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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 468 527
Rank change year-on-year -119 +59 +11
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 203 217 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.49% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 134 113 238
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,400 £28,745
25th Percentile £42,125 £40,584 £37,200
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 £58,938
90th Percentile £87,125 £82,500 £77,500
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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
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% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 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 4 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 -83 184 £50,000 -6.71% 103
UK excluding London -92 149 £47,500 +3.66% 71
Work from Home -8 61 £52,500 +7.69% 47
London -43 44 £60,000 -9.43% 36
Midlands -34 43 £50,000 -6.87% 11
South East -33 38 £42,000 -1.18% 23
North of England -37 32 £50,000 +5.26% 19
North West +8 23 £50,000 +21.21% 9
West Midlands -45 22 £50,000 -6.87% 9
East Midlands -1 21 - - 2
East of England -16 18 £55,000 +107.55% 10
Wales -50 9 £36,961 -2.97% 1
South West -82 7 £59,749 +13.81% 8
Yorkshire -48 6 £40,000 -36.00% 8
Scotland +7 4 - - 2
North East -51 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 26 (12.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (12.81%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.97%) IIS
4 2 (0.99%) Apache
4 2 (0.99%) 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 (9.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.48%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (32.51%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (27.09%) Azure
3 32 (15.76%) AWS
3 32 (15.76%) Entra ID
4 18 (8.87%) Mimecast
5 15 (7.39%) OneDrive
6 14 (6.90%) GCP
7 11 (5.42%) GitHub
7 11 (5.42%) SaaS
8 7 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.96%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.46%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.97%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.97%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.48%) Google Compute Engine
12 3 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.48%) PaaS
12 3 (1.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 69 (33.99%) Firewall
2 50 (24.63%) LAN
3 41 (20.20%) WAN
4 25 (12.32%) DNS
5 23 (11.33%) DHCP
6 22 (10.84%) TCP/IP
7 19 (9.36%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (8.87%) Network Security
9 17 (8.37%) Wireless
10 16 (7.88%) VPN
11 10 (4.93%) VLAN
12 6 (2.96%) Broadband
12 6 (2.96%) VoIP
13 3 (1.48%) PBX
13 3 (1.48%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.99%) SAN
15 1 (0.49%) BGP
15 1 (0.49%) MPLS
15 1 (0.49%) SSH
15 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.45%) MySQL
3 4 (1.97%) Power BI
4 3 (1.48%) 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
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%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
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 (5.42%) Git
2 9 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.45%) GitLab
4 4 (1.97%) JIRA
5 3 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
General
1 65 (32.02%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.32%) Finance
3 20 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.37%) Advertising
4 17 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 13 (6.40%) Marketing
7 12 (5.91%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.42%) Legal
9 8 (3.94%) Banking
10 6 (2.96%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.96%) Automotive
11 5 (2.46%) Welsh Language
12 3 (1.48%) Law
12 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.99%) Digital Economy
13 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (19.21%) Senior
2 31 (15.27%) IT Engineer
2 31 (15.27%) Support Engineer
3 28 (13.79%) IT Support
4 24 (11.82%) Analyst
4 24 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (7.88%) IT Support Engineer
6 15 (7.39%) Security Analyst
6 15 (7.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (6.40%) Field Engineer
7 13 (6.40%) Field Service Engineer
7 13 (6.40%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.42%) Senior Security Analyst
8 11 (5.42%) Technical Engineer
8 11 (5.42%) Technical Support
8 11 (5.42%) Technical Support Engineer
9 10 (4.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 10 (4.93%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.94%) .NET
2 6 (2.96%) React
3 5 (2.46%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (2.46%) Visualforce
4 3 (1.48%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.48%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.48%) 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 (0.49%) Jest
6 1 (0.49%) Next.js
6 1 (0.49%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.33%) Security Posture
2 17 (8.37%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.88%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.91%) Social Media
5 11 (5.42%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.43%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.45%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.45%) Clustering
8 6 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.97%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.97%) Replication
11 3 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.48%) Culture of Ownership
11 3 (1.48%) Robotics
11 3 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.99%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 82 (40.39%) Windows
2 41 (20.20%) Windows Server
3 25 (12.32%) Linux
4 24 (11.82%) Windows 10
5 19 (9.36%) Apple iOS
6 15 (7.39%) Android
7 9 (4.43%) Unix
8 4 (1.97%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.97%) 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 (0.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 58 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (22.17%) Incident Response
4 40 (19.70%) ITIL
5 35 (17.24%) Agile
6 34 (16.75%) CI/CD
6 34 (16.75%) SIEM
7 33 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
9 28 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (11.82%) Incident Management
11 23 (11.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (10.84%) Change Management
12 22 (10.84%) DevOps
13 21 (10.34%) AI
13 21 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
13 21 (10.34%) Customer Service
14 20 (9.85%) High Availability
14 20 (9.85%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.65%) Python
2 35 (17.24%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.87%) Bash
4 16 (7.88%) SQL
5 14 (6.90%) Java
6 8 (3.94%) Go
7 6 (2.96%) Ruby
8 5 (2.46%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.46%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.46%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.46%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (2.46%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.48%) C
9 3 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.99%) C#
10 2 (0.99%) PHP
10 2 (0.99%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.49%) Natural
11 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.49%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 52 (25.62%) Degree
2 26 (12.81%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.37%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.90%) CCNA
4 14 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.40%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.42%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.94%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.45%) CISSP
9 6 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.46%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.46%) CCNP
11 4 (1.97%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.48%) CCSP
12 3 (1.48%) CRISC
12 3 (1.48%) MCSA
12 3 (1.48%) OSCP
12 3 (1.48%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (11.82%) SLA
3 16 (7.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (6.40%) QA
5 11 (5.42%) NIST
6 6 (2.96%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.46%) GDPR
8 3 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.48%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
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 45 (22.17%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.40%) Docker
4 5 (2.46%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.99%) 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 (13.30%) Terraform
2 23 (11.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (9.85%) Ansible
4 11 (5.42%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.94%) Grafana
6 7 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.48%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.48%) Istio
7 3 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.48%) linkerd
7 3 (1.48%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.48%) Puppet
8 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.99%) 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 91 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.33%) Cisco
2 23 (11.33%) VMware
3 14 (6.90%) Splunk
4 13 (6.40%) Dell
4 13 (6.40%) Logitech
4 13 (6.40%) Sophos
4 13 (6.40%) TOWER Software
5 10 (4.93%) Juniper
5 10 (4.93%) McAfee
6 9 (4.43%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.94%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.94%) Tanium
8 7 (3.45%) Oracle
9 6 (2.96%) Apple
10 5 (2.46%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (2.46%) Google
10 5 (2.46%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.97%) Meraki
11 4 (1.97%) SolarWinds