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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 521 504
Rank change year-on-year +57 -17 +180
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 201 173 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.35% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.38% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 113 99 264
10th Percentile £36,332 £36,200 £27,250
25th Percentile £46,160 £41,125 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,307 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.55% -1.95% +13.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,550 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £77,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +3.45% +2.35%

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 52,730 45,725 65,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 92.08% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31,308 22,323 50,742
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,125 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +39 176 £57,500 +27.78% 63
UK excluding London +37 128 £50,000 +11.11% 54
Work from Home +57 59 £57,500 +10.58% 25
London +28 57 £62,000 +6.71% 20
North of England -10 34 £50,000 +8.11% 13
South East +22 31 £49,000 +22.50% 12
Midlands +18 28 £33,000 -30.53% 8
North West +24 21 £47,500 -2.56% 8
West Midlands +19 19 £66,750 +2.69% 8
East of England +21 17 £48,750 +10.80% 7
East Midlands -14 9 £33,000 -26.67%
Yorkshire -32 9 £50,000 +11.11% 5
Scotland -6 7 £97,500 +85.71% 5
South West -12 6 £52,500 +16.67% 7
North East - 4 £48,445 -
Wales +5 3 £68,500 +44.80% 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 29 (14.43%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.48%) IIS
3 8 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (3.48%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Appian
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.48%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.99%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (39.80%) Azure
2 55 (27.36%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (18.41%) Power Platform
4 33 (16.42%) AWS
5 31 (15.42%) Entra ID
6 13 (6.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (5.97%) SaaS
8 10 (4.98%) Azure Storage
8 10 (4.98%) Power Automate
9 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.98%) OneDrive
11 7 (3.48%) Boomi
11 7 (3.48%) Datadog
11 7 (3.48%) iPaaS
11 7 (3.48%) Workato
12 6 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.99%) GitHub
12 6 (2.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (21.39%) WAN
2 38 (18.91%) Firewall
3 25 (12.44%) LAN
4 20 (9.95%) VPN
5 17 (8.46%) SD-WAN
6 16 (7.96%) DHCP
6 16 (7.96%) DNS
7 10 (4.98%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (4.98%) Network Security
8 9 (4.48%) BGP
8 9 (4.48%) WAAS
8 9 (4.48%) Wireless
8 9 (4.48%) WLAN
9 8 (3.98%) MPLS
9 8 (3.98%) SSL
9 8 (3.98%) TCP/IP
10 7 (3.48%) SAN
11 6 (2.99%) VLAN
12 5 (2.49%) OSPF
12 5 (2.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.93%) Power BI
2 26 (12.94%) SQL Server
3 17 (8.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (6.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.49%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.49%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.49%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.49%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.49%) Redis
7 3 (1.49%) Power Query
8 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.00%) Metadata
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.50%) MySQL
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Git
1 6 (2.99%) GitLab
2 3 (1.49%) JIRA
3 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.50%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 85 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.38%) Finance
3 44 (21.89%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.47%) Law
6 11 (5.47%) Legal
6 11 (5.47%) Marketing
7 6 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.49%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.99%) Back Office
10 3 (1.49%) Banking
10 3 (1.49%) French Language
10 3 (1.49%) Greek Language
10 3 (1.49%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (17.41%) Support Engineer
2 28 (13.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (13.93%) Senior
3 20 (9.95%) Lead
4 19 (9.45%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (8.46%) IT Engineer
5 17 (8.46%) IT Support
6 16 (7.96%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (5.97%) Business Manager
7 12 (5.97%) Insight Manager
8 11 (5.47%) Analyst
8 11 (5.47%) Technical Support
9 9 (4.48%) Development Engineer
9 9 (4.48%) Technical Engineer
9 9 (4.48%) Technical Support Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) Architect
11 7 (3.48%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.47%) REST
2 9 (4.48%) Web Services
3 8 (3.98%) Middleware
3 8 (3.98%) SOAP
4 5 (2.49%) JSON
4 5 (2.49%) Kafka
4 5 (2.49%) Memcached
4 5 (2.49%) RESTful
4 5 (2.49%) Spring
4 5 (2.49%) XML
5 4 (1.99%) .NET
5 4 (1.99%) ADO
5 4 (1.99%) CSS
5 4 (1.99%) HTML
