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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 502 502
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 +179
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 201 171 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.35% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.38% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 107 100 271
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,225 £27,250
25th Percentile £46,205 £41,188 £37,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £69,390 £61,550 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +3.45% +2.35%

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 54,494 44,927 66,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.19% 92.59% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32,685 22,191 51,489
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,448
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 21 February 2026.

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 21 February 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 +44 177 £57,500 +21.05% 62
UK excluding London +28 128 £50,000 +11.11% 61
Work from Home +32 57 £57,500 +10.58% 25
London +29 56 £62,000 +18.10% 17
North of England -24 36 £49,222 +6.43% 10
Midlands +10 30 £33,000 -34.00% 11
South East -2 28 £49,000 +22.50% 19
North West +2 23 £47,500 -2.56% 8
West Midlands +11 20 £70,000 +3.70% 9
East of England +19 17 £47,500 +7.95% 8
East Midlands -23 10 £33,000 -26.67% 2
Yorkshire -36 9 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Scotland +5 7 £97,500 +85.71% 7
South West -13 5 £53,750 +19.44% 5
North East - 4 £48,445 -
Wales -1 3 £68,500 +44.80% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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 26 (12.94%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.48%) IIS
3 8 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (3.48%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.50%) Appian
6 1 (0.50%) Confluence
6 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.48%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.99%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 77 (38.31%) Azure
2 54 (26.87%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (18.41%) Power Platform
4 34 (16.92%) AWS
5 32 (15.92%) Entra ID
6 13 (6.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (6.47%) SaaS
7 12 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (4.98%) Azure Storage
9 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (4.48%) Power Automate
10 8 (3.98%) OneDrive
11 7 (3.48%) Boomi
11 7 (3.48%) Datadog
11 7 (3.48%) iPaaS
11 7 (3.48%) Workato
12 6 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.99%) GitHub
13 5 (2.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (22.89%) WAN
2 38 (18.91%) Firewall
3 28 (13.93%) LAN
4 21 (10.45%) VPN
5 17 (8.46%) SD-WAN
6 13 (6.47%) DHCP
6 13 (6.47%) DNS
7 10 (4.98%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (4.48%) BGP
8 9 (4.48%) Network Security
8 9 (4.48%) WAAS
8 9 (4.48%) WLAN
9 8 (3.98%) MPLS
10 7 (3.48%) Wireless
11 6 (2.99%) SSL
12 5 (2.49%) OSPF
12 5 (2.49%) SAN
12 5 (2.49%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (2.49%) TCP/IP
12 5 (2.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.93%) Power BI
2 25 (12.44%) SQL Server
3 17 (8.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (7.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.49%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.49%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.49%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.49%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.49%) Redis
7 3 (1.49%) Power Query
8 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.00%) Metadata
8 2 (1.00%) MySQL
8 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (3.48%) Git
2 6 (2.99%) GitLab
3 3 (1.49%) JIRA
4 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.50%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 85 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.89%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (20.90%) Finance
4 23 (11.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.97%) Law
6 12 (5.97%) Marketing
7 9 (4.48%) Legal
8 6 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.49%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.99%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.49%) French Language
11 3 (1.49%) Greek Language
11 3 (1.49%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.49%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.49%) Retail
11 3 (1.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (19.40%) Support Engineer
2 30 (14.93%) Senior
3 28 (13.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (9.45%) IT Support
5 18 (8.96%) Lead
5 18 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (8.46%) IT Engineer
6 17 (8.46%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) Technical Support
8 12 (5.97%) Analyst
8 12 (5.97%) Business Manager
8 12 (5.97%) Insight Manager
8 12 (5.97%) Technical Engineer
8 12 (5.97%) Technical Support Engineer
9 9 (4.48%) Development Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) Architect
10 8 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) Support Analyst
11 7 (3.48%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.97%) REST
2 9 (4.48%) Middleware
