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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 481 531
Rank change year-on-year -93 +50 +20
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 190 206 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.47% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 123 108 307
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,775 £28,247
25th Percentile £42,250 £42,188 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +19.31% -4.73%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,250 £84,000 £87,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £43,227
% change year-on-year - +9.89% +1.71%

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 72,896 44,261 80,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 90.09% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,426 24,863 55,989
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -91 174 £50,000 -6.87% 48
UK excluding London -86 141 £47,500 - 41
Work from Home -11 55 £52,500 +5.00% 21
Midlands -22 46 £50,000 +1.18% 4
London -29 38 £62,500 -3.85% 14
South East -25 36 £42,000 -1.18% 15
West Midlands -25 28 £50,000 -6.87% 2
North of England -33 28 £50,000 +2.56% 11
North West +2 19 £50,000 +5.26% 7
East Midlands +1 18 - - 2
East of England -2 18 £55,000 +107.55% 4
Yorkshire -48 8 £40,000 -36.00% 3
Wales -53 6 £36,961 -2.97% 3
South West -73 5 £54,749 -8.75% 6
Scotland +6 4 - -
North East -57 1 - - 1

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 24 (12.63%) SharePoint
2 21 (11.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.63%) IIS
5 2 (1.05%) Apache
5 2 (1.05%) Confluence
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.53%) CMS
6 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.58%) SPSS
3 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 58 (30.53%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (26.84%) Azure
3 30 (15.79%) AWS
4 25 (13.16%) Entra ID
5 16 (8.42%) Mimecast
6 11 (5.79%) OneDrive
7 10 (5.26%) SaaS
8 8 (4.21%) GCP
8 8 (4.21%) GitHub
9 5 (2.63%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.11%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.58%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.58%) IaaS
11 3 (1.58%) PaaS
11 3 (1.58%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.58%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (1.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (1.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 63 (33.16%) Firewall
2 49 (25.79%) LAN
3 43 (22.63%) WAN
4 21 (11.05%) DNS
5 20 (10.53%) DHCP
6 19 (10.00%) VPN
7 18 (9.47%) Wireless
8 17 (8.95%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (7.89%) TCP/IP
10 14 (7.37%) Network Security
11 10 (5.26%) VLAN
12 8 (4.21%) VoIP
13 7 (3.68%) SD-WAN
14 5 (2.63%) BGP
14 5 (2.63%) Broadband
14 5 (2.63%) MPLS
15 3 (1.58%) Asterisk PBX
15 3 (1.58%) PBX
15 3 (1.58%) VPLS
15 3 (1.58%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.63%) MySQL
3 4 (2.11%) Power BI
4 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.05%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.53%) Adabas
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.53%) Big Data
6 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.53%) Metadata
6 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.79%) Git
2 8 (4.21%) GitLab
3 7 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.11%) JIRA
5 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 59 (31.05%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.11%) Finance
3 19 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.37%) Advertising
5 12 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.79%) Marketing
6 11 (5.79%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.26%) Legal
7 10 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.16%) Aerospace
8 6 (3.16%) Automotive
8 6 (3.16%) Banking
9 4 (2.11%) Law
9 4 (2.11%) Welsh Language
10 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (18.95%) Support Engineer
2 35 (18.42%) Senior
3 31 (16.32%) IT Engineer
3 31 (16.32%) IT Support
4 23 (12.11%) Analyst
5 20 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (9.47%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (7.37%) Security Analyst
8 13 (6.84%) Technical Engineer
8 13 (6.84%) Technical Support
8 13 (6.84%) Technical Support Engineer
9 12 (6.32%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (6.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) Field Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) Field Service Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Data Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Senior Security Analyst
12 9 (4.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 8 (4.21%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.68%) Lightning Web Components
1 7 (3.68%) Visualforce
2 6 (3.16%) .NET
3 5 (2.63%) HTML
3 5 (2.63%) REST
4 4 (2.11%) CSS
4 4 (2.11%) Middleware
5 3 (1.58%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.58%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.58%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.58%) React
