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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 477 535
Rank change year-on-year -90 +58 +59
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 166 192 403
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.43% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.47% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 103 102 319
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,017 £27,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,563 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,594 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +16.51% +5.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £81,125 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,147 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.75% +6.23% -

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 67,552 41,143 88,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.63% 82.27%
Number of salaries quoted 46,362 21,911 62,510
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,556
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 13 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 13 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 -86 154 £53,688 - 52
UK excluding London -93 112 £50,000 +10.75% 52
London -16 43 £62,000 -4.62% 15
Midlands -11 40 £50,000 +1.18% 12
Work from Home -15 33 £53,499 +7.00% 30
South East -22 27 £42,000 -1.18% 18
West Midlands -24 27 £50,000 -6.87% 7
North of England -50 23 £50,000 - 6
East of England -7 15 £50,000 +5.26% 3
North West +7 13 £50,625 +3.85% 5
East Midlands -12 13 - - 5
Yorkshire -50 9 £45,000 -28.00% 1
Wales -49 4 £57,755 +51.61%
South West -70 3 £54,749 +15.26% 3
Scotland +14 2 - - 4
North East -39 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 14 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.01%) IIS
5 2 (1.20%) Apache
5 2 (1.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.60%) CMS
6 1 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.81%) SPSS
3 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (25.30%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (23.49%) Azure
3 25 (15.06%) AWS
4 23 (13.86%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.83%) SaaS
6 12 (7.23%) Mimecast
7 9 (5.42%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.82%) GitHub
9 7 (4.22%) GCP
10 5 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.01%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (2.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.41%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.81%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (1.81%) IaaS
12 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (26.51%) Firewall
2 38 (22.89%) LAN
3 33 (19.88%) WAN
4 12 (7.23%) VPN
5 9 (5.42%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (5.42%) Wireless
6 8 (4.82%) DNS
6 8 (4.82%) Network Security
7 7 (4.22%) DHCP
7 7 (4.22%) SD-WAN
7 7 (4.22%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.61%) BGP
8 6 (3.61%) MPLS
9 5 (3.01%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (3.01%) VoIP
9 5 (3.01%) WAAS
10 4 (2.41%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (2.41%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (2.41%) VPLS
11 3 (1.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.64%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.01%) Power BI
3 4 (2.41%) MySQL
4 3 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.60%) Adabas
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.60%) Big Data
6 1 (0.60%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.60%) Metadata
6 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.60%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (6.02%) Git
2 8 (4.82%) GitLab
3 6 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.81%) JIRA
5 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 51 (30.72%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.46%) Finance
3 20 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.83%) Advertising
6 12 (7.23%) Marketing
7 9 (5.42%) Legal
8 7 (4.22%) Banking
8 7 (4.22%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.61%) Automotive
10 5 (3.01%) Law
11 4 (2.41%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.41%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.20%) Retail
13 1 (0.60%) Games
13 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.60%) Military
13 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (18.67%) Support Engineer
2 27 (16.27%) Senior
3 26 (15.66%) IT Engineer
4 24 (14.46%) IT Support
5 19 (11.45%) Analyst
6 16 (9.64%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) Technical Support
8 13 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (7.83%) Technical Engineer
8 13 (7.83%) Technical Support Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Lead
11 10 (6.02%) Data Engineer
12 9 (5.42%) Security Analyst
13 8 (4.82%) Field Engineer
13 8 (4.82%) Field Service Engineer
13 8 (4.82%) Support Analyst
14 7 (4.22%) IT Analyst
14 7 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (3.61%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.82%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (4.82%) Visualforce
2 7 (4.22%) REST
3 5 (3.01%) .NET
3 5 (3.01%) CSS
3 5 (3.01%) HTML
4 4 (2.41%) Middleware
4 4 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.41%) SOAP
5 3 (1.81%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.20%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.20%) Kafka
6 2 (1.20%) NETCONF
6 2 (1.20%) Node.js
6 2 (1.20%) React
6 2 (1.20%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.20%) Spring
7 1 (0.60%) Ajax
7 1 (0.60%) JSON
7 1 (0.60%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.65%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.43%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.83%) Security Posture
4 12 (7.23%) Management Information System
5 11 (6.63%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.22%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.22%) Social Media
7 6 (3.61%) CMDB
7 6 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.01%) Robotics
9 4 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.41%) PKI
9 4 (2.41%) Replication
9 4 (2.41%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 66 (39.76%) Windows
2 19 (11.45%) Windows Server
3 18 (10.84%) Windows 10
4 15 (9.04%) Android
5 14 (8.43%) Apple iOS
6 13 (7.83%) Linux
7 5 (3.01%) Mac OS
8 4 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.20%) Unix
11 1 (0.60%) AIX
11 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.60%) Solaris
11 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 45 (27.11%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (20.48%) ITIL
4 29 (17.47%) SIEM
5 27 (16.27%) Agile
6 26 (15.66%) Incident Response
7 25 (15.06%) AI
8 24 (14.46%) CI/CD
9 23 (13.86%) Root Cause Analysis
10 20 (12.05%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (11.45%) Roadmaps
11 19 (11.45%) Service Delivery
12 18 (10.84%) Information Security
13 17 (10.24%) Change Management
13 17 (10.24%) Computer Science
13 17 (10.24%) Customer Service
13 17 (10.24%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (9.04%) DevOps
15 15 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.07%) Python
2 29 (17.47%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.02%) SQL
4 9 (5.42%) Bash
5 8 (4.82%) Apex Code
5 8 (4.82%) Java
6 6 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.61%) Ruby
7 4 (2.41%) SOQL
7 4 (2.41%) SOSL
8 3 (1.81%) C
8 3 (1.81%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.81%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.20%) PHP
9 2 (1.20%) Scala
10 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.60%) Go
10 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (33.13%) Degree
2 20 (12.05%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (11.45%) Security Cleared
4 14 (8.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (6.63%) CCNA
6 11 (6.63%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.42%) CCNP
7 9 (5.42%) CISSP
7 9 (5.42%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.61%) CCIE
8 6 (3.61%) Master's Degree
9 5 (3.01%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.41%) CCSP
10 4 (2.41%) CISA
10 4 (2.41%) CISM
10 4 (2.41%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (2.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (13.25%) SLA
3 10 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.82%) QA
5 6 (3.61%) NIST
6 3 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.81%) GDPR
6 3 (1.81%) GRC
6 3 (1.81%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 36 (21.69%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.63%) Docker
4 6 (3.61%) Firmware
5 5 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.01%) vSphere
6 4 (2.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.60%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.60%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (13.25%) Terraform
2 17 (10.24%) Ansible
3 15 (9.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (3.61%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.61%) SCCM
6 5 (3.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.41%) WSUS
8 3 (1.81%) Grafana
8 3 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.20%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.60%) Istio
10 1 (0.60%) linkerd
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.60%) Podman
10 1 (0.60%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.60%) Puppet
10 1 (0.60%) QRadar
Vendors
1 66 (39.76%) Microsoft
2 29 (17.47%) Cisco
3 22 (13.25%) VMware
4 15 (9.04%) Dell
5 14 (8.43%) Juniper
6 12 (7.23%) McAfee
7 11 (6.63%) Splunk
8 8 (4.82%) Logitech
8 8 (4.82%) Salesforce
8 8 (4.82%) Sophos
8 8 (4.82%) TOWER Software
9 6 (3.61%) Apple
9 6 (3.61%) Meraki
10 5 (3.01%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.01%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (3.01%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.01%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.81%) iManage
11 3 (1.81%) Tenable