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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 498 460
Rank change year-on-year +24 -38 +234
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 197 269 302
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.38% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.46% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 100 163 260
10th Percentile £31,975 £36,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,625 £77,250 £77,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,445 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.48% +0.99% +12.50%

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 43,445 57,940 52,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.85% 82.20% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 24,607 31,056 40,413
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,099 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,541 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £53,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -11.32% -1.85% +2.86%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +32 179 £50,000 +9.32% 112
UK excluding London +52 156 £42,500 -6.48% 93
South East +40 51 £42,500 -3.94% 25
Work from Home +3 39 £55,000 +16.26% 56
London -3 31 £75,000 +11.11% 35
Midlands +31 30 £40,000 -28.57% 13
North of England -24 28 £47,500 +5.56% 20
South West +67 27 £52,500 - 17
West Midlands +39 27 £40,000 -40.74% 9
Yorkshire +11 20 £47,000 +5.29% 6
East of England +7 10 £37,000 -29.52% 9
Scotland +7 7 £67,500 +28.57% 5
North West -21 6 £47,500 +3.26% 10
East Midlands +11 3 - - 4
Wales +15 2 £38,094 -19.47% 5
North East +5 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £55,000 - 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 15 (7.61%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.55%) IIS
4 2 (1.02%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.02%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.51%) Appian
5 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.03%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.02%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (37.06%) Azure
2 44 (22.34%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (18.78%) AWS
4 21 (10.66%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (10.15%) GCP
6 12 (6.09%) Entra ID
6 12 (6.09%) Power Platform
7 11 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.08%) SaaS
9 8 (4.06%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.06%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.05%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (2.54%) Azure Storage
11 5 (2.54%) PaaS
12 4 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.03%) IaaS
13 3 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.02%) Boomi
14 2 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (1.02%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (30.46%) Firewall
2 25 (12.69%) DNS
2 25 (12.69%) WAN
3 21 (10.66%) VPN
4 20 (10.15%) DHCP
4 20 (10.15%) LTE
4 20 (10.15%) VSAT
5 17 (8.63%) Wireless
6 15 (7.61%) LAN
6 15 (7.61%) Network Security
7 12 (6.09%) SD-WAN
7 12 (6.09%) TCP/IP
8 10 (5.08%) 802.11
8 10 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (4.06%) Internet
9 8 (4.06%) SSL
9 8 (4.06%) VLAN
10 7 (3.55%) SAN
11 5 (2.54%) NAS
12 3 (1.52%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.58%) Power BI
3 4 (2.03%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.02%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.51%) Metadata
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) Parquet
6 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.51%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 5 (2.54%) JIRA
2 2 (1.02%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (53.30%) Social Skills
2 69 (35.03%) Finance
3 47 (23.86%) Law
4 45 (22.84%) Legal
5 28 (14.21%) Financial Institution
6 25 (12.69%) Prime Brokerage
7 21 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (10.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (6.09%) Manufacturing
10 11 (5.58%) Electronics
11 10 (5.08%) Aerospace
11 10 (5.08%) Automotive
11 10 (5.08%) Billing
12 9 (4.57%) Marketing
13 5 (2.54%) Banking
13 5 (2.54%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 4 (2.03%) Police
15 3 (1.52%) Back Office
15 3 (1.52%) French Language
Job Titles
1 47 (23.86%) Support Engineer
2 42 (21.32%) Technical Support
3 37 (18.78%) Technical Engineer
3 37 (18.78%) Technical Support Engineer
4 34 (17.26%) Senior
5 26 (13.20%) Risk Manager
6 22 (11.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (6.60%) Senior Manager
8 12 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (5.58%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 10 (5.08%) Security Specialist
11 9 (4.57%) 3rd Line Support
11 9 (4.57%) Lead
12 7 (3.55%) Network Engineer
