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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 466 531
Rank change year-on-year -102 +65 +13
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 201 216 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.49% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 134 112 252
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,950 £28,745
25th Percentile £42,125 £40,584 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,594 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% +19.10% -4.73%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,813 £59,250
90th Percentile £85,500 £82,500 £84,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,500 £43,227
% change year-on-year +2.15% +7.57% -0.67%

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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
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 1 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 1 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 -88 182 £50,000 -6.87% 102
UK excluding London -95 149 £47,500 +2.15% 75
Work from Home -5 60 £51,250 +2.50% 48
Midlands -25 44 £50,000 -6.87% 10
London -37 42 £58,250 -12.08% 34
South East -38 38 £42,000 -1.18% 25
North of England -43 31 £50,000 +2.56% 17
West Midlands -40 24 £50,000 -6.87% 7
North West +10 23 £50,000 +5.26% 9
East Midlands -11 20 - - 3
East of England -9 17 £55,000 +107.55% 11
Wales -60 9 £36,961 -2.97% 2
South West -93 8 £55,000 +4.76% 11
Yorkshire -45 6 £40,000 -36.00% 6
Scotland +13 4 - - 2
North East -52 2 - - 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 (13.43%) SharePoint
2 25 (12.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.49%) IIS
5 2 (1.00%) Apache
5 2 (1.00%) Confluence
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) CMS
6 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (8.96%) 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 (31.84%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (27.36%) Azure
3 32 (15.92%) AWS
4 30 (14.93%) Entra ID
5 17 (8.46%) Mimecast
6 14 (6.97%) OneDrive
7 13 (6.47%) GCP
8 11 (5.47%) SaaS
9 10 (4.98%) GitHub
10 6 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.99%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.49%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.99%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.99%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.49%) IaaS
13 3 (1.49%) PaaS
13 3 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 66 (32.84%) Firewall
2 48 (23.88%) LAN
3 39 (19.40%) WAN
4 24 (11.94%) DNS
5 22 (10.95%) DHCP
6 20 (9.95%) TCP/IP
7 18 (8.96%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (8.46%) Network Security
8 17 (8.46%) Wireless
9 16 (7.96%) VPN
10 10 (4.98%) VLAN
11 6 (2.99%) Broadband
11 6 (2.99%) VoIP
12 3 (1.49%) PBX
12 3 (1.49%) SD-WAN
13 2 (1.00%) SAN
14 1 (0.50%) BGP
14 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
14 1 (0.50%) HTTP
14 1 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.48%) MySQL
3 4 (1.99%) Power BI
4 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.00%) Metadata
5 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.50%) Adabas
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.50%) Big Data
6 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Git
2 9 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.48%) GitLab
4 4 (1.99%) JIRA
5 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 63 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.44%) Finance
3 21 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.46%) Advertising
4 17 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.47%) Marketing
5 13 (6.47%) Telecoms
6 12 (5.97%) Legal
6 12 (5.97%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.48%) Banking
8 6 (2.99%) Automotive
9 5 (2.49%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.49%) Welsh Language
10 4 (1.99%) Law
11 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.49%) Retail
12 2 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Digital Economy
12 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (19.40%) Senior
2 32 (15.92%) Support Engineer
3 30 (14.93%) IT Engineer
4 28 (13.93%) IT Support
5 24 (11.94%) Analyst
5 24 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (7.96%) IT Support Engineer
7 15 (7.46%) Security Analyst
7 15 (7.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (5.97%) Field Engineer
9 12 (5.97%) Field Service Engineer
10 11 (5.47%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.47%) Senior Security Analyst
10 11 (5.47%) Technical Engineer
10 11 (5.47%) Technical Support
10 11 (5.47%) Technical Support Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.48%) .NET
2 5 (2.49%) Lightning Web Components
2 5 (2.49%) React
2 5 (2.49%) Visualforce
3 3 (1.49%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.49%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.49%) HTML
4 2 (1.00%) CSS
4 2 (1.00%) Middleware
4 2 (1.00%) Node.js
4 2 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.00%) REST
4 2 (1.00%) RESTful
4 2 (1.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (1.00%) Spring
4 2 (1.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.50%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.50%) Jest
5 1 (0.50%) Next.js
5 1 (0.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.95%) Security Posture
2 16 (7.96%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.97%) Onboarding
4 12 (5.97%) Social Media
5 11 (5.47%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.48%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.48%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.99%) Clustering
8 6 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.49%) Replication
10 4 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.99%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.49%) Robotics
11 3 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.00%) Culture of Ownership
12 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 80 (39.80%) Windows
2 40 (19.90%) Windows Server
3 24 (11.94%) Linux
4 23 (11.44%) Windows 10
5 18 (8.96%) Apple iOS
6 14 (6.97%) Android
7 9 (4.48%) Unix
8 4 (1.99%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.00%) AIX
9 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (34.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 56 (27.86%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (21.39%) Incident Response
4 38 (18.91%) ITIL
5 35 (17.41%) Agile
6 33 (16.42%) SIEM
7 32 (15.92%) CI/CD
8 30 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (14.93%) Root Cause Analysis
9 28 (13.93%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (13.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (11.44%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (10.95%) DevOps
12 21 (10.45%) AI
12 21 (10.45%) Change Management
12 21 (10.45%) Incident Management
13 20 (9.95%) Collaborative Working
13 20 (9.95%) Customer Service
14 19 (9.45%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (9.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 47 (23.38%) Python
2 34 (16.92%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.96%) Bash
4 17 (8.46%) SQL
5 14 (6.97%) Java
6 7 (3.48%) Go
7 6 (2.99%) Ruby
8 5 (2.49%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.49%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.99%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.49%) C
10 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.00%) C#
11 2 (1.00%) PHP
12 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.50%) Natural
12 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (25.87%) Degree
2 25 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.46%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.97%) CCNA
4 14 (6.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.47%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.98%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.48%) CISSP
9 6 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.49%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.49%) CCNP
11 4 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (1.49%) CCSP
12 3 (1.49%) CISA
12 3 (1.49%) CISM
12 3 (1.49%) GCIA
12 3 (1.49%) GCIH
12 3 (1.49%) MCSA
12 3 (1.49%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (10.95%) SLA
3 16 (7.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (5.97%) QA
5 11 (5.47%) NIST
6 5 (2.49%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.49%) GDPR
7 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.49%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (21.89%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.47%) Docker
4 5 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.00%) 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 26 (12.94%) Terraform
2 22 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (9.45%) Ansible
4 11 (5.47%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.98%) Grafana
6 7 (3.48%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.49%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.49%) Istio
8 3 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.49%) linkerd
8 3 (1.49%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.49%) Puppet
9 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.50%) Argo
10 1 (0.50%) Autotask
10 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.50%) Podman
10 1 (0.50%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 91 (45.27%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.95%) Cisco
2 22 (10.95%) VMware
3 13 (6.47%) Dell
4 12 (5.97%) Logitech
4 12 (5.97%) Sophos
4 12 (5.97%) Splunk
4 12 (5.97%) TOWER Software
5 10 (4.98%) Juniper
5 10 (4.98%) McAfee
6 8 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.98%) Tanium
6 8 (3.98%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.48%) Oracle
8 6 (2.99%) Apple
9 5 (2.49%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (2.49%) Google
9 5 (2.49%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.99%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.99%) Meraki