Proactive Maintenance Contracts in England

Proactive Maintenance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Proactive Maintenance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 507 612
Rank change year-on-year +58 +105 +128
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 36 35 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.094% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.11% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 34
10th Percentile £156 £157 £161
25th Percentile £167 £222 £167
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £325 £225
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% +18.42%
75th Percentile £473 £350 £311
90th Percentile £560 £517 £514
UK median daily rate £467 £338 £231
% change year-on-year +38.22% +45.95% +23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.95 - -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £13.87 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.69% -74.31% -
75th Percentile £20.69 £30.13 -
90th Percentile - £39.89 -
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £13.87 £54.00
% change year-on-year +35.69% -74.31% +58.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Proactive Maintenance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Maintenance in England

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in England

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Maintenance in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Maintenance in England

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in England

Proactive Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Proactive Maintenance within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +22 12 £163 -53.57% 19
North of England +22 12 £163 -53.57% 41
East of England +34 9 £467 +33.29% 26
South East +49 7 - - 45
London +27 4 £388 +64.89% 23
Midlands +25 4 £325 -7.14% 40
West Midlands +17 4 £325 -7.14% 21
Proactive Maintenance
UK

Proactive Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (13.89%) MS Visio
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Google Workspace
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.33%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.78%) AWS
4 1 (2.78%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) LAN
2 5 (13.89%) VPN
3 4 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (11.11%) Network Security
3 4 (11.11%) SAN
4 3 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (8.33%) WLAN
5 2 (5.56%) DHCP
5 2 (5.56%) DNS
6 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.78%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Hudson
General
1 20 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
2 5 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.56%) Local Government
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) 1st Line Support
2 12 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 5 (13.89%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Desktop Support
5 5 (13.89%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) 1st Line Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Industrial Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) IT Support
7 2 (5.56%) Audio Visual Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Collaboration Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) iPad
1 10 (27.78%) iPhone
1 10 (27.78%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (13.89%) Management Information System
3 4 (11.11%) Clustering
3 4 (11.11%) Replication
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (83.33%) Windows
2 12 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 11 (30.56%) Apple iOS
4 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (16.67%) Windows 10
7 5 (13.89%) Windows 7
7 5 (13.89%) Windows 8
7 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (13.89%) Windows XP
8 4 (11.11%) Linux
9 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (41.67%) Customer Service
3 12 (33.33%) ITIL
4 10 (27.78%) ITSM
5 8 (22.22%) Asset Management
5 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 5 (13.89%) Business Case
7 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.89%) Proactive Management
7 5 (13.89%) Technical Analysis
7 5 (13.89%) Time Management
8 4 (11.11%) Business Continuity
8 4 (11.11%) Capacity Management
8 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 4 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
8 4 (11.11%) Problem Management
8 4 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 4 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.78%) CCIE
3 1 (2.78%) CCNP
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) SCCM
2 4 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (11.11%) Podman
3 3 (8.33%) Backup Exec
3 3 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) Google
2 10 (27.78%) MobileIron
2 10 (27.78%) Nexthink
2 10 (27.78%) ServiceNow
3 8 (22.22%) VMware
4 5 (13.89%) Canon
4 5 (13.89%) Cisco
5 4 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (8.33%) Symantec
6 3 (8.33%) Veeam
7 2 (5.56%) Meraki
8 1 (2.78%) Aruba
8 1 (2.78%) Citrix
8 1 (2.78%) EMC
8 1 (2.78%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (2.78%) Red Hat