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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 481 533
Rank change year-on-year -103 +52 +47
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 174 192 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.46% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 110 100 317
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,153 £27,500
25th Percentile £43,877 £42,500 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,625 £53,688 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +16.71% +2.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,875 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -

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 69,638 41,796 87,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.33% 92.22% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48,019 22,539 62,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -81 161 £52,500 -2.21% 48
UK excluding London -86 124 £50,000 +5.26% 47
Midlands -14 44 £50,000 +10.75% 12
Work from Home -15 41 £54,749 +9.50% 23
London -45 39 £70,000 +7.69% 11
South East -35 29 £42,000 -1.18% 12
West Midlands -22 28 £50,000 +1.18% 5
North of England -47 24 £50,000 - 5
East of England 0 18 £55,000 +15.79% 3
East Midlands -19 16 - - 7
North West -1 14 £50,000 +2.56% 4
Yorkshire -42 9 £40,000 -36.00%
Wales -50 4 £41,985 +10.21% 2
South West -73 4 £54,749 +15.26% 8
Scotland +7 3 - - 4
North East -46 1 - - 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 19 (10.92%) SharePoint
2 15 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.87%) IIS
5 2 (1.15%) Apache
5 2 (1.15%) Confluence
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.57%) CMS
6 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.72%) SPSS
3 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 51 (29.31%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (27.01%) Azure
3 27 (15.52%) AWS
4 23 (13.22%) Entra ID
5 14 (8.05%) Mimecast
6 11 (6.32%) SaaS
7 9 (5.17%) OneDrive
8 8 (4.60%) GitHub
9 7 (4.02%) GCP
9 7 (4.02%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (2.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (2.30%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.72%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (1.72%) IaaS
11 3 (1.72%) PaaS
11 3 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 53 (30.46%) Firewall
2 45 (25.86%) LAN
3 40 (22.99%) WAN
4 16 (9.20%) DNS
4 16 (9.20%) VPN
5 15 (8.62%) DHCP
5 15 (8.62%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (6.32%) Network Security
6 11 (6.32%) Wireless
7 10 (5.75%) TCP/IP
8 8 (4.60%) VoIP
9 7 (4.02%) SD-WAN
10 6 (3.45%) BGP
10 6 (3.45%) MPLS
10 6 (3.45%) VLAN
11 4 (2.30%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.30%) Broadband
11 4 (2.30%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (2.30%) VPLS
12 3 (1.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.87%) Power BI
3 4 (2.30%) MySQL
4 3 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.15%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.57%) Adabas
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.57%) Big Data
6 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.57%) Metadata
6 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (6.32%) Git
2 9 (5.17%) GitLab
3 7 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.72%) JIRA
5 2 (1.15%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 53 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.64%) Finance
3 18 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.47%) Advertising
4 13 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (6.32%) Marketing
6 9 (5.17%) Legal
6 9 (5.17%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.02%) Aerospace
7 7 (4.02%) Banking
8 6 (3.45%) Automotive
8 6 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.87%) Law
10 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.15%) Retail
12 1 (0.57%) Aviation
12 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 32 (18.39%) Support Engineer
2 30 (17.24%) Senior
3 28 (16.09%) IT Support
4 27 (15.52%) IT Engineer
5 22 (12.64%) Analyst
6 16 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (9.20%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (8.05%) Technical Support
8 13 (7.47%) Technical Engineer
8 13 (7.47%) Technical Support Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Security Analyst
10 10 (5.75%) Data Engineer
10 10 (5.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) Field Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) Field Service Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (5.17%) Support Analyst
12 8 (4.60%) IT Analyst
13 7 (4.02%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.60%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.60%) Visualforce
2 7 (4.02%) REST
3 5 (2.87%) .NET
3 5 (2.87%) CSS
3 5 (2.87%) HTML
4 4 (2.30%) Middleware
4 4 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.30%) SOAP
5 3 (1.72%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.72%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.15%) NETCONF
6 2 (1.15%) Node.js
6 2 (1.15%) React
6 2 (1.15%) RESTCONF
7 1 (0.57%) CSS3
7 1 (0.57%) HTML5
7 1 (0.57%) Kafka
7 1 (0.57%) Laravel
7 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.07%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.77%) Security Posture
3 14 (8.05%) Onboarding
4 11 (6.32%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.32%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.60%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.02%) Social Media
7 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.87%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.87%) Robotics
8 4 (2.30%) Clustering
8 4 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.30%) PKI
8 4 (2.30%) Replication
8 4 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 71 (40.80%) Windows
2 26 (14.94%) Windows Server
3 20 (11.49%) Windows 10
4 16 (9.20%) Linux
5 15 (8.62%) Apple iOS
6 12 (6.90%) Android
7 5 (2.87%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.72%) Unix
8 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.57%) AIX
9 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.57%) Solaris
9 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (37.93%) Continuous Improvement
2 48 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (18.97%) SIEM
4 30 (17.24%) Incident Response
4 30 (17.24%) ITIL
5 26 (14.94%) Agile
6 25 (14.37%) CI/CD
6 25 (14.37%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (13.22%) Root Cause Analysis
8 21 (12.07%) AI
9 20 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (9.77%) Customer Service
11 17 (9.77%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (9.77%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (9.77%) Roadmaps
12 16 (9.20%) Computer Science
12 16 (9.20%) Information Security
12 16 (9.20%) Process Improvement
12 16 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.24%) Python
2 28 (16.09%) PowerShell
3 11 (6.32%) SQL
4 10 (5.75%) Bash
5 8 (4.60%) Apex Code
5 8 (4.60%) Java
6 6 (3.45%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.87%) Ruby
8 4 (2.30%) SOQL
8 4 (2.30%) SOSL
9 3 (1.72%) C
9 3 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.72%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.15%) Go
10 2 (1.15%) PHP
11 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (29.89%) Degree
2 21 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 20 (11.49%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (7.47%) CCNA
5 12 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.75%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (4.60%) CCNP
8 8 (4.60%) CISSP
8 8 (4.60%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.30%) CCIE
10 4 (2.30%) CCSP
10 4 (2.30%) CISM
10 4 (2.30%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (2.30%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (10.34%) SLA
3 12 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.60%) NIST
4 8 (4.60%) QA
5 5 (2.87%) GDPR
6 3 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.72%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.57%) GRC
8 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 23 (13.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.90%) Docker
4 5 (2.87%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.87%) vSphere
5 4 (2.30%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.30%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.57%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.57%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (13.22%) Terraform
2 18 (10.34%) Ansible
3 15 (8.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.60%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.30%) Grafana
6 4 (2.30%) WSUS
7 3 (1.72%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.15%) Istio
8 2 (1.15%) linkerd
8 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.15%) Puppet
8 2 (1.15%) SCCM
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.57%) Podman
9 1 (0.57%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 74 (42.53%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.37%) Cisco
3 23 (13.22%) VMware
4 15 (8.62%) Dell
5 12 (6.90%) Juniper
5 12 (6.90%) McAfee
6 11 (6.32%) Splunk
7 9 (5.17%) Logitech
7 9 (5.17%) Sophos
7 9 (5.17%) TOWER Software
8 8 (4.60%) Salesforce
9 7 (4.02%) Meraki
10 6 (3.45%) Apple
10 6 (3.45%) CheckPoint
10 6 (3.45%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.87%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (2.30%) iManage
12 4 (2.30%) SAP
12 4 (2.30%) Tanium
13 3 (1.72%) Oracle