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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 521 480
Rank change year-on-year +64 -41 +215
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 203 228 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.37% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.42% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 115 143 193
10th Percentile £28,950 £36,000 £27,900
25th Percentile £41,538 £41,250 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +12.90%
75th Percentile £64,375 £55,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £77,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% - +12.50%

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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 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 +64 181 £50,000 +11.11% 164
UK excluding London +91 149 £47,000 +4.44% 158
Work from Home +57 57 £57,500 +21.55% 29
London +35 42 £75,000 +30.43% 19
South East +49 41 £48,000 +6.71% 45
Midlands +36 31 £33,000 -40.00% 26
North of England 0 26 £47,500 +5.04% 34
West Midlands +38 23 £45,000 -37.93% 16
South West +40 22 £57,500 +66.67% 21
East of England +35 18 £46,160 -12.08% 25
North West +31 15 £47,500 - 16
East Midlands +11 8 £33,000 -26.67% 10
Scotland +8 7 £97,500 +85.71% 5
Yorkshire -22 7 £46,500 +3.33% 16
North East +7 4 £48,445 +9.42% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £55,000 - 2
Wales +4 1 - - 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 24 (11.82%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.45%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.45%) IIS
4 2 (0.99%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) Appian
5 1 (0.49%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Shopify
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 79 (38.92%) Azure
2 49 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (16.75%) Power Platform
4 26 (12.81%) AWS
5 20 (9.85%) Entra ID
6 13 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (5.91%) Power Automate
7 12 (5.91%) SaaS
8 11 (5.42%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (4.93%) Azure Storage
10 9 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.45%) Boomi
11 7 (3.45%) Datadog
11 7 (3.45%) iPaaS
11 7 (3.45%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.45%) Workato
12 5 (2.46%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.46%) GitHub
12 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 59 (29.06%) Firewall
2 41 (20.20%) WAN
3 26 (12.81%) LAN
4 23 (11.33%) DNS
5 22 (10.84%) DHCP
5 22 (10.84%) VPN
6 19 (9.36%) Network Security
7 18 (8.87%) LTE
7 18 (8.87%) VSAT
8 17 (8.37%) Wireless
9 13 (6.40%) SD-WAN
10 11 (5.42%) TCP/IP
11 10 (4.93%) SAN
11 10 (4.93%) VLAN
11 10 (4.93%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (4.43%) SSL
13 8 (3.94%) 802.11
13 8 (3.94%) WLAN
14 6 (2.96%) NAS
15 4 (1.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.29%) Power BI
2 22 (10.84%) SQL Server
3 17 (8.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (7.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.96%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.48%) Couchbase
7 3 (1.48%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.48%) Power Query
7 3 (1.48%) Redis
8 2 (0.99%) Metadata
8 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (2.96%) JIRA
2 3 (1.48%) Git
3 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.49%) GitLab
3 1 (0.49%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 97 (47.78%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.15%) Finance
3 42 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.91%) Legal
7 11 (5.42%) Law
7 11 (5.42%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.93%) Aerospace
9 9 (4.43%) Electronics
10 8 (3.94%) Automotive
10 8 (3.94%) Billing
10 8 (3.94%) Marketing
11 7 (3.45%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.96%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.97%) Back Office
13 4 (1.97%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.48%) French Language
14 3 (1.48%) Greek Language
14 3 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (27.09%) Support Engineer
2 38 (18.72%) Technical Support
3 37 (18.23%) Technical Engineer
3 37 (18.23%) Technical Support Engineer
4 29 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (10.34%) Senior
6 13 (6.40%) Lead
7 12 (5.91%) Business Manager
7 12 (5.91%) Insight Manager
8 11 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.93%) IT Engineer
10 9 (4.43%) Analyst
11 8 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.94%) IT Support
11 8 (3.94%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (3.94%) Network Engineer
12 7 (3.45%) Development Engineer
12 7 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
13 6 (2.96%) Operations Engineer
13 6 (2.96%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.93%) REST
1 10 (4.93%) Web Services
2 8 (3.94%) 802.1X
