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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 552 620
Rank change year-on-year +185 +68 +63
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 403 398 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.38% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.45% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 104 322 285
10th Percentile £36,475 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,084 £37,101 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,594 £45,738 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% +7.62% -7.61%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,875 £92,500 £65,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% - +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 52,280 87,832 90,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.56% 83.69% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 25,832 61,251 54,293
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% -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 2 June 2025.

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 2 June 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 +189 386 £53,688 +13.03% 779
Work from Home +233 264 £50,000 - 333
UK excluding London +112 201 £45,000 +5.88% 746
London +119 114 £65,000 -12.75% 118
South East +93 63 £42,500 -13.84% 191
North of England -11 37 £50,000 +14.94% 170
Midlands +42 36 £49,418 +14.32% 141
East of England +62 34 £47,500 -17.39% 105
West Midlands +45 30 £53,688 +24.20% 77
Yorkshire +26 20 £62,500 +68.92% 76
South West +114 19 £47,500 +58.33% 91
North West -18 15 £50,000 +14.31% 75
Wales +38 8 £38,094 -7.24% 21
East Midlands +29 6 £45,000 -5.26% 56
Scotland +101 4 £100,000 +81.82% 44
North East +45 2 - - 21

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 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.74%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) IBM Notes
4 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.74%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (18.11%) Azure
2 48 (11.91%) AWS
3 47 (11.66%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (7.69%) GCP
5 28 (6.95%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (3.47%) SaaS
8 12 (2.98%) IaaS
8 12 (2.98%) PaaS
9 9 (2.23%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.74%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.49%) Copilot Studio
11 6 (1.49%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.24%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (0.74%) Serverless
15 2 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 216 (53.60%) Broadband
2 47 (11.66%) Firewall
3 28 (6.95%) DNS
4 19 (4.71%) VPN
5 17 (4.22%) Network Security
6 16 (3.97%) DHCP
6 16 (3.97%) WAN
7 14 (3.47%) LAN
8 13 (3.23%) TCP/IP
9 7 (1.74%) MPLS
10 6 (1.49%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.24%) Internet
11 5 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.24%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.24%) VLAN
11 5 (1.24%) VoIP
11 5 (1.24%) VPLS
12 4 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.99%) NetScaler
12 4 (0.99%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.99%) Power BI
3 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.50%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.25%) Big Data
5 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.25%) Parquet
5 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.25%) SSDT
5 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
2 2 (0.50%) Git
2 2 (0.50%) GitLab
2 2 (0.50%) JIRA
3 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 307 (76.18%) Social Skills
2 80 (19.85%) Finance
3 47 (11.66%) Law
4 38 (9.43%) Legal
5 29 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (7.20%) Financial Institution
6 24 (5.96%) Prime Brokerage
7 21 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.23%) Banking
9 8 (1.99%) Welsh Language
10 6 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.24%) Marketing
12 4 (0.99%) Automotive
12 4 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.99%) Police
12 4 (0.99%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Retail
14 2 (0.50%) Games
14 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 242 (60.05%) Support Engineer
2 29 (7.20%) Senior
3 24 (5.96%) Risk Manager
4 18 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (4.22%) 3rd Line Support
6 16 (3.97%) Technical Support
7 15 (3.72%) Senior Manager
8 13 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 13 (3.23%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 12 (2.98%) Technical Engineer
9 12 (2.98%) Technical Support Engineer
10 11 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (2.23%) Analyst
11 9 (2.23%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 9 (2.23%) Network Engineer
11 9 (2.23%) Security Specialist
12 8 (1.99%) 1st Line Support
12 8 (1.99%) Server Engineer
13 6 (1.49%) NOC Engineer
13 6 (1.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.23%) Hugging Face
1 13 (3.23%) LangChain
1 13 (3.23%) PyTorch
1 13 (3.23%) TensorFlow
2 4 (0.99%) EDI
3 3 (0.74%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (0.74%) Web Services
4 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.50%) CSS
4 2 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.50%) HTML
4 2 (0.50%) Kafka
4 2 (0.50%) REST
4 2 (0.50%) SAP Basis
4 2 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (0.50%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.25%) JSON
5 1 (0.25%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.96%) Blockchain
1 24 (5.96%) Derivative
1 24 (5.96%) Hedge funds
2 19 (4.71%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.99%) IoT
6 7 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.24%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (0.74%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.50%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.50%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.50%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.50%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 264 (65.51%) Windows
2 219 (54.34%) Windows Server 2012
3 24 (5.96%) Linux
4 21 (5.21%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.49%) CentOS
5 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (57.32%) Proactive Maintenance
2 218 (54.09%) Coaching
3 215 (53.35%) Broadcast Engineering
3 215 (53.35%) Post-Production
3 215 (53.35%) Procure-to-Pay
4 50 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (12.16%) ITIL
6 43 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (9.68%) High Availability
8 37 (9.18%) Change Management
8 37 (9.18%) Data Privacy
9 36 (8.93%) Incident Management
10 30 (7.44%) Service Delivery
11 28 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (6.95%) Risk Management
12 25 (6.20%) Service Management
13 24 (5.96%) CI/CD
13 24 (5.96%) Rehypothecation
13 24 (5.96%) Stress Testing
14 23 (5.71%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 28 (6.95%) SQL
3 14 (3.47%) C#
4 10 (2.48%) Python
5 6 (1.49%) Bash
6 3 (0.74%) Bicep
6 3 (0.74%) C++
6 3 (0.74%) Go
6 3 (0.74%) Java
6 3 (0.74%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 238 (59.06%) Degree
2 31 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (5.96%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (5.46%) CCNA
5 18 (4.47%) MCSE
6 15 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.72%) CCNP
6 15 (3.72%) MCSA
7 14 (3.47%) Security Cleared
8 13 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.23%) DBS Check
8 13 (3.23%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.98%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (1.74%) SC Cleared
11 6 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.99%) MRICS
13 2 (0.50%) CISM
13 2 (0.50%) CISSP
14 1 (0.25%) CIMA
14 1 (0.25%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.44%) GDPR
2 24 (5.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 19 (4.71%) SLA
4 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.50%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 243 (60.30%) Active Directory
2 29 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.73%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.74%) Docker
6 4 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (5.46%) Terraform
2 19 (4.71%) Prometheus
3 16 (3.97%) Grafana
4 11 (2.73%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.99%) SCCM
6 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.99%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.74%) Ansible
8 3 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.50%) SCOM
10 1 (0.25%) Avamar
10 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.25%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 296 (73.45%) Microsoft
2 215 (53.35%) Sun
3 37 (9.18%) Cisco
4 36 (8.93%) VMware
5 16 (3.97%) Google
6 13 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 13 (3.23%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.73%) Citrix
8 10 (2.48%) Dell
9 9 (2.23%) Meraki
10 8 (1.99%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.74%) Juniper
11 7 (1.74%) McAfee
12 6 (1.49%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.49%) SAP
13 5 (1.24%) HP
13 5 (1.24%) SolarWinds
14 4 (0.99%) FactSet
14 4 (0.99%) Veeam
14 4 (0.99%) YouTube