Proactive Monitoring Jobs

Proactive Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Proactive Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 541 572
Rank change year-on-year +171 +31 +150
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 419 383 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.38% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.46% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 108 307 284
10th Percentile £36,775 £28,247 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,188 £37,101 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £45,000 £47,236
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% -4.73% +3.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £60,188
90th Percentile £84,000 £87,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £43,227 £42,500
% change year-on-year +9.89% +1.71% +6.25%

All Process and 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 53,944 82,826 80,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.68% 82.49% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,417 56,101 51,969
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Proactive Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Proactive Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Proactive Monitoring.

Salary trend for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proactive Monitoring over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 17 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 17 July 2025. 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 +157 401 £53,688 +17.38% 167
Work from Home +196 259 £50,000 +9.95% 71
UK excluding London +90 221 £47,500 +9.89% 132
London +116 110 £65,000 -12.75% 50
South East +64 63 £42,500 - 33
Midlands +49 42 £49,418 +9.82% 23
North of England -1 37 £48,750 +11.45% 32
West Midlands +42 36 £53,688 +21.70% 10
East of England +52 34 £26,500 -53.91% 11
South West +105 32 £60,000 +60.00% 24
Yorkshire +20 21 £62,500 +68.92% 14
North West -21 14 £47,500 +3.26% 17
Wales +26 8 £38,094 -7.24% 2
East Midlands +34 6 £45,000 -5.26% 13
Scotland +87 4 £100,000 +81.82% 9
North East +30 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £55,000 - 2

