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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 481 537
Rank change year-on-year -44 +56 +102
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 190 167 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.41% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 116 108 317
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,800 £26,750
25th Percentile £46,160 £42,500 £36,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £52,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +14.13% +8.24%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £86,875 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,074 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.93% +6.06% -

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 67,438 40,826 82,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.22% 93.31% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,850 22,742 59,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,491 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 10 May 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 10 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 -3 180 £56,500 +5.61% 68
UK excluding London -50 123 £50,000 +10.93% 55
London +5 55 £62,000 -3.13% 17
Midlands -3 44 £50,000 -6.87% 13
Work from Home -9 32 £60,000 +20.00% 23
North of England -47 29 £50,000 - 14
West Midlands -25 28 £53,688 - 11
South East -23 25 £43,750 +9.38% 20
North West +9 19 £49,375 -1.25% 6
East of England +3 17 £46,160 -2.82% 7
East Midlands -17 16 £33,000 -20.48% 2
Yorkshire -64 8 £50,000 +11.11% 7
South West -61 5 £54,749 +15.26% 3
Wales -33 2 £68,500 +79.82%
North East -41 2 £48,445 - 1
Scotland -13 1 £97,500 +2.63% 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 18 (9.47%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.11%) IIS
5 3 (1.58%) Confluence
6 2 (1.05%) Apache
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.53%) CMS
7 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.58%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.58%) SPSS
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (28.42%) Azure
2 47 (24.74%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (18.95%) Entra ID
4 30 (15.79%) AWS
5 19 (10.00%) SaaS
6 15 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (6.32%) GitHub
9 8 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (4.21%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.68%) Datadog
11 6 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.16%) GCP
11 6 (3.16%) Serverless
12 5 (2.63%) IaaS
12 5 (2.63%) Mimecast
12 5 (2.63%) PaaS
13 4 (2.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (2.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (23.68%) Firewall
1 45 (23.68%) WAN
2 43 (22.63%) LAN
3 18 (9.47%) VPN
4 13 (6.84%) DNS
5 12 (6.32%) DHCP
5 12 (6.32%) Network Security
6 11 (5.79%) SD-WAN
7 10 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (4.74%) BGP
8 9 (4.74%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.74%) WAAS
8 9 (4.74%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (4.21%) WLAN
10 7 (3.68%) MPLS
10 7 (3.68%) Wireless
11 5 (2.63%) OSPF
12 4 (2.11%) Asterisk PBX
12 4 (2.11%) VLAN
12 4 (2.11%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.16%) Power BI
3 5 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.58%) MySQL
4 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.05%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.05%) Metadata
5 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.05%) Redis
5 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.53%) Big Data
6 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 11 (5.79%) Git
2 8 (4.21%) GitLab
3 5 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.32%) Finance
3 28 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.32%) Marketing
6 9 (4.74%) Advertising
7 8 (4.21%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.68%) Banking
8 7 (3.68%) Legal
9 5 (2.63%) Law
10 4 (2.11%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.11%) Automotive
10 4 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
13 1 (0.53%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (20.53%) Support Engineer
2 30 (15.79%) Senior
3 25 (13.16%) IT Engineer
4 21 (11.05%) IT Support
5 19 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 19 (10.00%) Lead
5 19 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (8.42%) Technical Support
7 15 (7.89%) Technical Engineer
7 15 (7.89%) Technical Support Engineer
8 12 (6.32%) Analyst
9 11 (5.79%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.21%) Network Engineer
11 6 (3.16%) Architect
11 6 (3.16%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 5 (2.63%) Account Manager
12 5 (2.63%) Developer
12 5 (2.63%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.21%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.21%) REST
1 8 (4.21%) Visualforce
2 6 (3.16%) Middleware
3 5 (2.63%) .NET
3 5 (2.63%) CSS
3 5 (2.63%) HTML
4 4 (2.11%) ADO
