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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 514 495
Rank change year-on-year +47 -19 +184
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 197 191 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.37% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.40% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 115 110 239
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,900 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,160 £40,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -8.63% +9.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £55,938 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £77,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +3.45% +2.35%

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 51,135 47,583 62,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.17% 91.57% 88.82%
Number of salaries quoted 30,200 22,958 48,143
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,531 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 31 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Proactive Monitoring in the UK

Proactive Monitoring
Top 17 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 31 January 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 +35 172 £57,500 +27.78% 61
UK excluding London +41 125 £50,000 +11.11% 52
Work from Home +43 59 £57,500 +9.52% 16
London +33 57 £62,000 +19.23% 19
South East +34 33 £48,000 +12.94% 12
North of England -8 33 £49,222 +3.63% 11
Midlands +12 26 £33,000 -22.35% 10
North West +17 19 £45,625 -3.95% 5
West Midlands +23 17 £63,500 +20.95% 10
East of England +30 16 £50,000 +13.64% 9
East Midlands -6 9 £33,000 -22.35%
Yorkshire -19 9 £50,000 +11.11% 6
Scotland 0 7 £97,500 +85.71% 3
South West -1 5 £52,500 +32.08% 6
North East - 5 £48,445 -
Wales +4 3 £68,500 +44.80% 2
Northern Ireland - 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 27 (13.71%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.55%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.55%) IIS
4 2 (1.02%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) Appian
5 1 (0.51%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (6.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.55%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Shopify
2 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 77 (39.09%) Azure
2 52 (26.40%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (18.27%) Power Platform
4 30 (15.23%) AWS
5 27 (13.71%) Entra ID
6 13 (6.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.60%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (6.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (6.60%) SaaS
7 10 (5.08%) Azure Storage
7 10 (5.08%) Power Automate
8 9 (4.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.06%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.55%) Boomi
10 7 (3.55%) Datadog
10 7 (3.55%) iPaaS
10 7 (3.55%) Workato
11 6 (3.05%) GitHub
11 6 (3.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (20.81%) WAN
2 36 (18.27%) Firewall
3 23 (11.68%) LAN
4 18 (9.14%) VPN
5 16 (8.12%) SD-WAN
6 15 (7.61%) DHCP
6 15 (7.61%) DNS
7 11 (5.58%) Wireless
8 10 (5.08%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (4.57%) Network Security
9 9 (4.57%) WAAS
9 9 (4.57%) WLAN
10 8 (4.06%) BGP
10 8 (4.06%) SSL
10 8 (4.06%) TCP/IP
11 7 (3.55%) MPLS
11 7 (3.55%) SAN
12 6 (3.05%) VLAN
13 5 (2.54%) OSPF
14 4 (2.03%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.71%) Power BI
2 23 (11.68%) SQL Server
3 17 (8.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (6.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (3.05%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.54%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.54%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.54%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.54%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.54%) Redis
7 3 (1.52%) Power Query
8 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.02%) Metadata
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (3.55%) Git
2 5 (2.54%) JIRA
3 4 (2.03%) GitLab
4 1 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 84 (42.64%) Social Skills
2 50 (25.38%) Finance
3 43 (21.83%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.58%) Legal
6 11 (5.58%) Marketing
7 10 (5.08%) Law
8 7 (3.55%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.55%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.05%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.05%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.03%) Back Office
11 4 (2.03%) Banking
12 3 (1.52%) Electronics
12 3 (1.52%) French Language
12 3 (1.52%) Greek Language
12 3 (1.52%) Italian Language
12 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (16.24%) Support Engineer
2 26 (13.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (13.20%) Senior
3 21 (10.66%) Lead
4 18 (9.14%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (7.11%) IT Engineer
5 14 (7.11%) IT Support
6 13 (6.60%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (6.09%) Business Manager
7 12 (6.09%) Insight Manager
7 12 (6.09%) Technical Support
8 11 (5.58%) Analyst