5 3 (1.58%) SOAP
6 2 (1.05%) Node.js
7 1 (0.53%) CSS3
7 1 (0.53%) HTML5
7 1 (0.53%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.53%) PySpark
7 1 (0.53%) RESTCONF
7 1 (0.53%) Serverless Framework
7 1 (0.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.05%) Security Posture
2 20 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.32%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.21%) Social Media
6 7 (3.68%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.16%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.63%) Clustering
8 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.63%) Robotics
9 4 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.11%) Replication
10 3 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.58%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.58%) PKI
10 3 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 77 (40.53%) Windows
2 34 (17.89%) Windows Server
3 22 (11.58%) Windows 10
4 20 (10.53%) Linux
5 17 (8.95%) Apple iOS
6 13 (6.84%) Android
7 7 (3.68%) Unix
8 5 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (2.11%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.53%) AIX
11 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.53%) Solaris
11 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (35.79%) Continuous Improvement
2 52 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (18.95%) Incident Response
3 36 (18.95%) SIEM
4 34 (17.89%) ITIL
5 30 (15.79%) Agile
6 29 (15.26%) CI/CD
7 27 (14.21%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (14.21%) Root Cause Analysis
8 26 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (12.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (11.05%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (10.00%) AI
12 18 (9.47%) Change Management
12 18 (9.47%) Customer Service
12 18 (9.47%) DevOps
12 18 (9.47%) High Availability
12 18 (9.47%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (8.95%) Collaborative Working
14 16 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (20.00%) Python
2 33 (17.37%) PowerShell
3 17 (8.95%) SQL
4 12 (6.32%) Bash
4 12 (6.32%) Java
5 7 (3.68%) Apex Code
6 6 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.63%) Ruby
8 4 (2.11%) Go
8 4 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.11%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (1.58%) C
9 3 (1.58%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.58%) SOQL
9 3 (1.58%) SOSL
9 3 (1.58%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.05%) C#
10 2 (1.05%) PHP
10 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.53%) Natural
Qualifications
1 53 (27.89%) Degree
2 23 (12.11%) Security Cleared
3 22 (11.58%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (8.95%) CCNA
5 14 (7.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (6.32%) SC Cleared
7 10 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (4.74%) DV Cleared
9 8 (4.21%) CCNP
9 8 (4.21%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (3.68%) CISSP
11 5 (2.63%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.11%) CompTIA CySA+
13 3 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.58%) CRISC
13 3 (1.58%) GCIA
13 3 (1.58%) GCIH
13 3 (1.58%) MCSA
13 3 (1.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (10.00%) SLA
3 15 (7.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (5.26%) NIST
5 9 (4.74%) QA
6 5 (2.63%) GDPR
7 4 (2.11%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.58%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (23.16%) Active Directory
2 23 (12.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.32%) Docker
4 5 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.11%) vSphere
6 3 (1.58%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.53%) Firmware
7 1 (0.53%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.53%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (11.58%) Terraform
2 18 (9.47%) Ansible
3 17 (8.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.21%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.16%) Grafana
6 4 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.58%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.58%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.58%) WSUS
8 2 (1.05%) Istio
8 2 (1.05%) linkerd
8 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.05%) Puppet
9 1 (0.53%) Autotask
9 1 (0.53%) Podman
9 1 (0.53%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.53%) QRadar
9 1 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 85 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.16%) Cisco
3 24 (12.63%) VMware
4 15 (7.89%) Dell
5 12 (6.32%) Juniper
5 12 (6.32%) McAfee
5 12 (6.32%) Splunk
6 11 (5.79%) Logitech
6 11 (5.79%) Sophos
6 11 (5.79%) TOWER Software
7 8 (4.21%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.68%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.68%) Tanium
9 6 (3.16%) Apple
9 6 (3.16%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.16%) Meraki
9 6 (3.16%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (2.63%) Oracle
10 5 (2.63%) Zscaler