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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 481 522
Rank change year-on-year -89 +41 +90
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 162 192 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.44% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.47% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 100 104 321
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,475 £27,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,084 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,093 £53,594 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +17.85% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,875 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -

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 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 4 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 15 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 4 June 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 -85 153 £55,000 +2.44% 80
UK excluding London -96 105 £50,000 +11.11% 61
London -25 46 £62,000 -4.62% 31
Midlands -30 42 £50,000 +1.18% 9
Work from Home -11 29 £55,000 +10.00% 37
West Midlands -33 29 £50,000 -6.87% 6
North of England -54 23 £50,000 - 16
South East -38 22 £36,250 -14.71% 20
North West +2 13 £51,250 +2.50% 9
East Midlands -16 13 £50,000 +11.11% 3
East of England -21 12 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Yorkshire -56 8 £50,000 -20.00% 5
Wales -42 3 £68,500 +79.82% 1
South West -64 3 £54,749 +15.26% 5
North East -35 2 £48,445 - 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 12 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.47%) IIS
4 2 (1.23%) Apache
4 2 (1.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.62%) CMS
5 1 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.85%) SPSS
3 2 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (24.07%) Azure
3 26 (16.05%) Entra ID
4 25 (15.43%) AWS
5 15 (9.26%) SaaS
6 10 (6.17%) Mimecast
6 10 (6.17%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.94%) GitHub
8 6 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.70%) GCP
9 5 (3.09%) OneDrive
10 4 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.47%) IaaS
10 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.47%) PaaS
10 4 (2.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (2.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (2.47%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.85%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (25.31%) Firewall
2 39 (24.07%) LAN
3 34 (20.99%) WAN
4 11 (6.79%) VPN
5 9 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (4.94%) SD-WAN
6 8 (4.94%) Wireless
7 7 (4.32%) BGP
7 7 (4.32%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (4.32%) DNS
7 7 (4.32%) TCP/IP
7 7 (4.32%) WAAS
8 6 (3.70%) DHCP
8 6 (3.70%) MPLS
8 6 (3.70%) Network Security
9 4 (2.47%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (2.47%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (2.47%) VoIP
9 4 (2.47%) VPLS
10 3 (1.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.09%) Power BI
3 4 (2.47%) MySQL
4 3 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.23%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.23%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.23%) Metadata
5 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.23%) Redis
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.62%) Big Data
6 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.62%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 10 (6.17%) Git
2 8 (4.94%) GitLab
3 6 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.85%) JIRA
5 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 47 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.43%) Finance
3 22 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (13.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (8.02%) Advertising
5 12 (7.41%) Marketing
6 9 (5.56%) Legal
7 7 (4.32%) Banking
7 7 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.70%) Automotive
9 5 (3.09%) Law
10 3 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.23%) Retail
12 1 (0.62%) Back Office
12 1 (0.62%) Games
12 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (19.75%) Support Engineer
2 26 (16.05%) Senior
3 25 (15.43%) IT Engineer
4 21 (12.96%) IT Support
5 16 (9.88%) IT Support Engineer
6 15 (9.26%) Analyst
6 15 (9.26%) Technical Support
7 14 (8.64%) Technical Engineer
7 14 (8.64%) Technical Support Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Lead
8 13 (8.02%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.79%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Field Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Field Service Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Support Analyst
12 6 (3.70%) Network Engineer
12 6 (3.70%) Product Owner
12 6 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.94%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.94%) Visualforce
2 7 (4.32%) REST
3 6 (3.70%) .NET
4 5 (3.09%) CSS
4 5 (3.09%) HTML
5 4 (2.47%) Middleware
5 4 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.47%) SOAP
6 3 (1.85%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.85%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.85%) Kafka
7 2 (1.23%) Memcached
7 2 (1.23%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.23%) RESTCONF
7 2 (1.23%) Spring
8 1 (0.62%) Ajax
8 1 (0.62%) CodeIgniter
8 1 (0.62%) jQuery
8 1 (0.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.58%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.64%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.79%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.17%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.94%) CMDB
5 8 (4.94%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.32%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.32%) Social Media
7 5 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.09%) Robotics
8 4 (2.47%) PKI
8 4 (2.47%) Replication
8 4 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.85%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (40.74%) Windows
2 17 (10.49%) Windows Server
3 16 (9.88%) Android
3 16 (9.88%) Windows 10
4 14 (8.64%) Linux
5 13 (8.02%) Apple iOS
6 5 (3.09%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.85%) Unix
7 3 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.62%) Solaris
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (37.04%) Continuous Improvement
2 41 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (20.99%) ITIL
4 27 (16.67%) Agile
5 25 (15.43%) AI
5 25 (15.43%) SIEM
6 24 (14.81%) CI/CD
7 23 (14.20%) Root Cause Analysis
8 22 (13.58%) Incident Response
9 21 (12.96%) Roadmaps
10 20 (12.35%) Service Delivery
11 18 (11.11%) Change Management
11 18 (11.11%) DevOps
12 17 (10.49%) Computer Science
12 17 (10.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (9.88%) Customer Service
13 16 (9.88%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (9.26%) Information Security
14 15 (9.26%) Mentoring
14 15 (9.26%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.14%) Python
2 29 (17.90%) PowerShell
3 11 (6.79%) SQL
4 9 (5.56%) Bash
5 8 (4.94%) Apex Code
5 8 (4.94%) Java
6 6 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.09%) Ruby
8 4 (2.47%) Scala
8 4 (2.47%) SOQL
8 4 (2.47%) SOSL
8 4 (2.47%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.85%) C
9 3 (1.85%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.23%) C#
10 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.23%) PHP
11 1 (0.62%) Bicep
11 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 53 (32.72%) Degree
2 21 (12.96%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 14 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (8.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (6.79%) CCNP
5 11 (6.79%) SC Cleared
6 10 (6.17%) CCNA
7 9 (5.56%) CISSP
8 8 (4.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (4.32%) CCIE
9 7 (4.32%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.47%) CCSP
10 4 (2.47%) CISA
10 4 (2.47%) CISM
10 4 (2.47%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.47%) OSCP
11 3 (1.85%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.43%) SLA
2 19 (11.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (4.94%) QA
4 4 (2.47%) GRC
4 4 (2.47%) NIST
5 3 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.85%) GDPR
5 3 (1.85%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 36 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.79%) Docker
4 8 (4.94%) Firmware
5 5 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.09%) vSphere
6 4 (2.47%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.62%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.62%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (13.58%) Terraform
2 17 (10.49%) Ansible
3 16 (9.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.94%) SCCM
5 7 (4.32%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (3.70%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.47%) WSUS
9 3 (1.85%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.85%) Grafana
9 3 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.62%) Autotask
11 1 (0.62%) Istio
11 1 (0.62%) linkerd
11 1 (0.62%) Podman
11 1 (0.62%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.62%) Puppet
11 1 (0.62%) QRadar
Vendors
1 64 (39.51%) Microsoft
2 31 (19.14%) Cisco
3 22 (13.58%) VMware
4 16 (9.88%) Dell
4 16 (9.88%) Juniper
5 13 (8.02%) McAfee
6 12 (7.41%) Splunk
7 8 (4.94%) Salesforce
8 7 (4.32%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.32%) Logitech
8 7 (4.32%) Sophos
8 7 (4.32%) TOWER Software
9 6 (3.70%) Apple
10 5 (3.09%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (3.09%) Meraki
10 5 (3.09%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.47%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.47%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.47%) New Relic
12 3 (1.85%) Varonis