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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 481 533
Rank change year-on-year -89 +52 +54
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 166 193 403
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.43% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.47% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 104 103 318
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,170 £27,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £42,500 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +17.65% +2.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £81,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,824 £42,500
% change year-on-year +9.11% +7.82% -

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 67,867 41,257 88,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 92.63% 82.08%
Number of salaries quoted 46,626 22,001 62,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,353 £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 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 15 June 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 15 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 -93 154 £53,688 - 50
UK excluding London -81 113 £50,000 +9.11% 53
London -26 42 £62,000 -4.62% 14
Midlands -16 41 £50,000 +10.75% 9
Work from Home -13 34 £54,498 +9.00% 31
West Midlands -21 27 £50,000 +1.18% 5
South East -26 27 £42,000 -1.18% 22
North of England -45 23 £50,000 - 5
East of England -11 15 £50,000 +5.26% 3
North West -2 14 £51,250 +5.13% 4
East Midlands -8 14 - - 4
Yorkshire -44 8 £45,000 -28.00% 1
Wales -51 4 £57,755 +51.61%
South West -75 3 £54,749 +15.26% 3
Scotland +10 2 - - 4
North East -47 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 15 (9.04%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.01%) IIS
5 2 (1.20%) Apache
5 2 (1.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.60%) CMS
6 1 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.81%) 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 43 (25.90%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (24.70%) Azure
3 25 (15.06%) AWS
4 24 (14.46%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.83%) SaaS
6 12 (7.23%) Mimecast
7 9 (5.42%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.82%) GCP
8 8 (4.82%) GitHub
9 6 (3.61%) OneDrive
10 5 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.41%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (2.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.41%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.81%) IaaS
12 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 45 (27.11%) Firewall
2 39 (23.49%) LAN
3 34 (20.48%) WAN
4 13 (7.83%) VPN
5 10 (6.02%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (5.42%) DNS
6 9 (5.42%) Wireless
7 8 (4.82%) DHCP
7 8 (4.82%) Network Security
7 8 (4.82%) TCP/IP
8 7 (4.22%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.61%) BGP
9 6 (3.61%) MPLS
9 6 (3.61%) VoIP
10 5 (3.01%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (3.01%) WAAS
11 4 (2.41%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.41%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (2.41%) VLAN
11 4 (2.41%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.04%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.01%) Power BI
3 4 (2.41%) MySQL
4 3 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.60%) Adabas
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.60%) Big Data
6 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.60%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.60%) Metadata
6 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.60%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (6.63%) Git
2 9 (5.42%) GitLab
3 7 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.81%) JIRA
5 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 50 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.86%) Finance
3 19 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (11.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (7.83%) Advertising
5 11 (6.63%) Marketing
6 9 (5.42%) Legal
7 7 (4.22%) Banking
7 7 (4.22%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.61%) Automotive
9 5 (3.01%) Law
9 5 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.41%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.20%) Retail
12 1 (0.60%) Games
12 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.60%) Military
12 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (18.67%) Support Engineer
2 27 (16.27%) Senior
3 26 (15.66%) IT Engineer
4 24 (14.46%) IT Support
5 19 (11.45%) Analyst
6 16 (9.64%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) Technical Support
8 13 (7.83%) Technical Engineer
8 13 (7.83%) Technical Support Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Lead
11 10 (6.02%) Data Engineer
12 9 (5.42%) Security Analyst
13 8 (4.82%) Field Engineer
13 8 (4.82%) Field Service Engineer
13 8 (4.82%) Support Analyst
14 7 (4.22%) IT Analyst
14 7 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (3.61%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.82%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.82%) Visualforce
