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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 475 521
Rank change year-on-year -109 +46 +96
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 164 192 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.47% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 102 103 320
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,400 £27,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,917 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £53,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +16.30% +8.24%
75th Percentile £67,188 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £83,375 £81,000 £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 67,549 40,838 86,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 92.97% 82.99%
Number of salaries quoted 45,324 21,582 61,408
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
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 6 June 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 6 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 -76 153 £54,749 +1.98% 72
UK excluding London -89 107 £50,000 +11.11% 57
London -12 46 £62,000 -4.62% 27
Midlands -14 41 £50,000 +1.18% 9
Work from Home -11 31 £54,749 +9.50% 35
West Midlands -32 28 £50,000 -6.87% 6
North of England -40 24 £50,000 - 13
South East -39 22 £36,250 -14.71% 18
North West +6 14 £50,625 +1.25% 9
East Midlands -19 13 £50,000 +11.11% 3
East of England -13 12 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Yorkshire -51 8 £50,000 -20.00% 3
Wales -45 4 £57,755 +51.61%
South West -66 3 £54,749 +15.26% 5
North East -40 2 £48,445 - 1
Scotland +4 1 - - 4

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 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.44%) IIS
4 2 (1.22%) Apache
4 2 (1.22%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) CMS
5 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (6.71%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.83%) SPSS
3 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (25.61%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (24.39%) Azure
3 27 (16.46%) AWS
4 26 (15.85%) Entra ID
5 15 (9.15%) SaaS
6 10 (6.10%) Mimecast
6 10 (6.10%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.88%) GitHub
8 7 (4.27%) GCP
9 6 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.05%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.44%) IaaS
11 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.44%) PaaS
11 4 (2.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.44%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (24.39%) Firewall
2 38 (23.17%) LAN
3 33 (20.12%) WAN
4 11 (6.71%) VPN
5 9 (5.49%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (4.88%) SD-WAN
6 8 (4.88%) Wireless
7 7 (4.27%) BGP
7 7 (4.27%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (4.27%) DNS
7 7 (4.27%) TCP/IP
7 7 (4.27%) WAAS
8 6 (3.66%) DHCP
8 6 (3.66%) MPLS
8 6 (3.66%) Network Security
9 4 (2.44%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (2.44%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (2.44%) VoIP
9 4 (2.44%) VPLS
10 3 (1.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.05%) Power BI
3 4 (2.44%) MySQL
4 3 (1.83%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.22%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.22%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.22%) Metadata
5 2 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.22%) Redis
5 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.61%) Adabas
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.61%) Big Data
6 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.61%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (6.10%) Git
2 8 (4.88%) GitLab
3 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.83%) JIRA
5 2 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 48 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.24%) Finance
3 22 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (13.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (7.93%) Advertising
5 12 (7.32%) Marketing
6 9 (5.49%) Legal
7 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.27%) Banking
9 6 (3.66%) Automotive
10 5 (3.05%) Law
11 3 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.22%) Retail
13 1 (0.61%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.61%) Games
13 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (18.90%) Support Engineer
2 27 (16.46%) Senior
3 25 (15.24%) IT Engineer
4 21 (12.80%) IT Support
5 16 (9.76%) Analyst
5 16 (9.76%) IT Support Engineer
6 14 (8.54%) Technical Support
7 13 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (7.93%) Lead
7 13 (7.93%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (7.93%) Technical Engineer
7 13 (7.93%) Technical Support Engineer
8 11 (6.71%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Field Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Field Service Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Support Analyst
10 6 (3.66%) Network Engineer
10 6 (3.66%) Security Analyst
