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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 480 500
Rank change year-on-year -114 +20 -40
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 218 198 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.45% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 126 102 168
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,700
25th Percentile £38,828 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -3.16%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £68,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,223
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.02% +1.54%

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 86,468 43,703 59,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.32% 88.90% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 59,116 24,458 31,674
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.95% -2.78%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -118 196 £50,000 - 193
UK excluding London -124 166 £50,000 +17.65% 105
Work from Home -11 76 £50,000 -9.09% 89
London -55 44 £55,000 -26.67% 89
Midlands -31 42 £50,000 +25.00% 18
North of England -42 42 £50,000 +5.26% 31
South East -67 32 £43,750 +2.94% 27
North West -5 29 £50,000 +5.26% 17
East of England -22 26 £80,000 +116.22% 9
East Midlands -9 24 £37,500 - 8
West Midlands -48 18 £50,000 +25.00% 10
Wales -59 11 £36,961 -2.97% 8
South West -88 11 £61,250 +16.67% 10
Yorkshire -54 7 £40,000 -14.89% 12
North East -63 6 - - 2
Scotland +1 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 30 (13.76%) SharePoint
2 29 (13.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.83%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (1.38%) Confluence
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.92%) IIS
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (9.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 69 (31.65%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (23.39%) Azure
3 35 (16.06%) AWS
4 28 (12.84%) Entra ID
5 24 (11.01%) Mimecast
6 20 (9.17%) GCP
7 15 (6.88%) OneDrive
8 10 (4.59%) GitHub
9 7 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.21%) SaaS
10 6 (2.75%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.29%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.83%) dbt
12 4 (1.83%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.83%) Serverless
13 3 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 66 (30.28%) Firewall
2 41 (18.81%) LAN
3 39 (17.89%) WAN
4 31 (14.22%) DNS
5 26 (11.93%) DHCP
6 24 (11.01%) Wireless
7 21 (9.63%) TCP/IP
8 19 (8.72%) Network Security
9 15 (6.88%) VPN
10 13 (5.96%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (5.50%) VLAN
12 6 (2.75%) Broadband
13 5 (2.29%) VoIP
14 4 (1.83%) SD-WAN
15 3 (1.38%) PBX
15 3 (1.38%) SAN
15 3 (1.38%) Wireless Security
16 2 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
16 2 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
16 2 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.67%) MySQL
4 7 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.38%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.38%) Metadata
5 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.38%) Power BI
5 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.92%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.92%) GIS
7 1 (0.46%) Adabas
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.46%) DTS
7 1 (0.46%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.05%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.67%) Git
3 7 (3.21%) GitLab
4 4 (1.83%) JIRA
5 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.38%) Maven
5 3 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 68 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.72%) Finance
3 24 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (7.34%) Retail
6 15 (6.88%) Telecoms
7 14 (6.42%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.96%) Advertising
9 11 (5.05%) Banking
10 10 (4.59%) Automotive
10 10 (4.59%) Legal
10 10 (4.59%) Marketing
11 9 (4.13%) Aerospace
11 9 (4.13%) Law
12 8 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (2.29%) Welsh Language
15 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.83%) Publishing
16 3 (1.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 50 (22.94%) Senior
2 30 (13.76%) IT Engineer
3 28 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (11.47%) Analyst
5 21 (9.63%) IT Support
6 20 (9.17%) Field Engineer
6 20 (9.17%) Field Service Engineer
7 15 (6.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (6.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.42%) Support Engineer
9 13 (5.96%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Security Analyst
10 12 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Support Analyst
11 11 (5.05%) Network Engineer
11 11 (5.05%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.13%) 3rd Line Support
12 9 (4.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.13%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.68%) Terraform
