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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 498 480
Rank change year-on-year +63 -18 +198
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 204 215 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.39% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.43% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 121 135 190
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,625 £68,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £85,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,750 £45,000 £44,263
% change year-on-year +6.11% +1.67% +4.15%

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 48,456 49,466 47,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.78% 90.03% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,392 24,433 36,177
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 2 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 2 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 +34 181 £52,500 +16.67% 64
UK excluding London +52 140 £47,750 +6.11% 52
Work from Home +47 57 £57,500 +21.55% 22
London +26 52 £62,000 +12.12% 20
South East +32 39 £47,250 +5.04% 19
North of England -1 29 £46,722 +3.83% 8
Midlands +19 27 £33,000 -37.14% 4
North West +28 18 £40,000 -15.79% 5
West Midlands +25 18 £62,500 -13.79% 4
East of England +34 17 £46,160 +4.91% 6
South West +22 16 £52,500 +52.17% 6
East Midlands -17 9 £33,000 -26.67%
Scotland +4 7 £97,500 +85.71% 3
Yorkshire -21 6 £45,000 - 2
North East +8 5 £48,445 +9.42% 1
Wales +5 3 £68,500 +44.80% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3

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 25 (12.25%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.43%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.43%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) Appian
5 1 (0.49%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.43%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Shopify
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 79 (38.73%) Azure
2 55 (26.96%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 30 (14.71%) Entra ID
5 25 (12.25%) AWS
6 16 (7.84%) SaaS
7 14 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (6.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (4.90%) Azure Storage
8 10 (4.90%) Power Automate
9 9 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.92%) OneDrive
11 7 (3.43%) Boomi
11 7 (3.43%) Datadog
11 7 (3.43%) iPaaS
11 7 (3.43%) Workato
12 5 (2.45%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (24.02%) Firewall
2 34 (16.67%) WAN
3 20 (9.80%) LAN
4 19 (9.31%) DHCP
4 19 (9.31%) DNS
5 18 (8.82%) VPN
6 16 (7.84%) Network Security
7 13 (6.37%) LTE
7 13 (6.37%) VSAT
7 13 (6.37%) Wireless
8 11 (5.39%) SD-WAN
9 10 (4.90%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (4.90%) TCP/IP
10 9 (4.41%) SAN
10 9 (4.41%) WAAS
11 8 (3.92%) SSL
11 8 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (3.43%) VLAN
13 6 (2.94%) NAS
13 6 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.24%) Power BI
2 23 (11.27%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (6.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (3.92%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.45%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.45%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.45%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.45%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.45%) Redis
7 3 (1.47%) Metadata
7 3 (1.47%) Power Query
8 2 (0.98%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (2.45%) JIRA
2 3 (1.47%) Git
3 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.49%) GitLab
3 1 (0.49%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (46.08%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (23.53%) Finance
3 29 (14.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (6.37%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (5.88%) Legal
6 10 (4.90%) Law
7 8 (3.92%) Marketing
7 8 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.43%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.43%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.43%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.94%) Electronics
9 6 (2.94%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.45%) Automotive
10 5 (2.45%) Billing
11 4 (1.96%) Back Office
12 3 (1.47%) French Language
12 3 (1.47%) Greek Language
12 3 (1.47%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 44 (21.57%) Support Engineer
2 28 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (13.24%) Technical Support
4 26 (12.75%) Technical Engineer
4 26 (12.75%) Technical Support Engineer
5 25 (12.25%) Senior
6 18 (8.82%) Lead
7 17 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (5.88%) Business Manager
8 12 (5.88%) Insight Manager
9 9 (4.41%) Analyst
9 9 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.41%) Development Engineer
9 9 (4.41%) IT Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) IT Support
10 8 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.43%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (2.94%) Senior Network Engineer
12 6 (2.94%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.41%) REST
