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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 477 511
Rank change year-on-year -104 +34 +40
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 192 209 362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.47% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 127 108 287
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,775 £28,247
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +19.31% -4.73%
75th Percentile £61,875 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £86,750 £84,000 £87,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £43,364
% change year-on-year - +9.54% -0.35%

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 73,631 44,290 76,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 90.03% 81.87%
Number of salaries quoted 50,962 24,903 52,597
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
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 21 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 21 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 -68 176 £50,000 -6.87% 72
UK excluding London -89 143 £47,500 - 51
Work from Home -14 56 £50,000 - 41
Midlands -25 46 £50,000 +1.18% 8
London -16 38 £58,250 -10.38% 27
South East -36 36 £42,250 -0.59% 18
North of England -30 29 £50,000 +2.56% 13
West Midlands -26 28 £50,000 -6.87% 5
North West +4 20 £50,000 +5.26% 5
East of England 0 18 £55,000 +107.55% 6
East Midlands -8 18 - - 3
Yorkshire -50 8 £40,000 -36.00% 7
Wales -58 6 £36,961 -2.97% 2
South West -80 6 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Scotland +14 4 - -
North East -47 1 - - 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 25 (13.02%) SharePoint
2 22 (11.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.60%) 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%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.56%) SPSS
3 1 (0.52%) 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 60 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (27.08%) Azure
3 30 (15.63%) AWS
4 27 (14.06%) Entra ID
5 16 (8.33%) Mimecast
6 12 (6.25%) OneDrive
7 10 (5.21%) SaaS
8 8 (4.17%) GCP
9 7 (3.65%) GitHub
10 4 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.08%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.08%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.08%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.56%) IaaS
11 3 (1.56%) PaaS
12 2 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.04%) Google Compute Engine
12 2 (1.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 65 (33.85%) Firewall
2 49 (25.52%) LAN
3 43 (22.40%) WAN
4 23 (11.98%) DNS
5 22 (11.46%) DHCP
6 20 (10.42%) VPN
7 18 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (9.38%) Wireless
8 17 (8.85%) TCP/IP
9 15 (7.81%) Network Security
10 10 (5.21%) VLAN
11 8 (4.17%) VoIP
12 7 (3.65%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.60%) BGP
13 5 (2.60%) Broadband
13 5 (2.60%) MPLS
14 3 (1.56%) Asterisk PBX
14 3 (1.56%) PBX
14 3 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (1.56%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.85%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.60%) MySQL
3 3 (1.56%) Power BI
3 3 (1.56%) 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 9 (4.69%) Git
2 8 (4.17%) GitLab
3 7 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.08%) JIRA
5 3 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 59 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.98%) Finance
3 19 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.81%) Advertising
5 13 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 11 (5.73%) Legal
7 11 (5.73%) Marketing
8 10 (5.21%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.13%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.13%) Automotive
9 6 (3.13%) Banking
10 4 (2.08%) Law
10 4 (2.08%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.04%) Retail
13 1 (0.52%) Digital Economy
13 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (19.27%) Support Engineer
2 36 (18.75%) Senior
3 32 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 31 (16.15%) IT Support
5 24 (12.50%) Analyst
6 21 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (9.90%) IT Support Engineer
8 15 (7.81%) Security Analyst
9 13 (6.77%) Senior Analyst
9 13 (6.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (6.77%) Technical Engineer
9 13 (6.77%) Technical Support
9 13 (6.77%) Technical Support Engineer
10 11 (5.73%) Field Engineer
10 11 (5.73%) Field Service Engineer
10 11 (5.73%) Senior Security Analyst
11 10 (5.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (5.21%) Data Engineer
11 10 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.69%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.13%) .NET
1 6 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
1 6 (3.13%) Visualforce
2 4 (2.08%) HTML
2 4 (2.08%) REST
3 3 (1.56%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.56%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.56%) CSS
3 3 (1.56%) Middleware
3 3 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (1.56%) React
4 2 (1.04%) Node.js
4 2 (1.04%) SOAP
5 1 (0.52%) Ajax
5 1 (0.52%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (0.52%) jQuery
5 1 (0.52%) JSON
5 1 (0.52%) RESTful
5 1 (0.52%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.46%) Security Posture
2 20 (10.42%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.73%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.69%) Social Media
5 7 (3.65%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.60%) Clustering
6 5 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.60%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.60%) Robotics
7 4 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.08%) Replication
8 3 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.56%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.56%) PKI
8 3 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 78 (40.63%) Windows
2 35 (18.23%) Windows Server
3 22 (11.46%) Windows 10
4 21 (10.94%) Linux
5 17 (8.85%) Apple iOS
6 13 (6.77%) Android
7 7 (3.65%) Unix
8 4 (2.08%) Mac OS
8 4 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.52%) AIX
10 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (34.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 52 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (19.79%) Incident Response
4 37 (19.27%) SIEM
5 36 (18.75%) ITIL
6 31 (16.15%) Agile
7 28 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
8 27 (14.06%) CI/CD
8 27 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (14.06%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (9.90%) AI
11 19 (9.90%) Change Management
12 18 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (9.38%) High Availability
13 17 (8.85%) Customer Service
13 17 (8.85%) DevOps
13 17 (8.85%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.79%) Python
2 34 (17.71%) PowerShell
3 16 (8.33%) SQL
4 13 (6.77%) Bash
5 12 (6.25%) Java
6 6 (3.13%) Apex Code
7 5 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.60%) Ruby
8 4 (2.08%) Go
8 4 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.08%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (1.56%) C
9 3 (1.56%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.56%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.04%) C#
10 2 (1.04%) PHP
10 2 (1.04%) SOQL
10 2 (1.04%) SOSL
10 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.52%) Natural
Qualifications
1 55 (28.65%) Degree
2 23 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 22 (11.46%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (9.38%) CCNA
5 14 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.73%) SC Cleared
7 10 (5.21%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (4.17%) CCNP
9 8 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (3.65%) CISSP
11 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.08%) CompTIA CySA+
13 3 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.56%) CCIE
13 3 (1.56%) CCSP
13 3 (1.56%) CRISC
13 3 (1.56%) MCSA
13 3 (1.56%) OSCP
13 3 (1.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (10.42%) SLA
3 16 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (5.73%) NIST
5 9 (4.69%) QA
6 5 (2.60%) GDPR
7 4 (2.08%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.56%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
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 45 (23.44%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.25%) Docker
4 5 (2.60%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.08%) vSphere
6 3 (1.56%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.52%) Firmware
7 1 (0.52%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (11.46%) Terraform
2 19 (9.90%) Ansible
2 19 (9.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (4.69%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.13%) Grafana
5 4 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.56%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.56%) WSUS
7 2 (1.04%) Istio
7 2 (1.04%) linkerd
7 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.04%) Puppet
8 1 (0.52%) Autotask
8 1 (0.52%) Podman
8 1 (0.52%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.52%) QRadar
8 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 87 (45.31%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.02%) Cisco
3 24 (12.50%) VMware
4 15 (7.81%) Dell
5 12 (6.25%) Juniper
5 12 (6.25%) McAfee
5 12 (6.25%) Splunk
6 11 (5.73%) Logitech
6 11 (5.73%) Sophos
6 11 (5.73%) TOWER Software
7 8 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 8 (4.17%) Tanium
8 6 (3.13%) Apple
8 6 (3.13%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.13%) Meraki
8 6 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 6 (3.13%) SolarWinds
8 6 (3.13%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.60%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (2.60%) Oracle