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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 508 473
Rank change year-on-year +49 -35 +224
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Monitoring 202 244 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.36% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.44% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 98 143 228
10th Percentile £27,250 £37,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £49,125
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -6.36% +4.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,223 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.49% +0.49% +12.50%

All Process and 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 45,079 55,610 50,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.73% 82.82% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 26,713 28,851 38,354
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,425
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.96% +2.86% -

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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 2025. 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 +17 181 £48,250 +6.17% 115
UK excluding London +78 157 £45,000 -0.49% 77
South East +52 55 £45,000 +0.04% 24
Work from Home +46 55 £57,500 +21.55% 38
London -3 32 £75,000 +11.11% 46
Midlands +51 27 £35,000 -48.53% 13
South West +48 27 £52,500 - 6
North of England -3 27 £46,500 +3.33% 18
West Midlands +51 24 £39,000 -46.21% 9
Yorkshire -1 16 £45,750 +1.67% 8
East of England +18 11 £37,000 -29.52% 7
North West +1 8 £47,500 +3.26% 8
Scotland +7 6 £67,500 +31.71% 9
East Midlands +19 3 £26,500 -47.00% 4
North East +5 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £55,000 - 1
Wales +6 1 - - 1

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 16 (7.92%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.47%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.47%) IIS
4 1 (0.50%) Appian
4 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.47%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Shopify
2 4 (1.98%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 87 (43.07%) Azure
2 48 (23.76%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (20.79%) AWS
4 31 (15.35%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.92%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (7.43%) GCP
7 14 (6.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (6.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (6.44%) Power Automate
9 10 (4.95%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.96%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.47%) Boomi
11 7 (3.47%) iPaaS
11 7 (3.47%) SaaS
11 7 (3.47%) Workato
12 6 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.97%) Azure Storage
12 6 (2.97%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.49%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 63 (31.19%) Firewall
2 31 (15.35%) WAN
3 23 (11.39%) DNS
4 20 (9.90%) DHCP
4 20 (9.90%) LTE
4 20 (9.90%) VSAT
5 19 (9.41%) LAN
5 19 (9.41%) VPN
5 19 (9.41%) Wireless
6 14 (6.93%) Network Security
7 13 (6.44%) SD-WAN
8 11 (5.45%) TCP/IP
9 10 (4.95%) 802.11
9 10 (4.95%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (4.46%) SSL
10 9 (4.46%) VLAN
11 8 (3.96%) Internet
12 7 (3.47%) SAN
13 5 (2.48%) NAS
14 3 (1.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.85%) Power BI
2 23 (11.39%) SQL Server
3 15 (7.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (6.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.97%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.49%) Couchbase
7 3 (1.49%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.49%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.49%) Power Query
7 3 (1.49%) Redis
7 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.99%) Metadata
8 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.50%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.50%) Parquet
9 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.50%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 5 (2.48%) JIRA
2 2 (0.99%) Git
3 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.50%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 110 (54.46%) Social Skills
2 56 (27.72%) Finance
3 40 (19.80%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (13.86%) Law
5 26 (12.87%) Legal
6 21 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.44%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (5.94%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.45%) Aerospace
9 11 (5.45%) Electronics
10 10 (4.95%) Automotive
10 10 (4.95%) Billing
11 9 (4.46%) Marketing
12 7 (3.47%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.97%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.98%) Police
15 3 (1.49%) Back Office
15 3 (1.49%) Banking
15 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 54 (26.73%) Support Engineer
2 45 (22.28%) Technical Support
3 40 (19.80%) Technical Engineer
3 40 (19.80%) Technical Support Engineer
4 32 (15.84%) Senior
5 20 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (6.44%) Senior Manager