4 4 (2.11%) OAuth
4 4 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.11%) SAML
4 4 (2.11%) SOAP
4 4 (2.11%) YAML
5 3 (1.58%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.58%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.58%) Kafka
5 3 (1.58%) NETCONF
5 3 (1.58%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.05%) Memcached
6 2 (1.05%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.68%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.79%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.74%) CMDB
5 9 (4.74%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.21%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.16%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.63%) Robotics
8 5 (2.63%) Social Media
8 5 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.11%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.11%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.11%) PKI
9 4 (2.11%) Replication
9 4 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 74 (38.95%) Windows
2 22 (11.58%) Windows Server
3 21 (11.05%) Linux
4 16 (8.42%) Android
5 11 (5.79%) Apple iOS
5 11 (5.79%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.11%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.11%) Unix
7 4 (2.11%) VMS
8 3 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.53%) Solaris
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.47%) Continuous Improvement
2 53 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (21.58%) ITIL
4 33 (17.37%) Agile
5 32 (16.84%) AI
6 30 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 30 (15.79%) DevOps
6 30 (15.79%) Incident Response
7 29 (15.26%) SIEM
8 28 (14.74%) Root Cause Analysis
9 27 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 25 (13.16%) Roadmaps
11 22 (11.58%) Change Management
11 22 (11.58%) Observability
12 21 (11.05%) Information Security
13 20 (10.53%) Computer Science
13 20 (10.53%) Mentoring
13 20 (10.53%) Service Delivery
14 19 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.84%) Python
2 30 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 15 (7.89%) SQL
4 8 (4.21%) Apex Code
4 8 (4.21%) Bash
5 7 (3.68%) Java
6 6 (3.16%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.16%) Ruby
7 5 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.11%) Scala
8 4 (2.11%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.11%) SOQL
8 4 (2.11%) SOSL
8 4 (2.11%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.58%) C#
9 3 (1.58%) Perl
10 2 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.05%) PHP
11 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 60 (31.58%) Degree
2 26 (13.68%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (13.16%) Security Cleared
4 17 (8.95%) SC Cleared
5 16 (8.42%) CCNP
6 15 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (6.32%) CISSP
8 11 (5.79%) CCIE
9 10 (5.26%) CCNA
10 8 (4.21%) Master's Degree
11 7 (3.68%) CISA
11 7 (3.68%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (3.16%) CISM
13 5 (2.63%) JNCIP
13 5 (2.63%) OSCP
14 4 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (2.11%) CCSP
14 4 (2.11%) CompTIA CySA+
14 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.74%) SLA
2 24 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.26%) GDPR
4 8 (4.21%) QA
4 8 (4.21%) SOC 2
5 6 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.63%) GRC
7 4 (2.11%) NIST
8 3 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (22.11%) Active Directory
2 27 (14.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (7.89%) Docker
4 11 (5.79%) Firmware
5 9 (4.74%) vSphere
6 8 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (4.21%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.11%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (16.84%) Terraform
2 25 (13.16%) Ansible
3 21 (11.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (5.79%) Kubernetes
4 11 (5.79%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (5.26%) SCCM
6 5 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.63%) WSUS
7 4 (2.11%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.58%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.05%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.05%) PowerCLI
9 2 (1.05%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.53%) Argo
10 1 (0.53%) Grafana
10 1 (0.53%) Nagios
10 1 (0.53%) Nessus
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.53%) Podman
10 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 75 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 39 (20.53%) Cisco
3 27 (14.21%) VMware
4 19 (10.00%) Juniper
5 17 (8.95%) Dell
6 16 (8.42%) Splunk
7 14 (7.37%) McAfee
8 10 (5.26%) Fortinet
9 8 (4.21%) New Relic
9 8 (4.21%) Salesforce
10 7 (3.68%) Palo Alto
11 6 (3.16%) Apple
11 6 (3.16%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.63%) Dynatrace
12 5 (2.63%) Logitech
12 5 (2.63%) Sophos
12 5 (2.63%) TOWER Software
12 5 (2.63%) Zscaler
13 4 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
14 3 (1.58%) Red Hat