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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 465 511
Rank change year-on-year -134 +46 -42
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 209 215 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.50% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 126 119 175
10th Percentile £32,625 £35,500 £32,700
25th Percentile £38,828 £40,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +15.45% -4.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +1.05%

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 85,252 43,434 61,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.68% 81.27%
Number of salaries quoted 58,899 24,470 34,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 23 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 23 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 -127 190 £50,161 -4.46% 221
UK excluding London -136 157 £50,000 +17.65% 143
Work from Home -23 71 £52,500 +2.44% 94
London -63 46 £55,000 -21.99% 80
Midlands -48 41 £50,000 +16.28% 26
North of England -56 35 £50,000 +2.56% 50
South East -63 33 £42,000 -1.18% 27
North West -13 25 £50,000 +2.56% 37
East of England -24 24 £80,000 +116.22% 15
East Midlands -14 22 £37,500 - 9
West Midlands -50 19 £50,000 +16.28% 17
South West -93 12 £57,500 +9.52% 14
Wales -75 10 £36,961 -2.97% 7
Yorkshire -55 6 £40,000 -27.27% 11
Scotland +12 4 - - 4
North East -67 4 - - 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 28 (13.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) IIS
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 69 (33.01%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (23.92%) Azure
3 29 (13.88%) AWS
4 28 (13.40%) Entra ID
5 23 (11.00%) Mimecast
6 19 (9.09%) GCP
7 15 (7.18%) OneDrive
8 10 (4.78%) GitHub
9 7 (3.35%) SaaS
10 6 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.87%) Cloud Functions
10 6 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.39%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.91%) dbt
12 4 (1.91%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.44%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.44%) ChatGPT
13 3 (1.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 68 (32.54%) Firewall
2 44 (21.05%) LAN
3 40 (19.14%) WAN
4 29 (13.88%) DNS
5 26 (12.44%) DHCP
6 22 (10.53%) TCP/IP
7 21 (10.05%) Wireless
8 19 (9.09%) Network Security
9 16 (7.66%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (6.70%) VPN
11 11 (5.26%) VLAN
12 6 (2.87%) Broadband
13 5 (2.39%) VoIP
14 4 (1.91%) SD-WAN
15 3 (1.44%) PBX
16 2 (0.96%) SAN
16 2 (0.96%) Wireless Security
17 1 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
17 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
17 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.66%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.83%) MySQL
4 6 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.44%) Metadata
6 3 (1.44%) Power BI
7 2 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.48%) Adabas
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.48%) DTS
8 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (4.31%) Git
1 9 (4.31%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.91%) GitLab
3 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.44%) JIRA
4 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.96%) Maven
4 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 60 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.66%) Finance
3 20 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (7.18%) Telecoms
5 14 (6.70%) Advertising
5 14 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.74%) Retail
7 11 (5.26%) Banking
7 11 (5.26%) Marketing
8 9 (4.31%) Aerospace
8 9 (4.31%) Legal
9 8 (3.83%) Law
10 7 (3.35%) Automotive
10 7 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.39%) Welsh Language
13 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.96%) Digital Economy
14 2 (0.96%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (22.01%) Senior
2 31 (14.83%) IT Engineer
3 26 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (10.53%) Analyst
5 21 (10.05%) IT Support
6 19 (9.09%) Field Engineer
6 19 (9.09%) Field Service Engineer
7 18 (8.61%) Support Engineer
8 15 (7.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (6.22%) Security Analyst
10 12 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.74%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (4.78%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Network Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.31%) 3rd Line Support
13 9 (4.31%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.83%) Terraform
2 9 (4.31%) React
3 7 (3.35%) .NET
4 6 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.44%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.44%) HTML
5 3 (1.44%) RESTful
5 3 (1.44%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (1.44%) Spring
5 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.96%) CSS
6 2 (0.96%) CSS3
6 2 (0.96%) HTML5
6 2 (0.96%) Jest
6 2 (0.96%) JSON
6 2 (0.96%) Next.js
6 2 (0.96%) Node.js
6 2 (0.96%) Playwright
6 2 (0.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.00%) Security Posture
2 17 (8.13%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.74%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.78%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.78%) Social Media
5 9 (4.31%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.83%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.35%) Clustering
7 7 (3.35%) Replication
8 6 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.39%) Blog
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%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 74 (35.41%) Windows
2 45 (21.53%) Windows Server
3 26 (12.44%) Windows 10
4 25 (11.96%) Linux
5 19 (9.09%) Apple iOS
6 18 (8.61%) Android
7 9 (4.31%) Unix
8 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.44%) AIX
10 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
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 61 (29.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 59 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (23.44%) ITIL
4 45 (21.53%) Incident Response
5 38 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (15.31%) Disaster Recovery
7 30 (14.35%) CI/CD
7 30 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (13.88%) Agile
9 28 (13.40%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (12.92%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (12.44%) Customer Service
11 26 (12.44%) High Availability
12 25 (11.96%) Observability
13 24 (11.48%) SIEM
14 23 (11.00%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (11.00%) Incident Management
15 22 (10.53%) Project Delivery
16 21 (10.05%) DevOps
16 21 (10.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.10%) Python
2 38 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.61%) SQL
4 16 (7.66%) Java
5 15 (7.18%) Bash
6 9 (4.31%) Go
7 7 (3.35%) Search Processing Language
7 7 (3.35%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.87%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.87%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.91%) C#
10 3 (1.44%) C
10 3 (1.44%) Ruby
11 2 (0.96%) PHP
12 1 (0.48%) Natural
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Scala
12 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (19.14%) Degree
2 29 (13.88%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.22%) CCNA
6 12 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.74%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.39%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.39%) CCNP
9 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
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%) CISSP
11 2 (0.96%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (7.66%) SLA
3 12 (5.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.31%) NIST
5 6 (2.87%) QA
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%) WCAG
9 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (18.66%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.35%) Docker
4 6 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.39%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.96%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
7 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (9.57%) Ansible
1 20 (9.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (8.61%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.74%) Grafana
3 12 (5.74%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.39%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.44%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.44%) Istio
5 3 (1.44%) linkerd
5 3 (1.44%) Puppet
5 3 (1.44%) SCCM
6 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.48%) Argo
7 1 (0.48%) Autotask
7 1 (0.48%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.48%) Podman
7 1 (0.48%) QRadar
7 1 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 92 (44.02%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.09%) Cisco
3 18 (8.61%) Logitech
3 18 (8.61%) Sophos
3 18 (8.61%) TOWER Software
4 17 (8.13%) VMware
5 16 (7.66%) Splunk
6 9 (4.31%) Oracle
6 9 (4.31%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.83%) Meraki
7 8 (3.83%) RedGate
7 8 (3.83%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.83%) Tanium
8 6 (2.87%) Dell
8 6 (2.87%) Google
9 5 (2.39%) YouTube
10 4 (1.91%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.91%) HP
10 4 (1.91%) iManage
10 4 (1.91%) Red Hat