Proactive Management Contracts in England

Proactive Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Proactive Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Proactive Management over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 494 602
Rank change year-on-year +47 +108 +95
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 41 37 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.10% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 25
10th Percentile £413 £470 £350
25th Percentile £463 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +25.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £630
90th Percentile £619 - £663
UK median daily rate £574 £600 £474
% change year-on-year -4.42% +26.58% +1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.50
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
75th Percentile - - £15.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £15.00
% change year-on-year - - -72.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Proactive Management 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 22,114 31,426 43,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.34% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,436 20,611 30,630
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,247 1,533
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%
75th Percentile £62.24 £60.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

Proactive Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Management in England

Proactive Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Management in England

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Management in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Management in England

Proactive Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Management in England

Proactive Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London +42 18 £575 +3.60% 54
North of England +26 7 £425 - 15
East of England +32 6 £467 +33.29% 1
Yorkshire +18 6 £400 - 5
Midlands +12 6 £574 -8.24% 10
South East +39 5 £575 - 20
West Midlands +3 3 £574 -8.24% 5
East Midlands - 3 - - 5
North West - 1 £450 - 8
Proactive Management
UK

Proactive Management
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 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (14.63%) AWS
4 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.32%) Nutanix
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.88%) Boomi
6 2 (4.88%) SaaS
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.44%) Datadog
7 1 (2.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) Firewall
2 5 (12.20%) 4G
2 5 (12.20%) DHCP
2 5 (12.20%) DNS
2 5 (12.20%) LAN
2 5 (12.20%) Network Security
2 5 (12.20%) TCP/IP
2 5 (12.20%) VPN
2 5 (12.20%) WAN
2 5 (12.20%) Wireless
3 4 (9.76%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (4.88%) SAN
5 1 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Games
3 4 (9.76%) Retail
4 3 (7.32%) Advertising
4 3 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Law
4 3 (7.32%) Legal
4 3 (7.32%) Marketing
4 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Aviation
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Lead
3 8 (19.51%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Compliance Executive
6 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Programme Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Deployment Manager
8 1 (2.44%) Risk Manager
8 1 (2.44%) Security Manager
8 1 (2.44%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (2.44%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) Kafka
1 4 (9.76%) REST
1 4 (9.76%) SOAP
2 1 (2.44%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Security Operations Centre
1 5 (12.20%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (9.76%) Clustering
2 4 (9.76%) Replication
3 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.88%) Insider Threat
4 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.88%) Shadow IT
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Windows
2 6 (14.63%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.32%) Linux
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Business Strategy
1 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (24.39%) ITIL
2 10 (24.39%) Project Management
2 10 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (21.95%) Incident Management
4 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.07%) Change Management
5 7 (17.07%) Conflict Resolution
5 7 (17.07%) Decision-Making
5 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Management
5 7 (17.07%) Risk Management
5 7 (17.07%) Roadmaps
5 7 (17.07%) Security Operations
6 6 (14.63%) Customer Service
6 6 (14.63%) High Availability
6 6 (14.63%) Problem Management
7 5 (12.20%) Inventory Management
7 5 (12.20%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.76%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.88%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.44%) Python
4 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) DBS Check
2 3 (7.32%) CCNA
2 3 (7.32%) CCNP
2 3 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.32%) CISSP
3 2 (4.88%) CISM
3 2 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.44%) APMG
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) CEH
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) GRC
1 2 (4.88%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (14.63%) Hyper-V
2 6 (14.63%) VMware NSX
3 4 (9.76%) Docker
4 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) FortiGate
2 4 (9.76%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (9.76%) Podman
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.44%) SCCM
4 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
1 7 (17.07%) VMware
2 4 (9.76%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (9.76%) MuleSoft
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) Adobe
3 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.88%) Jitterbit
4 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) SnapLogic
4 2 (4.88%) Veeam
5 1 (2.44%) BT
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.44%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.44%) Remedy
5 1 (2.44%) Splunk