9 10 (5.08%) Technical Engineer
9 10 (5.08%) Technical Support Engineer
10 9 (4.57%) Development Engineer
11 8 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.06%) Network Engineer
12 7 (3.55%) Architect
12 7 (3.55%) Developer
12 7 (3.55%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.11%) REST
2 9 (4.57%) SOAP
2 9 (4.57%) Web Services
3 8 (4.06%) Middleware
4 6 (3.05%) Kafka
5 5 (2.54%) JSON
5 5 (2.54%) Memcached
5 5 (2.54%) RESTful
5 5 (2.54%) Spring
5 5 (2.54%) XML
6 4 (2.03%) ADO
6 4 (2.03%) CSS
6 4 (2.03%) HTML
6 4 (2.03%) NETCONF
6 4 (2.03%) OAuth
6 4 (2.03%) RESTCONF
6 4 (2.03%) SAML
6 4 (2.03%) YAML
7 3 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.64%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.12%) CMDB
3 15 (7.61%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (5.58%) Cloud Native
6 10 (5.08%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.55%) Driving Licence
9 6 (3.05%) Low-Code
9 6 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (3.05%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.54%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.54%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (2.03%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 59 (29.95%) Windows
2 24 (12.18%) Windows Server
3 21 (10.66%) Linux
4 13 (6.60%) Unix
5 9 (4.57%) Android
6 5 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.03%) AIX
7 4 (2.03%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.03%) VMS
8 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.10%) Continuous Improvement
2 72 (36.55%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (23.35%) ITIL
4 41 (20.81%) Agile
5 40 (20.30%) AI
5 40 (20.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 31 (15.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 30 (15.23%) Analytics
7 30 (15.23%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (15.23%) Change Management
8 27 (13.71%) DevOps
9 26 (13.20%) Incident Response
10 24 (12.18%) Process Improvement
11 23 (11.68%) CI/CD
11 23 (11.68%) Service Management
12 22 (11.17%) Computer Science
12 22 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (11.17%) High Availability
13 21 (10.66%) Information Security
13 21 (10.66%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.87%) SQL
2 34 (17.26%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.69%) Python
4 17 (8.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (6.60%) C#
6 11 (5.58%) Java
6 11 (5.58%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (3.05%) Scala
8 6 (3.05%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.54%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.52%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.52%) Go
10 3 (1.52%) Perl
10 3 (1.52%) SOQL
10 3 (1.52%) SOSL
11 2 (1.02%) Bash
11 2 (1.02%) Ruby
11 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (22.34%) Degree
2 28 (14.21%) Security Cleared
3 24 (12.18%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (11.17%) SC Cleared
5 17 (8.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (8.12%) CCNP
7 14 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (6.09%) CCIE
8 12 (6.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 11 (5.58%) Master's Degree
10 9 (4.57%) CCNA
11 7 (3.55%) DV Cleared
12 6 (3.05%) CISA
12 6 (3.05%) CISSP
13 5 (2.54%) CISM
13 5 (2.54%) JNCIP
14 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
14 4 (2.03%) DBS Check
15 3 (1.52%) AWS Certification
15 3 (1.52%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.64%) SLA
2 18 (9.14%) GDPR
3 15 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (6.09%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.54%) GRC
5 5 (2.54%) SOC 2
6 4 (2.03%) NIST
7 2 (1.02%) COBIT
7 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (16.24%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.09%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (5.58%) Hyper-V
5 10 (5.08%) Docker
5 10 (5.08%) Firmware
5 10 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (5.08%) vSphere
6 7 (3.55%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.52%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (14.72%) Terraform
2 26 (13.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (9.14%) Ansible
4 17 (8.63%) Kubernetes
5 10 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (4.57%) SCCM
7 6 (3.05%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.03%) WSUS
9 3 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.52%) Netcool
10 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.02%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.02%) Suricata
11 1 (0.51%) Argo
11 1 (0.51%) Control-M
11 1 (0.51%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.51%) Kibana
11 1 (0.51%) Nessus
11 1 (0.51%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 35 (17.77%) Cisco
3 24 (12.18%) VMware
4 15 (7.61%) Dell
5 14 (7.11%) Splunk
6 13 (6.60%) IBM
6 13 (6.60%) Juniper
7 12 (6.09%) Oracle
7 12 (6.09%) SAP
8 10 (5.08%) Fortinet
9 9 (4.57%) Palo Alto
9 9 (4.57%) ServiceNow
10 8 (4.06%) McAfee
10 8 (4.06%) New Relic
11 7 (3.55%) Epicor
11 7 (3.55%) Infor
11 7 (3.55%) Informatica
11 7 (3.55%) Software AG
11 7 (3.55%) SolarWinds
11 7 (3.55%) TIBCO