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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 479 517
Rank change year-on-year -76 +38 +100
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 175 174 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.41% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.44% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 110 99 321
10th Percentile £37,375 £35,950 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,917 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £45,475
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +18.06% +7.00%
75th Percentile £68,918 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £80,250 £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 68,523 39,694 83,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 93.27% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44,541 20,818 60,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 26 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 15 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 May 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 -63 165 £55,000 +2.44% 59
UK excluding London -60 111 £50,000 +11.11% 46
London -15 52 £62,000 -4.62% 19
Midlands -27 44 £50,000 +1.18% 10
Work from Home -10 35 £57,000 +14.00% 29
West Midlands -41 30 £53,688 - 6
North of England -43 25 £50,000 - 11
South East -18 23 £42,000 -1.18% 17
North West -5 14 £51,250 +2.50% 7
East Midlands -22 14 £33,000 -26.67% 4
East of England -19 13 £65,000 +36.84% 4
Yorkshire -61 8 £50,000 -20.00% 3
Wales -37 3 £68,500 +79.82% 1
North East -39 3 £48,445 - 1
South West -69 3 £54,749 +15.26% 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 12 (6.86%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.29%) IIS
4 2 (1.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.71%) SPSS
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (25.71%) Azure
2 41 (23.43%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (17.14%) Entra ID
4 27 (15.43%) AWS
5 17 (9.71%) SaaS
6 11 (6.29%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.14%) GitHub
8 8 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (4.00%) Mimecast
10 6 (3.43%) GCP
11 5 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (2.86%) OneDrive
12 4 (2.29%) IaaS
12 4 (2.29%) PaaS
12 4 (2.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (2.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (2.29%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.71%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (1.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (23.43%) Firewall
1 41 (23.43%) LAN
2 38 (21.71%) WAN
3 12 (6.86%) VPN
4 10 (5.71%) DNS
5 9 (5.14%) Cisco IOS
5 9 (5.14%) DHCP
5 9 (5.14%) SD-WAN
5 9 (5.14%) WAAS
5 9 (5.14%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (4.00%) BGP
6 7 (4.00%) Network Security
6 7 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 7 (4.00%) Wireless
7 6 (3.43%) MPLS
7 6 (3.43%) WLAN
8 4 (2.29%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (2.29%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (2.29%) VoIP
8 4 (2.29%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.86%) Power BI
3 4 (2.29%) MySQL
4 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.14%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.14%) Metadata
5 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.14%) Redis
5 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.57%) Big Data
6 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 10 (5.71%) Git
2 8 (4.57%) GitLab
3 6 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.71%) JIRA
5 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 47 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.14%) Finance
3 25 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.43%) Advertising
5 13 (7.43%) Marketing
6 9 (5.14%) Legal
7 8 (4.57%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.00%) Banking
9 6 (3.43%) Automotive
10 5 (2.86%) Law
11 4 (2.29%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.29%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.14%) Public Speaking
13 2 (1.14%) Retail
14 1 (0.57%) Aviation
14 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (19.43%) Support Engineer
2 28 (16.00%) Senior
3 25 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 20 (11.43%) IT Support
5 17 (9.71%) IT Support Engineer
5 17 (9.71%) Lead
6 16 (9.14%) Technical Support
7 15 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (8.57%) Technical Engineer
7 15 (8.57%) Technical Support Engineer
8 14 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (6.86%) Analyst
10 11 (6.29%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Network Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Field Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Field Service Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Product Owner
12 6 (3.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.86%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.57%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.57%) REST
