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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 471 505
Rank change year-on-year -108 +34 +8
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 209 222 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 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% -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 78,793 44,552 66,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.35% 89.17% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 54,339 25,245 43,003
10th Percentile £31,000 £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 £96,650 £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 18 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 18 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 -100 187 £50,000 -6.54% 58
UK excluding London -111 151 £47,500 +5.56% 50
Work from Home 0 67 £52,500 +12.90% 25
London -31 49 £56,500 -16.30% 10
Midlands -31 42 £50,000 +10.93% 9
South East -35 37 £41,000 -3.53% 18
North of England -38 33 £50,000 +5.26% 6
North West +13 23 £50,000 +21.21% 2
East Midlands -4 22 - - 2
West Midlands -41 20 £50,000 +10.93% 7
East of England -22 18 £65,000 +145.28% 9
Wales -60 10 £36,961 -2.97% 1
South West -88 9 £65,000 +23.81% 8
Yorkshire -46 6 £40,000 -27.27% 2
Scotland 0 4 - - 3
North East -58 4 - - 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 27 (12.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 27 (12.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.35%) 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 66 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (24.88%) Azure
3 29 (13.88%) AWS
3 29 (13.88%) Entra ID
4 19 (9.09%) Mimecast
5 16 (7.66%) GCP
6 15 (7.18%) OneDrive
7 13 (6.22%) GitHub
8 10 (4.78%) SaaS
9 8 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.87%) Cloud Functions
10 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.87%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.91%) dbt
12 4 (1.91%) PaaS
12 4 (1.91%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 70 (33.49%) Firewall
2 49 (23.44%) LAN
3 40 (19.14%) WAN
4 25 (11.96%) DNS
5 23 (11.00%) TCP/IP
6 22 (10.53%) DHCP
7 20 (9.57%) Network Security
8 19 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
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
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%) SSH
16 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.66%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.35%) MySQL
3 5 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.91%) 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 (4.78%) 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 63 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.79%) Finance
3 21 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.13%) Advertising
6 14 (6.70%) Telecoms
7 13 (6.22%) Marketing
7 13 (6.22%) Public Sector
8 12 (5.74%) Banking
9 11 (5.26%) Legal
10 8 (3.83%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.87%) Automotive
12 5 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.39%) Welsh Language
13 4 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.91%) Retail
14 3 (1.44%) Law
15 2 (0.96%) Digital Economy
15 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 40 (19.14%) Senior
2 29 (13.88%) IT Engineer
3 26 (12.44%) Support Engineer
4 25 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (11.48%) IT Support
6 22 (10.53%) Analyst
7 15 (7.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.70%) Field Engineer
8 14 (6.70%) Field Service Engineer
8 14 (6.70%) Security Analyst
9 13 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (6.22%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (5.26%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (4.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (4.78%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Senior Security Analyst
12 9 (4.31%) 3rd Line Support
12 9 (4.31%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.83%) .NET
1 8 (3.83%) 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%) Laravel
4 1 (0.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.00%) Security Posture
2 19 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.18%) Data Centre
4 13 (6.22%) Social Media
5 10 (4.78%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.31%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.31%) Product Ownership
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%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.91%) Replication
11 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (36.36%) 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
10 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
2 60 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (21.05%) Incident Response
4 43 (20.57%) ITIL
5 39 (18.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (17.70%) Agile
7 33 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 30 (14.35%) SIEM
9 29 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (13.40%) Root Cause Analysis
11 26 (12.44%) Collaborative Working
11 26 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (11.96%) Customer Service
12 25 (11.96%) Disaster Recovery
13 23 (11.00%) DevOps
13 23 (11.00%) High Availability
13 23 (11.00%) Incident Management
13 23 (11.00%) Project Delivery
14 21 (10.05%) Mentoring
14 21 (10.05%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.44%) 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%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (2.39%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.39%) 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%) Natural
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Scala
12 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (23.92%) 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 22 (10.53%) SLA
3 13 (6.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (5.74%) 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%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (20.10%) 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 30 (14.35%) Terraform
2 22 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (9.57%) Ansible
4 14 (6.70%) Kubernetes
5 9 (4.31%) Grafana
6 8 (3.83%) 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 (42.11%) 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 11 (5.26%) Dell
7 9 (4.31%) Oracle
7 9 (4.31%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.83%) Juniper
8 8 (3.83%) McAfee
8 8 (3.83%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.83%) Tanium
9 6 (2.87%) Apple
9 6 (2.87%) Google
10 5 (2.39%) Meraki
11 4 (1.91%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.91%) YouTube