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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 511 487
Rank change year-on-year +66 -24 +197
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 212 222 227
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.39% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.44% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 122 141 186
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +12.90%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £63,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -1.10% +11.44%

All Process and 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 48,883 50,789 45,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.99% 89.40% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 28,699 25,691 35,102
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,720 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.42% +4.76% -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 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 17 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 19 December 2025. 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 +68 191 £52,500 +16.67% 95
UK excluding London +63 148 £47,500 +5.56% 91
Work from Home +47 58 £57,500 +24.58% 40
London +40 52 £70,000 +26.58% 16
South East +43 41 £48,000 +6.71% 20
Midlands +17 30 £33,000 -37.14% 13
North of England +3 30 £47,500 +5.56% 21
West Midlands +34 21 £62,500 -13.79% 8
South West +30 19 £52,500 +52.17% 18
East of England +37 18 £46,160 +4.91% 8
North West +22 18 £40,000 -15.79% 10
East Midlands -10 9 £33,000 -26.67% 4
Scotland +16 7 £97,500 +85.71% 6
Yorkshire -32 7 £46,250 +2.78% 8
North East +10 5 £48,445 +9.42% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2
Wales +2 1 - - 4

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 25 (11.79%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.30%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.30%) IIS
4 2 (0.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) Appian
5 1 (0.47%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.30%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Shopify
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 83 (39.15%) Azure
2 56 (26.42%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (16.98%) Power Platform
4 29 (13.68%) Entra ID
5 28 (13.21%) AWS
6 15 (7.08%) SaaS
7 14 (6.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (6.60%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (6.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (5.19%) Power Automate
9 10 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.72%) Azure Storage
10 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (3.30%) Boomi
11 7 (3.30%) Datadog
11 7 (3.30%) iPaaS
11 7 (3.30%) OneDrive
11 7 (3.30%) Workato
12 6 (2.83%) PowerApps
13 5 (2.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 57 (26.89%) Firewall
2 39 (18.40%) WAN
3 25 (11.79%) LAN
4 22 (10.38%) DNS
4 22 (10.38%) VPN
5 21 (9.91%) DHCP
6 18 (8.49%) Network Security
7 17 (8.02%) LTE
7 17 (8.02%) VSAT
8 16 (7.55%) Wireless
9 13 (6.13%) SD-WAN
10 11 (5.19%) TCP/IP
11 10 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (4.25%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (4.25%) SAN
12 9 (4.25%) SSL
12 9 (4.25%) VLAN
13 8 (3.77%) WAAS
13 8 (3.77%) WLAN
14 7 (3.30%) 802.11
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.21%) Power BI
2 23 (10.85%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (6.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.83%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.36%) Couchbase
7 5 (2.36%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.36%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.36%) Redis
8 3 (1.42%) Metadata
8 3 (1.42%) Power Query
9 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (2.83%) JIRA
2 3 (1.42%) Git
3 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.47%) GitLab
3 1 (0.47%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 99 (46.70%) Social Skills
2 49 (23.11%) Finance
3 47 (22.17%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (14.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.66%) Legal
7 10 (4.72%) Law
8 9 (4.25%) Aerospace
8 9 (4.25%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.77%) Electronics
9 8 (3.77%) Marketing
10 7 (3.30%) Automotive
10 7 (3.30%) Billing
10 7 (3.30%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.30%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.83%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.89%) Back Office
13 3 (1.42%) Banking
13 3 (1.42%) French Language
13 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (24.53%) Support Engineer
2 35 (16.51%) Technical Support
3 34 (16.04%) Technical Engineer
3 34 (16.04%) Technical Support Engineer
4 28 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (10.85%) Senior
6 18 (8.49%) Lead
7 14 (6.60%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (5.66%) Business Manager
8 12 (5.66%) Insight Manager
9 9 (4.25%) Analyst
9 9 (4.25%) Development Engineer
9 9 (4.25%) IT Engineer
9 9 (4.25%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.77%) IT Support