2 10 (4.59%) React
3 7 (3.21%) .NET
3 7 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (1.83%) RESTful
4 4 (1.83%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (1.83%) Spring
4 4 (1.83%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.38%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.38%) HTML
5 3 (1.38%) Jest
5 3 (1.38%) Next.js
5 3 (1.38%) Playwright
6 2 (0.92%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.92%) CSS
6 2 (0.92%) CSS3
6 2 (0.92%) HTML5
6 2 (0.92%) JSON
6 2 (0.92%) Node.js
6 2 (0.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.55%) Security Posture
2 15 (6.88%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.42%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.05%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.59%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.13%) Driving Licence
6 9 (4.13%) Social Media
7 8 (3.67%) Replication
8 7 (3.21%) Clustering
8 7 (3.21%) Data Centre
8 7 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.75%) Blog
9 6 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.75%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (2.29%) FMCG
10 5 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.83%) Culture of Ownership
11 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.83%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 74 (33.94%) Windows
2 48 (22.02%) Windows Server
3 26 (11.93%) Linux
4 25 (11.47%) Windows 10
5 19 (8.72%) Android
5 19 (8.72%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.13%) Unix
7 4 (1.83%) AIX
7 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.46%) macOS
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (27.98%) Continuous Improvement
1 61 (27.98%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (24.77%) ITIL
3 48 (22.02%) Incident Response
4 41 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (16.06%) CI/CD
5 35 (16.06%) Disaster Recovery
6 33 (15.14%) Agile
7 32 (14.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 31 (14.22%) Customer Service
9 29 (13.30%) Cybersecurity
9 29 (13.30%) Observability
10 28 (12.84%) Root Cause Analysis
11 27 (12.39%) Collaborative Working
11 27 (12.39%) High Availability
12 24 (11.01%) DevOps
12 24 (11.01%) Incident Management
12 24 (11.01%) Mentoring
12 24 (11.01%) Project Delivery
13 23 (10.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.27%) Python
2 38 (17.43%) PowerShell
3 20 (9.17%) SQL
4 18 (8.26%) Java
5 16 (7.34%) Bash
6 12 (5.50%) Go
7 8 (3.67%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.21%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.21%) Search Processing Language
9 6 (2.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.83%) C#
10 4 (1.83%) Ruby
11 3 (1.38%) C
12 2 (0.92%) PHP
13 1 (0.46%) Natural
13 1 (0.46%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (16.51%) Degree
2 34 (15.60%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.34%) DV Cleared
3 16 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.96%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (5.50%) CCNA
5 12 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.29%) CCNP
7 5 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.83%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.38%) MCSA
9 3 (1.38%) SSCP
10 2 (0.92%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (6.42%) SLA
3 13 (5.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.13%) NIST
5 7 (3.21%) QA
6 6 (2.75%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.83%) GDPR
8 3 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.38%) WCAG
9 2 (0.92%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (16.06%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.29%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.83%) Docker
5 4 (1.83%) vSphere
6 2 (0.92%) Firmware
6 2 (0.92%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.46%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 21 (9.63%) Ansible
2 20 (9.17%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (5.96%) Grafana
4 13 (5.96%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.75%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.38%) Istio
6 3 (1.38%) linkerd
6 3 (1.38%) Puppet
6 3 (1.38%) SCCM
7 2 (0.92%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.92%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.46%) Argo
8 1 (0.46%) Autotask
8 1 (0.46%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.46%) Opsview
8 1 (0.46%) QRadar
8 1 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 94 (43.12%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.72%) Cisco
2 19 (8.72%) Logitech
2 19 (8.72%) Sophos
2 19 (8.72%) TOWER Software
3 16 (7.34%) Splunk
3 16 (7.34%) VMware
4 10 (4.59%) Oracle
4 10 (4.59%) Zscaler
5 9 (4.13%) Meraki
5 9 (4.13%) RedGate
5 9 (4.13%) YouTube
6 8 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.67%) Tanium
7 6 (2.75%) Google
8 4 (1.83%) Aruba
8 4 (1.83%) Dell
8 4 (1.83%) HP
8 4 (1.83%) iManage
8 4 (1.83%) New Relic