10 6 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.88%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.88%) Visualforce
2 7 (4.27%) REST
3 6 (3.66%) .NET
4 5 (3.05%) CSS
4 5 (3.05%) HTML
5 4 (2.44%) Middleware
5 4 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.44%) SOAP
6 3 (1.83%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.83%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.83%) Kafka
6 3 (1.83%) Spring
7 2 (1.22%) Memcached
7 2 (1.22%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.22%) Node.js
7 2 (1.22%) React
7 2 (1.22%) RESTCONF
8 1 (0.61%) Serverless Framework
8 1 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.80%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.54%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.10%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.49%) Security Posture
6 8 (4.88%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.88%) CMDB
7 7 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (4.27%) Social Media
8 6 (3.66%) Public Cloud
9 5 (3.05%) Robotics
10 4 (2.44%) PKI
10 4 (2.44%) Replication
10 4 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (39.63%) Windows
2 17 (10.37%) Windows Server
3 16 (9.76%) Android
3 16 (9.76%) Windows 10
4 14 (8.54%) Linux
5 13 (7.93%) Apple iOS
6 5 (3.05%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.83%) Unix
7 3 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.61%) AIX
8 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.61%) Solaris
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (36.59%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (21.34%) ITIL
4 28 (17.07%) Agile
5 26 (15.85%) AI
5 26 (15.85%) CI/CD
6 25 (15.24%) SIEM
7 24 (14.63%) Incident Response
8 23 (14.02%) Root Cause Analysis
9 21 (12.80%) Roadmaps
10 20 (12.20%) Service Delivery
11 18 (10.98%) Change Management
11 18 (10.98%) DevOps
12 17 (10.37%) Computer Science
12 17 (10.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (9.76%) Information Security
13 16 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (9.76%) Observability
13 16 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.51%) Python
2 29 (17.68%) PowerShell
3 11 (6.71%) SQL
4 9 (5.49%) Bash
4 9 (5.49%) Java
5 8 (4.88%) Apex Code
6 6 (3.66%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.66%) Ruby
7 4 (2.44%) Scala
7 4 (2.44%) SOQL
7 4 (2.44%) SOSL
7 4 (2.44%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.83%) C
8 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.22%) C#
9 2 (1.22%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.22%) PHP
10 1 (0.61%) Bicep
10 1 (0.61%) Perl
10 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (32.32%) Degree
2 21 (12.80%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (11.59%) Security Cleared
4 14 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (8.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (7.32%) SC Cleared
6 11 (6.71%) CCNP
7 10 (6.10%) CCNA
8 9 (5.49%) CISSP
8 9 (5.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (4.27%) CCIE
9 7 (4.27%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.44%) CCSP
10 4 (2.44%) CISA
10 4 (2.44%) CISM
10 4 (2.44%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (2.44%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.63%) SLA
2 20 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (4.88%) QA
4 5 (3.05%) NIST
5 4 (2.44%) GRC
6 3 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.83%) GDPR
6 3 (1.83%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.61%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 36 (21.95%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.71%) Docker
4 8 (4.88%) Firmware
5 5 (3.05%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.05%) vSphere
6 4 (2.44%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.61%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.61%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (14.63%) Terraform
2 18 (10.98%) Ansible
3 16 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.88%) SCCM
5 7 (4.27%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (3.66%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.44%) WSUS
9 3 (1.83%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.83%) Grafana
9 3 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.22%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.61%) Autotask
11 1 (0.61%) linkerd
11 1 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.61%) Podman
11 1 (0.61%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.61%) Puppet
11 1 (0.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 65 (39.63%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.29%) Cisco
3 21 (12.80%) VMware
4 15 (9.15%) Dell
4 15 (9.15%) Juniper
5 12 (7.32%) McAfee
5 12 (7.32%) Splunk
6 8 (4.88%) Salesforce
7 7 (4.27%) Fortinet
7 7 (4.27%) Logitech
7 7 (4.27%) Sophos
7 7 (4.27%) TOWER Software
8 6 (3.66%) Apple
9 5 (3.05%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (3.05%) Meraki
9 5 (3.05%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.44%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.44%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.44%) New Relic
11 3 (1.83%) Varonis