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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 464 514
Rank change year-on-year -125 +50 -7
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 207 222 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.50% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 130 118 237
10th Percentile £34,900 £32,500 £28,898
25th Percentile £40,313 £40,521 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,375 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,625 £76,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £44,274
% change year-on-year +5.56% +1.64% -0.58%

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 78,105 44,566 67,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 89.27% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 53,741 25,228 43,541
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,575 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -88 187 £50,000 -5.66% 88
UK excluding London -112 152 £47,500 +5.56% 62
Work from Home -8 66 £52,500 +11.70% 35
London -47 47 £56,500 -16.30% 33
Midlands -23 43 £50,000 +10.93% 9
South East -37 38 £41,000 -3.53% 21
North of England -42 34 £50,000 +5.26% 10
North West +10 25 £50,000 +21.21% 6
East Midlands -7 22 - - 2
West Midlands -41 21 £50,000 +10.93% 7
East of England -11 18 £65,000 +145.28% 10
Wales -60 9 £36,961 -2.97% 4
South West -84 8 £59,749 +13.81% 6
Yorkshire -52 5 £40,000 -27.27% 2
Scotland +6 4 - - 4
North East -58 4 - - 2

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 26 (12.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (12.56%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) IIS
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (9.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.45%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (30.92%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (24.64%) Azure
3 28 (13.53%) AWS
3 28 (13.53%) Entra ID
4 19 (9.18%) Mimecast
5 15 (7.25%) GCP
5 15 (7.25%) OneDrive
6 12 (5.80%) GitHub
7 10 (4.83%) SaaS
8 7 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.38%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.90%) Cloud Functions
9 6 (2.90%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.93%) dbt
10 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.93%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.45%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 69 (33.33%) Firewall
2 49 (23.67%) LAN
3 40 (19.32%) WAN
4 24 (11.59%) DNS
5 23 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 22 (10.63%) DHCP
7 19 (9.18%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (8.70%) Network Security
9 17 (8.21%) Wireless
10 13 (6.28%) VPN
11 10 (4.83%) VLAN
12 6 (2.90%) Broadband
13 5 (2.42%) VoIP
14 3 (1.45%) PBX
15 2 (0.97%) SAN
15 2 (0.97%) SD-WAN
16 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
16 1 (0.48%) HTTP
16 1 (0.48%) NGFW
16 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.21%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.86%) MySQL
3 5 (2.42%) Power BI
4 4 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.45%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.45%) Metadata
6 2 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.97%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.48%) Adabas
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.48%) Big Data
7 1 (0.48%) DTS
7 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.83%) Git
2 8 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.42%) GitLab
3 5 (2.42%) JIRA
4 3 (1.45%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
General
1 64 (30.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.98%) Finance
3 20 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.21%) Advertising
6 14 (6.76%) Telecoms
7 13 (6.28%) Marketing
8 12 (5.80%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.31%) Banking
9 11 (5.31%) Legal
10 8 (3.86%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.90%) Automotive
12 5 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.42%) Welsh Language
13 4 (1.93%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.93%) Retail
14 3 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.97%) Digital Economy
15 2 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (18.36%) Senior
2 29 (14.01%) IT Engineer
3 27 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 24 (11.59%) IT Support
5 23 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (10.63%) Analyst
7 14 (6.76%) Field Engineer
7 14 (6.76%) Field Service Engineer
7 14 (6.76%) Security Analyst
7 14 (6.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.28%) IT Support Engineer
9 12 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.31%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.31%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (4.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) Senior Security Analyst
11 10 (4.83%) Technical Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) Technical Support
11 10 (4.83%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.35%) .NET
2 7 (3.38%) React
3 3 (1.45%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.45%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.45%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (1.45%) Visualforce
4 2 (0.97%) HTML
4 2 (0.97%) Node.js
4 2 (0.97%) RESTful
4 2 (0.97%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (0.97%) Spring
4 2 (0.97%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.48%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (0.48%) Jest
5 1 (0.48%) JSON
5 1 (0.48%) Next.js
5 1 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.48%) Playwright
5 1 (0.48%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 19 (9.18%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.25%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.80%) Social Media
5 10 (4.83%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.86%) Clustering
6 8 (3.86%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.38%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.42%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.93%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.93%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.93%) Replication
11 3 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (37.20%) Windows
2 39 (18.84%) Windows Server
3 25 (12.08%) Windows 10
4 24 (11.59%) Linux
5 18 (8.70%) Apple iOS
6 14 (6.76%) Android
7 9 (4.35%) Unix
8 4 (1.93%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.97%) AIX
9 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (31.40%) Continuous Improvement
2 58 (28.02%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (21.26%) Incident Response
4 40 (19.32%) ITIL
5 37 (17.87%) Agile
5 37 (17.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (15.94%) CI/CD
7 31 (14.98%) SIEM
8 27 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
8 27 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
9 25 (12.08%) Collaborative Working
10 24 (11.59%) Customer Service
10 24 (11.59%) Disaster Recovery
11 23 (11.11%) Incident Management
12 22 (10.63%) DevOps
12 22 (10.63%) High Availability
12 22 (10.63%) Project Delivery
13 21 (10.14%) Change Management
13 21 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (24.15%) Python
2 34 (16.43%) PowerShell
3 19 (9.18%) SQL
4 17 (8.21%) Bash
5 13 (6.28%) Java
6 9 (4.35%) Go
7 6 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.90%) Search Processing Language
7 6 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.42%) Ruby
9 4 (1.93%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.45%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.45%) C
10 3 (1.45%) C#
10 3 (1.45%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.97%) PHP
11 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.48%) Natural
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (24.64%) Degree
2 24 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.25%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.28%) CCNA
6 12 (5.80%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.83%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.90%) CISSP
10 5 (2.42%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.42%) CCNP
10 5 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.45%) CISA
11 3 (1.45%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (1.45%) CRISC
11 3 (1.45%) MCSA
11 3 (1.45%) SSCP
12 2 (0.97%) CISM
12 2 (0.97%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (11.11%) SLA
3 14 (6.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (5.80%) QA
5 10 (4.83%) NIST
6 8 (3.86%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.42%) GDPR
8 3 (1.45%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.97%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (19.81%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.28%) Docker
4 5 (2.42%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.48%) Firmware
6 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 28 (13.53%) Terraform
2 21 (10.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (9.18%) Ansible
4 12 (5.80%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.86%) Grafana
6 7 (3.38%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.45%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.45%) Istio
7 3 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.45%) linkerd
7 3 (1.45%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.45%) Puppet
8 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) Autotask
9 1 (0.48%) Nagios
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.48%) Podman
9 1 (0.48%) QRadar
Vendors
1 87 (42.03%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.63%) Cisco
3 20 (9.66%) VMware
4 15 (7.25%) Splunk
5 14 (6.76%) Logitech
5 14 (6.76%) Sophos
5 14 (6.76%) TOWER Software
6 12 (5.80%) Dell
7 9 (4.35%) Juniper
7 9 (4.35%) McAfee
7 9 (4.35%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.86%) Oracle
8 8 (3.86%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.86%) Tanium
9 6 (2.90%) Google
10 5 (2.42%) Apple
11 4 (1.93%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.93%) HP
11 4 (1.93%) New Relic
11 4 (1.93%) Red Hat