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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 463 521
Rank change year-on-year -104 +58 -29
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 208 222 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.50% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 132 119 228
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £28,923
25th Percentile £39,788 £40,542 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +18.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,688 £67,500 £57,813
90th Percentile £87,375 £82,500 £76,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £44,274
% change year-on-year +5.56% +1.64% -1.10%

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 78,774 44,506 67,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.34% 89.17% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,302 25,213 43,010
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £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 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 19 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 19 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 -99 186 £50,000 -6.54% 137
UK excluding London -103 149 £47,500 +5.56% 80
Work from Home +2 68 £52,500 +12.90% 59
London -34 50 £56,500 -16.30% 66
Midlands -38 40 £50,000 +10.93% 8
South East -40 37 £41,000 -3.53% 26
North of England -38 33 £50,000 +5.26% 15
North West +2 23 £50,000 +21.21% 7
East Midlands 0 22 - - 2
East of England -19 18 £65,000 +145.28% 12
West Midlands -46 18 £50,000 +10.93% 6
Wales -56 10 £36,961 -2.97% 1
South West -84 9 £65,000 +23.81% 11
Yorkshire -40 6 £40,000 -27.27% 4
Scotland -2 4 - - 6
North East -54 4 - - 4

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 (12.98%) Microsoft Exchange
1 27 (12.98%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 2 (0.96%) IIS
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (9.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (31.73%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (25.00%) Azure
3 29 (13.94%) AWS
3 29 (13.94%) Entra ID
4 19 (9.13%) Mimecast
5 16 (7.69%) GCP
6 15 (7.21%) OneDrive
7 13 (6.25%) GitHub
8 10 (4.81%) SaaS
9 8 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.88%) Cloud Functions
10 6 (2.88%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.88%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.92%) dbt
12 4 (1.92%) PaaS
12 4 (1.92%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 68 (32.69%) Firewall
2 47 (22.60%) LAN
3 38 (18.27%) WAN
4 25 (12.02%) DNS
5 23 (11.06%) TCP/IP
6 22 (10.58%) DHCP
7 20 (9.62%) Network Security
8 19 (9.13%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (8.17%) Wireless
10 13 (6.25%) VPN
11 10 (4.81%) VLAN
12 6 (2.88%) Broadband
13 5 (2.40%) VoIP
14 3 (1.44%) PBX
14 3 (1.44%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.96%) SAN
16 1 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
16 1 (0.48%) NGFW
16 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
16 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.37%) MySQL
3 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.92%) Power BI
5 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.44%) Metadata
6 2 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.48%) Adabas
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.48%) Big Data
7 1 (0.48%) DTS
7 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Git
2 9 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.40%) GitLab
3 5 (2.40%) JIRA
4 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
General
1 63 (30.29%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.87%) Finance
3 21 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.17%) Advertising
6 14 (6.73%) Telecoms
7 13 (6.25%) Marketing
7 13 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 12 (5.77%) Banking
9 11 (5.29%) Legal
10 8 (3.85%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.88%) Automotive
12 5 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.40%) Welsh Language
13 4 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.92%) Retail
14 3 (1.44%) Law
15 2 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.96%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 40 (19.23%) Senior
2 29 (13.94%) IT Engineer
3 25 (12.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (11.54%) IT Support
4 24 (11.54%) Support Engineer
5 22 (10.58%) Analyst
6 15 (7.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (6.73%) Field Engineer
7 14 (6.73%) Field Service Engineer
7 14 (6.73%) Security Analyst
8 13 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
9 11 (5.29%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.29%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 10 (4.81%) Network Engineer
10 10 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.81%) Senior Security Analyst
11 9 (4.33%) 3rd Line Support
11 9 (4.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.85%) .NET
1 8 (3.85%) React
2 3 (1.44%) .NET Core
2 3 (1.44%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.44%) RESTful
2 3 (1.44%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (1.44%) Spring
2 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.96%) HTML
3 2 (0.96%) Jest
3 2 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (0.96%) Next.js
3 2 (0.96%) Node.js
3 2 (0.96%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (0.96%) Playwright
3 2 (0.96%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.48%) CSS3
4 1 (0.48%) REST
4 1 (0.48%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.06%) Security Posture
2 19 (9.13%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.25%) Social Media
4 10 (4.81%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.85%) Clustering
7 6 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.40%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.92%) Culture of Ownership
9 4 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.92%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.92%) Replication
10 3 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.44%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (35.58%) Windows
2 39 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 25 (12.02%) Linux
3 25 (12.02%) Windows 10
4 18 (8.65%) Apple iOS
5 14 (6.73%) Android
6 9 (4.33%) Unix
7 4 (1.92%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.44%) AIX
9 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.48%) Solaris
10 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 60 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (21.15%) Incident Response
3 44 (21.15%) ITIL
4 39 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (17.79%) Agile
6 33 (15.87%) CI/CD
7 29 (13.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (13.46%) Root Cause Analysis
8 28 (13.46%) SIEM
9 26 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
9 26 (12.50%) Customer Service
9 26 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (12.02%) Disaster Recovery
11 23 (11.06%) DevOps
11 23 (11.06%) High Availability
11 23 (11.06%) Incident Management
11 23 (11.06%) Project Delivery
12 21 (10.10%) Observability
12 21 (10.10%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.56%) Python
2 34 (16.35%) PowerShell
3 19 (9.13%) SQL
4 18 (8.65%) Bash
5 14 (6.73%) Java
6 9 (4.33%) Go
7 7 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.88%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (2.40%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.40%) Ruby
10 3 (1.44%) C
10 3 (1.44%) C#
10 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.96%) PHP
12 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.48%) Natural
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (23.56%) Degree
2 26 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.21%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.25%) CCNA
5 13 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 12 (5.77%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (2.88%) CISSP
9 5 (2.40%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.40%) CCNP
9 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.44%) CISA
11 3 (1.44%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (1.44%) CRISC
11 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.44%) MCSA
11 3 (1.44%) SSCP
12 2 (0.96%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (9.62%) SLA
3 13 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (5.77%) QA
5 10 (4.81%) NIST
6 8 (3.85%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.40%) GDPR
8 4 (1.92%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.96%) WCAG
10 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (20.19%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.25%) Docker
2 13 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.40%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.48%) Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (14.42%) Terraform
2 22 (10.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (9.62%) Ansible
4 14 (6.73%) Kubernetes
5 9 (4.33%) Grafana
6 8 (3.85%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.44%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.44%) Istio
7 3 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.44%) linkerd
7 3 (1.44%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.44%) Puppet
8 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) Autotask
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.48%) Podman
9 1 (0.48%) QRadar
9 1 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 88 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.62%) Cisco
3 18 (8.65%) VMware
4 15 (7.21%) Splunk
5 14 (6.73%) Logitech
5 14 (6.73%) Sophos
5 14 (6.73%) TOWER Software
6 9 (4.33%) Dell
6 9 (4.33%) Oracle
6 9 (4.33%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.85%) Tanium
8 6 (2.88%) Apple
8 6 (2.88%) Google
8 6 (2.88%) Juniper
8 6 (2.88%) McAfee
9 5 (2.40%) Meraki
9 5 (2.40%) YouTube
10 4 (1.92%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.92%) CrowdStrike