2 9 (4.48%) SOAP
3 8 (3.98%) Web Services
4 6 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
4 6 (2.99%) Visualforce
5 5 (2.49%) CSS
5 5 (2.49%) HTML
5 5 (2.49%) JSON
5 5 (2.49%) Kafka
5 5 (2.49%) Memcached
5 5 (2.49%) RESTful
5 5 (2.49%) Spring
5 5 (2.49%) XML
6 4 (1.99%) ADO
6 4 (1.99%) NETCONF
6 4 (1.99%) OAuth
6 4 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.99%) SAML
6 4 (1.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.95%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.96%) CMDB
3 14 (6.97%) Onboarding
4 12 (5.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (4.98%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.98%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.48%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.99%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.99%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.49%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.49%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.49%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.49%) Robotics
9 5 (2.49%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.99%) PKI
11 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 66 (32.84%) Windows
2 27 (13.43%) Windows Server
3 22 (10.95%) Linux
4 11 (5.47%) Android
4 11 (5.47%) Unix
5 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.99%) AIX
6 4 (1.99%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.99%) VMS
7 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (44.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 73 (36.32%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (22.39%) ITIL
4 43 (21.39%) AI
5 42 (20.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 39 (19.40%) Agile
7 33 (16.42%) Analytics
7 33 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 31 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (14.93%) Change Management
10 28 (13.93%) DevOps
11 27 (13.43%) CI/CD
12 26 (12.94%) Process Improvement
13 23 (11.44%) Incident Response
13 23 (11.44%) Service Management
13 23 (11.44%) SIEM
14 22 (10.95%) Migration
14 22 (10.95%) Roadmaps
15 21 (10.45%) Computer Science
15 21 (10.45%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.88%) SQL
2 32 (15.92%) PowerShell
3 27 (13.43%) Python
4 17 (8.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (6.47%) Java
6 11 (5.47%) C#
6 11 (5.47%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.48%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.99%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.99%) Scala
8 6 (2.99%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.49%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.99%) Ruby
10 4 (1.99%) SOQL
10 4 (1.99%) SOSL
10 4 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.49%) Perl
12 2 (1.00%) Bash
12 2 (1.00%) Go
13 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (24.38%) Degree
2 29 (14.43%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.94%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (10.95%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.96%) CCNP
5 16 (7.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.97%) CCIE
7 12 (5.97%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 11 (5.47%) Master's Degree
9 8 (3.98%) CCNA
9 8 (3.98%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.48%) CISSP
11 5 (2.49%) CISA
11 5 (2.49%) CISM
11 5 (2.49%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.99%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.99%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.49%) OSCP
14 2 (1.00%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.44%) SLA
2 16 (7.96%) GDPR
3 14 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (2.99%) SOC 2
6 5 (2.49%) GRC
7 4 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.00%) NIST
9 2 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 36 (17.91%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.97%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (4.98%) Docker
4 10 (4.98%) Firmware
4 10 (4.98%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.98%) vSphere
5 9 (4.48%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.48%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.99%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (14.43%) Terraform
2 28 (13.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (10.45%) Ansible
4 16 (7.96%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.47%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (4.48%) SCCM
7 6 (2.99%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.49%) WSUS
9 4 (1.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.49%) Netcool
11 2 (1.00%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.00%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.00%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.50%) Argo
12 1 (0.50%) Control-M
12 1 (0.50%) Kibana
12 1 (0.50%) Nagios
12 1 (0.50%) Nessus
12 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (34.83%) Microsoft
2 39 (19.40%) Cisco
3 28 (13.93%) VMware
4 19 (9.45%) Dell
5 17 (8.46%) Juniper
6 15 (7.46%) Splunk
7 13 (6.47%) IBM
8 12 (5.97%) McAfee
8 12 (5.97%) Oracle
8 12 (5.97%) SAP
9 10 (4.98%) Fortinet
10 8 (3.98%) New Relic
10 8 (3.98%) Salesforce
10 8 (3.98%) SolarWinds
11 7 (3.48%) Epicor
11 7 (3.48%) Informatica
11 7 (3.48%) SnapLogic
11 7 (3.48%) Software AG
11 7 (3.48%) Talend
11 7 (3.48%) TIBCO