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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 482 522
Rank change year-on-year -107 +40 +12
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 205 216 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.49% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 133 112 240
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,950 £28,745
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,584 £37,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +18.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £58,813
90th Percentile £85,750 £82,375 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,147 £43,742
% change year-on-year +5.21% +3.21% -1.78%

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 76,965 44,351 67,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 89.45% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53,101 25,205 44,372
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -96 186 £50,000 -6.71% 103
UK excluding London -97 150 £47,500 +5.21% 69
Work from Home -22 62 £52,500 +7.69% 41
London -50 45 £58,250 -12.08% 39
Midlands -32 43 £50,000 -6.87% 10
South East -42 38 £42,000 -1.18% 24
North of England -36 33 £50,000 +5.26% 19
North West +12 24 £50,000 +21.21% 9
West Midlands -41 22 £50,000 -6.87% 8
East Midlands +2 21 - - 2
East of England -16 18 £55,000 +107.55% 8
Wales -52 9 £36,961 -2.97% 2
South West -85 7 £59,749 +13.81% 5
Yorkshire -39 6 £40,000 -36.00% 7
Scotland +26 4 - - 3
North East -51 3 - - 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 26 (12.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (12.68%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.95%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) Apache
4 2 (0.98%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (9.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 65 (31.71%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (26.34%) Azure
3 31 (15.12%) AWS
3 31 (15.12%) Entra ID
4 18 (8.78%) Mimecast
5 15 (7.32%) OneDrive
6 14 (6.83%) GCP
7 11 (5.37%) GitHub
7 11 (5.37%) SaaS
8 6 (2.93%) Cloud Functions
8 6 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.93%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.44%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.95%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.46%) dbt
11 3 (1.46%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (1.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.46%) IaaS
11 3 (1.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 68 (33.17%) Firewall
2 50 (24.39%) LAN
3 41 (20.00%) WAN
4 25 (12.20%) DNS
5 23 (11.22%) DHCP
6 22 (10.73%) TCP/IP
7 19 (9.27%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (8.29%) Network Security
8 17 (8.29%) Wireless
9 16 (7.80%) VPN
10 10 (4.88%) VLAN
11 6 (2.93%) Broadband
11 6 (2.93%) VoIP
12 3 (1.46%) PBX
12 3 (1.46%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.98%) SAN
14 1 (0.49%) Asterisk PBX
14 1 (0.49%) BGP
14 1 (0.49%) MPLS
14 1 (0.49%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.80%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.41%) MySQL
3 4 (1.95%) Power BI
4 3 (1.46%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.46%) Metadata
4 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.49%) Adabas
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.49%) Big Data
6 1 (0.49%) DTS
6 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.37%) Git
2 8 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.93%) GitLab
4 4 (1.95%) JIRA
5 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
General
1 65 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.17%) Finance
3 20 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.29%) Advertising
4 17 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.83%) Marketing
5 14 (6.83%) Telecoms
6 12 (5.85%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.37%) Legal
8 9 (4.39%) Banking
9 6 (2.93%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.93%) Automotive
10 5 (2.44%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.46%) Law
11 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.46%) Retail
12 2 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.98%) Digital Economy
12 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (19.02%) Senior
2 31 (15.12%) IT Engineer
2 31 (15.12%) Support Engineer
3 28 (13.66%) IT Support
4 24 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (11.22%) Analyst
6 16 (7.80%) IT Support Engineer
7 15 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.83%) Security Analyst
9 13 (6.34%) Field Engineer
9 13 (6.34%) Field Service Engineer
10 12 (5.85%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (5.37%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.37%) Technical Engineer
11 11 (5.37%) Technical Support
11 11 (5.37%) Technical Support Engineer
12 10 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (4.88%) Network Engineer
12 10 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.90%) .NET
2 6 (2.93%) React
3 5 (2.44%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (2.44%) Visualforce
4 3 (1.46%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.46%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.46%) HTML
5 2 (0.98%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.98%) CSS
5 2 (0.98%) Middleware
5 2 (0.98%) Node.js
5 2 (0.98%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (0.98%) REST
5 2 (0.98%) RESTful
5 2 (0.98%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (0.98%) Spring
5 2 (0.98%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.49%) CSS3
6 1 (0.49%) Kafka
6 1 (0.49%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.73%) Security Posture
2 17 (8.29%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.80%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.85%) Social Media
5 11 (5.37%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.39%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.41%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.41%) Clustering
8 6 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.44%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.95%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.95%) Replication
11 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.46%) Culture of Ownership
11 3 (1.46%) Robotics
11 3 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 81 (39.51%) Windows
2 41 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 24 (11.71%) Linux
3 24 (11.71%) Windows 10
4 19 (9.27%) Apple iOS
5 15 (7.32%) Android
6 9 (4.39%) Unix
7 4 (1.95%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.98%) AIX
8 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 58 (28.29%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (21.46%) Incident Response
4 40 (19.51%) ITIL
5 35 (17.07%) Agile
6 34 (16.59%) CI/CD
6 34 (16.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (16.10%) SIEM
8 29 (14.15%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (14.15%) Root Cause Analysis
9 28 (13.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (11.71%) Incident Management
11 23 (11.22%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (10.73%) AI
12 22 (10.73%) Change Management
12 22 (10.73%) Collaborative Working
12 22 (10.73%) DevOps
13 21 (10.24%) Customer Service
14 20 (9.76%) High Availability
14 20 (9.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.90%) Python
2 34 (16.59%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.78%) SQL
4 17 (8.29%) Bash
5 14 (6.83%) Java
6 8 (3.90%) Go
7 6 (2.93%) Ruby
8 5 (2.44%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.44%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.44%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.46%) C
9 3 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.98%) C#
10 2 (0.98%) PHP
10 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.49%) Natural
11 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (25.85%) Degree
2 26 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.80%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.83%) CCNA
4 14 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.34%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.37%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (2.93%) CISSP
8 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.44%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.44%) CCNP
10 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.46%) CISA
10 3 (1.46%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (1.46%) CRISC
10 3 (1.46%) MCSA
10 3 (1.46%) SSCP
11 2 (0.98%) CISM
11 2 (0.98%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (11.71%) SLA
3 15 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (6.34%) QA
5 10 (4.88%) NIST
6 7 (3.41%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.44%) GDPR
8 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (21.46%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.34%) Docker
4 5 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.98%) vSphere
7 1 (0.49%) Firmware
7 1 (0.49%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.49%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (13.17%) Terraform
2 23 (11.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (9.27%) Ansible
4 11 (5.37%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.90%) Grafana
6 7 (3.41%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.46%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.46%) Istio
7 3 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.46%) linkerd
7 3 (1.46%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.46%) Puppet
8 2 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.49%) Argo
9 1 (0.49%) Autotask
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.49%) Podman
9 1 (0.49%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 90 (43.90%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.22%) Cisco
2 23 (11.22%) VMware
3 14 (6.83%) Splunk
4 13 (6.34%) Dell
4 13 (6.34%) Logitech
4 13 (6.34%) Sophos
4 13 (6.34%) TOWER Software
5 10 (4.88%) Juniper
5 10 (4.88%) McAfee
6 9 (4.39%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.90%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.90%) Tanium
8 7 (3.41%) Oracle
9 6 (2.93%) Apple
9 6 (2.93%) Google
10 5 (2.44%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.95%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.95%) HP
11 4 (1.95%) SolarWinds