Proactive Maintenance Contracts with Work from Home Options

Proactive Maintenance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Proactive Maintenance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 452 601
Rank change year-on-year +119 +149 -131
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 8 16 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.053% 0.064% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.071% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 10
10th Percentile £263 £195 £190
25th Percentile £318 £250 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £380
Median % change year-on-year - +31.58% +16.92%
75th Percentile £519 £588 £494
90th Percentile £541 - £510
UK median daily rate £325 £225 £188
% change year-on-year +44.44% +20.00% -53.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £29.80
25th Percentile - - £30.25
Median hourly rate £46.39 - £34.00
75th Percentile - - £37.25
90th Percentile - - £37.40
UK median hourly rate £13.87 £54.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -74.31% +58.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Proactive Maintenance 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Proactive Maintenance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Proactive Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Proactive Maintenance trend for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Proactive Maintenance.

Proactive Maintenance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Proactive Maintenance daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (37.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Figma
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) npm
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) H.323
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) rollup.js
2 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Avaya Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Avaya Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Support
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Support
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Enzyme
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Redux
2 1 (12.50%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) IVR
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Application Security
1 3 (37.50%) Break/Fix
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
2 2 (25.00%) B2C
2 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (25.00%) Change Control
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Release Management
2 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) MCSA
3 1 (12.50%) MCSE
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) XenApp
2 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) WSUS
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe
3 1 (12.50%) Avaya
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) IronPort
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Verint