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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 476 505
Rank change year-on-year -125 +29 -56
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 216 210 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.43% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.48% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 126 113 175
10th Percentile £31,625 £33,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £38,828 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -3.16%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +1.05%

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 86,307 43,936 60,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.11% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 59,386 24,309 33,164
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%
75th Percentile £79,641 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -107 196 £50,000 - 196
UK excluding London -127 163 £50,000 +17.65% 115
Work from Home -19 72 £51,250 -2.38% 80
London -60 47 £55,000 -26.67% 80
Midlands -43 44 £50,000 +25.00% 15
North of England -59 38 £50,000 +2.56% 40
South East -71 32 £41,000 -3.53% 25
North West -10 27 £50,000 +2.56% 28
East of England -19 25 £80,000 +116.22% 11
East Midlands -18 24 £37,500 - 6
West Midlands -52 20 £50,000 +25.00% 9
Wales -71 11 £36,961 -2.97% 5
South West -92 11 £61,250 +16.67% 14
Yorkshire -52 6 £40,000 -27.27% 10
North East -62 5 - - 2
Scotland +18 4 - - 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 29 (13.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (12.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.93%) IIS
4 2 (0.93%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 71 (32.87%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (23.61%) Azure
3 34 (15.74%) AWS
4 28 (12.96%) Entra ID
5 24 (11.11%) Mimecast
6 20 (9.26%) GCP
7 15 (6.94%) OneDrive
8 10 (4.63%) GitHub
9 7 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.24%) SaaS
10 6 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.78%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.31%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.85%) dbt
12 4 (1.85%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.85%) Serverless
13 3 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 68 (31.48%) Firewall
2 46 (21.30%) LAN
3 41 (18.98%) WAN
4 32 (14.81%) DNS
5 27 (12.50%) DHCP
6 23 (10.65%) TCP/IP
6 23 (10.65%) Wireless
7 18 (8.33%) Network Security
8 15 (6.94%) VPN
8 15 (6.94%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (5.09%) VLAN
10 6 (2.78%) Broadband
11 5 (2.31%) VoIP
12 3 (1.39%) PBX
12 3 (1.39%) SAN
12 3 (1.39%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.39%) Wireless Security
13 2 (0.93%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.70%) MySQL
4 7 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.39%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.39%) Metadata
5 3 (1.39%) Power BI
5 3 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.93%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.46%) Adabas
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.46%) DTS
7 1 (0.46%) GIS
7 1 (0.46%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.70%) Git
3 6 (2.78%) GitLab
4 3 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.39%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.39%) JIRA
4 3 (1.39%) Maven
4 3 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 63 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.44%) Finance
3 22 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.94%) Telecoms
6 14 (6.48%) Advertising
6 14 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.48%) Retail
7 12 (5.56%) Banking
8 11 (5.09%) Marketing
9 10 (4.63%) Legal
10 9 (4.17%) Aerospace
10 9 (4.17%) Law
11 8 (3.70%) Automotive
11 8 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.31%) Welsh Language
14 4 (1.85%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.39%) Local Government
16 2 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (23.15%) Senior
2 32 (14.81%) IT Engineer
3 27 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (10.19%) Analyst
5 21 (9.72%) IT Support
6 20 (9.26%) Field Engineer
6 20 (9.26%) Field Service Engineer
7 18 (8.33%) Support Engineer
8 15 (6.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (6.02%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.56%) Security Analyst
11 12 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (4.63%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (4.63%) Network Engineer
12 10 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
13 9 (4.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.17%) Senior Security Analyst
13 9 (4.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.81%) Terraform
2 10 (4.63%) React
3 7 (3.24%) .NET
3 7 (3.24%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (1.85%) RESTful
4 4 (1.85%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (1.85%) Spring
4 4 (1.85%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.39%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.39%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.39%) HTML
5 3 (1.39%) Jest
5 3 (1.39%) Next.js
5 3 (1.39%) Playwright
6 2 (0.93%) CSS
6 2 (0.93%) CSS3
6 2 (0.93%) HTML5
6 2 (0.93%) JSON
6 2 (0.93%) Node.js
6 2 (0.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 17 (7.87%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.48%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.63%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.63%) Social Media
5 9 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.17%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.24%) Clustering
6 7 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.24%) Replication
7 6 (2.78%) Blog
7 6 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.85%) Culture of Ownership
9 4 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.85%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.39%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (36.11%) Windows
2 48 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 27 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 24 (11.11%) Linux
5 20 (9.26%) Apple iOS
6 19 (8.80%) Android
7 8 (3.70%) Unix
8 4 (1.85%) AIX
8 4 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (28.24%) Continuous Improvement
2 58 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (24.54%) ITIL
4 47 (21.76%) Incident Response
5 41 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (15.74%) Disaster Recovery
7 33 (15.28%) CI/CD
8 32 (14.81%) Agile
9 30 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 29 (13.43%) Customer Service
10 29 (13.43%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (12.96%) Observability
12 27 (12.50%) High Availability
13 26 (12.04%) Root Cause Analysis
14 25 (11.57%) Collaborative Working
15 24 (11.11%) Incident Management
16 23 (10.65%) DevOps
16 23 (10.65%) Mentoring
16 23 (10.65%) SIEM
16 23 (10.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (19.91%) Python
2 39 (18.06%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.33%) Java
3 18 (8.33%) SQL
4 16 (7.41%) Bash
5 11 (5.09%) Go
6 8 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.24%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.24%) Search Processing Language
8 6 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.85%) C#
9 4 (1.85%) Ruby
10 3 (1.39%) C
11 2 (0.93%) PHP
12 1 (0.46%) Natural
12 1 (0.46%) Scala
12 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (18.06%) Degree
2 31 (14.35%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.48%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.56%) CCNA
6 12 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.31%) CCNP
8 5 (2.31%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.85%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.39%) MCSA
10 3 (1.39%) SSCP
11 2 (0.93%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (7.41%) SLA
3 13 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.17%) NIST
5 7 (3.24%) QA
6 5 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.31%) GDPR
7 3 (1.39%) WCAG
8 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.93%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (18.06%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.78%) Docker
5 5 (2.31%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.39%) vSphere
7 2 (0.93%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.46%) Firmware
8 1 (0.46%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 20 (9.26%) Ansible
1 20 (9.26%) Kubernetes
1 20 (9.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (6.02%) Grafana
2 13 (6.02%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.78%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.39%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.39%) Istio
4 3 (1.39%) linkerd
4 3 (1.39%) Puppet
4 3 (1.39%) SCCM
5 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.46%) Autotask
6 1 (0.46%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.46%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.46%) Opsview
6 1 (0.46%) QRadar
6 1 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 94 (43.52%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.26%) Cisco
3 19 (8.80%) Logitech
3 19 (8.80%) Sophos
3 19 (8.80%) TOWER Software
4 17 (7.87%) VMware
5 16 (7.41%) Splunk
6 9 (4.17%) Meraki
6 9 (4.17%) Oracle
6 9 (4.17%) RedGate
6 9 (4.17%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.70%) Tanium
8 7 (3.24%) YouTube
9 6 (2.78%) Dell
9 6 (2.78%) Google
10 4 (1.85%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.85%) HP
10 4 (1.85%) New Relic
10 4 (1.85%) SolarWinds