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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 480 515
Rank change year-on-year -92 +35 +36
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 201 213 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.43% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.48% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 133 111 270
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,584 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +19.31% -4.73%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £82,500 £85,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £43,227
% change year-on-year +1.06% +8.73% -2.94%

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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -99 182 £50,000 -6.87% 78
UK excluding London -92 149 £47,500 +1.06% 59
Work from Home -10 60 £50,000 - 35
Midlands -28 45 £50,000 -6.87% 11
London -32 41 £56,500 -13.08% 23
South East -35 36 £42,250 -0.59% 21
North of England -36 32 £50,000 +2.56% 15
West Midlands -29 26 £50,000 -6.87% 7
North West +13 23 £50,000 +5.26% 8
East Midlands -16 19 - - 4
East of England -7 18 £55,000 +107.55% 7
Wales -55 9 £36,961 -2.97% 1
Yorkshire -51 7 £40,000 -36.00% 6
South West -88 7 £54,749 -2.67% 7
Scotland +20 4 - -
North East -48 2 - - 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 27 (13.43%) SharePoint
2 24 (11.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.49%) IIS
5 2 (1.00%) Apache
5 2 (1.00%) Confluence
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) CMS
6 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (7.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.49%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (31.34%) Microsoft 365
2 56 (27.86%) Azure
3 32 (15.92%) AWS
4 30 (14.93%) Entra ID
5 17 (8.46%) Mimecast
6 13 (6.47%) GCP
6 13 (6.47%) OneDrive
7 11 (5.47%) SaaS
8 10 (4.98%) GitHub
9 6 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.99%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.49%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.99%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.99%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.49%) Google Compute Engine
12 3 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 66 (32.84%) Firewall
2 49 (24.38%) LAN
3 41 (20.40%) WAN
4 24 (11.94%) DNS
5 22 (10.95%) DHCP
6 19 (9.45%) TCP/IP
7 18 (8.96%) VPN
7 18 (8.96%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (8.46%) Wireless
9 16 (7.96%) Network Security
10 10 (4.98%) VLAN
11 7 (3.48%) VoIP
12 5 (2.49%) Broadband
12 5 (2.49%) SD-WAN
13 3 (1.49%) BGP
13 3 (1.49%) MPLS
13 3 (1.49%) PBX
14 2 (1.00%) SAN
14 2 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (1.00%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.99%) MySQL
3 4 (1.99%) Power BI
4 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.00%) Metadata
5 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.50%) Adabas
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Git
2 9 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.98%) GitLab
4 4 (1.99%) JIRA
5 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 62 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.44%) Finance
3 20 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.46%) Advertising
4 17 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.97%) Marketing
6 13 (6.47%) Legal
7 12 (5.97%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.97%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.48%) Banking
9 6 (2.99%) Automotive
10 5 (2.49%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.49%) Law
10 5 (2.49%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.49%) Retail
12 2 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Digital Economy
12 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (19.90%) Senior
2 34 (16.92%) Support Engineer
3 31 (15.42%) IT Engineer
4 29 (14.43%) IT Support
5 24 (11.94%) Analyst
6 22 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (8.46%) IT Support Engineer
8 15 (7.46%) Security Analyst
9 14 (6.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (5.97%) Field Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Field Service Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Technical Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Technical Support
11 12 (5.97%) Technical Support Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) Data Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) Senior Security Analyst
13 10 (4.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 9 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.48%) .NET
2 6 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (2.99%) Visualforce
3 5 (2.49%) React
4 4 (1.99%) HTML
5 3 (1.49%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.49%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.49%) CSS
5 3 (1.49%) Middleware
5 3 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.49%) REST
6 2 (1.00%) Node.js
6 2 (1.00%) RESTful
6 2 (1.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.00%) SOAP
6 2 (1.00%) Spring
6 2 (1.00%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.50%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.50%) Jest
7 1 (0.50%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.95%) Security Posture
2 18 (8.96%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.97%) Onboarding
4 12 (5.97%) Management Information System
5 11 (5.47%) Social Media
6 10 (4.98%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.98%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.49%) Clustering
9 5 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.99%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.99%) Replication
10 4 (1.99%) Robotics
11 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 79 (39.30%) Windows
2 37 (18.41%) Windows Server
3 23 (11.44%) Linux
3 23 (11.44%) Windows 10
4 18 (8.96%) Apple iOS
5 14 (6.97%) Android
6 9 (4.48%) Unix
7 4 (1.99%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.00%) AIX
8 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 54 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (20.90%) Incident Response
4 36 (17.91%) ITIL
5 35 (17.41%) Agile
5 35 (17.41%) SIEM
6 33 (16.42%) CI/CD
7 30 (14.93%) Root Cause Analysis
8 29 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (13.93%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 22 (10.95%) AI
11 22 (10.95%) DevOps
11 22 (10.95%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (9.95%) Change Management
12 20 (9.95%) Incident Management
12 20 (9.95%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (9.45%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (9.45%) Observability
14 18 (8.96%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 46 (22.89%) Python
2 34 (16.92%) PowerShell
3 17 (8.46%) SQL
4 16 (7.96%) Bash
5 14 (6.97%) Java
6 7 (3.48%) Go
7 6 (2.99%) Apex Code
7 6 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.99%) Ruby
8 4 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.99%) Search Processing Language
8 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.49%) C
9 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.49%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.00%) C#
10 2 (1.00%) PHP
10 2 (1.00%) SOQL
10 2 (1.00%) SOSL
11 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (27.36%) Degree
2 25 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.45%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (7.96%) CCNA
5 14 (6.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (6.47%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.48%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.48%) CISSP
10 6 (2.99%) CCNP
11 5 (2.49%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
13 3 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.49%) CCSP
13 3 (1.49%) CISA
13 3 (1.49%) CRISC
13 3 (1.49%) OSCP
13 3 (1.49%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (10.95%) SLA
3 16 (7.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (5.97%) QA
5 11 (5.47%) NIST
6 5 (2.49%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.49%) GDPR
7 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.49%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (22.39%) Active Directory
2 20 (9.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.47%) Docker
4 5 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.49%) vSphere
7 2 (1.00%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.50%) Firmware
8 1 (0.50%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.50%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 25 (12.44%) Terraform
2 21 (10.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (8.96%) Ansible
4 10 (4.98%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.98%) Grafana
6 7 (3.48%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.49%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.49%) Istio
8 3 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.49%) linkerd
8 3 (1.49%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.49%) Puppet
9 2 (1.00%) WSUS
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.50%) Podman
10 1 (0.50%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.50%) QRadar
10 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 90 (44.78%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.44%) Cisco
2 23 (11.44%) VMware
3 14 (6.97%) Dell
4 13 (6.47%) Splunk
5 12 (5.97%) Logitech
5 12 (5.97%) Sophos
5 12 (5.97%) TOWER Software
6 11 (5.47%) Juniper
6 11 (5.47%) McAfee
7 8 (3.98%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.98%) Tanium
8 7 (3.48%) Zscaler
9 6 (2.99%) Apple
9 6 (2.99%) Oracle
9 6 (2.99%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.49%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.49%) Google
10 5 (2.49%) Meraki
10 5 (2.49%) SolarWinds