Proactive Monitoring Job Trends

Proactive Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	617	458	515
Rank change year-on-year	-159	+57	-62
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring	229	208	246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.19%	0.39%	0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.25%	0.45%	0.44%
Number of salaries quoted	125	102	146
10^th Percentile	£29,973	£27,250	£36,875
25^th Percentile	£36,457	£40,125	£42,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£49,250	£45,445
Median % change year-on-year	+1.52%	+8.37%	-8.50%
75^th Percentile	£66,250	£63,125	£68,563
90^th Percentile	£88,000	£82,500	£77,250
UK excluding London median annual salary	£48,750	£46,000	£45,000
% change year-on-year	+5.98%	+2.22%	-1.10%

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 citing process or methodology skills.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills	90,829	45,732	56,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	73.64%	86.32%	83.00%
Number of salaries quoted	60,106	27,268	29,481
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£28,250	£34,000
25^th Percentile	£42,000	£35,500	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£54,793	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.50%	-8.68%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£75,000	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,000	£97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£47,500	£54,000
% change year-on-year	+15.79%	-12.04%	+2.86%

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 Salary Trend

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 14 November 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 14 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-153	201	£50,000	+5.26%	217
UK excluding London	-172	167	£48,750	+5.98%	112
Work from Home	-51	77	£50,000	-13.04%	99
London	-50	49	£60,000	-25.00%	110
North of England	-90	43	£50,000	+7.53%	20
Midlands	-62	37	£50,000	+47.06%	28
South East	-95	32	£45,000	-1.10%	38
North West	-56	31	£50,000	+5.26%	14
East of England	-43	26	£80,000	+73.31%	5
East Midlands	-27	25	£56,000	+111.32%	7
South West	-92	16	£61,250	+16.67%	9
West Midlands	-67	12	£50,000	+25.00%	21
Wales	-62	11	£36,961	-	7
Yorkshire	-44	6	£40,000	-12.57%	2
North East	-65	6	-	-	4
Scotland	+2	4	-	-	4

Proactive Monitoring Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 November 2026, job vacancies citing Proactive Monitoring also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing Proactive Monitoring.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	45.4%	104
2	Windows	31.4%	72
3	Microsoft 365	30.1%	69
4	Continuous Improvement	28.4%	65
5	Problem-Solving	27.9%	64
6	Firewall	27.5%	63
7	ITIL	25.3%	58
8	Azure	24.5%	56
9	Windows Server	22.3%	51
10	Python	18.3%	42
11	Infrastructure as Code	17.5%	40
12	Incident Response	17.0%	39
13	LAN	16.6%	38
14	Security Cleared	16.2%	37
14	WAN	16.2%	37
16	PowerShell	15.7%	36
17	Active Directory	15.3%	35
17	Customer Service	15.3%	35
17	Disaster Recovery	15.3%	35
17	Observability	15.3%	35
21	AWS	14.8%	34
22	CI/CD	14.4%	33
23	Agile	14.0%	32
23	Degree	14.0%	32
23	DNS	14.0%	32
26	Collaborative Working	13.5%	31
26	Cybersecurity	13.5%	31
26	Service Delivery	13.5%	31
26	SharePoint	13.5%	31
30	Terraform	13.1%	30

Proactive Monitoring Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	28.4%	65
2	Problem-Solving	27.9%	64
3	ITIL	25.3%	58
4	Infrastructure as Code	17.5%	40
5	Incident Response	17.0%	39
6	Customer Service	15.3%	35
6	Disaster Recovery	15.3%	35
6	Observability	15.3%	35
9	CI/CD	14.4%	33
10	Agile	14.0%	32
11	Collaborative Working	13.5%	31
11	Cybersecurity	13.5%	31
11	Service Delivery	13.5%	31
14	AI	12.2%	28
14	Root Cause Analysis	12.2%	28
16	High Availability	11.8%	27
16	Infrastructure Engineering	11.8%	27
18	Mentoring	11.4%	26
18	Project Delivery	11.4%	26
20	DevOps	10.9%	25