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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 504 510
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 +171
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 212 143 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.37% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 112 108 317
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,800 £26,000
25th Percentile £45,870 £41,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £87,375 £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 65,473 38,805 81,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.33% 92.93% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40,444 22,598 59,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

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 April 2026.

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 April 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 0 194 £57,500 +9.52% 60
UK excluding London -13 136 £50,000 +11.11% 42
London +7 60 £62,000 -0.80% 22
Work from Home -12 48 £57,500 +15.00% 22
Midlands -21 40 £33,000 -38.53% 6
North of England -44 36 £50,000 - 13
South East -34 32 £46,500 +16.25% 18
North West -9 23 £49,375 -1.25% 5
West Midlands -21 23 £70,000 +3.70% 4
East Midlands -41 17 £33,000 -13.16% 2
East of England -25 16 £46,160 -2.82%
Yorkshire -49 9 £50,000 - 5
South West -60 5 £54,749 +15.26% 5
North East - 4 £48,445 - 3
Wales -31 3 £68,500 +79.82%
Scotland -29 2 £97,500 +2.63%
Northern Ireland - 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 18 (8.49%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.89%) IIS
4 3 (1.42%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.42%) SPSS
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 73 (34.43%) Azure
2 49 (23.11%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (17.45%) AWS
4 36 (16.98%) Entra ID
5 34 (16.04%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.08%) SaaS
7 13 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.13%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (6.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (5.66%) GitHub
9 8 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (3.77%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.30%) Datadog
11 6 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.83%) GCP
11 6 (2.83%) Serverless
12 5 (2.36%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.36%) Azure Storage
12 5 (2.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (22.64%) WAN
2 46 (21.70%) Firewall
3 44 (20.75%) LAN
4 17 (8.02%) VPN
5 13 (6.13%) DNS
6 12 (5.66%) DHCP
6 12 (5.66%) Network Security
6 12 (5.66%) SD-WAN
7 10 (4.72%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (4.25%) BGP
8 9 (4.25%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.25%) WAAS
8 9 (4.25%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (3.77%) Wireless
9 8 (3.77%) WLAN
10 7 (3.30%) MPLS
11 5 (2.36%) OSPF
11 5 (2.36%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (1.89%) Asterisk PBX
12 4 (1.89%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.62%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.79%) Power BI
3 17 (8.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (7.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (2.36%) Couchbase
5 5 (2.36%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.36%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.36%) Redis
5 5 (2.36%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.42%) Metadata
6 3 (1.42%) Power Query
7 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.94%) MySQL
7 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.47%) Big Data
8 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (4.72%) Git
2 8 (3.77%) GitLab
3 5 (2.36%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.36%) JIRA
4 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.47%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.17%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (21.70%) Finance
4 28 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.19%) Marketing
7 9 (4.25%) Legal
8 8 (3.77%) Law
9 7 (3.30%) Banking
10 6 (2.83%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.36%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.36%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.89%) Advertising
13 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.94%) Games
14 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.94%) Public Speaking
14 2 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (21.23%) Support Engineer
2 30 (14.15%) Senior
3 25 (11.79%) IT Engineer
4 23 (10.85%) IT Support
5 21 (9.91%) IT Support Engineer
6 20 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (8.96%) Lead
8 17 (8.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (8.02%) Technical Support
9 16 (7.55%) Technical Engineer
9 16 (7.55%) Technical Support Engineer
10 15 (7.08%) Analyst
11 12 (5.66%) Business Manager
11 12 (5.66%) Insight Manager
12 11 (5.19%) Data Engineer
13 9 (4.25%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.77%) Architect
14 8 (3.77%) Network Engineer
15 7 (3.30%) Development Engineer
15 7 (3.30%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.66%) REST