1 8 (4.57%) Visualforce
2 6 (3.43%) .NET
3 5 (2.86%) CSS
3 5 (2.86%) HTML
4 4 (2.29%) Middleware
4 4 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.29%) SOAP
5 3 (1.71%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.71%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.71%) Kafka
5 3 (1.71%) NETCONF
5 3 (1.71%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.14%) Memcached
6 2 (1.14%) Spring
7 1 (0.57%) Ajax
7 1 (0.57%) CodeIgniter
7 1 (0.57%) jQuery
7 1 (0.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.57%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.29%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.71%) CMDB
5 8 (4.57%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.57%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.00%) Social Media
7 6 (3.43%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.86%) Robotics
8 5 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.29%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.29%) PKI
9 4 (2.29%) Replication
9 4 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (38.86%) Windows
2 17 (9.71%) Android
2 17 (9.71%) Windows Server
3 16 (9.14%) Linux
4 12 (6.86%) Apple iOS
4 12 (6.86%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.86%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.29%) Unix
7 3 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.57%) Solaris
8 1 (0.57%) VMS
8 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 46 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (21.71%) ITIL
4 30 (17.14%) Agile
4 30 (17.14%) AI
5 27 (15.43%) SIEM
6 26 (14.86%) CI/CD
7 24 (13.71%) Roadmaps
7 24 (13.71%) Root Cause Analysis
8 22 (12.57%) Incident Response
8 22 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (12.00%) Change Management
10 20 (11.43%) DevOps
10 20 (11.43%) Service Delivery
11 19 (10.86%) Mentoring
12 18 (10.29%) Computer Science
12 18 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (10.29%) Information Security
13 17 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (9.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.86%) Python
2 30 (17.14%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.86%) SQL
4 9 (5.14%) Bash
5 8 (4.57%) Apex Code
5 8 (4.57%) Java
6 6 (3.43%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.43%) Ruby
7 4 (2.29%) Scala
7 4 (2.29%) SOQL
7 4 (2.29%) SOSL
7 4 (2.29%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.71%) C
8 3 (1.71%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.14%) C#
9 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.14%) Perl
9 2 (1.14%) PHP
10 1 (0.57%) Bicep
10 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 57 (32.57%) Degree
2 24 (13.71%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (11.43%) Security Cleared
4 16 (9.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (8.00%) CCNP
5 14 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (6.86%) CISSP
6 12 (6.86%) SC Cleared
7 10 (5.71%) CCIE
7 10 (5.71%) CCNA
8 8 (4.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (4.57%) Master's Degree
9 7 (4.00%) CISA
10 6 (3.43%) CISM
11 5 (2.86%) JNCIP
11 5 (2.86%) OSCP
12 4 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (2.29%) CCSP
12 4 (2.29%) CompTIA CySA+
12 4 (2.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.57%) SLA
2 19 (10.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.57%) QA
4 6 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.86%) GRC
6 4 (2.29%) GDPR
6 4 (2.29%) NIST
6 4 (2.29%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 37 (21.14%) Active Directory
2 25 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.86%) Docker
4 11 (6.29%) Firmware
5 7 (4.00%) vSphere
6 6 (3.43%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.29%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.57%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 25 (14.29%) Terraform
2 22 (12.57%) Ansible
3 18 (10.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (5.71%) SCCM
5 8 (4.57%) Kubernetes
5 8 (4.57%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.86%) WSUS
7 3 (1.71%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.71%) Grafana
7 3 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.14%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.57%) Autotask
9 1 (0.57%) Istio
9 1 (0.57%) linkerd
9 1 (0.57%) Podman
9 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
9 1 (0.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 66 (37.71%) Microsoft
2 35 (20.00%) Cisco
3 25 (14.29%) VMware
4 19 (10.86%) Juniper
5 17 (9.71%) Dell
6 14 (8.00%) McAfee
6 14 (8.00%) Splunk
7 9 (5.14%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.57%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.43%) Apple
9 6 (3.43%) Logitech
9 6 (3.43%) SolarWinds
9 6 (3.43%) Sophos
9 6 (3.43%) TOWER Software
10 5 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (2.86%) Dynatrace
10 5 (2.86%) New Relic
11 3 (1.71%) Meraki
11 3 (1.71%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow