 £50,000 +36.39% 9
East Midlands -6 22 - - 3
East of England 0 21 £80,000 +201.89% 8
West Midlands -46 17 £50,000 +10.93% 8
South West -89 11 £57,500 +9.52% 15
Wales -65 10 £36,961 -2.97% 1
Yorkshire -54 6 £40,000 -27.27% 1
Scotland 0 4 - - 3
North East -58 4 - - 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 26 (12.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (12.38%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
3 2 (0.95%) Confluence
3 2 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (31.90%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (22.86%) Azure
3 30 (14.29%) AWS
4 28 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 21 (10.00%) Mimecast
6 17 (8.10%) GCP
7 15 (7.14%) OneDrive
8 13 (6.19%) GitHub
9 9 (4.29%) SaaS
10 8 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (2.86%) Cloud Functions
11 6 (2.86%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.86%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.90%) dbt
13 4 (1.90%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.90%) Serverless
14 3 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (33.33%) Firewall
2 47 (22.38%) LAN
3 39 (18.57%) WAN
4 26 (12.38%) DNS
5 23 (10.95%) DHCP
5 23 (10.95%) TCP/IP
6 20 (9.52%) Network Security
7 19 (9.05%) Wireless
8 18 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (6.19%) VPN
10 10 (4.76%) VLAN
11 6 (2.86%) Broadband
12 5 (2.38%) VoIP
13 3 (1.43%) PBX
13 3 (1.43%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.95%) SAN
14 2 (0.95%) Wireless Security
15 1 (0.48%) SSH
15 1 (0.48%) SSL
15 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.33%) MySQL
3 6 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.90%) Power BI
5 3 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.43%) Metadata
6 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.95%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.95%) 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 (5.24%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.76%) Git
3 5 (2.38%) GitLab
4 4 (1.90%) JIRA
5 3 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.95%) Maven
6 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 62 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.62%) Finance
3 22 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.10%) Advertising
6 14 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 13 (6.19%) Marketing
7 13 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 12 (5.71%) Banking
9 11 (5.24%) Legal
10 8 (3.81%) Aerospace
11 7 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.86%) Automotive
13 5 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.38%) Retail
13 5 (2.38%) Welsh Language
14 4 (1.90%) Law
14 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.95%) Digital Economy
15 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 45 (21.43%) Senior
2 30 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 25 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (10.95%) IT Support
5 22 (10.48%) Analyst
5 22 (10.48%) Support Engineer
6 16 (7.62%) Field Engineer
6 16 (7.62%) Field Service Engineer
7 15 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.67%) Security Analyst
9 13 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
11 11 (5.24%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.24%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (4.76%) Network Engineer
12 10 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.76%) Senior Security Analyst
13 9 (4.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.76%) Terraform
2 8 (3.81%) .NET
2 8 (3.81%) React
3 3 (1.43%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.43%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.43%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (1.43%) RESTful
3 3 (1.43%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (1.43%) Spring
3 3 (1.43%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.95%) HTML
4 2 (0.95%) Jest
4 2 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (0.95%) Next.js
4 2 (0.95%) Node.js
4 2 (0.95%) Playwright
4 2 (0.95%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.48%) Ajax
5 1 (0.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.90%) Security Posture
2 18 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.19%) Social Media
4 11 (5.24%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.29%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.33%) Clustering
8 6 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.90%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.90%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.90%) Replication
11 3 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (35.24%) Windows
2 41 (19.52%) Windows Server
3 26 (12.38%) Windows 10
4 25 (11.90%) Linux
5 20 (9.52%) Apple iOS
6 16 (7.62%) Android
7 9 (4.29%) Unix
8 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.43%) AIX
10 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.48%) Solaris
11 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (30.48%) Continuous Improvement
2 61 (29.05%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (21.90%) Incident Response
3 46 (21.90%) ITIL
4 39 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (17.14%) Agile
6 33 (15.71%) CI/CD
7 29 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (12.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 27 (12.86%) Root Cause Analysis
9 27 (12.86%) SIEM
10 26 (12.38%) Customer Service
11 24 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
11 24 (11.43%) High Availability
12 23 (10.95%) DevOps
12 23 (10.95%) Incident Management
12 23 (10.95%) Observability
13 22 (10.48%) Project Delivery
14 21 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.33%) Python
2 36 (17.14%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.57%) Bash
3 18 (8.57%) SQL
4 15 (7.14%) Java
5 9 (4.29%) Go
6 7 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.38%) Ruby
9 3 (1.43%) C
9 3 (1.43%) C#
9 3 (1.43%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.95%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.95%) 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 46 (21.90%) Degree
2 28 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.19%) CCNA
5 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (5.71%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.38%) CCNP
7 5 (2.38%) CISSP
7 5 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.43%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.43%) MCSA
9 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.43%) SSCP
10 2 (0.95%) CISA
10 2 (0.95%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (8.10%) SLA
3 13 (6.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (4.76%) NIST
4 10 (4.76%) QA
5 8 (3.81%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.38%) GDPR
7 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.95%) WCAG
9 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (19.52%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.19%) Docker
3 12 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.48%) Firmware
6 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (9.52%) Ansible
3 15 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.76%) Grafana
5 9 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.43%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.43%) Istio
7 3 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.43%) linkerd
7 3 (1.43%) Puppet
8 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.48%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.48%) Nagios
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.48%) QRadar
9 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 88 (41.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.05%) Cisco
3 17 (8.10%) VMware
4 16 (7.62%) Logitech
4 16 (7.62%) Sophos
4 16 (7.62%) TOWER Software
5 15 (7.14%) Splunk
6 9 (4.29%) Oracle
6 9 (4.29%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.81%) Dell
7 8 (3.81%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.81%) Tanium
8 6 (2.86%) Apple
8 6 (2.86%) Google
9 5 (2.38%) Juniper
9 5 (2.38%) McAfee
9 5 (2.38%) Meraki
9 5 (2.38%) YouTube
10 4 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.90%) RedGate