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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 479 537
Rank change year-on-year -99 +58 +44
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 185 201 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.46% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 117 104 310
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,051 £27,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +18.06% -0.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,625 £90,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -

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 71,201 43,352 86,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 91.03% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 49,187 23,974 60,816
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,738 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.48% - -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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -54 171 £52,500 -2.21% 69
UK excluding London -82 133 £50,000 +5.26% 53
Work from Home -5 49 £54,749 +9.50% 36
Midlands -19 45 £50,000 +1.18% 8
London -32 41 £70,000 +7.69% 27
South East -33 33 £42,000 -1.18% 16
West Midlands -31 28 £50,000 -6.87% 2
North of England -40 24 £50,000 - 9
East of England -4 20 £55,000 +15.79% 2
East Midlands -6 17 - - 6
North West -10 14 £50,000 +2.56% 7
Yorkshire -39 9 £40,000 -36.00% 1
South West -84 5 £54,749 +15.26% 9
Scotland +14 4 - - 3
Wales -49 4 £36,961 -2.97% 1
North East -44 1 - - 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 23 (12.43%) SharePoint
2 20 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.70%) IIS
5 2 (1.08%) Apache
5 2 (1.08%) Confluence
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) CMS
6 1 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (7.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.62%) SPSS
3 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (30.81%) Microsoft 365
2 53 (28.65%) Azure
3 30 (16.22%) AWS
4 26 (14.05%) Entra ID
5 15 (8.11%) Mimecast
6 11 (5.95%) OneDrive
7 10 (5.41%) SaaS
8 8 (4.32%) GitHub
9 7 (3.78%) GCP
10 6 (3.24%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (2.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.16%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.62%) IaaS
12 3 (1.62%) PaaS
12 3 (1.62%) Serverless
13 2 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 60 (32.43%) Firewall
2 49 (26.49%) LAN
3 44 (23.78%) WAN
4 21 (11.35%) DNS
5 20 (10.81%) DHCP
6 19 (10.27%) VPN
7 17 (9.19%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (8.65%) Wireless
9 14 (7.57%) Network Security
10 13 (7.03%) TCP/IP
11 9 (4.86%) VLAN
11 9 (4.86%) VoIP
12 8 (4.32%) SD-WAN
13 6 (3.24%) BGP
13 6 (3.24%) MPLS
14 5 (2.70%) Broadband
15 4 (2.16%) Asterisk PBX
15 4 (2.16%) Software-Defined Networking
15 4 (2.16%) VPLS
16 3 (1.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.70%) MySQL
2 5 (2.70%) Power BI
3 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.08%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.54%) Adabas
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.54%) Big Data
5 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.54%) Metadata
5 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.54%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.95%) Git
2 9 (4.86%) GitLab
3 7 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.62%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.62%) JIRA
5 2 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 55 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.97%) Finance
3 19 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.03%) Advertising
5 12 (6.49%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.95%) Marketing
7 9 (4.86%) Legal
8 8 (4.32%) Aerospace
8 8 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.78%) Banking
10 6 (3.24%) Automotive
11 5 (2.70%) Law
12 3 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.08%) Retail
13 2 (1.08%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.54%) Games
14 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (19.46%) Support Engineer
2 31 (16.76%) IT Support
2 31 (16.76%) Senior
3 30 (16.22%) IT Engineer
4 22 (11.89%) Analyst
5 19 (10.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (9.73%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (7.57%) Technical Support
8 13 (7.03%) Technical Engineer
8 13 (7.03%) Technical Support Engineer
9 12 (6.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.95%) Security Analyst
11 10 (5.41%) Data Engineer
11 10 (5.41%) Field Engineer
11 10 (5.41%) Field Service Engineer
11 10 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.86%) Support Analyst
13 8 (4.32%) IT Analyst
13 8 (4.32%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.32%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.32%) Visualforce
2 7 (3.78%) REST
3 6 (3.24%) .NET
4 5 (2.70%) CSS
4 5 (2.70%) HTML
5 4 (2.16%) Middleware
5 4 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.16%) SOAP
