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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 495 535
Rank change year-on-year -66 +40 +53
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 169 191 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.43% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.47% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 106 102 317
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,325 £27,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,751 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,094 £53,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +16.30% +8.24%
75th Percentile £67,188 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,125 £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 66,839 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45,659 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £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 10 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 10 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 -91 158 £54,093 +0.93% 49
UK excluding London -69 112 £50,000 +11.11% 50
London -11 46 £62,000 -4.62% 14
Midlands -8 41 £50,000 +1.18% 10
Work from Home +5 34 £52,500 +5.00% 25
West Midlands -20 28 £50,000 -6.87% 6
South East -29 25 £37,500 -11.76% 17
North of England -41 25 £50,000 - 6
North West +8 15 £50,000 - 5
East of England -4 15 £50,000 +5.26% 4
East Midlands -14 13 - - 4
Yorkshire -57 8 £50,000 -20.00% 1
Wales -47 4 £57,755 +51.61%
South West -64 3 £54,749 +15.26% 3
North East -39 2 £48,445 -
Scotland +13 1 - - 4

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 13 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.96%) IIS
4 2 (1.18%) Apache
4 2 (1.18%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.59%) CMS
5 1 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (6.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.78%) SPSS
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.44%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (23.67%) Azure
3 26 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 25 (14.79%) AWS
5 15 (8.88%) SaaS
6 11 (6.51%) Mimecast
7 10 (5.92%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.73%) GitHub
9 7 (4.14%) GCP
10 6 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.96%) OneDrive
12 4 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.37%) IaaS
12 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.37%) PaaS
12 4 (2.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (2.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (2.37%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (1.78%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (24.85%) Firewall
2 38 (22.49%) LAN
3 33 (19.53%) WAN
4 11 (6.51%) VPN
5 9 (5.33%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (4.73%) Network Security
6 8 (4.73%) Wireless
7 7 (4.14%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (4.14%) DNS
7 7 (4.14%) SD-WAN
7 7 (4.14%) TCP/IP
7 7 (4.14%) WAAS
8 6 (3.55%) BGP
8 6 (3.55%) DHCP
8 6 (3.55%) MPLS
9 4 (2.37%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (2.37%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (2.37%) VoIP
9 4 (2.37%) VPLS
10 3 (1.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.47%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.96%) Power BI
3 4 (2.37%) MySQL
4 3 (1.78%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.18%) Metadata
5 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.59%) Adabas
6 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.59%) Big Data
6 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.59%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Git
2 8 (4.73%) GitLab
3 6 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.78%) JIRA
5 2 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 50 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.79%) Finance
3 22 (13.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.69%) Advertising
6 12 (7.10%) Marketing
7 9 (5.33%) Legal
8 8 (4.73%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.14%) Banking
10 6 (3.55%) Automotive
11 5 (2.96%) Law
12 4 (2.37%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.18%) Retail
15 1 (0.59%) Back Office
15 1 (0.59%) Games
15 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (18.34%) Support Engineer
2 29 (17.16%) Senior
3 26 (15.38%) IT Engineer
4 21 (12.43%) IT Support
5 19 (11.24%) Analyst
6 16 (9.47%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (8.28%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (8.28%) Technical Support
8 13 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (7.69%) Lead
8 13 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
8 13 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
9 11 (6.51%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.33%) Security Analyst
11 8 (4.73%) Field Engineer
11 8 (4.73%) Field Service Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) IT Analyst
12 7 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (4.14%) Support Analyst
13 6 (3.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.73%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.73%) Visualforce
2 7 (4.14%) REST
3 6 (3.55%) .NET
4 5 (2.96%) CSS
4 5 (2.96%) HTML
5 4 (2.37%) Middleware
5 4 (2.37%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.37%) SOAP
6 3 (1.78%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.78%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.18%) Kafka
7 2 (1.18%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.18%) Node.js
7 2 (1.18%) React
7 2 (1.18%) RESTCONF
7 2 (1.18%) Spring
8 1 (0.59%) Ajax
8 1 (0.59%) JSON
8 1 (0.59%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.43%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.88%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 12 (7.10%) Management Information System
5 11 (6.51%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.73%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.73%) CMDB
7 7 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (4.14%) Social Media
8 6 (3.55%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.96%) Robotics
10 4 (2.37%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (2.37%) PKI
10 4 (2.37%) Replication
10 4 (2.37%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.37%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 66 (39.05%) Windows
2 17 (10.06%) Android
2 17 (10.06%) Windows 10
2 17 (10.06%) Windows Server
3 14 (8.28%) Apple iOS
3 14 (8.28%) Linux
4 5 (2.96%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.78%) Unix
5 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.59%) AIX
6 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.59%) Solaris
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 46 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (21.30%) ITIL
4 29 (17.16%) SIEM
5 27 (15.98%) Agile
5 27 (15.98%) Incident Response
6 26 (15.38%) AI
6 26 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 24 (14.20%) Root Cause Analysis
8 21 (12.43%) Roadmaps
9 20 (11.83%) Service Delivery
10 19 (11.24%) Change Management
10 19 (11.24%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (11.24%) Information Security
11 18 (10.65%) DevOps
11 18 (10.65%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (10.06%) Customer Service
12 17 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (9.47%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 32 (18.93%) Python
2 30 (17.75%) PowerShell
3 11 (6.51%) SQL
4 9 (5.33%) Bash
5 8 (4.73%) Apex Code
5 8 (4.73%) Java
6 6 (3.55%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.55%) Ruby
7 4 (2.37%) SOQL
7 4 (2.37%) SOSL
7 4 (2.37%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.78%) C
8 3 (1.78%) Scala
8 3 (1.78%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.18%) C#
9 2 (1.18%) PHP
10 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.59%) Natural
10 1 (0.59%) Perl
10 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (32.54%) Degree
2 20 (11.83%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (7.10%) SC Cleared
6 10 (5.92%) CCNA
6 10 (5.92%) CCNP
7 9 (5.33%) CISSP
7 9 (5.33%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (4.14%) CCIE
9 6 (3.55%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.96%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.37%) CCSP
11 4 (2.37%) CISA
11 4 (2.37%) CISM
11 4 (2.37%) CompTIA CySA+
11 4 (2.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.20%) SLA
2 23 (13.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (4.73%) QA
4 6 (3.55%) NIST
5 4 (2.37%) GRC
6 3 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.78%) GDPR
6 3 (1.78%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 36 (21.30%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.51%) Docker
4 8 (4.73%) Firmware
5 5 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.96%) vSphere
6 4 (2.37%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.59%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.59%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (14.79%) Terraform
2 19 (11.24%) Ansible
3 16 (9.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.73%) SCCM
4 8 (4.73%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (3.55%) Kubernetes
6 5 (2.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.37%) WSUS
8 3 (1.78%) Grafana
8 3 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.18%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.59%) Autotask
10 1 (0.59%) Istio
10 1 (0.59%) linkerd
10 1 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.59%) Podman
10 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.59%) Puppet
10 1 (0.59%) QRadar
Vendors
1 68 (40.24%) Microsoft
2 30 (17.75%) Cisco
3 21 (12.43%) VMware
4 15 (8.88%) Dell
4 15 (8.88%) Juniper
5 13 (7.69%) Splunk
6 12 (7.10%) McAfee
7 8 (4.73%) Logitech
7 8 (4.73%) Salesforce
7 8 (4.73%) Sophos
7 8 (4.73%) TOWER Software
8 6 (3.55%) Apple
8 6 (3.55%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (2.96%) Meraki
9 5 (2.96%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.37%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.37%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.37%) New Relic
11 3 (1.78%) Varonis