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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 515 487
Rank change year-on-year +64 -28 +220
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 203 241 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.36% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.42% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 107 143 199
10th Percentile £27,250 £36,000 £27,650
25th Percentile £40,584 £41,625 £38,167
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,445 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -13.44% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £56,875 £66,875
90th Percentile £83,000 £77,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,160 £45,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year +2.58% -1.10% +13.75%

All Process and 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 45,560 57,007 47,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.92% 84.85% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 29,760 36,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.19%

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 26 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 17 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 26 November 2025. 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 +58 181 £50,000 +11.11% 71
UK excluding London +83 154 £46,160 +2.58% 65
Work from Home +59 54 £57,500 +21.55% 37
South East +60 50 £46,500 +3.37% 26
London +21 37 £75,000 +27.66% 22
Midlands +42 27 £33,000 -45.00% 10
South West +41 27 £52,500 +52.17% 6
North of England +13 23 £46,500 +2.32% 11
West Midlands +57 21 £43,000 -40.69% 8
East of England +33 16 £46,160 -12.08% 6
North West +33 14 £47,500 - 6
Scotland +15 7 £97,500 +85.71% 5
East Midlands +20 6 £29,750 -33.89% 2
Yorkshire -6 6 £45,750 +1.67% 4
North East +14 3 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £55,000 -
Wales +11 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 22 (10.84%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.45%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.45%) IIS
4 2 (0.99%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) Appian
5 1 (0.49%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Shopify
2 3 (1.48%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 81 (39.90%) Azure
2 47 (23.15%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (17.24%) Power Platform
4 32 (15.76%) AWS
5 16 (7.88%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (7.88%) Entra ID
6 13 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (6.40%) Power Automate
7 11 (5.42%) SaaS
8 10 (4.93%) GCP
9 9 (4.43%) Azure Storage
10 8 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.94%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.45%) Boomi
11 7 (3.45%) iPaaS
11 7 (3.45%) Workato
12 6 (2.96%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (2.96%) Datadog
13 4 (1.97%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 58 (28.57%) Firewall
2 36 (17.73%) WAN
3 23 (11.33%) LAN
3 23 (11.33%) VPN
4 22 (10.84%) DNS
5 21 (10.34%) DHCP
6 20 (9.85%) LTE
6 20 (9.85%) VSAT
7 19 (9.36%) Network Security
8 18 (8.87%) Wireless
9 12 (5.91%) SD-WAN
9 12 (5.91%) TCP/IP
10 10 (4.93%) 802.11
10 10 (4.93%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (4.43%) SAN
11 9 (4.43%) SSL
11 9 (4.43%) VLAN
12 7 (3.45%) Internet
13 5 (2.46%) NAS
13 5 (2.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.27%) Power BI
2 22 (10.84%) SQL Server
3 16 (7.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (7.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.96%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.48%) Couchbase
7 3 (1.48%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.48%) Power Query
7 3 (1.48%) Redis
8 2 (0.99%) Metadata
8 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (3.45%) JIRA
2 3 (1.48%) Git
3 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.49%) GitLab
3 1 (0.49%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (52.71%) Social Skills
2 53 (26.11%) Finance
3 42 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (10.84%) Law
6 20 (9.85%) Legal
7 13 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (5.91%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.42%) Aerospace
9 11 (5.42%) Electronics
10 10 (4.93%) Automotive
10 10 (4.93%) Billing
11 9 (4.43%) Marketing
12 7 (3.45%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.96%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.97%) Back Office
15 3 (1.48%) Banking
15 3 (1.48%) French Language
15 3 (1.48%) Greek Language
15 3 (1.48%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 54 (26.60%) Support Engineer
2 42 (20.69%) Technical Support
3 39 (19.21%) Technical Engineer
3 39 (19.21%) Technical Support Engineer
4 28 (13.79%) Senior
5 27 (13.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (5.91%) Business Manager
6 12 (5.91%) Insight Manager
7 11 (5.42%) Analyst
7 11 (5.42%) Lead
8 9 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (3.94%) IT Engineer
10 7 (3.45%) Development Engineer
10 7 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.45%) IT Support