6 3 (1.62%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.62%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.08%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.08%) Node.js
7 2 (1.08%) React
7 2 (1.08%) RESTCONF
8 1 (0.54%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.54%) CSS3
8 1 (0.54%) HTML5
8 1 (0.54%) Laravel
8 1 (0.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.35%) Data Centre
2 18 (9.73%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.57%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.95%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.95%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.32%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.78%) Social Media
7 5 (2.70%) Clustering
7 5 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.70%) Robotics
8 4 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.16%) PKI
8 4 (2.16%) Replication
8 4 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.62%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (41.62%) Windows
2 32 (17.30%) Windows Server
3 21 (11.35%) Windows 10
4 18 (9.73%) Linux
5 16 (8.65%) Apple iOS
6 12 (6.49%) Android
7 5 (2.70%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.70%) Unix
7 5 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.54%) AIX
9 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.54%) Solaris
9 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (37.84%) Continuous Improvement
2 50 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (18.38%) ITIL
3 34 (18.38%) SIEM
4 32 (17.30%) Incident Response
5 27 (14.59%) Agile
5 27 (14.59%) CI/CD
6 26 (14.05%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
8 24 (12.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (11.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (11.35%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (10.81%) AI
12 18 (9.73%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (9.73%) Customer Service
12 18 (9.73%) High Availability
12 18 (9.73%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (9.19%) Change Management
13 17 (9.19%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (9.19%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.84%) Python
2 32 (17.30%) PowerShell
3 13 (7.03%) SQL
4 12 (6.49%) Bash
5 10 (5.41%) Java
6 8 (4.32%) Apex Code
7 6 (3.24%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.70%) Ruby
9 4 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.16%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (2.16%) SOQL
9 4 (2.16%) SOSL
10 3 (1.62%) C
10 3 (1.62%) Go
10 3 (1.62%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.62%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.08%) PHP
12 1 (0.54%) C#
12 1 (0.54%) Natural
12 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (28.65%) Degree
2 24 (12.97%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (12.43%) Security Cleared
4 17 (9.19%) CCNA
5 14 (7.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.95%) SC Cleared
8 9 (4.86%) CCNP
8 9 (4.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (4.86%) DV Cleared
9 8 (4.32%) CISSP
10 6 (3.24%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.16%) CCIE
11 4 (2.16%) CCSP
11 4 (2.16%) CISM
11 4 (2.16%) CompTIA CySA+
11 4 (2.16%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.62%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (10.27%) SLA
3 15 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.86%) QA
5 8 (4.32%) NIST
6 5 (2.70%) GDPR
7 4 (2.16%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.62%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (24.86%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.49%) Docker
4 5 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.70%) vSphere
5 4 (2.16%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.54%) Firmware
7 1 (0.54%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.54%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (11.89%) Terraform
2 20 (10.81%) Ansible
3 18 (9.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.86%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.70%) Grafana
6 4 (2.16%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.16%) WSUS
7 3 (1.62%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.08%) Istio
8 2 (1.08%) linkerd
8 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.08%) Puppet
9 1 (0.54%) Autotask
9 1 (0.54%) Podman
9 1 (0.54%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.54%) QRadar
9 1 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 80 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.05%) Cisco
3 25 (13.51%) VMware
4 15 (8.11%) Dell
5 12 (6.49%) Juniper
5 12 (6.49%) McAfee
5 12 (6.49%) Splunk
6 10 (5.41%) Logitech
6 10 (5.41%) Sophos
6 10 (5.41%) TOWER Software
7 8 (4.32%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.78%) Meraki
9 6 (3.24%) Apple
9 6 (3.24%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.24%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (2.70%) Oracle
10 5 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.70%) Zscaler
11 4 (2.16%) Tanium