7 12 (5.94%) Business Manager
7 12 (5.94%) Insight Manager
8 11 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 10 (4.95%) Lead
9 10 (4.95%) Security Specialist
10 9 (4.46%) Analyst
11 8 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.96%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (3.96%) Network Engineer
12 7 (3.47%) Development Engineer
12 7 (3.47%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.97%) IT Engineer
13 6 (2.97%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.44%) Hugging Face
1 13 (6.44%) LangChain
1 13 (6.44%) PyTorch
1 13 (6.44%) TensorFlow
2 12 (5.94%) REST
3 11 (5.45%) 802.1X
3 11 (5.45%) Web Services
4 6 (2.97%) JSON
4 6 (2.97%) SOAP
4 6 (2.97%) XML
5 5 (2.48%) CSS
5 5 (2.48%) HTML
5 5 (2.48%) RESTful
6 4 (1.98%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.98%) Kafka
6 4 (1.98%) ModSecurity
7 3 (1.49%) .NET
7 3 (1.49%) Memcached
7 3 (1.49%) Middleware
7 3 (1.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.90%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.95%) Renewable Energy
4 8 (3.96%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.96%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.47%) CMDB
6 6 (2.97%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.48%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.98%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.49%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 57 (28.22%) Windows
2 19 (9.41%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.95%) Linux
3 10 (4.95%) Unix
4 4 (1.98%) AIX
5 3 (1.49%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.50%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.61%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (36.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 40 (19.80%) Change Management
3 40 (19.80%) ITIL
4 35 (17.33%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (17.33%) Customer Service
4 35 (17.33%) High Availability
5 33 (16.34%) Incident Management
6 32 (15.84%) Agile
6 32 (15.84%) Service Delivery
7 30 (14.85%) AI
7 30 (14.85%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (14.36%) Service Management
8 29 (14.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 28 (13.86%) SIEM
10 24 (11.88%) Roadmaps
11 22 (10.89%) Collaborative Working
11 22 (10.89%) Decision-Making
11 22 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 22 (10.89%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.76%) SQL
2 26 (12.87%) PowerShell
3 17 (8.42%) Python
4 16 (7.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (6.44%) C#
6 12 (5.94%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.46%) Java
8 5 (2.48%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.98%) Bash
9 4 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.98%) Scala
9 4 (1.98%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.49%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.99%) Go
12 1 (0.50%) Bicep
12 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (19.80%) Degree
2 32 (15.84%) Cisco Certification
3 27 (13.37%) CCNA
4 24 (11.88%) Security Cleared
5 20 (9.90%) JNCIA
6 19 (9.41%) SC Cleared
7 18 (8.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (8.42%) Master's Degree
9 12 (5.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 11 (5.45%) CCNP
11 10 (4.95%) GCSC
12 8 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.98%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.49%) CISM
15 2 (0.99%) CCSA
15 2 (0.99%) CISA
15 2 (0.99%) CISSP
15 2 (0.99%) GCFA
15 2 (0.99%) GCIA
15 2 (0.99%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.43%) SLA
2 13 (6.44%) GDPR
3 12 (5.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.98%) NIST
6 2 (0.99%) COBIT
6 2 (0.99%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
7 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (13.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (9.90%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.44%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.47%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (2.97%) Docker
5 6 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.48%) vSphere
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (7.43%) Grafana
2 14 (6.93%) Prometheus
3 12 (5.94%) Terraform
4 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.46%) Kubernetes
6 5 (2.48%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.49%) Netcool
7 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.99%) Ansible
8 2 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.99%) Suricata
9 1 (0.50%) CA Spectrum
9 1 (0.50%) Control-M
9 1 (0.50%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.50%) Kibana
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.36%) VMware
3 28 (13.86%) Cisco
4 20 (9.90%) Dell
5 17 (8.42%) Oracle
6 14 (6.93%) Freshdesk
6 14 (6.93%) Juniper
7 13 (6.44%) McAfee
7 13 (6.44%) OpenAI
8 12 (5.94%) ServiceNow
9 11 (5.45%) IBM
10 10 (4.95%) SAP
11 9 (4.46%) SolarWinds
12 7 (3.47%) Infor
12 7 (3.47%) Jitterbit
12 7 (3.47%) MuleSoft
12 7 (3.47%) SnapLogic
12 7 (3.47%) Software AG
12 7 (3.47%) Talend
12 7 (3.47%) TIBCO