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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 495 530
Rank change year-on-year -41 +35 +103
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 182 169 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.42% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 112 108 313
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,800 £27,300
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% +15.22% +8.24%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,147 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.75% +6.23% -

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 66,447 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 42,708 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -16 171 £56,500 +5.42% 60
UK excluding London -65 116 £50,000 +10.75% 51
London -14 54 £62,000 -3.88% 13
Midlands -22 43 £50,000 -6.87% 13
Work from Home -4 32 £58,500 +17.00% 24
West Midlands -21 28 £53,688 - 10
North of England -22 27 £50,000 - 11
South East -10 24 £43,750 +9.38% 19
North West +4 17 £49,375 -1.25% 4
East Midlands -12 15 £33,000 -20.48% 3
East of England -8 13 £65,000 +36.84% 5
Yorkshire -63 8 £50,000 -6.98% 6
South West -54 5 £54,749 +15.26% 3
Wales -37 3 £68,500 +79.82% 1
North East -37 2 £48,445 - 1
Scotland 0 1 £97,500 +2.63% 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 16 (8.79%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.20%) IIS
5 3 (1.65%) Confluence
6 2 (1.10%) Apache
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.55%) CMS
7 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.65%) SPSS
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (28.57%) Azure
2 45 (24.73%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (18.68%) Entra ID
4 31 (17.03%) AWS
5 18 (9.89%) SaaS
6 13 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.59%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (6.04%) GitHub
9 7 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (3.85%) OneDrive
10 6 (3.30%) Datadog
10 6 (3.30%) GCP
11 5 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.75%) IaaS
11 5 (2.75%) Mimecast
11 5 (2.75%) PaaS
11 5 (2.75%) Serverless
12 4 (2.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (2.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (24.18%) Firewall
2 42 (23.08%) WAN
3 41 (22.53%) LAN
4 17 (9.34%) VPN
5 12 (6.59%) DNS
6 11 (6.04%) DHCP
6 11 (6.04%) SD-WAN
7 10 (5.49%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (5.49%) Network Security
8 9 (4.95%) BGP
8 9 (4.95%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.95%) WAAS
8 9 (4.95%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (3.85%) MPLS
9 7 (3.85%) Wireless
9 7 (3.85%) WLAN
10 5 (2.75%) OSPF
11 4 (2.20%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.20%) VoIP
11 4 (2.20%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.75%) Power BI
3 4 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.65%) MySQL
4 3 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.10%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.10%) Metadata
5 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.10%) Redis
5 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.55%) Big Data
6 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.55%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 11 (6.04%) Git
2 8 (4.40%) GitLab
3 5 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.20%) JIRA
5 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.48%) Finance
3 26 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.59%) Marketing
6 10 (5.49%) Advertising
7 8 (4.40%) Legal
7 8 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.85%) Banking
9 5 (2.75%) Law
10 4 (2.20%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.20%) Automotive
10 4 (2.20%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.10%) Retail
13 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (20.33%) Support Engineer
2 30 (16.48%) Senior
3 25 (13.74%) IT Engineer
4 20 (10.99%) IT Support
5 18 (9.89%) IT Support Engineer
5 18 (9.89%) Lead
6 17 (9.34%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (8.79%) Technical Support
8 15 (8.24%) Technical Engineer
8 15 (8.24%) Technical Support Engineer
9 11 (6.04%) Analyst
9 11 (6.04%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Network Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Architect
11 6 (3.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Account Manager
12 5 (2.75%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.40%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.40%) REST
1 8 (4.40%) Visualforce
2 6 (3.30%) Middleware
3 5 (2.75%) .NET
3 5 (2.75%) CSS
3 5 (2.75%) HTML
4 4 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.20%) SOAP
5 3 (1.65%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.65%) ADO
5 3 (1.65%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.65%) Kafka
5 3 (1.65%) NETCONF
5 3 (1.65%) OAuth
5 3 (1.65%) RESTCONF
5 3 (1.65%) SAML
5 3 (1.65%) YAML
6 2 (1.10%) Memcached
6 2 (1.10%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.24%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.04%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.49%) CMDB
4 10 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.95%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.40%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.30%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.30%) Social Media
8 5 (2.75%) Robotics
8 5 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.20%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.20%) PKI
9 4 (2.20%) Replication
9 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (39.01%) Windows
2 20 (10.99%) Linux
3 19 (10.44%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.79%) Android
5 11 (6.04%) Apple iOS
5 11 (6.04%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.20%) Unix
6 4 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.65%) VMS
7 3 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.55%) Solaris
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (37.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 50 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (20.33%) ITIL
4 32 (17.58%) Agile
5 30 (16.48%) AI
5 30 (16.48%) SIEM
6 29 (15.93%) CI/CD
6 29 (15.93%) Root Cause Analysis
7 27 (14.84%) DevOps
7 27 (14.84%) Incident Response
8 25 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (12.09%) Change Management
9 22 (12.09%) Roadmaps
10 21 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (10.99%) Mentoring
11 20 (10.99%) Observability
11 20 (10.99%) Service Delivery
12 19 (10.44%) Computer Science
12 19 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.58%) Python
2 30 (16.48%) PowerShell
3 13 (7.14%) SQL
4 8 (4.40%) Apex Code
4 8 (4.40%) Bash
5 7 (3.85%) Java
6 6 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.30%) Ruby
7 4 (2.20%) Scala
7 4 (2.20%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.20%) SOQL
7 4 (2.20%) SOSL
7 4 (2.20%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.65%) Perl
9 2 (1.10%) C
9 2 (1.10%) C#
9 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.10%) PHP
10 1 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 60 (32.97%) Degree
2 26 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (10.99%) Security Cleared
4 16 (8.79%) CCNP
5 15 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (6.59%) CISSP
6 12 (6.59%) SC Cleared
7 11 (6.04%) CCIE
8 10 (5.49%) CCNA
9 8 (4.40%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (4.40%) Master's Degree
10 7 (3.85%) CISA
11 6 (3.30%) CISM
12 5 (2.75%) JNCIP
12 5 (2.75%) OSCP
13 4 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (2.20%) CCSP
13 4 (2.20%) CompTIA CySA+
13 4 (2.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.38%) SLA
2 23 (12.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.95%) GDPR
4 8 (4.40%) QA
5 7 (3.85%) SOC 2
6 6 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.75%) GRC
8 4 (2.20%) NIST
9 3 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (1.10%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (21.98%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.69%) Docker
4 11 (6.04%) Firmware
5 7 (3.85%) vSphere
6 6 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.20%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (17.03%) Terraform
2 25 (13.74%) Ansible
3 20 (10.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (5.49%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.49%) SCCM
4 10 (5.49%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.75%) WSUS
6 4 (2.20%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.10%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.55%) Argo
9 1 (0.55%) Grafana
9 1 (0.55%) Nagios
9 1 (0.55%) Nessus
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.55%) Podman
9 1 (0.55%) Puppet
9 1 (0.55%) QRadar
Vendors
1 72 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 36 (19.78%) Cisco
3 25 (13.74%) VMware
4 19 (10.44%) Juniper
5 17 (9.34%) Dell
6 15 (8.24%) Splunk
7 14 (7.69%) McAfee
8 10 (5.49%) Fortinet
9 8 (4.40%) Salesforce
10 7 (3.85%) New Relic
11 6 (3.30%) Apple
11 6 (3.30%) Palo Alto
11 6 (3.30%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.75%) Dynatrace
12 5 (2.75%) Logitech
12 5 (2.75%) Sophos
12 5 (2.75%) TOWER Software
13 4 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (2.20%) Zscaler
14 3 (1.65%) Tenable