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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 472 527
Rank change year-on-year -131 +55 -61
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 204 216 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.49% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 125 120 184
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £30,725
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +18.06% -4.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,813 £59,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £44,991
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.54% +1.03%

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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 16 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 16 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 -117 184 £51,411 -4.24% 259
UK excluding London -123 150 £50,000 +17.65% 160
Work from Home -4 69 £52,500 - 116
London -53 47 £55,750 -17.41% 109
Midlands -26 38 £50,000 +11.11% 34
North of England -64 34 £50,000 +5.26% 52
South East -68 32 £42,000 -1.18% 30
North West -2 24 £50,000 +5.26% 39
East of England -17 22 £80,000 +201.89% 12
East Midlands -13 21 - - 10
West Midlands -53 17 £50,000 +11.11% 24
South West -87 12 £57,500 +9.52% 15
Wales -74 10 £36,961 -2.97% 5
Yorkshire -49 6 £40,000 -27.27% 10
Scotland +8 4 - - 5
North East -61 4 - - 3

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 (13.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (13.24%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.98%) IIS
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.98%) SPSS
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 68 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (23.53%) Azure
3 28 (13.73%) Entra ID
4 27 (13.24%) AWS
5 22 (10.78%) Mimecast
6 18 (8.82%) GCP
7 15 (7.35%) OneDrive
8 10 (4.90%) GitHub
9 8 (3.92%) SaaS
10 6 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.94%) Cloud Functions
10 6 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.45%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.96%) dbt
12 4 (1.96%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.96%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.47%) Serverless
13 3 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 67 (32.84%) Firewall
2 43 (21.08%) LAN
3 38 (18.63%) WAN
4 29 (14.22%) DNS
5 26 (12.75%) DHCP
6 22 (10.78%) TCP/IP
7 20 (9.80%) Wireless
8 19 (9.31%) Network Security
9 16 (7.84%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (6.86%) VPN
11 11 (5.39%) VLAN
12 6 (2.94%) Broadband
13 5 (2.45%) VoIP
14 3 (1.47%) PBX
14 3 (1.47%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.98%) SAN
15 2 (0.98%) Wireless Security
16 1 (0.49%) Fibre Channel
16 1 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
16 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.37%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.43%) MySQL
4 4 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.47%) Metadata
5 3 (1.47%) Power BI
5 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.49%) Adabas
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.49%) DTS
7 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (4.41%) Git
1 9 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.96%) GitLab
3 3 (1.47%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.47%) JIRA
4 2 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.98%) Maven
4 2 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 60 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.63%) Finance
3 21 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.35%) Advertising
6 14 (6.86%) Telecoms
7 13 (6.37%) Public Sector
8 12 (5.88%) Marketing
9 11 (5.39%) Banking
10 9 (4.41%) Aerospace
10 9 (4.41%) Legal
10 9 (4.41%) Retail
11 7 (3.43%) Automotive
11 7 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.94%) Law
12 6 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.45%) Welsh Language
14 4 (1.96%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 45 (22.06%) Senior
2 30 (14.71%) IT Engineer
3 25 (12.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (10.78%) Analyst
5 21 (10.29%) IT Support
6 18 (8.82%) Field Engineer
6 18 (8.82%) Field Service Engineer
6 18 (8.82%) Support Engineer
7 15 (7.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.37%) Security Analyst
9 12 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 10 (4.90%) IT Support Engineer
10 10 (4.90%) Network Engineer
10 10 (4.90%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support
11 9 (4.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.41%) Senior Security Analyst
11 9 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (4.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.71%) Terraform
2 8 (3.92%) React
3 6 (2.94%) .NET
4 5 (2.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.47%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.47%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.47%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (1.47%) Spring
5 3 (1.47%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.98%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.98%) HTML
6 2 (0.98%) Jest
6 2 (0.98%) Next.js
6 2 (0.98%) Node.js
6 2 (0.98%) Playwright
6 2 (0.98%) RESTful
7 1 (0.49%) CSS3
7 1 (0.49%) Kafka
7 1 (0.49%) Laravel
7 1 (0.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.27%) Security Posture
2 16 (7.84%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.39%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.39%) Social Media
4 10 (4.90%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.41%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.92%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.43%) Clustering
8 6 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.94%) Replication
9 5 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.45%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.96%) Blog
10 4 (1.96%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (35.29%) Windows
2 44 (21.57%) Windows Server
3 25 (12.25%) Windows 10
4 24 (11.76%) Linux
5 19 (9.31%) Apple iOS
6 17 (8.33%) Android
7 9 (4.41%) Unix
8 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.47%) AIX
9 3 (1.47%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.49%) Solaris
11 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (29.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 59 (28.92%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (23.53%) ITIL
4 45 (22.06%) Incident Response
5 38 (18.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (15.20%) Agile
7 30 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 29 (14.22%) CI/CD
8 29 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (13.24%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (13.24%) Root Cause Analysis
10 26 (12.75%) Customer Service
11 25 (12.25%) High Availability
12 24 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
12 24 (11.76%) SIEM
13 23 (11.27%) Observability
14 22 (10.78%) Incident Management
14 22 (10.78%) Project Delivery
15 21 (10.29%) Service Delivery
16 20 (9.80%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.59%) Python
2 36 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.82%) SQL
4 16 (7.84%) Bash
5 15 (7.35%) Java
6 9 (4.41%) Go
7 7 (3.43%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.94%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (2.45%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.47%) C
10 3 (1.47%) C#
10 3 (1.47%) Ruby
11 2 (0.98%) PHP
11 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.49%) Natural
12 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.49%) Scala
12 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (19.12%) Degree
2 29 (14.22%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.84%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.37%) CCNA
6 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.88%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.45%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.45%) CCNP
9 4 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.47%) CISSP
10 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.47%) MCSA
10 3 (1.47%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.47%) SSCP
11 2 (0.98%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (7.35%) SLA
3 12 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.41%) NIST
5 8 (3.92%) Data Quality
6 7 (3.43%) QA
7 5 (2.45%) GDPR
8 4 (1.96%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.98%) WCAG
10 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (18.63%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.41%) Docker
4 6 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.45%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.98%) vSphere
7 1 (0.49%) Firmware
7 1 (0.49%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.49%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (10.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (9.80%) Ansible
3 17 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 11 (5.39%) Grafana
4 11 (5.39%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.45%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.47%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.47%) Istio
6 3 (1.47%) linkerd
6 3 (1.47%) Puppet
6 3 (1.47%) SCCM
7 2 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.49%) Argo
8 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.49%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.49%) Nagios
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 90 (44.12%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.31%) Cisco
3 17 (8.33%) Logitech
3 17 (8.33%) Sophos
3 17 (8.33%) TOWER Software
3 17 (8.33%) VMware
4 15 (7.35%) Splunk
5 9 (4.41%) Oracle
5 9 (4.41%) Zscaler
6 8 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.92%) Tanium
7 7 (3.43%) Meraki
8 6 (2.94%) Dell
8 6 (2.94%) Google
8 6 (2.94%) RedGate
9 5 (2.45%) YouTube
10 4 (1.96%) Apple
10 4 (1.96%) HP
10 4 (1.96%) iManage
10 4 (1.96%) Red Hat