1 9 (4.41%) Web Services
2 6 (2.94%) Kafka
2 6 (2.94%) SAML
2 6 (2.94%) SOAP
3 5 (2.45%) 802.1X
3 5 (2.45%) JSON
3 5 (2.45%) Memcached
3 5 (2.45%) Middleware
3 5 (2.45%) RESTful
3 5 (2.45%) Spring
3 5 (2.45%) XML
4 4 (1.96%) .NET
4 4 (1.96%) ADO
4 4 (1.96%) ModSecurity
4 4 (1.96%) OAuth
4 4 (1.96%) YAML
5 3 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.98%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.98%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.84%) CMDB
3 13 (6.37%) Onboarding
4 12 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (4.90%) Driving Licence
6 9 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.92%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.92%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.94%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.94%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.45%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.45%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (2.45%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.47%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.47%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.47%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 57 (27.94%) Windows
2 25 (12.25%) Windows Server
3 17 (8.33%) Linux
4 12 (5.88%) Unix
5 9 (4.41%) Android
6 4 (1.96%) AIX
6 4 (1.96%) VMS
6 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.47%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (39.71%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (34.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (20.10%) Agile
3 41 (20.10%) ITIL
4 37 (18.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 35 (17.16%) AI
6 33 (16.18%) Change Management
6 33 (16.18%) Customer Service
7 30 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (13.73%) Analytics
9 26 (12.75%) Service Delivery
10 25 (12.25%) DevOps
10 25 (12.25%) High Availability
10 25 (12.25%) Incident Response
11 24 (11.76%) Mentoring
12 23 (11.27%) Disaster Recovery
12 23 (11.27%) Process Improvement
12 23 (11.27%) Service Management
13 22 (10.78%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.00%) SQL
2 33 (16.18%) PowerShell
3 24 (11.76%) Python
4 17 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (7.35%) C#
6 11 (5.39%) Java
7 9 (4.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (3.92%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.43%) Scala
10 6 (2.94%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.45%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.45%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.47%) Go
12 3 (1.47%) Perl
13 2 (0.98%) Bash
13 2 (0.98%) Bicep
13 2 (0.98%) Ruby
14 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (17.16%) Degree
2 29 (14.22%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (14.22%) Security Cleared
3 23 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.82%) CCNA
5 15 (7.35%) CCNP
5 15 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (6.37%) JNCIA
7 12 (5.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 8 (3.92%) CCIE
8 8 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.92%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.94%) CISA
10 5 (2.45%) CISSP
10 5 (2.45%) GCSC
10 5 (2.45%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.96%) CISM
11 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.47%) CEH
12 3 (1.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.80%) GDPR
1 20 (9.80%) SLA
2 14 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.45%) GRC
4 5 (2.45%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.47%) NIST
6 2 (0.98%) COBIT
7 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (14.22%) Active Directory
2 26 (12.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.37%) Hyper-V
3 13 (6.37%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.90%) Docker
4 10 (4.90%) Firmware
5 9 (4.41%) vSphere
6 7 (3.43%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (3.43%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (14.71%) Terraform
2 24 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (7.35%) Kubernetes
4 14 (6.86%) Ansible
5 11 (5.39%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (4.41%) SCCM
7 6 (2.94%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.47%) Netcool
9 2 (0.98%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.98%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.98%) Suricata
10 1 (0.49%) Argo
10 1 (0.49%) Control-M
10 1 (0.49%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.49%) Kibana
10 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.49%) Nessus
10 1 (0.49%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.49%) Puppet
10 1 (0.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (33.82%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.67%) Cisco
3 26 (12.75%) VMware
4 16 (7.84%) Dell
5 14 (6.86%) Juniper
5 14 (6.86%) Oracle
6 13 (6.37%) IBM
7 11 (5.39%) Palo Alto
8 10 (4.90%) SAP
8 10 (4.90%) Splunk
9 9 (4.41%) Fortinet
9 9 (4.41%) Freshdesk
9 9 (4.41%) McAfee
10 8 (3.92%) New Relic
10 8 (3.92%) ServiceNow
10 8 (3.92%) SolarWinds
11 7 (3.43%) IFS
11 7 (3.43%) Infor
11 7 (3.43%) SnapLogic
11 7 (3.43%) Talend