Proactive Maintenance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Proactive Maintenance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 757 856 1081
Rank change year-on-year +99 +225 -262
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 145 116 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.12% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 128 85 105
10th Percentile £24,240 £25,154 £25,002
25th Percentile £24,807 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 - £58,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £48,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year -40.51% +14.71% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Proactive Maintenance.

Salary trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Proactive Maintenance within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +126 121 £33,000 -30.53% 50
UK excluding London +41 113 £29,000 -40.51% 47
South East +13 27 £33,000 -26.67% 12
East of England +37 25 £24,811 -54.89% 9
Midlands -12 23 £24,840 -44.80% 8
London +109 22 £65,000 +36.84% 5
North of England +50 21 £34,000 -35.24% 15
East Midlands -1 19 £24,811 - 4
Work from Home +49 16 £34,500 -42.50% 2
Scotland - 12 £24,526 - 2
North West +6 11 £24,811 -52.74% 7
Yorkshire +96 10 £47,500 +7.04% 7
South West -16 7 £28,000 +19.15% 3
West Midlands -5 4 £82,500 +83.33% 4
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Proactive Maintenance
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 10 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.69%) Apache
2 1 (0.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Trello
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.69%) Magento
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.45%) Azure
2 24 (16.55%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (11.03%) AWS
4 6 (4.14%) Amazon S3
4 6 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (4.14%) Serverless
5 4 (2.76%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.76%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.69%) IaaS
6 1 (0.69%) PaaS
6 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (32.41%) Wi-Fi
2 30 (20.69%) Firewall
3 9 (6.21%) HTTP
4 8 (5.52%) DHCP
4 8 (5.52%) DNS
4 8 (5.52%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (3.45%) NetScaler
5 5 (3.45%) SAN
5 5 (3.45%) WAN
6 4 (2.76%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.07%) BGP
7 3 (2.07%) Internet
7 3 (2.07%) MPLS
7 3 (2.07%) RIP
7 3 (2.07%) VPN
8 2 (1.38%) 3G
8 2 (1.38%) ADSL
8 2 (1.38%) LAN
8 2 (1.38%) OSPF
8 2 (1.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.21%) GIS
2 8 (5.52%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.14%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.38%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.38%) MySQL
5 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle9i Database
5 1 (0.69%) OrientDB
5 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.69%) Power BI
5 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (14.48%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) Git
2 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.03%) Finance
4 11 (7.59%) Legal
5 9 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.14%) Retail
7 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.38%) Marketing
9 2 (1.38%) Military
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.69%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 33 (22.76%) Mobile Engineer
1 33 (22.76%) Support Engineer
2 19 (13.10%) Desktop Engineer
2 19 (13.10%) Desktop Support
2 19 (13.10%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 19 (13.10%) Junior
2 19 (13.10%) Junior Desktop Engineer
2 19 (13.10%) Junior Desktop Support
2 19 (13.10%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
2 19 (13.10%) Junior Support Engineer
3 18 (12.41%) Lead
4 17 (11.72%) Technical Engineer
5 15 (10.34%) 3rd Line Support
6 13 (8.97%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (8.28%) Analyst
7 12 (8.28%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (7.59%) IT Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Field Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.21%) CSS
1 9 (6.21%) HTML
1 9 (6.21%) JSON
1 9 (6.21%) Lightning Web Components
1 9 (6.21%) REST
2 1 (0.69%) J2EE
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 48 (33.10%) Driving Licence
2 16 (11.03%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.28%) Management Information System
4 11 (7.59%) Replication
5 6 (4.14%) AS400
5 6 (4.14%) CCTV
6 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.07%) Clustering
9 2 (1.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.38%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.69%) Life Science
10 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 96 (66.21%) Windows
2 15 (10.34%) Linux
3 13 (8.97%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.07%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.38%) Debian
6 2 (1.38%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.69%) Solaris
7 1 (0.69%) Unix
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.48%) Asset Management
2 41 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (23.45%) Customer Service
4 33 (22.76%) ITIL
5 23 (15.86%) Mentoring
6 19 (13.10%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (13.10%) Project Management
7 17 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (11.72%) High Availability
7 17 (11.72%) Incident Management
8 15 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (9.66%) ITSM
9 14 (9.66%) Proactive Monitoring
10 13 (8.97%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (8.97%) Process Improvement
10 13 (8.97%) Service Management
10 13 (8.97%) Strategic Planning
11 12 (8.28%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (7.59%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.28%) JavaScript
2 10 (6.90%) RPG
3 9 (6.21%) Apex Code
4 6 (4.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.07%) SQL
6 1 (0.69%) C++
6 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.69%) ProC
6 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (29.66%) Security Cleared
2 41 (28.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (15.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (14.48%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (11.03%) CCNP
6 14 (9.66%) Degree
6 14 (9.66%) MCSE
7 9 (6.21%) A+ Certification
8 7 (4.83%) DBS Check
8 7 (4.83%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (3.45%) CCNA
10 4 (2.76%) MCDST
11 3 (2.07%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (28.97%) PCI DSS
1 42 (28.97%) SLA
2 5 (3.45%) QA
3 4 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (26.90%) KVM
2 38 (26.21%) Active Directory
3 24 (16.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (6.90%) Firmware
4 10 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 10 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.76%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.38%) vSphere
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (9.66%) SCOM
2 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.38%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.38%) WSUS
4 1 (0.69%) Ansible
4 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 90 (62.07%) Microsoft
2 51 (35.17%) Dell
3 32 (22.07%) VMware
4 25 (17.24%) Cisco
5 16 (11.03%) Veeam
6 10 (6.90%) IBM
6 10 (6.90%) NetApp
7 9 (6.21%) Salesforce
8 8 (5.52%) Google
9 7 (4.83%) Citrix
9 7 (4.83%) Red Hat
10 5 (3.45%) Dynatrace
10 5 (3.45%) HP
11 4 (2.76%) Datto
11 4 (2.76%) Globalscape
11 4 (2.76%) Ubiquiti
12 3 (2.07%) eFront
12 3 (2.07%) Meraki
13 2 (1.38%) LogRhythm
13 2 (1.38%) Ruckus Wireless