10 7 (3.45%) Network Engineer
10 7 (3.45%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.45%) Support Analyst
11 6 (2.96%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.42%) REST
1 11 (5.42%) Web Services
2 10 (4.93%) 802.1X
3 7 (3.45%) Hugging Face
3 7 (3.45%) LangChain
3 7 (3.45%) PyTorch
3 7 (3.45%) TensorFlow
4 6 (2.96%) SOAP
5 5 (2.46%) JSON
5 5 (2.46%) Middleware
5 5 (2.46%) RESTful
5 5 (2.46%) SAML
5 5 (2.46%) XML
6 4 (1.97%) CSS
6 4 (1.97%) HTML
6 4 (1.97%) Kafka
6 4 (1.97%) ModSecurity
7 3 (1.48%) .NET
7 3 (1.48%) ADO
7 3 (1.48%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.82%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.93%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (4.43%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.94%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.45%) CMDB
7 6 (2.96%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.96%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.46%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.97%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.97%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.48%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.48%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 1 (0.49%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 51 (25.12%) Windows
2 24 (11.82%) Windows Server
3 14 (6.90%) Linux
4 10 (4.93%) Unix
5 4 (1.97%) AIX
6 3 (1.48%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.48%) VMS
7 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.49%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (37.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 39 (19.21%) ITIL
4 38 (18.72%) Customer Service
5 36 (17.73%) Change Management
6 35 (17.24%) Agile
7 34 (16.75%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (15.27%) High Availability
9 30 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 29 (14.29%) AI
11 27 (13.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (12.81%) Analytics
12 26 (12.81%) Service Delivery
13 24 (11.82%) Incident Management
13 24 (11.82%) Service Management
14 23 (11.33%) Incident Response
14 23 (11.33%) Process Improvement
15 22 (10.84%) Collaborative Working
15 22 (10.84%) Decision-Making
15 22 (10.84%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.12%) SQL
2 28 (13.79%) PowerShell
3 20 (9.85%) Python
4 17 (8.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (6.90%) C#
6 11 (5.42%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.43%) Java
8 8 (3.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (2.96%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.46%) Bash
11 4 (1.97%) Scala
11 4 (1.97%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.48%) Go
12 3 (1.48%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.49%) Bicep
13 1 (0.49%) Perl
13 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (17.73%) Degree
2 33 (16.26%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 26 (12.81%) CCNA
5 24 (11.82%) SC Cleared
6 20 (9.85%) JNCIA
7 13 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (5.91%) CCNP
8 12 (5.91%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 11 (5.42%) Master's Degree
10 10 (4.93%) GCSC
11 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.48%) CISM
14 2 (0.99%) CCIE
14 2 (0.99%) CCSA
14 2 (0.99%) GCFA
14 2 (0.99%) GCIA
14 2 (0.99%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.36%) GDPR
2 15 (7.39%) SLA
3 12 (5.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 12 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.96%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.97%) NIST
6 2 (0.99%) COBIT
7 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.49%) GRC
7 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (14.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (11.82%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.42%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (4.93%) Docker
6 7 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (3.45%) vSphere
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (9.85%) Terraform
2 14 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (4.43%) Grafana
4 8 (3.94%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.45%) Ansible
5 7 (3.45%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.48%) Netcool
8 2 (0.99%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.99%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.99%) Puppet
8 2 (0.99%) Suricata
9 1 (0.49%) Argo
9 1 (0.49%) CA Spectrum
9 1 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.49%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.49%) Kibana
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 56 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.27%) VMware
3 29 (14.29%) Cisco
4 20 (9.85%) Dell
5 16 (7.88%) Oracle
6 14 (6.90%) Freshdesk
6 14 (6.90%) Juniper
7 13 (6.40%) IBM
7 13 (6.40%) McAfee
8 11 (5.42%) ServiceNow
9 10 (4.93%) Palo Alto
10 9 (4.43%) SAP
10 9 (4.43%) SolarWinds
11 7 (3.45%) Epicor
11 7 (3.45%) Infor
11 7 (3.45%) Informatica
11 7 (3.45%) MuleSoft
11 7 (3.45%) SnapLogic
11 7 (3.45%) Software AG
11 7 (3.45%) TIBCO