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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 502 535
Rank change year-on-year -9 +33 +140
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 208 145 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.37% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 109 110 318
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,100 £26,000
25th Percentile £46,160 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £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 66,454 39,098 81,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.05% 92.85% 85.76%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 22,768 59,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.90%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -2 192 £57,750 +7.94% 48
UK excluding London -28 134 £50,000 +10.75% 44
London -3 60 £62,000 -1.98% 11
Work from Home -18 46 £60,000 +20.00% 37
Midlands -29 40 £41,500 -22.70% 8
North of England -30 35 £50,000 - 14
South East -22 31 £45,000 +12.50% 16
North West -23 23 £49,375 -1.25% 6
West Midlands -25 23 £70,000 +17.96% 8
East Midlands -44 17 £33,000 -13.16%
East of England -24 16 £46,160 -2.82% 2
Yorkshire -59 8 £50,000 - 6
South West -63 5 £54,749 +15.26% 2
North East - 4 £48,445 - 2
Wales -31 3 £68,500 +79.82%
Scotland -21 2 £97,500 +2.63% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 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 18 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
3 3 (1.44%) IIS
4 2 (0.96%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.92%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 71 (34.13%) Azure
2 48 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (17.31%) Entra ID
4 35 (16.83%) AWS
5 33 (15.87%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.21%) SaaS
7 14 (6.73%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (5.77%) GitHub
10 8 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.85%) OneDrive
11 7 (3.37%) Datadog
12 6 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.88%) GCP
12 6 (2.88%) Serverless
13 5 (2.40%) IaaS
13 5 (2.40%) Mimecast
13 5 (2.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (23.08%) WAN
2 46 (22.12%) Firewall
3 45 (21.63%) LAN
4 17 (8.17%) VPN
5 14 (6.73%) DNS
6 13 (6.25%) DHCP
7 11 (5.29%) Network Security
7 11 (5.29%) SD-WAN
8 10 (4.81%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (4.81%) TCP/IP
9 9 (4.33%) BGP
9 9 (4.33%) WAAS
9 9 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (3.85%) WLAN
11 7 (3.37%) MPLS
11 7 (3.37%) Wireless
12 5 (2.40%) OSPF
13 4 (1.92%) HTTPS
13 4 (1.92%) SAN
13 4 (1.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.42%) SQL Server
2 24 (11.54%) Power BI
3 17 (8.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (7.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.92%) Couchbase
5 4 (1.92%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.92%) Redis
5 4 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.44%) Metadata
7 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.96%) MySQL
7 2 (0.96%) Power Query
7 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.48%) Big Data
8 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Git
2 8 (3.85%) GitLab
3 5 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.40%) JIRA
4 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (21.63%) Finance
4 28 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.29%) Marketing
7 8 (3.85%) Legal
8 7 (3.37%) Banking
8 7 (3.37%) Law
9 6 (2.88%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.40%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.92%) Advertising
12 2 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.96%) Games
12 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.96%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (21.63%) Support Engineer
2 31 (14.90%) Senior
3 25 (12.02%) IT Engineer
4 22 (10.58%) IT Support
5 20 (9.62%) IT Support Engineer
6 19 (9.13%) Lead
6 19 (9.13%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (8.65%) Technical Support
8 17 (8.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (8.17%) Technical Engineer
8 17 (8.17%) Technical Support Engineer
9 16 (7.69%) Analyst
10 12 (5.77%) Business Manager
10 12 (5.77%) Insight Manager
11 11 (5.29%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.85%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.85%) Support Analyst
13 7 (3.37%) Architect
13 7 (3.37%) Network Engineer
14 6 (2.88%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.29%) REST
2 8 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
2 8 (3.85%) Visualforce
3 6 (2.88%) Middleware
3 6 (2.88%) SOAP
4 5 (2.40%) .NET
4 5 (2.40%) Kafka
5 4 (1.92%) ADO
5 4 (1.92%) CSS
5 4 (1.92%) HTML
5 4 (1.92%) Memcached
5 4 (1.92%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.92%) OAuth
5 4 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.92%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.92%) SAML
5 4 (1.92%) Spring
5 4 (1.92%) YAML
6 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.73%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (6.73%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.77%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.33%) CMDB
6 7 (3.37%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.88%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.88%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.40%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.40%) Robotics
8 5 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.40%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.92%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.92%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.92%) PKI
9 4 (1.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 75 (36.06%) Windows
2 23 (11.06%) Linux
3 21 (10.10%) Windows Server
4 16 (7.69%) Android
5 11 (5.29%) Apple iOS
5 11 (5.29%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.88%) Unix
7 5 (2.40%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.92%) VMS
9 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.48%) Solaris
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (44.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 72 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (22.12%) AI
4 42 (20.19%) ITIL
5 40 (19.23%) Agile
6 34 (16.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 33 (15.87%) Analytics
8 32 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 30 (14.42%) DevOps
9 30 (14.42%) SIEM
10 26 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
11 25 (12.02%) Process Improvement
12 24 (11.54%) Customer Service
12 24 (11.54%) Incident Response
13 23 (11.06%) Computer Science
13 23 (11.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 22 (10.58%) Decision-Making
14 22 (10.58%) Observability
15 21 (10.10%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 38 (18.27%) Python
2 35 (16.83%) SQL
3 29 (13.94%) PowerShell
4 18 (8.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (5.77%) Java
6 9 (4.33%) C#
6 9 (4.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (3.85%) Apex Code
7 8 (3.85%) Bash
7 8 (3.85%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.88%) Ruby
8 6 (2.88%) Scala
8 6 (2.88%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.92%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.92%) SOQL
9 4 (1.92%) SOSL
9 4 (1.92%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.44%) Perl
11 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.48%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 65 (31.25%) Degree
2 26 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (11.06%) Security Cleared
4 17 (8.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (8.17%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.69%) CCNP
6 13 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (5.77%) CCIE
7 12 (5.77%) CISSP
7 12 (5.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 11 (5.29%) Master's Degree
9 9 (4.33%) CCNA
10 7 (3.37%) CISA
11 6 (2.88%) CISM
11 6 (2.88%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (2.40%) JNCIP
12 5 (2.40%) OSCP
13 4 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
13 4 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.42%) SLA
2 24 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.77%) Actionable Recommendations
3 12 (5.77%) GDPR
4 8 (3.85%) QA
4 8 (3.85%) SOC 2
5 6 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.40%) GRC
7 4 (1.92%) NIST
8 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (20.67%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (8.17%) Docker
4 10 (4.81%) Firmware
4 10 (4.81%) vSphere
5 9 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.92%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (15.38%) Terraform
2 25 (12.02%) Ansible
3 22 (10.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (6.73%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.29%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.81%) SCCM
7 5 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.40%) WSUS
8 4 (1.92%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.96%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.96%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.96%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.48%) Argo
11 1 (0.48%) Control-M
11 1 (0.48%) Grafana
11 1 (0.48%) Nessus
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.48%) Podman
11 1 (0.48%) QRadar
Vendors
1 77 (37.02%) Microsoft
2 41 (19.71%) Cisco
3 28 (13.46%) VMware
4 21 (10.10%) Juniper
5 18 (8.65%) Dell
6 16 (7.69%) McAfee
6 16 (7.69%) Splunk
7 9 (4.33%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.85%) New Relic
8 8 (3.85%) Salesforce
9 7 (3.37%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.88%) Apple
10 6 (2.88%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.88%) SAP
10 6 (2.88%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.40%) Logitech
11 5 (2.40%) Sophos
11 5 (2.40%) TOWER Software
11 5 (2.40%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.92%) CrowdStrike