2 7 (4.22%) REST
3 5 (3.01%) .NET
3 5 (3.01%) CSS
3 5 (3.01%) HTML
4 4 (2.41%) Middleware
4 4 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.41%) SOAP
5 3 (1.81%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.20%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.20%) NETCONF
6 2 (1.20%) Node.js
6 2 (1.20%) React
6 2 (1.20%) RESTCONF
7 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.60%) CSS3
7 1 (0.60%) HTML5
7 1 (0.60%) Kafka
7 1 (0.60%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.65%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.43%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.83%) Security Posture
4 12 (7.23%) Management Information System
5 11 (6.63%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.82%) Cloud Native
7 7 (4.22%) Social Media
8 6 (3.61%) CMDB
8 6 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
9 5 (3.01%) Robotics
10 4 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.41%) PKI
10 4 (2.41%) Replication
10 4 (2.41%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (1.20%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 67 (40.36%) Windows
2 20 (12.05%) Windows Server
3 18 (10.84%) Windows 10
4 15 (9.04%) Android
5 14 (8.43%) Apple iOS
5 14 (8.43%) Linux
6 5 (3.01%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.20%) Unix
10 1 (0.60%) AIX
10 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.60%) Solaris
10 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (37.35%) Continuous Improvement
2 43 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (20.48%) ITIL
4 29 (17.47%) SIEM
5 26 (15.66%) Agile
5 26 (15.66%) AI
5 26 (15.66%) Incident Response
6 24 (14.46%) CI/CD
7 23 (13.86%) Root Cause Analysis
8 20 (12.05%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (11.45%) Roadmaps
9 19 (11.45%) Service Delivery
10 18 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (10.24%) Change Management
11 17 (10.24%) Information Security
11 17 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (9.64%) Computer Science
12 16 (9.64%) Customer Service
12 16 (9.64%) Observability
13 15 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.07%) Python
2 29 (17.47%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.02%) Bash
3 10 (6.02%) SQL
4 8 (4.82%) Apex Code
5 7 (4.22%) Java
6 6 (3.61%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.01%) Ruby
8 4 (2.41%) SOQL
8 4 (2.41%) SOSL
9 3 (1.81%) C
9 3 (1.81%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.81%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.20%) Go
10 2 (1.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.60%) Natural
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (31.93%) Degree
2 20 (12.05%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (11.45%) Security Cleared
4 14 (8.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (6.63%) CCNA
6 11 (6.63%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.42%) CCNP
7 9 (5.42%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (4.82%) CISSP
9 6 (3.61%) CCIE
10 5 (3.01%) DV Cleared
10 5 (3.01%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.41%) CCSP
11 4 (2.41%) CISM
11 4 (2.41%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (1.81%) CISA
12 3 (1.81%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (13.25%) SLA
3 10 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.82%) QA
5 6 (3.61%) NIST
6 3 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.81%) GDPR
6 3 (1.81%) GRC
6 3 (1.81%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
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 37 (22.29%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.23%) Docker
4 6 (3.61%) Firmware
5 5 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.01%) vSphere
6 4 (2.41%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.60%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.60%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (13.86%) Terraform
2 17 (10.24%) Ansible
3 15 (9.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.22%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (3.61%) SCCM
6 5 (3.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.41%) Grafana
7 4 (2.41%) WSUS
8 3 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.81%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.20%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.20%) Istio
9 2 (1.20%) linkerd
9 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.20%) Puppet
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.60%) Podman
10 1 (0.60%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.60%) QRadar
Vendors
1 67 (40.36%) Microsoft
2 29 (17.47%) Cisco
3 22 (13.25%) VMware
4 15 (9.04%) Dell
5 14 (8.43%) Juniper
6 12 (7.23%) McAfee
7 11 (6.63%) Splunk
8 8 (4.82%) Logitech
8 8 (4.82%) Salesforce
8 8 (4.82%) Sophos
8 8 (4.82%) TOWER Software
9 6 (3.61%) Apple
9 6 (3.61%) Meraki
10 5 (3.01%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.01%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (3.01%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.01%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.41%) Google
12 3 (1.81%) Intel
12 3 (1.81%) Oracle