13 5 (2.54%) 2nd Line Support
13 5 (2.54%) Analyst
13 5 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (2.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (2.54%) Junior
13 5 (2.54%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.60%) Hugging Face
1 13 (6.60%) LangChain
1 13 (6.60%) PyTorch
1 13 (6.60%) TensorFlow
2 11 (5.58%) 802.1X
3 6 (3.05%) Web Services
4 5 (2.54%) CSS
4 5 (2.54%) HTML
4 5 (2.54%) REST
5 4 (2.03%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.03%) Middleware
5 4 (2.03%) ModSecurity
6 3 (1.52%) .NET
6 3 (1.52%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.02%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.02%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.02%) SAML
7 2 (1.02%) SAP Basis
7 2 (1.02%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.69%) Blockchain
1 25 (12.69%) Derivative
1 25 (12.69%) Hedge funds
2 20 (10.15%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.08%) Renewable Energy
4 8 (4.06%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.05%) CMDB
7 5 (2.54%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.54%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.52%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.02%) Clustering
9 2 (1.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.02%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 56 (28.43%) Windows
2 22 (11.17%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.57%) Linux
4 6 (3.05%) Unix
5 4 (2.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.52%) AIX
6 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.51%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.46%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (25.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (20.81%) Change Management
4 38 (19.29%) Data Privacy
4 38 (19.29%) High Availability
4 38 (19.29%) ITIL
5 32 (16.24%) Incident Management
5 32 (16.24%) Service Delivery
6 31 (15.74%) Customer Service
7 30 (15.23%) Service Management
8 27 (13.71%) Cybersecurity
8 27 (13.71%) Risk Management
9 25 (12.69%) Rehypothecation
9 25 (12.69%) Roadmaps
9 25 (12.69%) SIEM
9 25 (12.69%) Stress Testing
10 24 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (10.66%) Incident Response
11 21 (10.66%) Root Cause Analysis
12 20 (10.15%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 29 (14.72%) PowerShell
1 29 (14.72%) SQL
2 9 (4.57%) C#
2 9 (4.57%) Python
3 6 (3.05%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.54%) Bash
5 4 (2.03%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.52%) Go
7 2 (1.02%) Bicep
8 1 (0.51%) C++
8 1 (0.51%) Java
8 1 (0.51%) Scala
8 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (15.74%) Degree
2 30 (15.23%) Cisco Certification
3 27 (13.71%) CCNA
3 27 (13.71%) Security Cleared
4 20 (10.15%) JNCIA
5 19 (9.64%) SC Cleared
6 14 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (6.60%) Master's Degree
7 13 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (5.08%) GCSC
9 9 (4.57%) CCNP
10 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.03%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.52%) CISM
11 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.52%) MCSA
11 3 (1.52%) MCSE
12 2 (1.02%) CCSA
12 2 (1.02%) CISSP
12 2 (1.02%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.24%) GDPR
2 25 (12.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 14 (7.11%) SLA
4 6 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.03%) NIST
6 2 (1.02%) COBIT
6 2 (1.02%) ISO 9000
6 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.51%) GRC
7 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (14.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (11.17%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.60%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.55%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.05%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.03%) vSphere
8 3 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (8.63%) Terraform
2 15 (7.61%) Grafana
3 14 (7.11%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.55%) vCenter Server
6 5 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.03%) Kubernetes
8 3 (1.52%) Ansible
8 3 (1.52%) Netcool
8 3 (1.52%) SCCM
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.02%) SCOM
9 2 (1.02%) Suricata
10 1 (0.51%) CA Spectrum
10 1 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (28.93%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.74%) VMware
3 25 (12.69%) Cisco
4 14 (7.11%) Dell
4 14 (7.11%) Freshdesk
5 13 (6.60%) OpenAI
6 12 (6.09%) ServiceNow
7 11 (5.58%) Juniper
8 10 (5.08%) McAfee
8 10 (5.08%) Oracle
9 9 (4.57%) SolarWinds
10 8 (4.06%) Google
11 6 (3.05%) Citrix
11 6 (3.05%) NetApp
12 5 (2.54%) Fortinet
12 5 (2.54%) IBM
12 5 (2.54%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.54%) SAP
12 5 (2.54%) SonicWALL
13 4 (2.03%) Meraki