2 8 (3.77%) Lightning Web Components
2 8 (3.77%) Visualforce
3 7 (3.30%) SOAP
4 6 (2.83%) Kafka
4 6 (2.83%) Middleware
5 5 (2.36%) .NET
5 5 (2.36%) Memcached
5 5 (2.36%) Spring
6 4 (1.89%) ADO
6 4 (1.89%) CSS
6 4 (1.89%) HTML
6 4 (1.89%) NETCONF
6 4 (1.89%) OAuth
6 4 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.89%) RESTCONF
6 4 (1.89%) RESTful
6 4 (1.89%) SAML
6 4 (1.89%) YAML
7 3 (1.42%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.26%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.60%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.19%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.72%) CMDB
5 10 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.30%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.83%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.83%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.83%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.36%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.36%) Robotics
8 5 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 75 (35.38%) Windows
2 25 (11.79%) Linux
3 21 (9.91%) Windows Server
4 15 (7.08%) Android
5 10 (4.72%) Apple iOS
5 10 (4.72%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.30%) Unix
7 6 (2.83%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.89%) VMS
10 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.47%) Solaris
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (44.34%) Continuous Improvement
2 72 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (22.17%) AI
4 43 (20.28%) ITIL
5 42 (19.81%) Agile
6 36 (16.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 34 (16.04%) Analytics
8 33 (15.57%) CI/CD
9 30 (14.15%) DevOps
9 30 (14.15%) SIEM
10 27 (12.74%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (12.26%) Process Improvement
11 26 (12.26%) Root Cause Analysis
12 24 (11.32%) Computer Science
12 24 (11.32%) Customer Service
12 24 (11.32%) Incident Response
13 23 (10.85%) Decision-Making
13 23 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 22 (10.38%) Data Modelling
14 22 (10.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.92%) Python
1 38 (17.92%) SQL
2 28 (13.21%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (6.60%) Java
5 10 (4.72%) C#
6 9 (4.25%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.25%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (3.77%) Apex Code
7 8 (3.77%) Bash
8 7 (3.30%) Scala
8 7 (3.30%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.83%) Ruby
10 5 (2.36%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.89%) SOQL
11 4 (1.89%) SOSL
11 4 (1.89%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.42%) Perl
13 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (30.66%) Degree
2 26 (12.26%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (10.85%) Security Cleared
4 18 (8.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (8.02%) SC Cleared
6 16 (7.55%) CCNP
7 13 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (5.66%) CCIE
8 12 (5.66%) CISSP
8 12 (5.66%) Master's Degree
8 12 (5.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 8 (3.77%) CCNA
10 7 (3.30%) CISA
11 6 (2.83%) CISM
11 6 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (2.36%) JNCIP
12 5 (2.36%) OSCP
13 4 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.89%) CCSP
13 4 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.15%) SLA
2 23 (10.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.66%) Actionable Recommendations
3 12 (5.66%) GDPR
4 8 (3.77%) QA
4 8 (3.77%) SOC 2
5 6 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.36%) GRC
7 4 (1.89%) NIST
8 3 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.94%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (20.28%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (8.49%) Docker
4 10 (4.72%) Firmware
4 10 (4.72%) vSphere
5 9 (4.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.89%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.42%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (15.09%) Terraform
2 25 (11.79%) Ansible
3 24 (11.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (7.08%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.72%) SCCM
7 5 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.36%) WSUS
8 3 (1.42%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.94%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.94%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.94%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.47%) Argo
10 1 (0.47%) Control-M
10 1 (0.47%) Nagios
10 1 (0.47%) Nessus
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.47%) Podman
10 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (36.79%) Microsoft
2 42 (19.81%) Cisco
3 28 (13.21%) VMware
4 21 (9.91%) Juniper
5 19 (8.96%) Dell
6 16 (7.55%) McAfee
6 16 (7.55%) Splunk
7 9 (4.25%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.77%) New Relic
8 8 (3.77%) Salesforce
9 7 (3.30%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.30%) SAP
10 6 (2.83%) Apple
10 6 (2.83%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.36%) IBM
11 5 (2.36%) Oracle
11 5 (2.36%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.36%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.89%) Sophos
12 4 (1.89%) TOWER Software