Proactive Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.72%) IIS
4 2 (0.48%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.72%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (18.85%) Azure
2 50 (11.93%) AWS
3 49 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (7.16%) Azure Monitor
4 30 (7.16%) GCP
5 19 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.82%) SaaS
7 13 (3.10%) PaaS
8 12 (2.86%) IaaS
9 10 (2.39%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.15%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.67%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (1.67%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.43%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 216 (51.55%) Broadband
2 63 (15.04%) Firewall
3 32 (7.64%) DNS
4 26 (6.21%) WAN
5 25 (5.97%) VPN
6 23 (5.49%) LAN
7 21 (5.01%) DHCP
7 21 (5.01%) Network Security
8 13 (3.10%) TCP/IP
9 12 (2.86%) LTE
9 12 (2.86%) VSAT
10 10 (2.39%) Wireless
11 8 (1.91%) Internet
11 8 (1.91%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.91%) VLAN
11 8 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.43%) 802.11
12 6 (1.43%) MPLS
13 5 (1.19%) VoIP
13 5 (1.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.34%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.91%) Power BI
3 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.48%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.24%) Big Data
5 1 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.24%) Metadata
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.24%) Parquet
5 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.24%) SSDT
5 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.72%) JIRA
2 2 (0.48%) CircleCI
2 2 (0.48%) Git
2 2 (0.48%) GitLab
3 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 324 (77.33%) Social Skills
2 77 (18.38%) Finance
3 50 (11.93%) Law
4 38 (9.07%) Legal
5 30 (7.16%) Financial Institution
6 28 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (5.97%) Prime Brokerage
9 11 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.15%) Automotive
10 9 (2.15%) Banking
11 8 (1.91%) Welsh Language
12 6 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.43%) Billing
12 6 (1.43%) Electronics
13 5 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.19%) Marketing
14 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Police
15 3 (0.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 259 (61.81%) Support Engineer
2 36 (8.59%) Technical Support
3 33 (7.88%) Senior
4 31 (7.40%) Technical Engineer
4 31 (7.40%) Technical Support Engineer
5 25 (5.97%) Risk Manager
6 18 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (3.58%) 3rd Line Support
7 15 (3.58%) Senior Manager
8 12 (2.86%) Network Engineer
9 11 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (2.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 10 (2.39%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (2.39%) Security Specialist
11 9 (2.15%) Cybersecurity Specialist
12 8 (1.91%) Analyst
12 8 (1.91%) Server Engineer
13 7 (1.67%) 1st Line Support
13 7 (1.67%) Lead
13 7 (1.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.10%) Hugging Face
1 13 (3.10%) LangChain
1 13 (3.10%) PyTorch
1 13 (3.10%) TensorFlow
2 7 (1.67%) 802.1X
3 4 (0.95%) AngularJS
3 4 (0.95%) ARM Templates
3 4 (0.95%) CSS
3 4 (0.95%) HTML
3 4 (0.95%) REST
3 4 (0.95%) Web Services
4 3 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (0.48%) .NET
5 2 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.48%) Kafka
5 2 (0.48%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.48%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.24%) ADO
6 1 (0.24%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.97%) Blockchain
1 25 (5.97%) Derivative
1 25 (5.97%) Hedge funds
2 24 (5.73%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (1.91%) IoT
4 8 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.43%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (0.95%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.72%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (0.72%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.48%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.48%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.48%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 274 (65.39%) Windows
2 219 (52.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 25 (5.97%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.06%) Linux
5 5 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.72%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) CentOS
7 1 (0.24%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (56.09%) Proactive Maintenance
2 218 (52.03%) Coaching
3 215 (51.31%) Broadcast Engineering
3 215 (51.31%) Post-Production
3 215 (51.31%) Procure-to-Pay
4 64 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (11.46%) ITIL
7 40 (9.55%) Change Management
7 40 (9.55%) High Availability
8 38 (9.07%) Data Privacy
9 35 (8.35%) Incident Management
10 30 (7.16%) Service Delivery
11 29 (6.92%) Risk Management
12 28 (6.68%) CI/CD
12 28 (6.68%) Cybersecurity
12 28 (6.68%) DevOps
12 28 (6.68%) Service Management
13 27 (6.44%) Customer Service
14 26 (6.21%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 33 (7.88%) PowerShell
2 27 (6.44%) SQL
3 16 (3.82%) C#
4 14 (3.34%) Python
5 8 (1.91%) Bash
6 4 (0.95%) Bicep
6 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.72%) C++
7 3 (0.72%) Go
7 3 (0.72%) Java
7 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.24%) Scala
8 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 244 (58.23%) Degree
2 34 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (7.16%) CCNA
4 27 (6.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (5.25%) Security Cleared
6 15 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.58%) CCNP
7 13 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.10%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.10%) MCSE
7 13 (3.10%) SC Cleared
8 12 (2.86%) JNCIA
9 10 (2.39%) DBS Check
9 10 (2.39%) MCSA
10 6 (1.43%) GCSC
10 6 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.48%) CCSA
12 1 (0.24%) CCSE
12 1 (0.24%) GSEC
12 1 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.40%) GDPR
2 26 (6.21%) SLA
3 25 (5.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 244 (58.23%) Active Directory
2 34 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.43%) Docker
6 5 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (5.97%) Terraform
2 20 (4.77%) Prometheus
3 18 (4.30%) Grafana
4 10 (2.39%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.91%) SCCM
6 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.19%) Ansible
7 5 (1.19%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.95%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.48%) SCOM
10 1 (0.24%) CA Spectrum
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 295 (70.41%) Microsoft
2 215 (51.31%) Sun
3 45 (10.74%) Cisco
4 40 (9.55%) VMware
5 17 (4.06%) Dell
5 17 (4.06%) Google
6 15 (3.58%) Juniper
7 14 (3.34%) McAfee
8 13 (3.10%) Fortinet
8 13 (3.10%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.86%) Citrix
10 11 (2.63%) Meraki
11 9 (2.15%) SolarWinds
12 8 (1.91%) Freshdesk
13 6 (1.43%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.19%) HP
14 5 (1.19%) NetApp
15 4 (0.95%) Bloomberg
15 4 (0.95%) CheckPoint
15 4 (0.95%) Mitel