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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 479 547
Rank change year-on-year -88 +68 +36
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 183 199 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.46% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 116 103 307
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,034 £27,500
25th Percentile £43,438 £42,500 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +18.06% -0.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £91,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -

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 71,140 43,093 86,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 91.19% 82.11%
Number of salaries quoted 49,140 23,729 61,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - -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 3 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 3 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 -71 169 £52,500 -2.21% 69
UK excluding London -76 131 £50,000 +5.26% 53
Work from Home 0 48 £55,000 +10.00% 36
Midlands -14 45 £50,000 +10.75% 8
London -31 41 £70,000 +7.69% 27
South East -29 32 £39,750 -6.47% 16
West Midlands -27 28 £50,000 +1.18% 2
North of England -44 24 £50,000 - 9
East of England +2 19 £55,000 +15.79% 2
East Midlands -1 17 - - 6
North West -6 14 £50,000 +2.56% 7
Yorkshire -45 9 £40,000 -36.00% 1
South West -81 5 £54,749 +15.26% 9
Scotland +15 4 - - 3
Wales -45 4 £36,961 -2.97% 1
North East -48 1 - - 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 22 (12.02%) SharePoint
2 19 (10.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.73%) IIS
5 2 (1.09%) Apache
5 2 (1.09%) Confluence
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.55%) CMS
6 1 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.64%) SPSS
3 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (30.60%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (27.87%) Azure
3 29 (15.85%) AWS
4 25 (13.66%) Entra ID
5 15 (8.20%) Mimecast
6 11 (6.01%) OneDrive
7 10 (5.46%) SaaS
8 8 (4.37%) GitHub
9 6 (3.28%) GCP
9 6 (3.28%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (2.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (2.19%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.64%) IaaS
11 3 (1.64%) PaaS
11 3 (1.64%) Serverless
12 2 (1.09%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (32.24%) Firewall
2 49 (26.78%) LAN
3 44 (24.04%) WAN
4 20 (10.93%) DNS
5 19 (10.38%) DHCP
6 18 (9.84%) VPN
7 17 (9.29%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (8.20%) Wireless
9 14 (7.65%) Network Security
10 12 (6.56%) TCP/IP
11 9 (4.92%) VoIP
12 8 (4.37%) SD-WAN
12 8 (4.37%) VLAN
13 6 (3.28%) BGP
13 6 (3.28%) MPLS
14 5 (2.73%) Broadband
15 4 (2.19%) Asterisk PBX
15 4 (2.19%) Software-Defined Networking
15 4 (2.19%) VPLS
16 3 (1.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.73%) MySQL
2 5 (2.73%) Power BI
3 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.09%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.55%) Adabas
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.55%) Big Data
5 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.55%) Metadata
5 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.55%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (6.01%) Git
2 9 (4.92%) GitLab
3 7 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.64%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.64%) JIRA
5 2 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 54 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.57%) Finance
3 18 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.10%) Advertising
5 12 (6.56%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (6.01%) Marketing
7 9 (4.92%) Legal
8 8 (4.37%) Aerospace
8 8 (4.37%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.83%) Banking
10 6 (3.28%) Automotive
11 5 (2.73%) Law
12 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.09%) Retail
13 2 (1.09%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.55%) Games
14 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (19.13%) Support Engineer
2 31 (16.94%) Senior
3 30 (16.39%) IT Support
4 29 (15.85%) IT Engineer
5 22 (12.02%) Analyst
6 19 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (9.29%) IT Support Engineer
8 14 (7.65%) Technical Support
9 13 (7.10%) Technical Engineer
9 13 (7.10%) Technical Support Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (6.01%) Security Analyst
12 10 (5.46%) Data Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Field Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Field Service Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.92%) Support Analyst
14 8 (4.37%) IT Analyst
14 8 (4.37%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.37%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.37%) Visualforce
2 7 (3.83%) REST
3 6 (3.28%) .NET
4 5 (2.73%) CSS
4 5 (2.73%) HTML
5 4 (2.19%) Middleware
5 4 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.19%) SOAP
6 3 (1.64%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.64%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.09%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.09%) Node.js
7 2 (1.09%) React
7 2 (1.09%) RESTCONF
8 1 (0.55%) HTML5
8 1 (0.55%) PySpark
8 1 (0.55%) Serverless Framework
8 1 (0.55%) Spring
8 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.48%) Data Centre
2 18 (9.84%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.65%) Onboarding
4 11 (6.01%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.01%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.37%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.83%) Social Media
7 5 (2.73%) Clustering
7 5 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.73%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.73%) Robotics
8 4 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.19%) PKI
8 4 (2.19%) Replication
8 4 (2.19%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.64%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (41.53%) Windows
2 31 (16.94%) Windows Server
3 21 (11.48%) Windows 10
4 17 (9.29%) Linux
5 16 (8.74%) Apple iOS
6 12 (6.56%) Android
7 5 (2.73%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.19%) Unix
9 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.55%) AIX
10 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.55%) Solaris
10 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (37.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 50 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (18.58%) SIEM
4 33 (18.03%) ITIL
5 31 (16.94%) Incident Response
6 26 (14.21%) Agile
6 26 (14.21%) CI/CD
6 26 (14.21%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (13.66%) Root Cause Analysis
8 23 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (12.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (10.93%) AI
10 20 (10.93%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (9.84%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (9.84%) Customer Service
11 18 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (9.29%) High Availability
12 17 (9.29%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (9.29%) Process Improvement
13 16 (8.74%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.49%) Python
2 31 (16.94%) PowerShell
3 13 (7.10%) SQL
4 11 (6.01%) Bash
5 10 (5.46%) Java
6 8 (4.37%) Apex Code
7 6 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.73%) Ruby
9 4 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.19%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (2.19%) SOQL
9 4 (2.19%) SOSL
10 3 (1.64%) C
10 3 (1.64%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.64%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.09%) Go
11 2 (1.09%) PHP
12 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.55%) Natural
12 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (28.42%) Degree
2 23 (12.57%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (12.57%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.74%) CCNA
4 13 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (6.01%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.92%) CCNP
7 9 (4.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (4.92%) DV Cleared
8 8 (4.37%) CISSP
9 6 (3.28%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.19%) CCIE
10 4 (2.19%) CCSP
10 4 (2.19%) CISM
10 4 (2.19%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (2.19%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.64%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (10.38%) SLA
3 14 (7.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.37%) NIST
4 8 (4.37%) QA
5 5 (2.73%) GDPR
6 4 (2.19%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.64%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (24.59%) Active Directory
2 24 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.56%) Docker
4 5 (2.73%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.73%) vSphere
5 4 (2.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.55%) Firmware
7 1 (0.55%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.55%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (12.02%) Terraform
2 20 (10.93%) Ansible
3 17 (9.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.92%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.73%) Grafana
6 4 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.19%) WSUS
7 3 (1.64%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.09%) Istio
8 2 (1.09%) linkerd
8 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.09%) Puppet
9 1 (0.55%) Autotask
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.55%) Podman
9 1 (0.55%) QRadar
9 1 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 79 (43.17%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.21%) Cisco
3 25 (13.66%) VMware
4 15 (8.20%) Dell
5 12 (6.56%) Juniper
5 12 (6.56%) McAfee
5 12 (6.56%) Splunk
6 10 (5.46%) Logitech
6 10 (5.46%) Sophos
6 10 (5.46%) TOWER Software
7 8 (4.37%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.83%) Meraki
9 6 (3.28%) Apple
9 6 (3.28%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.28%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (2.73%) Oracle
10 5 (2.73%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.73%) Zscaler
11 4 (2.19%) Tanium