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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 477 519
Rank change year-on-year -100 +42 -4
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 209 223 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.50% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 132 119 230
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £28,745
25th Percentile £39,788 £40,542 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,688 £67,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £87,375 £81,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £44,274
% change year-on-year +5.56% +1.64% -0.58%

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 78,311 44,508 67,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.25% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53,938 25,218 43,343
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £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 £97,250 £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 15 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 15 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 -95 188 £50,000 -6.54% 166
UK excluding London -105 154 £47,500 +5.56% 97
Work from Home -14 66 £52,500 +11.70% 68
London -50 47 £56,500 -16.30% 85
Midlands -28 43 £50,000 +10.93% 10
South East -34 38 £41,000 -3.53% 31
North of England -39 34 £50,000 +5.26% 19
North West +9 25 £50,000 +21.21% 11
East Midlands -4 22 - - 2
West Midlands -43 21 £50,000 +10.93% 8
East of England -12 18 £65,000 +145.28% 15
Wales -53 10 £36,961 -2.97% 3
South West -96 9 £65,000 +23.81% 8
Yorkshire -46 5 £40,000 -27.27% 5
Scotland +5 4 - - 11
North East -57 4 - - 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 (12.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (12.44%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.83%) 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 (9.09%) 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 64 (30.62%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (24.40%) Azure
3 29 (13.88%) AWS
4 28 (13.40%) Entra ID
5 19 (9.09%) Mimecast
6 15 (7.18%) GCP
6 15 (7.18%) OneDrive
7 13 (6.22%) GitHub
8 10 (4.78%) SaaS
9 8 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.35%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (2.87%) Cloud Functions
11 6 (2.87%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.91%) dbt
12 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.91%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.91%) Serverless
13 3 (1.44%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 70 (33.49%) Firewall
2 49 (23.44%) LAN
3 40 (19.14%) WAN
4 24 (11.48%) DNS
5 23 (11.00%) TCP/IP
6 22 (10.53%) DHCP
7 19 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (8.61%) Network Security
9 17 (8.13%) Wireless
10 13 (6.22%) VPN
11 10 (4.78%) VLAN
12 6 (2.87%) Broadband
13 5 (2.39%) VoIP
14 3 (1.44%) PBX
15 2 (0.96%) SAN
15 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
16 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
16 1 (0.48%) HTTP
16 1 (0.48%) NGFW
16 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.83%) MySQL
3 5 (2.39%) Power BI
4 4 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
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 Athena
7 1 (0.48%) Big Data
7 1 (0.48%) DTS
7 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.78%) Git
2 9 (4.31%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.39%) GitLab
3 5 (2.39%) JIRA
4 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
General
1 64 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.83%) Finance
3 20 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.13%) Advertising
6 14 (6.70%) Telecoms
7 13 (6.22%) Marketing
7 13 (6.22%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.26%) Banking
8 11 (5.26%) Legal
9 8 (3.83%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.87%) Automotive
11 5 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.39%) Welsh Language
12 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.91%) Retail
13 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.96%) Digital Economy
14 2 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (18.66%) Senior
2 29 (13.88%) IT Engineer
3 27 (12.92%) Support Engineer
4 24 (11.48%) IT Support
5 23 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (10.53%) Analyst
7 14 (6.70%) Field Engineer
7 14 (6.70%) Field Service Engineer
7 14 (6.70%) Security Analyst
7 14 (6.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.22%) IT Support Engineer
9 11 (5.26%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (4.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 10 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.78%) Senior Security Analyst
10 10 (4.78%) Technical Engineer
10 10 (4.78%) Technical Support
10 10 (4.78%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.31%) .NET
2 8 (3.83%) React
3 3 (1.44%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.44%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (1.44%) RESTful
3 3 (1.44%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (1.44%) Spring
3 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.44%) Visualforce
4 2 (0.96%) HTML
4 2 (0.96%) Jest
4 2 (0.96%) Next.js
4 2 (0.96%) Node.js
4 2 (0.96%) Playwright
5 1 (0.48%) CSS
5 1 (0.48%) Middleware
5 1 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.48%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.00%) Security Posture
2 19 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.18%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.74%) Social Media
5 10 (4.78%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.31%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.83%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.83%) Clustering
8 6 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.39%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.91%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.91%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.91%) Replication
11 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.44%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (36.84%) Windows
2 39 (18.66%) Windows Server
3 25 (11.96%) Linux
3 25 (11.96%) Windows 10
4 18 (8.61%) Apple iOS
5 14 (6.70%) Android
6 9 (4.31%) Unix
7 4 (1.91%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.91%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
2 59 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (21.05%) Incident Response
4 41 (19.62%) ITIL
5 39 (18.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (18.18%) Agile
7 34 (16.27%) CI/CD
8 31 (14.83%) SIEM
9 27 (12.92%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (12.92%) Root Cause Analysis
10 26 (12.44%) Collaborative Working
11 24 (11.48%) Customer Service
11 24 (11.48%) Disaster Recovery
12 23 (11.00%) DevOps
12 23 (11.00%) Incident Management
12 23 (11.00%) Project Delivery
13 22 (10.53%) High Availability
14 21 (10.05%) Change Management
14 21 (10.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.92%) Python
2 34 (16.27%) PowerShell
3 19 (9.09%) SQL
4 18 (8.61%) Bash
5 14 (6.70%) Java
6 9 (4.31%) Go
7 7 (3.35%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.87%) Ruby
8 6 (2.87%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (2.39%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.44%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.44%) C
10 3 (1.44%) C#
10 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.96%) PHP
11 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Natural
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (24.40%) Degree
2 26 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.18%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.22%) CCNA
5 13 (6.22%) DV Cleared
6 12 (5.74%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (2.87%) CISSP
9 5 (2.39%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.39%) CCNP
9 5 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.44%) CISA
11 3 (1.44%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (1.44%) CRISC
11 3 (1.44%) MCSA
11 3 (1.44%) SSCP
12 2 (0.96%) CISM
12 2 (0.96%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (11.00%) SLA
3 14 (6.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (6.22%) QA
5 10 (4.78%) NIST
6 8 (3.83%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.39%) GDPR
8 4 (1.91%) 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%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (19.62%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.22%) Docker
4 5 (2.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.48%) Firmware
6 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 29 (13.88%) Terraform
2 21 (10.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (9.57%) Ansible
4 13 (6.22%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.83%) Grafana
6 7 (3.35%) 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%) Nagios
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.48%) Podman
9 1 (0.48%) QRadar
Vendors
1 87 (41.63%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.53%) Cisco
3 20 (9.57%) VMware
4 15 (7.18%) Splunk
5 14 (6.70%) Logitech
5 14 (6.70%) Sophos
5 14 (6.70%) TOWER Software
6 12 (5.74%) Dell
7 9 (4.31%) Juniper
7 9 (4.31%) McAfee
7 9 (4.31%) Oracle
7 9 (4.31%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.83%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.83%) Tanium
9 6 (2.87%) Google
10 5 (2.39%) Apple
11 4 (1.91%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.91%) HP
11 4 (1.91%) New Relic
11 4 (1.91%) Red Hat