5 4 (1.99%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.99%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.99%) OAuth
5 4 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.99%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.45%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.96%) CMDB
3 14 (6.97%) Onboarding
4 12 (5.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (4.98%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.98%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.48%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.99%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.99%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.49%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.49%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.99%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.99%) PKI
10 4 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.99%) Robotics
10 4 (1.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (31.34%) Windows
2 26 (12.94%) Windows Server
3 23 (11.44%) Linux
4 13 (6.47%) Unix
5 10 (4.98%) Android
6 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.99%) AIX
7 4 (1.99%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.99%) VMS
8 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (41.79%) Continuous Improvement
2 73 (36.32%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (23.38%) ITIL
4 42 (20.90%) AI
5 41 (20.40%) Agile
5 41 (20.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 33 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 32 (15.92%) Analytics
8 31 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (14.93%) Change Management
10 27 (13.43%) Incident Response
11 26 (12.94%) DevOps
11 26 (12.94%) Service Management
12 25 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (12.44%) Process Improvement
13 24 (11.94%) CI/CD
14 22 (10.95%) High Availability
14 22 (10.95%) Roadmaps
14 22 (10.95%) Root Cause Analysis
14 22 (10.95%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.38%) SQL
2 34 (16.92%) PowerShell
3 26 (12.94%) Python
4 17 (8.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (6.47%) C#
6 12 (5.97%) Java
7 10 (4.98%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.48%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (2.99%) Scala
9 6 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.49%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.99%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.49%) Perl
12 3 (1.49%) Ruby
12 3 (1.49%) SOQL
12 3 (1.49%) SOSL
12 3 (1.49%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.00%) Bash
13 2 (1.00%) Go
14 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (22.39%) Degree
2 27 (13.43%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.94%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (9.95%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.96%) CCNP
5 16 (7.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.97%) CCIE
7 12 (5.97%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 11 (5.47%) Master's Degree
9 8 (3.98%) CCNA
9 8 (3.98%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.48%) CISSP
11 6 (2.99%) CISA
11 6 (2.99%) CISM
12 5 (2.49%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.99%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.99%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.49%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.95%) SLA
2 18 (8.96%) GDPR
3 15 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (2.99%) SOC 2
6 5 (2.49%) GRC
6 5 (2.49%) NIST
7 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.00%) COBIT
8 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.50%) QA
9 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (17.91%) Active Directory
2 26 (12.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (5.47%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.47%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (5.47%) vSphere
5 10 (4.98%) Docker
5 10 (4.98%) Firmware
6 7 (3.48%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.99%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (14.43%) Terraform
2 27 (13.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (9.95%) Ansible
4 16 (7.96%) Kubernetes
5 12 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (4.48%) SCCM
7 6 (2.99%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.49%) WSUS
9 4 (1.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.49%) Netcool
11 2 (1.00%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.00%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.00%) Suricata
12 1 (0.50%) Argo
12 1 (0.50%) Control-M
12 1 (0.50%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.50%) Kibana
12 1 (0.50%) Nessus
12 1 (0.50%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (35.32%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.91%) Cisco
3 26 (12.94%) VMware
4 16 (7.96%) Dell
5 15 (7.46%) Splunk
6 14 (6.97%) Juniper
7 13 (6.47%) IBM
8 12 (5.97%) Oracle
8 12 (5.97%) SAP
9 10 (4.98%) Fortinet
10 9 (4.48%) McAfee
10 9 (4.48%) Palo Alto
11 8 (3.98%) New Relic
11 8 (3.98%) ServiceNow
12 7 (3.48%) IFS
12 7 (3.48%) Jitterbit
12 7 (3.48%) MuleSoft
12 7 (3.48%) SnapLogic
12 7 (3.48%) Talend
12 7 (3.48%) Workday