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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 483 529
Rank change year-on-year -86 +46 +26
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 193 206 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.46% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 125 106 310
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,085 £27,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +19.31% -4.73%
75th Percentile £66,750 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,000 £85,000 £78,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £43,227
% change year-on-year +5.26% +9.89% +1.71%

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 72,826 44,439 83,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.81% 90.30% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50,337 24,847 58,274
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -68 178 £50,625 -5.71% 81
UK excluding London -80 141 £50,000 +5.26% 61
Work from Home -2 54 £52,500 +5.00% 41
Midlands -23 45 £50,000 +1.18% 6
London -21 41 £66,250 +1.92% 30
South East -29 36 £42,000 -1.18% 23
North of England -23 28 £50,000 - 15
West Midlands -23 28 £50,000 -6.87% 1
East of England -3 20 £55,000 +48.65% 5
North West -6 18 £50,000 +2.56% 7
East Midlands -15 17 - - 5
Yorkshire -42 9 £40,000 -36.00% 3
Wales -49 5 £36,961 -2.97% 3
South West -77 5 £54,749 +15.26% 8
Scotland +10 4 - - 1
North East -55 1 - - 5

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 24 (12.44%) SharePoint
2 21 (10.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.59%) IIS
5 2 (1.04%) Apache
5 2 (1.04%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.55%) SPSS
3 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (30.57%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (28.50%) Azure
3 32 (16.58%) AWS
4 27 (13.99%) Entra ID
5 15 (7.77%) Mimecast
6 11 (5.70%) OneDrive
7 10 (5.18%) SaaS
8 8 (4.15%) GitHub
9 7 (3.63%) GCP
10 6 (3.11%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.07%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (2.07%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.07%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.55%) IaaS
12 3 (1.55%) PaaS
12 3 (1.55%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (31.61%) Firewall
2 49 (25.39%) LAN
3 44 (22.80%) WAN
4 22 (11.40%) DNS
5 21 (10.88%) DHCP
6 20 (10.36%) VPN
7 18 (9.33%) Wireless
8 17 (8.81%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (7.25%) Network Security
9 14 (7.25%) TCP/IP
10 10 (5.18%) VLAN
11 9 (4.66%) VoIP
12 8 (4.15%) SD-WAN
13 6 (3.11%) BGP
13 6 (3.11%) MPLS
14 5 (2.59%) Broadband
15 4 (2.07%) Asterisk PBX
15 4 (2.07%) Software-Defined Networking
15 4 (2.07%) VPLS
16 3 (1.55%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.59%) MySQL
2 5 (2.59%) Power BI
3 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.04%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.52%) Adabas
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.52%) Big Data
5 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.70%) Git
2 9 (4.66%) GitLab
3 7 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.55%) JIRA
5 2 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 59 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.44%) Finance
3 19 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.25%) Advertising
5 12 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.22%) Marketing
5 12 (6.22%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.18%) Legal
7 9 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.63%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.63%) Banking
9 6 (3.11%) Automotive
10 4 (2.07%) Law
11 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.55%) Welsh Language
12 2 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.04%) Retail
13 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (19.69%) Support Engineer
2 34 (17.62%) Senior
3 33 (17.10%) IT Support
4 32 (16.58%) IT Engineer
5 25 (12.95%) Analyst
6 20 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (10.36%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (7.25%) Security Analyst
7 14 (7.25%) Technical Support
8 13 (6.74%) Technical Engineer
8 13 (6.74%) Technical Support Engineer
9 12 (6.22%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (6.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) Data Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) Field Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) Field Service Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) Senior Security Analyst
11 9 (4.66%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 9 (4.66%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.15%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.15%) Visualforce
2 7 (3.63%) REST
3 6 (3.11%) .NET
4 5 (2.59%) CSS
4 5 (2.59%) HTML
5 4 (2.07%) Middleware
5 4 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.07%) SOAP
6 3 (1.55%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.55%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.04%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.04%) Node.js
7 2 (1.04%) React
7 2 (1.04%) RESTCONF
8 1 (0.52%) HTML5
8 1 (0.52%) PySpark
8 1 (0.52%) Serverless Framework
8 1 (0.52%) Spring
8 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.88%) Data Centre
1 21 (10.88%) Security Posture
2 14 (7.25%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.22%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.70%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.15%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.15%) Social Media
6 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.59%) Clustering
7 5 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.59%) Robotics
8 4 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.07%) PKI
8 4 (2.07%) Replication
8 4 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.55%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 80 (41.45%) Windows
2 35 (18.13%) Windows Server
3 21 (10.88%) Windows 10
4 19 (9.84%) Linux
5 16 (8.29%) Apple iOS
6 12 (6.22%) Android
7 6 (3.11%) Unix
8 5 (2.59%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.52%) AIX
10 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.52%) Solaris
10 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.79%) Continuous Improvement
2 54 (27.98%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (19.17%) SIEM
4 36 (18.65%) Incident Response
4 36 (18.65%) ITIL
5 30 (15.54%) Agile
6 29 (15.03%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (14.51%) CI/CD
8 26 (13.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (13.47%) Root Cause Analysis
9 22 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (10.88%) AI
10 21 (10.88%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (9.33%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (9.33%) Customer Service
11 18 (9.33%) High Availability
11 18 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (8.81%) Change Management
12 17 (8.81%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (8.81%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.65%) Python
2 33 (17.10%) PowerShell
3 14 (7.25%) SQL
4 12 (6.22%) Bash
5 11 (5.70%) Java
6 8 (4.15%) Apex Code
7 6 (3.11%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.59%) Ruby
9 4 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.07%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (2.07%) SOQL
9 4 (2.07%) SOSL
10 3 (1.55%) C
10 3 (1.55%) Go
10 3 (1.55%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.04%) PHP
12 1 (0.52%) C#
12 1 (0.52%) Natural
12 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (29.53%) Degree
2 25 (12.95%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (12.44%) Security Cleared
4 18 (9.33%) CCNA
5 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (6.22%) SC Cleared
7 10 (5.18%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.66%) CCNP
8 9 (4.66%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (4.15%) CISSP
10 6 (3.11%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.07%) CCIE
11 4 (2.07%) CCSP
11 4 (2.07%) CISM
11 4 (2.07%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (1.55%) GCIA
12 3 (1.55%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (9.84%) SLA
3 16 (8.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (5.70%) NIST
5 9 (4.66%) QA
6 5 (2.59%) GDPR
7 4 (2.07%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (24.35%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.22%) Docker
4 5 (2.59%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.59%) vSphere
5 4 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.07%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) Firmware
6 1 (0.52%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (11.40%) Terraform
2 20 (10.36%) Ansible
3 19 (9.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.66%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.59%) Grafana
6 4 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.07%) WSUS
7 3 (1.55%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.04%) Istio
8 2 (1.04%) linkerd
8 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.04%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) Autotask
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.52%) Podman
9 1 (0.52%) QRadar
9 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 86 (44.56%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.47%) Cisco
3 25 (12.95%) VMware
4 15 (7.77%) Dell
5 12 (6.22%) Juniper
5 12 (6.22%) McAfee
5 12 (6.22%) Splunk
6 10 (5.18%) Logitech
6 10 (5.18%) Sophos
6 10 (5.18%) TOWER Software
7 8 (4.15%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.63%) Meraki
8 7 (3.63%) Tanium
9 6 (3.11%) Apple
9 6 (3.11%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.11%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.11%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.59%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (2.59%) Oracle
10 5 (2.59%) Zscaler