10 8 (3.77%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.30%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.72%) Web Services
2 9 (4.25%) REST
3 7 (3.30%) 802.1X
4 6 (2.83%) Kafka
4 6 (2.83%) SAML
4 6 (2.83%) SOAP
5 5 (2.36%) JSON
5 5 (2.36%) Memcached
5 5 (2.36%) Middleware
5 5 (2.36%) RESTful
5 5 (2.36%) Spring
5 5 (2.36%) XML
6 4 (1.89%) .NET
6 4 (1.89%) ADO
6 4 (1.89%) ModSecurity
6 4 (1.89%) OAuth
6 4 (1.89%) YAML
7 3 (1.42%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.94%) NETCONF
8 2 (0.94%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.38%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.08%) CMDB
3 12 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (5.66%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.72%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.30%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.83%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.83%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.42%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.42%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.42%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.42%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 60 (28.30%) Windows
2 26 (12.26%) Windows Server
3 17 (8.02%) Linux
4 12 (5.66%) Unix
5 8 (3.77%) Android
6 4 (1.89%) AIX
6 4 (1.89%) VMS
6 4 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.42%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.47%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (41.04%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (33.49%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (19.34%) ITIL
4 40 (18.87%) Agile
5 38 (17.92%) Customer Service
6 34 (16.04%) Change Management
6 34 (16.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (15.09%) AI
8 31 (14.62%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 29 (13.68%) Analytics
11 27 (12.74%) Incident Response
12 26 (12.26%) DevOps
12 26 (12.26%) High Availability
13 25 (11.79%) Service Delivery
14 24 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (11.32%) Mentoring
15 23 (10.85%) Business Continuity
15 23 (10.85%) Process Improvement
15 23 (10.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (24.53%) SQL
2 33 (15.57%) PowerShell
3 26 (12.26%) Python
4 17 (8.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (7.08%) C#
6 11 (5.19%) Java
7 9 (4.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (3.77%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.30%) Scala
10 6 (2.83%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.36%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.36%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.89%) Bash
13 3 (1.42%) Go
13 3 (1.42%) Perl
14 2 (0.94%) Bicep
14 2 (0.94%) Ruby
15 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (17.45%) Degree
2 34 (16.04%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (14.15%) Security Cleared
4 24 (11.32%) SC Cleared
5 22 (10.38%) CCNA
6 17 (8.02%) JNCIA
7 16 (7.55%) CCNP
8 15 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (5.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 8 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.30%) CCIE
11 7 (3.30%) GCSC
11 7 (3.30%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.83%) CISA
13 5 (2.36%) CISSP
14 4 (1.89%) CISM
14 4 (1.89%) DV Cleared
14 4 (1.89%) JNCIP
15 3 (1.42%) CEH
15 3 (1.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.38%) SLA
2 20 (9.43%) GDPR
3 14 (6.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (2.83%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.89%) GRC
7 3 (1.42%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.42%) NIST
8 2 (0.94%) COBIT
9 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (13.68%) Active Directory
1 29 (13.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (6.13%) Hyper-V
2 13 (6.13%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (5.19%) Docker
4 9 (4.25%) vSphere
5 8 (3.77%) Firmware
6 7 (3.30%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (13.21%) Terraform
2 22 (10.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (7.55%) Kubernetes
4 15 (7.08%) Ansible
5 10 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (3.77%) SCCM
7 6 (2.83%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.42%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.42%) Netcool
9 2 (0.94%) Grafana
9 2 (0.94%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.94%) Puppet
9 2 (0.94%) Suricata
10 1 (0.47%) Argo
10 1 (0.47%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.47%) Kibana
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.47%) Nessus
10 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (32.55%) Microsoft
2 37 (17.45%) Cisco
3 29 (13.68%) VMware
4 19 (8.96%) Dell
5 17 (8.02%) Juniper
6 15 (7.08%) Oracle
7 13 (6.13%) IBM
8 12 (5.66%) McAfee
8 12 (5.66%) Palo Alto
9 11 (5.19%) Freshdesk
10 10 (4.72%) SAP
11 9 (4.25%) Fortinet
11 9 (4.25%) ServiceNow
11 9 (4.25%) SolarWinds
11 9 (4.25%) Splunk
12 7 (3.30%) IFS
12 7 (3.30%) MuleSoft
12 7 (3.30%) New Relic
12 7 (3.30%) SnapLogic
12 7 (3.30%) Talend