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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 476 520
Rank change year-on-year -93 +44 +92
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 167 190 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.43% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.47% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 104 104 322
10th Percentile £35,375 £36,475 £27,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,084 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,594 £45,738
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +17.18% +7.62%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,875 £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 68,751 40,768 85,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.20% 83.29%
Number of salaries quoted 44,945 21,478 61,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,625 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -73 158 £55,000 +2.44% 74
UK excluding London -91 107 £50,000 +11.11% 60
London -29 49 £62,000 -4.62% 24
Midlands -13 44 £50,000 +1.18% 11
Work from Home +2 31 £57,000 +14.00% 36
West Midlands -25 30 £51,844 -3.43% 6
North of England -41 23 £50,000 - 16
South East -32 21 £37,500 -11.76% 17
East Midlands -19 14 £41,500 -7.78% 5
East of England -3 13 £55,000 +15.79% 3
North West -7 13 £51,250 +2.50% 9
Yorkshire -55 8 £50,000 -20.00% 5
Wales -41 3 £68,500 +79.82% 2
South West -69 3 £54,749 +15.26% 6
North East -39 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 12 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.40%) IIS
4 2 (1.20%) Apache
4 2 (1.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.60%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.80%) SPSS
3 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (25.15%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (23.95%) Azure
3 28 (16.77%) Entra ID
4 25 (14.97%) AWS
5 15 (8.98%) SaaS
6 10 (5.99%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.39%) Mimecast
8 8 (4.79%) GitHub
9 6 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.59%) GCP
10 5 (2.99%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.40%) IaaS
11 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.40%) PaaS
11 4 (2.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (2.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.40%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.80%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (23.95%) Firewall
1 40 (23.95%) LAN
2 35 (20.96%) WAN
3 11 (6.59%) VPN
4 9 (5.39%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (5.39%) WAAS
4 9 (5.39%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (4.79%) DNS
5 8 (4.79%) SD-WAN
6 7 (4.19%) BGP
6 7 (4.19%) DHCP
6 7 (4.19%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.59%) MPLS
7 6 (3.59%) Network Security
7 6 (3.59%) Wireless
8 4 (2.40%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (2.40%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (2.40%) VoIP
8 4 (2.40%) VPLS
8 4 (2.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.99%) Power BI
3 4 (2.40%) MySQL
4 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.20%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.20%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.20%) Metadata
5 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Redis
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.60%) Big Data
6 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.60%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 10 (5.99%) Git
2 8 (4.79%) GitLab
3 6 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.80%) JIRA
5 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 48 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.77%) Finance
3 24 (14.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.78%) Advertising
5 13 (7.78%) Marketing
6 9 (5.39%) Legal
7 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.19%) Banking
9 6 (3.59%) Automotive
10 5 (2.99%) Law
11 3 (1.80%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.20%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.20%) Retail
13 1 (0.60%) Aviation
13 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (19.16%) Support Engineer
2 27 (16.17%) Senior
3 26 (15.57%) IT Engineer
4 21 (12.57%) IT Support
5 17 (10.18%) IT Support Engineer
6 16 (9.58%) Lead
7 15 (8.98%) Technical Support
8 14 (8.38%) Analyst
8 14 (8.38%) Technical Engineer
8 14 (8.38%) Technical Support Engineer
9 13 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) Data Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Field Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Field Service Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Network Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) Product Owner
13 6 (3.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.79%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.79%) Visualforce
2 7 (4.19%) REST
3 6 (3.59%) .NET
4 5 (2.99%) CSS
4 5 (2.99%) HTML
5 4 (2.40%) Middleware
5 4 (2.40%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.40%) SOAP
6 3 (1.80%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.80%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.80%) Kafka
7 2 (1.20%) Memcached
7 2 (1.20%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.20%) RESTCONF
7 2 (1.20%) Spring
8 1 (0.60%) CSS3
8 1 (0.60%) HTML5
8 1 (0.60%) Laravel
8 1 (0.60%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.17%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.98%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.59%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.99%) CMDB
5 8 (4.79%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.19%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.19%) Social Media
7 5 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.99%) Robotics
7 5 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.40%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.40%) PKI
8 4 (2.40%) Replication
8 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (40.12%) Windows
2 18 (10.78%) Android
3 16 (9.58%) Windows Server
4 15 (8.98%) Windows 10
5 14 (8.38%) Linux
6 13 (7.78%) Apple iOS
7 5 (2.99%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.80%) Unix
8 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.60%) Solaris
9 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 44 (26.35%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (22.16%) ITIL
4 27 (16.17%) Agile
4 27 (16.17%) AI
5 25 (14.97%) SIEM
6 24 (14.37%) CI/CD
6 24 (14.37%) Root Cause Analysis
7 22 (13.17%) Roadmaps
8 21 (12.57%) Incident Response
8 21 (12.57%) Service Delivery
9 19 (11.38%) Change Management
9 19 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (10.78%) Customer Service
10 18 (10.78%) DevOps
10 18 (10.78%) Information Security
11 17 (10.18%) Computer Science
11 17 (10.18%) Mentoring
11 17 (10.18%) Service Management
12 16 (9.58%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.76%) Python
2 31 (18.56%) PowerShell
3 11 (6.59%) SQL
4 9 (5.39%) Bash
5 8 (4.79%) Apex Code
5 8 (4.79%) Java
6 6 (3.59%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.59%) Ruby
7 4 (2.40%) Scala
7 4 (2.40%) SOQL
7 4 (2.40%) SOSL
7 4 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.80%) C
8 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.20%) C#
9 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.20%) Perl
9 2 (1.20%) PHP
10 1 (0.60%) Bicep
10 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (32.93%) Degree
2 22 (13.17%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (11.38%) Security Cleared
4 16 (9.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (7.19%) CCNP
6 12 (7.19%) SC Cleared
7 11 (6.59%) CISSP
8 10 (5.99%) CCNA
9 8 (4.79%) CCIE
9 8 (4.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (4.19%) Master's Degree
11 6 (3.59%) CISA
12 5 (2.99%) CISM
12 5 (2.99%) OSCP
13 4 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (2.40%) CCSP
13 4 (2.40%) CompTIA CySA+
13 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
13 4 (2.40%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.17%) SLA
2 19 (11.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.79%) QA
4 7 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.99%) GRC
6 4 (2.40%) NIST
7 3 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.80%) GDPR
7 3 (1.80%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 36 (21.56%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.59%) Docker
4 10 (5.99%) Firmware
5 5 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.99%) vSphere
6 4 (2.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.60%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.60%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (13.17%) Terraform
2 18 (10.78%) Ansible
3 17 (10.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (5.99%) SCCM
5 7 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (3.59%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.40%) WSUS
9 3 (1.80%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.80%) Grafana
9 3 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.60%) Autotask
11 1 (0.60%) Istio
11 1 (0.60%) linkerd
11 1 (0.60%) Podman
11 1 (0.60%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.60%) Puppet
11 1 (0.60%) QRadar
Vendors
1 65 (38.92%) Microsoft
2 33 (19.76%) Cisco
3 22 (13.17%) VMware
4 17 (10.18%) Juniper
5 16 (9.58%) Dell
6 13 (7.78%) McAfee
7 12 (7.19%) Splunk
8 8 (4.79%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.79%) Salesforce
9 7 (4.19%) Logitech
9 7 (4.19%) Sophos
9 7 (4.19%) TOWER Software
10 6 (3.59%) Apple
11 5 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (2.99%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.40%) Dynatrace
12 4 (2.40%) Meraki
12 4 (2.40%) New Relic
13 3 (1.80%) CheckPoint
13 3 (1.80%) Varonis