3 6 (2.96%) SAML
3 6 (2.96%) SOAP
4 5 (2.46%) JSON
4 5 (2.46%) Middleware
4 5 (2.46%) RESTful
4 5 (2.46%) XML
5 4 (1.97%) ADO
5 4 (1.97%) Kafka
5 4 (1.97%) ModSecurity
5 4 (1.97%) OAuth
5 4 (1.97%) YAML
6 3 (1.48%) .NET
6 3 (1.48%) Memcached
6 3 (1.48%) Spring
7 2 (0.99%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.99%) CSS
7 2 (0.99%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.32%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.93%) Driving Licence
4 9 (4.43%) CMDB
4 9 (4.43%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.94%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (3.45%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.96%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.97%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.97%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.48%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.48%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 57 (28.08%) Windows
2 27 (13.30%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.88%) Linux
4 11 (5.42%) Unix
5 4 (1.97%) AIX
5 4 (1.97%) VMS
5 4 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.48%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.99%) Android
7 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.49%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (41.87%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (35.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 39 (19.21%) Customer Service
4 36 (17.73%) Agile
5 35 (17.24%) ITIL
6 32 (15.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 31 (15.27%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (14.78%) Change Management
9 28 (13.79%) Analytics
10 27 (13.30%) AI
11 26 (12.81%) High Availability
12 25 (12.32%) Disaster Recovery
12 25 (12.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (11.82%) Incident Response
14 23 (11.33%) Business Continuity
14 23 (11.33%) Process Improvement
15 22 (10.84%) DevOps
15 22 (10.84%) SIEM
16 21 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 53 (26.11%) SQL
2 28 (13.79%) PowerShell
3 22 (10.84%) Python
4 17 (8.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (6.90%) C#
6 9 (4.43%) Java
6 9 (4.43%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.43%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.96%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.97%) Bash
8 4 (1.97%) Scala
8 4 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.48%) Go
9 3 (1.48%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.99%) Perl
11 1 (0.49%) Bicep
11 1 (0.49%) Ruby
11 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (16.26%) Cisco Certification
1 33 (16.26%) Degree
2 29 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.82%) CCNA
4 23 (11.33%) SC Cleared
5 18 (8.87%) JNCIA
6 14 (6.90%) CCNP
7 12 (5.91%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.94%) GCSC
10 6 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.46%) CCIE
11 5 (2.46%) CISA
11 5 (2.46%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.97%) CISM
12 4 (1.97%) CISSP
12 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.48%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.99%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.36%) GDPR
2 18 (8.87%) SLA
3 13 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (2.96%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.48%) NIST
7 2 (0.99%) COBIT
7 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (16.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (13.30%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 13 (6.40%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (5.42%) Docker
6 9 (4.43%) vSphere
7 8 (3.94%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (1.48%) Firmware
10 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (11.33%) Terraform
2 16 (7.88%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (5.91%) Ansible
4 7 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (3.45%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.48%) Netcool
6 2 (0.99%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.99%) Grafana
6 2 (0.99%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.99%) Puppet
6 2 (0.99%) SCCM
6 2 (0.99%) Suricata
7 1 (0.49%) Argo
7 1 (0.49%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (0.49%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.49%) Kibana
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.49%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 61 (30.05%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.75%) Cisco
2 34 (16.75%) VMware
3 21 (10.34%) Dell
4 17 (8.37%) Juniper
5 15 (7.39%) Oracle
6 14 (6.90%) McAfee
7 13 (6.40%) IBM
8 12 (5.91%) Freshdesk
8 12 (5.91%) Palo Alto
9 10 (4.93%) SAP
9 10 (4.93%) ServiceNow
9 10 (4.93%) SolarWinds
10 7 (3.45%) Epicor
10 7 (3.45%) Infor
10 7 (3.45%) Informatica
10 7 (3.45%) MuleSoft
10 7 (3.45%) SnapLogic
10 7 (3.45%) Software AG
10 7 (3.45%) TIBCO