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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 468 510
Rank change year-on-year -130 +42 -61
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 215 210 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.47% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 124 112 177
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,875 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,203 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,250 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +9.24% -3.16%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,625 £77,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -

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 86,432 44,324 60,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.10% 81.90%
Number of salaries quoted 59,358 24,582 33,017
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -122 195 £50,000 - 264
UK excluding London -127 164 £50,000 +17.65% 208
Work from Home -12 74 £50,000 - 156
London -60 45 £55,000 -26.67% 91
Midlands -29 44 £50,000 +25.00% 25
North of England -52 39 £50,000 +5.26% 59
South East -66 32 £42,250 -0.59% 40
North West +1 27 £50,000 +5.26% 36
East of England -19 25 £80,000 +116.22% 16
East Midlands -23 25 £37,500 - 11
West Midlands -46 19 £50,000 +25.00% 14
Wales -69 11 £36,961 -2.97% 23
South West -86 11 £61,250 +16.67% 24
North East -56 6 - - 6
Yorkshire -58 6 £40,000 -15.79% 17
Scotland 0 4 - - 15

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 (13.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 29 (13.49%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.40%) Confluence
2 3 (1.40%) Office Communications Server
3 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 71 (33.02%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (23.72%) Azure
3 34 (15.81%) AWS
4 28 (13.02%) Entra ID
5 25 (11.63%) Mimecast
6 20 (9.30%) GCP
7 15 (6.98%) OneDrive
8 10 (4.65%) GitHub
9 7 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.26%) SaaS
10 6 (2.79%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.79%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.33%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.86%) dbt
12 4 (1.86%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.86%) Serverless
13 3 (1.40%) Google Compute Engine
13 3 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 69 (32.09%) Firewall
2 45 (20.93%) LAN
3 42 (19.53%) WAN
4 32 (14.88%) DNS
5 27 (12.56%) DHCP
6 24 (11.16%) Wireless
7 22 (10.23%) TCP/IP
8 19 (8.84%) Network Security
9 16 (7.44%) VPN
10 14 (6.51%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (5.58%) VLAN
12 6 (2.79%) Broadband
13 5 (2.33%) VoIP
14 4 (1.86%) SD-WAN
15 3 (1.40%) PBX
15 3 (1.40%) SAN
15 3 (1.40%) Wireless Security
16 2 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
16 2 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
16 2 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.05%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.72%) MySQL
4 7 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.40%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.40%) Metadata
5 3 (1.40%) Power BI
5 3 (1.40%) 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 (0.47%) Adabas
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.47%) DTS
7 1 (0.47%) GIS
7 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.12%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.72%) Git
3 6 (2.79%) GitLab
4 4 (1.86%) JIRA
5 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.40%) Maven
5 3 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 65 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.07%) Finance
3 21 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.98%) Retail
5 15 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 14 (6.51%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.05%) Advertising
8 11 (5.12%) Banking
9 10 (4.65%) Marketing
10 9 (4.19%) Aerospace
10 9 (4.19%) Automotive
10 9 (4.19%) Law
10 9 (4.19%) Legal
11 8 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.33%) Welsh Language
14 4 (1.86%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.40%) Local Government
15 3 (1.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (22.79%) Senior
2 32 (14.88%) IT Engineer
3 27 (12.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (10.70%) Analyst
5 21 (9.77%) Field Engineer
5 21 (9.77%) Field Service Engineer
5 21 (9.77%) IT Support
6 16 (7.44%) Support Engineer
7 15 (6.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (6.05%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) Security Analyst
10 12 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (5.12%) Network Engineer
12 10 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (4.65%) Support Analyst
13 9 (4.19%) 3rd Line Support
13 9 (4.19%) IT Support Engineer
13 9 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.19%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.88%) Terraform
2 10 (4.65%) React
3 7 (3.26%) .NET
3 7 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (1.86%) RESTful
4 4 (1.86%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (1.86%) Spring
4 4 (1.86%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.40%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.40%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.40%) HTML
5 3 (1.40%) Jest
5 3 (1.40%) Next.js
5 3 (1.40%) 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 23 (10.70%) Security Posture
2 16 (7.44%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.51%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.19%) Driving Licence
5 9 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.19%) Social Media
6 8 (3.72%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.26%) Clustering
7 7 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.26%) Replication
8 6 (2.79%) Blog
8 6 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.79%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.86%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.86%) FMCG
10 4 (1.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 77 (35.81%) Windows
2 48 (22.33%) Windows Server
3 27 (12.56%) Windows 10
4 24 (11.16%) Linux
5 20 (9.30%) Android
5 20 (9.30%) Apple iOS
6 8 (3.72%) Unix
7 4 (1.86%) AIX
7 4 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 58 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (25.12%) ITIL
4 47 (21.86%) Incident Response
5 41 (19.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (16.28%) Disaster Recovery
7 33 (15.35%) CI/CD
8 32 (14.88%) Agile
9 31 (14.42%) Customer Service
9 31 (14.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (13.02%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (13.02%) Observability
11 27 (12.56%) High Availability
12 26 (12.09%) Collaborative Working
12 26 (12.09%) Root Cause Analysis
13 24 (11.16%) Incident Management
14 23 (10.70%) DevOps
14 23 (10.70%) Mentoring
14 23 (10.70%) Project Delivery
14 23 (10.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.53%) Python
2 40 (18.60%) PowerShell
3 19 (8.84%) SQL
4 18 (8.37%) Java
5 15 (6.98%) Bash
6 11 (5.12%) Go
7 8 (3.72%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.26%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.26%) Search Processing Language
9 6 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.86%) C#
10 4 (1.86%) Ruby
11 3 (1.40%) C
12 2 (0.93%) PHP
13 1 (0.47%) Natural
13 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (17.21%) Degree
2 31 (14.42%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.44%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.51%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.51%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.05%) CCNA
6 12 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.79%) CCNP
8 5 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.86%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.40%) MCSA
10 3 (1.40%) SSCP
11 2 (0.93%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (6.98%) SLA
3 13 (6.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.19%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.19%) NIST
5 7 (3.26%) QA
6 5 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.33%) GDPR
7 3 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.40%) WCAG
8 2 (0.93%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (17.21%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.33%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.86%) Docker
5 4 (1.86%) vSphere
6 2 (0.93%) Firmware
6 2 (0.93%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.47%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 20 (9.30%) Ansible
1 20 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (6.05%) Grafana
3 13 (6.05%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.79%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.40%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.40%) Istio
5 3 (1.40%) linkerd
5 3 (1.40%) Puppet
5 3 (1.40%) SCCM
6 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.47%) Argo
7 1 (0.47%) Autotask
7 1 (0.47%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.47%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (0.47%) Nagios
7 1 (0.47%) Opsview
7 1 (0.47%) QRadar
7 1 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 95 (44.19%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.30%) Cisco
2 20 (9.30%) Logitech
2 20 (9.30%) Sophos
2 20 (9.30%) TOWER Software
3 17 (7.91%) VMware
4 16 (7.44%) Splunk
5 10 (4.65%) Zscaler
6 9 (4.19%) Meraki
6 9 (4.19%) Oracle
6 9 (4.19%) RedGate
7 8 (3.72%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.72%) Tanium
7 8 (3.72%) YouTube
8 6 (2.79%) Google
9 5 (2.33%) Dell
10 4 (1.86%) Aruba
10 4 (1.86%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.86%) HP
10 4 (1.86%) SolarWinds