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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 489 527
Rank change year-on-year -80 +38 +107
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 177 168 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.41% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 109 107 313
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,550 £27,300
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% +15.45% +7.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -

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 67,796 41,102 82,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.28% 84.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43,826 22,293 59,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 19 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 15 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 May 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 -53 167 £56,750 +6.07% 56
UK excluding London -64 112 £50,000 +11.11% 47
London -20 53 £62,000 -4.62% 12
Midlands -18 42 £50,000 +1.18% 12
Work from Home +7 32 £58,500 +17.00% 21
West Midlands -15 29 £53,688 - 10
North of England -24 26 £50,000 - 12
South East -19 24 £43,750 +2.94% 15
North West +9 16 £49,375 -1.25% 4
East of England -12 13 £65,000 +36.84% 5
East Midlands -18 13 £33,000 -20.48% 2
Yorkshire -52 8 £50,000 -6.98% 6
South West -62 4 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Wales -38 3 £68,500 +79.82%
North East -37 2 £48,445 - 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 13 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.26%) IIS
4 3 (1.69%) Confluence
5 2 (1.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.69%) SPSS
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.12%) Azure
2 42 (23.73%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (18.08%) Entra ID
4 30 (16.95%) AWS
5 18 (10.17%) SaaS
6 12 (6.78%) Power Platform
7 10 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (5.65%) GitHub
8 6 (3.39%) GCP
8 6 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (3.39%) OneDrive
9 5 (2.82%) Datadog
9 5 (2.82%) IaaS
9 5 (2.82%) Mimecast
9 5 (2.82%) PaaS
10 4 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (2.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (2.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 42 (23.73%) Firewall
2 39 (22.03%) LAN
2 39 (22.03%) WAN
3 16 (9.04%) VPN
4 11 (6.21%) DNS
5 10 (5.65%) Cisco IOS
5 10 (5.65%) DHCP
5 10 (5.65%) SD-WAN
6 9 (5.08%) Network Security
6 9 (5.08%) TCP/IP
6 9 (5.08%) WAAS
6 9 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (4.52%) BGP
8 7 (3.95%) MPLS
8 7 (3.95%) Wireless
9 6 (3.39%) WLAN
10 4 (2.26%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (2.26%) OSPF
10 4 (2.26%) VoIP
10 4 (2.26%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.04%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.82%) Power BI
3 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.69%) MySQL
3 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.13%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.13%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.13%) Metadata
4 2 (1.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.13%) Redis
4 2 (1.13%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (6.21%) Git
2 8 (4.52%) GitLab
3 5 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.38%) Finance
3 25 (14.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.78%) Marketing
6 11 (6.21%) Advertising
7 8 (4.52%) Legal
7 8 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.95%) Banking
9 5 (2.82%) Automotive
9 5 (2.82%) Law
10 4 (2.26%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.13%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.13%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.13%) Retail
13 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (19.77%) Support Engineer
2 29 (16.38%) Senior
3 24 (13.56%) IT Engineer
4 19 (10.73%) IT Support
5 17 (9.60%) IT Support Engineer
5 17 (9.60%) Lead
6 16 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (9.04%) Technical Support
7 15 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (8.47%) Technical Engineer
7 15 (8.47%) Technical Support Engineer
8 11 (6.21%) Analyst
8 11 (6.21%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Network Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Architect
10 6 (3.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.82%) Developer
11 5 (2.82%) Product Owner
11 5 (2.82%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.52%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.52%) REST
1 8 (4.52%) Visualforce
2 6 (3.39%) Middleware
3 5 (2.82%) .NET
3 5 (2.82%) CSS
3 5 (2.82%) HTML
4 4 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.26%) SOAP
5 3 (1.69%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.69%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.69%) Kafka
5 3 (1.69%) NETCONF
5 3 (1.69%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.13%) ADO
6 2 (1.13%) Memcached
6 2 (1.13%) OAuth
6 2 (1.13%) SAML
6 2 (1.13%) Spring
6 2 (1.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.86%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.47%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.21%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.65%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.65%) CMDB
4 10 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.52%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.39%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.39%) Social Media
8 5 (2.82%) Robotics
8 5 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.26%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.26%) PKI
9 4 (2.26%) Replication
9 4 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (39.55%) Windows
2 20 (11.30%) Linux
3 18 (10.17%) Windows Server
4 16 (9.04%) Android
5 11 (6.21%) Apple iOS
5 11 (6.21%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.26%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.26%) Unix
7 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.13%) VMS
9 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.56%) Solaris
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (37.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 48 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (20.34%) ITIL
4 31 (17.51%) Agile
5 30 (16.95%) SIEM
6 29 (16.38%) AI
7 28 (15.82%) CI/CD
7 28 (15.82%) Root Cause Analysis
8 25 (14.12%) DevOps
8 25 (14.12%) Incident Response
9 24 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 23 (12.99%) Roadmaps
11 21 (11.86%) Change Management
11 21 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (11.30%) Mentoring
13 19 (10.73%) Computer Science
13 19 (10.73%) Service Delivery
14 18 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (10.17%) Information Security
15 17 (9.60%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.51%) Python
2 30 (16.95%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.78%) SQL
4 8 (4.52%) Apex Code
4 8 (4.52%) Bash
5 7 (3.95%) Java
6 6 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.39%) Ruby
7 4 (2.26%) Scala
7 4 (2.26%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.26%) SOQL
7 4 (2.26%) SOSL
7 4 (2.26%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.69%) Perl
9 2 (1.13%) C
9 2 (1.13%) C#
9 2 (1.13%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.13%) PHP
10 1 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 60 (33.90%) Degree
2 25 (14.12%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (11.30%) Security Cleared
4 15 (8.47%) CCNP
4 15 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (6.78%) CISSP
5 12 (6.78%) SC Cleared
6 11 (6.21%) CCIE
7 10 (5.65%) CCNA
8 8 (4.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (4.52%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.95%) CISA
10 6 (3.39%) CISM
11 5 (2.82%) JNCIP
11 5 (2.82%) OSCP
12 4 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (2.26%) CCSP
12 4 (2.26%) CompTIA CySA+
12 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.82%) SLA
2 22 (12.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.52%) GDPR
3 8 (4.52%) QA
4 6 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.39%) SOC 2
5 5 (2.82%) GRC
6 4 (2.26%) NIST
7 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.13%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (21.47%) Active Directory
2 25 (14.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.34%) Docker
4 11 (6.21%) Firmware
5 7 (3.95%) vSphere
6 6 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.26%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (16.38%) Terraform
2 24 (13.56%) Ansible
3 19 (10.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (5.65%) SCCM
5 9 (5.08%) Kubernetes
5 9 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.82%) WSUS
7 3 (1.69%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.13%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.56%) Argo
9 1 (0.56%) Grafana
9 1 (0.56%) Nagios
9 1 (0.56%) Nessus
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.56%) Podman
9 1 (0.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 68 (38.42%) Microsoft
2 36 (20.34%) Cisco
3 25 (14.12%) VMware
4 19 (10.73%) Juniper
5 17 (9.60%) Dell
6 14 (7.91%) McAfee
6 14 (7.91%) Splunk
7 9 (5.08%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.52%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.39%) Apple
9 6 (3.39%) New Relic
9 6 (3.39%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.82%) Dynatrace
10 5 (2.82%) Logitech
10 5 (2.82%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.82%) Sophos
10 5 (2.82%) TOWER Software
11 4 (2.26%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (1.69%) Tenable
12 3 (1.69%) Zscaler