Proactive Management Contracts

Proactive Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Proactive Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proactive Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 662 765
Rank change year-on-year +126 +103 -130
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 58 54 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.090% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 31 71
10th Percentile £430 £205 £213
25th Percentile £499 £425 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £540
90th Percentile - £663 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £473 £438
% change year-on-year +32.14% +8.11% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 £14.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £15.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +300.00% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £15.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £15.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Proactive Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Proactive Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Proactive Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Management.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Management.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Proactive Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +126 54 £550 +10.00% 47
London +118 33 £500 -13.04% 15
Work from Home +132 29 £625 +32.14% 10
UK excluding London +59 24 £625 +32.14% 32
West Midlands +38 10 £625 +92.31% 1
Midlands +32 10 £625 +78.57% 4
South East +23 8 - - 11
Scotland +30 3 £420 -11.21% 3
North of England +32 2 - - 10
Yorkshire +24 2 - - 4
South West +14 1 - - 3

Proactive Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (27.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.76%) Azure
2 11 (18.97%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.90%) PaaS
5 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Firewall
1 3 (5.17%) NAS
1 3 (5.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.62%) Power BI
General
1 25 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 20 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (32.76%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Telecoms
5 7 (12.07%) Finance
6 6 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.72%) Back Office
9 1 (1.72%) Legal
9 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) ITIL Manager
2 13 (22.41%) Administrator
2 13 (22.41%) SharePoint Administrator
3 6 (10.34%) Azure Administrator
3 6 (10.34%) Incident Manager
3 6 (10.34%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
3 6 (10.34%) Problem Manager
4 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Major Incident Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Operations Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Site Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Telecoms Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.45%) Incident and Problem Manager
7 2 (3.45%) ITIL Incident Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Management Consultant
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) SharePoint Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
1 2 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (1.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) ITIL
2 25 (43.10%) Problem Management
3 23 (39.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (36.21%) Knowledge Management
5 20 (34.48%) Decision-Making
6 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (31.03%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (27.59%) Service Management
9 15 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (25.86%) Web SSO
10 12 (20.69%) User Experience
11 11 (18.97%) Identity Management
12 8 (13.79%) Change Management
12 8 (13.79%) Incident Management
13 6 (10.34%) Agile
13 6 (10.34%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 5 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
14 5 (8.62%) Customer Service
14 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 4 (6.90%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.97%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.07%) SQL
3 2 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) SC Cleared
1 16 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.72%) APMP
3 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.45%) PMO
2 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.97%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) BT
3 3 (5.17%) Cisco
3 3 (5.17%) Citrix
3 3 (5.17%) HP