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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 512 495
Rank change year-on-year +24 -17 +209
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 210 128 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.30% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.32% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 109 88 309
10th Percentile £37,000 £34,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,160 £40,000 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,075 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,250 £93,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -

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 58,352 39,745 74,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.73% 93.47% 87.16%
Number of salaries quoted 35,337 22,215 56,156
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,029
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +40 188 £57,500 +21.05% 76
UK excluding London +24 135 £50,000 +11.11% 62
London +23 60 £62,000 +6.71% 24
Work from Home +8 53 £58,750 +17.50% 26
Midlands -5 36 £33,000 -45.00% 11
North of England -28 36 £50,000 +5.26% 10
South East -9 31 £48,000 +20.00% 20
North West +3 23 £49,375 +1.28% 7
West Midlands +3 22 £70,000 -1.75% 6
East of England -6 16 £46,160 -2.82% 9
East Midlands -35 14 £33,000 -20.48% 5
Yorkshire -38 9 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Scotland -18 6 £97,500 +2.63% 5
South West -34 5 £53,750 +16.22% 9
North East - 4 £48,445 - 1
Wales - 3 £68,500 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 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 23 (10.95%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.86%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.38%) IIS
5 2 (0.95%) Confluence
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.48%) Appian
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.48%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (35.24%) Azure
2 48 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (17.14%) AWS
4 34 (16.19%) Entra ID
4 34 (16.19%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.14%) SaaS
6 13 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (4.76%) GitHub
9 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (3.81%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.33%) Datadog
10 7 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.86%) Azure Storage
11 6 (2.86%) Boomi
11 6 (2.86%) iPaaS
11 6 (2.86%) Serverless
11 6 (2.86%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 43 (20.48%) WAN
2 38 (18.10%) Firewall
3 33 (15.71%) LAN
4 17 (8.10%) VPN
5 13 (6.19%) SD-WAN
6 12 (5.71%) DHCP
6 12 (5.71%) DNS
7 10 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (4.76%) Network Security
8 9 (4.29%) BGP
8 9 (4.29%) WAAS
9 8 (3.81%) Wireless
9 8 (3.81%) WLAN
10 7 (3.33%) MPLS
11 6 (2.86%) TCP/IP
12 5 (2.38%) OSPF
12 5 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.90%) VLAN
13 4 (1.90%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.90%) Power BI
3 17 (8.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.38%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.38%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.38%) Redis
7 3 (1.43%) Power Query
8 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.95%) Metadata
8 2 (0.95%) MySQL
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.48%) Big Data
9 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (4.29%) Git
2 7 (3.33%) GitLab
3 5 (2.38%) JIRA
4 3 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 91 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (21.90%) Finance
3 23 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.67%) Marketing
5 12 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.24%) Law
7 10 (4.76%) Legal
8 6 (2.86%) Banking
8 6 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.38%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.43%) Advertising
11 3 (1.43%) French Language
11 3 (1.43%) Greek Language
11 3 (1.43%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.43%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.43%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (20.95%) Support Engineer
2 29 (13.81%) Senior
3 22 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (10.00%) IT Support
5 20 (9.52%) Lead
6 19 (9.05%) IT Engineer
6 19 (9.05%) IT Support Engineer
6 19 (9.05%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (8.10%) Technical Support
8 15 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
8 15 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
9 13 (6.19%) Analyst
10 12 (5.71%) Business Manager
10 12 (5.71%) Insight Manager
11 9 (4.29%) Development Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Architect
12 8 (3.81%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Network Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.67%) REST
2 9 (4.29%) SOAP
3 8 (3.81%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (3.81%) Visualforce
4 6 (2.86%) Middleware
4 6 (2.86%) RESTful
5 5 (2.38%) .NET
5 5 (2.38%) CSS
5 5 (2.38%) HTML
5 5 (2.38%) JSON
5 5 (2.38%) Kafka
5 5 (2.38%) Memcached
5 5 (2.38%) Spring
5 5 (2.38%) Web Services
5 5 (2.38%) XML
6 4 (1.90%) ADO
6 4 (1.90%) NETCONF
6 4 (1.90%) OAuth
6 4 (1.90%) SAML
6 4 (1.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (5.71%) CMDB
4 11 (5.24%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.24%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.33%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.86%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.38%) Robotics
8 5 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.90%) PKI
9 4 (1.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (34.29%) Windows
2 24 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 23 (10.95%) Linux
4 11 (5.24%) Android
5 8 (3.81%) Unix
6 5 (2.38%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.90%) VMS
7 4 (1.90%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.48%) AIX
9 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (44.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 75 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (22.38%) Agile
4 44 (20.95%) AI
5 41 (19.52%) ITIL
6 40 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 35 (16.67%) Analytics
8 31 (14.76%) CI/CD
8 31 (14.76%) DevOps
9 28 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 26 (12.38%) SIEM
12 25 (11.90%) Process Improvement
13 24 (11.43%) Change Management
13 24 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
14 23 (10.95%) Computer Science
14 23 (10.95%) Decision-Making
14 23 (10.95%) Incident Response
14 23 (10.95%) Observability
15 22 (10.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 41 (19.52%) SQL
2 34 (16.19%) Python
3 23 (10.95%) PowerShell
4 18 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (7.14%) Java
6 11 (5.24%) C#
6 11 (5.24%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.29%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (3.81%) Apex Code
9 7 (3.33%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.86%) Ruby
10 6 (2.86%) Scala
11 5 (2.38%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.90%) Bash
12 4 (1.90%) SOQL
12 4 (1.90%) SOSL
13 3 (1.43%) Perl
13 3 (1.43%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.95%) Go
15 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (28.10%) Degree
2 26 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (9.05%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (7.14%) CCNP
7 14 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (5.71%) CCIE
8 12 (5.71%) Master's Degree
8 12 (5.71%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 10 (4.76%) CISSP
10 8 (3.81%) DV Cleared
11 7 (3.33%) CCNA
11 7 (3.33%) CISA
12 5 (2.38%) CISM
12 5 (2.38%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.90%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.90%) OSCP
14 3 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.33%) SLA
2 18 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.67%) GDPR
4 12 (5.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (3.81%) QA
6 7 (3.33%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.38%) GRC
8 3 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.43%) NIST
9 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 30 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.67%) Docker
4 12 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (4.76%) Firmware
5 10 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (4.76%) vSphere
6 5 (2.38%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.90%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (13.81%) Terraform
2 25 (11.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (10.48%) Ansible
4 16 (7.62%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.24%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (4.29%) SCCM
7 6 (2.86%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.38%) WSUS
9 4 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.95%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.95%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.95%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.48%) Argo
11 1 (0.48%) Control-M
11 1 (0.48%) Grafana
11 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.48%) Kibana
11 1 (0.48%) Nagios
11 1 (0.48%) Nessus
11 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (33.81%) Microsoft
2 41 (19.52%) Cisco
3 30 (14.29%) VMware
4 21 (10.00%) Dell
5 20 (9.52%) Juniper
6 15 (7.14%) McAfee
6 15 (7.14%) Splunk
7 11 (5.24%) SAP
8 10 (4.76%) Salesforce
9 9 (4.29%) Fortinet
9 9 (4.29%) IBM
10 8 (3.81%) New Relic
10 8 (3.81%) Oracle
11 7 (3.33%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.86%) IFS
12 6 (2.86%) Jitterbit
12 6 (2.86%) MuleSoft
12 6 (2.86%) SnapLogic
12 6 (2.86%) Talend
12 6 (2.86%) Workday