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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 465 508
Rank change year-on-year -132 +43 -25
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 209 220 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.50% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 127 123 185
10th Percentile £32,750 £33,250 £30,800
25th Percentile £39,219 £40,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +17.65% -4.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +1.35%

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 84,196 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,302 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -111 189 £50,161 -6.41% 199
UK excluding London -136 156 £50,000 +17.65% 127
Work from Home -3 70 £52,500 +5.00% 87
London -59 46 £55,000 -18.52% 77
Midlands -37 41 £50,000 +11.11% 26
North of England -63 35 £50,000 +5.26% 45
South East -55 33 £42,000 -1.18% 23
North West +3 25 £50,000 +5.26% 36
East of England -16 23 £80,000 +116.22% 8
East Midlands -23 22 £37,500 - 11
West Midlands -56 19 £50,000 +11.11% 15
South West -102 12 £57,500 +9.52% 13
Wales -67 10 £36,961 -2.97% 5
Yorkshire -62 6 £40,000 -27.27% 6
Scotland +5 4 - - 6
North East -66 4 - - 3

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 28 (13.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) IIS
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) SPSS
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 70 (33.49%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (23.92%) Azure
3 28 (13.40%) AWS
3 28 (13.40%) Entra ID
4 23 (11.00%) Mimecast
5 18 (8.61%) GCP
6 15 (7.18%) OneDrive
7 10 (4.78%) GitHub
8 7 (3.35%) SaaS
9 6 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.87%) Cloud Functions
9 6 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.39%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.91%) dbt
11 4 (1.91%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.91%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.44%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.44%) Google Compute Engine
12 3 (1.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 68 (32.54%) Firewall
2 44 (21.05%) LAN
3 40 (19.14%) WAN
4 29 (13.88%) DNS
5 26 (12.44%) DHCP
6 22 (10.53%) TCP/IP
7 21 (10.05%) Wireless
8 19 (9.09%) Network Security
9 16 (7.66%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (6.70%) VPN
11 11 (5.26%) VLAN
12 6 (2.87%) Broadband
13 5 (2.39%) VoIP
14 4 (1.91%) SD-WAN
15 3 (1.44%) PBX
16 2 (0.96%) SAN
16 2 (0.96%) Wireless Security
17 1 (0.48%) SSH
17 1 (0.48%) SSL
17 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.66%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.83%) MySQL
4 5 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.44%) Metadata
6 3 (1.44%) Power BI
7 2 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.48%) Adabas
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.48%) DTS
8 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (4.31%) Git
1 9 (4.31%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.91%) GitLab
3 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.44%) JIRA
4 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.96%) Maven
4 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 60 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.66%) Finance
3 21 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.18%) Advertising
5 15 (7.18%) Telecoms
6 14 (6.70%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.74%) Marketing
8 11 (5.26%) Retail
9 10 (4.78%) Banking
9 10 (4.78%) Legal
10 9 (4.31%) Aerospace
11 7 (3.35%) Automotive
11 7 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (3.35%) Law
12 6 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.39%) Welsh Language
14 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.96%) Digital Economy
15 2 (0.96%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (22.01%) Senior
2 31 (14.83%) IT Engineer
3 26 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (10.53%) Analyst
5 21 (10.05%) IT Support
6 19 (9.09%) Field Engineer
6 19 (9.09%) Field Service Engineer
7 18 (8.61%) Support Engineer
8 15 (7.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (6.22%) Security Analyst
10 12 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (4.78%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Network Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (4.31%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.31%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.35%) Terraform
2 9 (4.31%) React
3 7 (3.35%) .NET
4 5 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.44%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.44%) HTML
5 3 (1.44%) RESTful
5 3 (1.44%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (1.44%) Spring
5 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.96%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.96%) CSS
6 2 (0.96%) CSS3
6 2 (0.96%) HTML5
6 2 (0.96%) Jest
6 2 (0.96%) JSON
6 2 (0.96%) Next.js
6 2 (0.96%) Node.js
6 2 (0.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.00%) Security Posture
2 17 (8.13%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.26%) Social Media
4 10 (4.78%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.31%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.83%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.35%) Clustering
8 6 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.87%) Replication
9 5 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.39%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.91%) Blog
10 4 (1.91%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 74 (35.41%) Windows
2 45 (21.53%) Windows Server
3 26 (12.44%) Windows 10
4 25 (11.96%) Linux
5 20 (9.57%) Apple iOS
6 18 (8.61%) Android
7 9 (4.31%) Unix
8 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.44%) AIX
9 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.48%) Solaris
11 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 60 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (23.44%) ITIL
4 45 (21.53%) Incident Response
5 38 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (14.83%) Disaster Recovery
7 30 (14.35%) Agile
7 30 (14.35%) CI/CD
7 30 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (13.40%) Root Cause Analysis
9 27 (12.92%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (12.44%) Customer Service
11 25 (11.96%) High Availability
12 24 (11.48%) Observability
12 24 (11.48%) SIEM
13 23 (11.00%) Collaborative Working
13 23 (11.00%) Incident Management
14 22 (10.53%) Project Delivery
15 21 (10.05%) DevOps
15 21 (10.05%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.57%) Python
2 38 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.61%) SQL
4 16 (7.66%) Bash
5 15 (7.18%) Java
6 9 (4.31%) Go
7 7 (3.35%) Search Processing Language
7 7 (3.35%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.87%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.87%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.91%) C#
10 3 (1.44%) C
10 3 (1.44%) Ruby
11 2 (0.96%) PHP
11 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.48%) Natural
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Scala
12 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (19.14%) Degree
2 29 (13.88%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.22%) CCNA
6 12 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.74%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.39%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.39%) CCNP
9 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.44%) MCSA
10 3 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.44%) SSCP
11 2 (0.96%) CISSP
11 2 (0.96%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (7.66%) SLA
3 12 (5.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.31%) NIST
5 6 (2.87%) QA
6 5 (2.39%) GDPR
7 4 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.96%) WCAG
9 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (18.66%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.31%) Docker
4 6 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.39%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.96%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
7 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (10.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (9.57%) Ansible
3 17 (8.13%) Kubernetes
4 11 (5.26%) Grafana
4 11 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.39%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.44%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.44%) Istio
6 3 (1.44%) linkerd
6 3 (1.44%) Puppet
6 3 (1.44%) SCCM
7 2 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) Autotask
8 1 (0.48%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.48%) Podman
8 1 (0.48%) QRadar
8 1 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 93 (44.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.09%) Cisco
3 18 (8.61%) Logitech
3 18 (8.61%) Sophos
3 18 (8.61%) TOWER Software
4 17 (8.13%) VMware
5 16 (7.66%) Splunk
6 9 (4.31%) Oracle
6 9 (4.31%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.83%) Meraki
7 8 (3.83%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.83%) Tanium
8 7 (3.35%) RedGate
9 6 (2.87%) Dell
9 6 (2.87%) Google
10 5 (2.39%) YouTube
11 4 (1.91%) Apple
11 4 (1.91%) HP
11 4 (1.91%) iManage
11 4 (1.91%) Red Hat