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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 461 513
Rank change year-on-year -141 +52 -38
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 205 215 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.49% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 126 119 185
10th Percentile £32,625 £32,500 £30,800
25th Percentile £40,313 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +18.06% -4.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +1.05%

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -121 184 £51,411 -4.24% 254
UK excluding London -110 149 £50,000 +17.65% 154
Work from Home -14 70 £52,500 +2.44% 113
London -47 48 £56,500 -16.30% 108
Midlands -45 37 £50,000 +11.11% 35
South East -54 33 £42,000 -1.18% 29
North of England -55 33 £50,000 +5.26% 48
North West -5 23 £50,000 +5.26% 35
East of England -13 22 £80,000 +201.89% 11
East Midlands -10 21 - - 10
West Midlands -53 16 £50,000 +11.11% 25
South West -96 12 £57,500 +9.52% 16
Wales -70 10 £36,961 -2.97% 5
Yorkshire -60 6 £40,000 -27.27% 10
Scotland +5 4 - - 5
North East -59 4 - - 3

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 (13.17%) SharePoint
2 26 (12.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.98%) IIS
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.46%) SPSS
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.68%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (22.44%) Azure
3 28 (13.66%) AWS
4 26 (12.68%) Entra ID
5 22 (10.73%) Mimecast
6 18 (8.78%) GCP
7 15 (7.32%) OneDrive
8 10 (4.88%) GitHub
9 8 (3.90%) SaaS
10 6 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.93%) Cloud Functions
10 6 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.44%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.44%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.95%) dbt
12 4 (1.95%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.46%) ChatGPT
13 3 (1.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 68 (33.17%) Firewall
2 44 (21.46%) LAN
3 39 (19.02%) WAN
4 27 (13.17%) DNS
5 24 (11.71%) DHCP
6 22 (10.73%) TCP/IP
7 19 (9.27%) Network Security
8 18 (8.78%) Wireless
9 16 (7.80%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (6.83%) VPN
11 11 (5.37%) VLAN
12 6 (2.93%) Broadband
13 5 (2.44%) VoIP
14 3 (1.46%) PBX
14 3 (1.46%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.98%) SAN
15 2 (0.98%) Wireless Security
16 1 (0.49%) Fibre Channel
16 1 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
16 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.34%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.41%) MySQL
4 4 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.46%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.46%) Metadata
5 3 (1.46%) Power BI
6 2 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.49%) Adabas
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.49%) DTS
7 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (4.39%) Git
1 9 (4.39%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.95%) GitLab
3 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.46%) JIRA
4 2 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.98%) Maven
4 2 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.05%) Finance
3 23 (11.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.80%) Advertising
6 14 (6.83%) Telecoms
7 13 (6.34%) Marketing
7 13 (6.34%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.37%) Banking
9 10 (4.88%) Legal
10 9 (4.39%) Aerospace
10 9 (4.39%) Retail
11 7 (3.41%) Automotive
11 7 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.93%) Law
12 6 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.44%) Welsh Language
14 4 (1.95%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.98%) Digital Economy
15 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 46 (22.44%) Senior
2 30 (14.63%) IT Engineer
3 25 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (10.73%) Analyst
5 21 (10.24%) IT Support
6 19 (9.27%) Support Engineer
7 18 (8.78%) Field Engineer
7 18 (8.78%) Field Service Engineer
8 15 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (6.34%) Security Analyst
10 12 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
11 10 (4.88%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (4.88%) Software Engineer
12 9 (4.39%) 3rd Line Support
12 9 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.39%) Senior Security Analyst
12 9 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.63%) Terraform
2 8 (3.90%) React
3 7 (3.41%) .NET
4 5 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.46%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.46%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.46%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.46%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (1.46%) Spring
5 3 (1.46%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.98%) HTML
6 2 (0.98%) Jest
6 2 (0.98%) Next.js
6 2 (0.98%) Node.js
6 2 (0.98%) Playwright
6 2 (0.98%) RESTful
7 1 (0.49%) Ajax
7 1 (0.49%) CSS
7 1 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.22%) Security Posture
2 16 (7.80%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.85%) Social Media
4 11 (5.37%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.88%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.39%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.39%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.41%) Clustering
8 6 (2.93%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.93%) Replication
9 5 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.95%) Blog
10 4 (1.95%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.46%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 71 (34.63%) Windows
2 42 (20.49%) Windows Server
3 25 (12.20%) Windows 10
4 24 (11.71%) Linux
5 20 (9.76%) Apple iOS
6 17 (8.29%) Android
7 9 (4.39%) Unix
8 4 (1.95%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.46%) AIX
10 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.49%) Solaris
11 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (30.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 60 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (22.93%) ITIL
4 45 (21.95%) Incident Response
5 39 (19.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (16.10%) Agile
7 30 (14.63%) CI/CD
8 29 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (13.66%) Disaster Recovery
10 27 (13.17%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (13.17%) Root Cause Analysis
11 26 (12.68%) Customer Service
12 25 (12.20%) High Availability
12 25 (12.20%) SIEM
13 24 (11.71%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (11.22%) Observability
15 22 (10.73%) Incident Management
15 22 (10.73%) Project Delivery
16 21 (10.24%) DevOps
16 21 (10.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 44 (21.46%) Python
2 36 (17.56%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.78%) SQL
4 17 (8.29%) Bash
5 16 (7.80%) Java
6 9 (4.39%) Go
7 7 (3.41%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.93%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.93%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (2.44%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.95%) Ruby
11 3 (1.46%) C
11 3 (1.46%) C#
11 3 (1.46%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.98%) PHP
13 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.49%) Natural
13 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.49%) Scala
13 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (20.00%) Degree
2 29 (14.15%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.80%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.83%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.34%) CCNA
6 12 (5.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.85%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.44%) CCNP
9 4 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.46%) CISSP
10 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.46%) MCSA
10 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.46%) SSCP
11 2 (0.98%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (7.80%) SLA
3 12 (5.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.39%) NIST
5 8 (3.90%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.90%) QA
6 5 (2.44%) GDPR
7 4 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.98%) WCAG
9 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (17.56%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.37%) Docker
2 11 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.44%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.49%) Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.49%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (10.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (9.76%) Ansible
3 17 (8.29%) Kubernetes
4 11 (5.37%) Grafana
4 11 (5.37%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.44%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.46%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.46%) Istio
6 3 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.46%) linkerd
6 3 (1.46%) Puppet
7 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.49%) Argo
8 1 (0.49%) Autotask
8 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.49%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.49%) Podman
8 1 (0.49%) QRadar
8 1 (0.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 89 (43.41%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.78%) Cisco
3 17 (8.29%) Logitech
3 17 (8.29%) Sophos
3 17 (8.29%) TOWER Software
4 16 (7.80%) VMware
5 15 (7.32%) Splunk
6 9 (4.39%) Oracle
6 9 (4.39%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.90%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.90%) Tanium
8 7 (3.41%) Dell
9 6 (2.93%) Google
9 6 (2.93%) RedGate
10 5 (2.44%) Apple
10 5 (2.44%) Meraki
10 5 (2.44%) YouTube
11 4 (1.95%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.95%) Juniper
11 4 (1.95%) McAfee