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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 483 535
Rank change year-on-year -99 +52 -12
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 202 217 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.49% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 135 113 239
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,400 £28,745
25th Percentile £42,250 £40,584 £37,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +18.89% -4.73%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £82,500 £78,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,824 £43,742
% change year-on-year +3.66% +4.76% -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 76,352 44,509 67,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.49% 81.05%
Number of salaries quoted 52,648 25,381 44,449
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,210
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 3 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 3 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 -83 183 £50,000 -6.71% 100
UK excluding London -104 150 £47,500 +3.66% 71
Work from Home -1 61 £51,250 +2.50% 47
Midlands -24 42 £50,000 -6.87% 10
London -45 42 £58,250 -12.08% 35
South East -22 38 £42,000 -1.18% 24
North of England -37 33 £50,000 +2.56% 17
North West +14 24 £50,000 +5.26% 9
West Midlands -44 22 £50,000 -6.87% 7
East Midlands -3 20 - - 3
East of England -15 18 £55,000 +107.55% 10
Wales -57 9 £36,961 -2.97% 1
South West -92 8 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Yorkshire -51 6 £40,000 -36.00% 6
Scotland +9 4 - - 2
North East -53 3 - - 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 25 (12.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 25 (12.38%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.98%) IIS
4 2 (0.99%) Apache
4 2 (0.99%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (8.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.49%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.68%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (26.73%) Azure
3 32 (15.84%) AWS
4 31 (15.35%) Entra ID
5 17 (8.42%) Mimecast
6 14 (6.93%) GCP
6 14 (6.93%) OneDrive
7 11 (5.45%) GitHub
7 11 (5.45%) SaaS
8 7 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.47%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.48%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.98%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.98%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.49%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.49%) Serverless
11 3 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 67 (33.17%) Firewall
2 48 (23.76%) LAN
3 39 (19.31%) WAN
4 24 (11.88%) DNS
5 22 (10.89%) DHCP
6 21 (10.40%) TCP/IP
7 18 (8.91%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (8.42%) Network Security
8 17 (8.42%) Wireless
9 16 (7.92%) VPN
10 10 (4.95%) VLAN
11 6 (2.97%) Broadband
11 6 (2.97%) VoIP
12 3 (1.49%) PBX
12 3 (1.49%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.99%) SAN
14 1 (0.50%) Asterisk PBX
14 1 (0.50%) BGP
14 1 (0.50%) MPLS
14 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.92%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.96%) MySQL
3 5 (2.48%) Power BI
4 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.99%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.99%) Metadata
5 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.50%) Adabas
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) DTS
6 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.45%) Git
2 9 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.47%) GitLab
4 4 (1.98%) JIRA
5 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 64 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.38%) Finance
3 21 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.42%) Advertising
4 17 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.44%) Marketing
5 13 (6.44%) Telecoms
6 12 (5.94%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.45%) Legal
8 7 (3.47%) Banking
9 6 (2.97%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.97%) Automotive
10 5 (2.48%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.49%) Law
11 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.49%) Retail
12 2 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.99%) Digital Economy
12 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (18.81%) Senior
2 32 (15.84%) Support Engineer
3 30 (14.85%) IT Engineer
4 28 (13.86%) IT Support
5 24 (11.88%) Analyst
6 23 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (7.92%) IT Support Engineer
8 15 (7.43%) Security Analyst
9 14 (6.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (6.44%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (5.94%) Field Engineer
11 12 (5.94%) Field Service Engineer
12 11 (5.45%) Data Engineer
12 11 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (5.45%) Senior Security Analyst
12 11 (5.45%) Technical Engineer
12 11 (5.45%) Technical Support
12 11 (5.45%) Technical Support Engineer
13 10 (4.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 10 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.96%) .NET
2 6 (2.97%) React
3 5 (2.48%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (2.48%) Visualforce
4 3 (1.49%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.49%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.49%) HTML
5 2 (0.99%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.99%) CSS
5 2 (0.99%) Middleware
5 2 (0.99%) Node.js
5 2 (0.99%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (0.99%) REST
5 2 (0.99%) RESTful
5 2 (0.99%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (0.99%) Spring
5 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.50%) Jest
6 1 (0.50%) Next.js
6 1 (0.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.39%) Security Posture
2 16 (7.92%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.92%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.94%) Social Media
4 11 (5.45%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.47%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.47%) Clustering
7 6 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.48%) Replication
9 4 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.98%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.49%) Culture of Ownership
10 3 (1.49%) Robotics
10 3 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.99%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 80 (39.60%) Windows
2 40 (19.80%) Windows Server
3 25 (12.38%) Linux
4 23 (11.39%) Windows 10
5 18 (8.91%) Apple iOS
6 14 (6.93%) Android
7 9 (4.46%) Unix
8 4 (1.98%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.99%) AIX
9 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 58 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (21.29%) Incident Response
4 38 (18.81%) ITIL
5 35 (17.33%) Agile
6 34 (16.83%) CI/CD
6 34 (16.83%) SIEM
7 33 (16.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (14.36%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (13.86%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (13.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 23 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (10.89%) DevOps
12 22 (10.89%) Incident Management
13 21 (10.40%) AI
13 21 (10.40%) Change Management
14 20 (9.90%) Collaborative Working
14 20 (9.90%) Customer Service
14 20 (9.90%) High Availability
15 19 (9.41%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.76%) Python
2 34 (16.83%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.91%) Bash
4 17 (8.42%) SQL
5 14 (6.93%) Java
6 8 (3.96%) Go
7 6 (2.97%) Ruby
8 5 (2.48%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.48%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.48%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.48%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (2.48%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.49%) C
9 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.49%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.99%) C#
10 2 (0.99%) PHP
11 1 (0.50%) Natural
11 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 52 (25.74%) Degree
2 26 (12.87%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.42%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.93%) CCNA
4 14 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.44%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.96%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.47%) CISSP
9 6 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.48%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.48%) CCNP
11 4 (1.98%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.49%) CCSP
12 3 (1.49%) CRISC
12 3 (1.49%) MCSA
12 3 (1.49%) OSCP
12 3 (1.49%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (10.89%) SLA
3 16 (7.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (5.94%) QA
5 11 (5.45%) NIST
6 6 (2.97%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.48%) GDPR
8 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.49%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (21.78%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.44%) Docker
4 5 (2.48%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.99%) vSphere
7 1 (0.50%) Firmware
7 1 (0.50%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.50%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (13.37%) Terraform
2 22 (10.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (9.90%) Ansible
4 11 (5.45%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.96%) Grafana
6 7 (3.47%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.49%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.49%) Istio
7 3 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.49%) linkerd
7 3 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.49%) Puppet
8 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.50%) Argo
9 1 (0.50%) Autotask
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.50%) Podman
9 1 (0.50%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 90 (44.55%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.89%) Cisco
2 22 (10.89%) VMware
3 14 (6.93%) Splunk
4 13 (6.44%) Dell
5 12 (5.94%) Logitech
5 12 (5.94%) Sophos
5 12 (5.94%) TOWER Software
6 10 (4.95%) Juniper
6 10 (4.95%) McAfee
7 8 (3.96%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.96%) Tanium
7 8 (3.96%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.47%) Oracle
9 6 (2.97%) Apple
10 5 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (2.48%) Google
10 5 (2.48%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.98%) Meraki
11 4 (1.98%) SolarWinds