Proactive Management Contracts in the Midlands

Proactive Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 121 147
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 +64
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 10 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.40% 0.34% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.42% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 3
10th Percentile £511 £550 £208
25th Percentile £523 £581 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £625 £350
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +78.57% +42.86%
75th Percentile £540 £638 £419
90th Percentile £545 - £460
England median daily rate £564 £560 £500
% change year-on-year +0.63% +12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,180 2,155 2,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.73% 81.26% 85.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,468 1,875
10th Percentile £225 £274 £255
25th Percentile £358 £368 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £602 £600
90th Percentile £650 £708 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 101 80
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.74 £13.65
25th Percentile £15.26 £14.25 £20.36
Median hourly rate £21.04 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -32.73% +44.74%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Proactive Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Management in the Midlands

Proactive Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Management in the Midlands

Proactive Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Management in the Midlands

Proactive Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
West Midlands -2 10 £537 -14.08% 7
Proactive Management
England

Proactive Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (90.00%) Apache
1 9 (90.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
1 9 (90.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Unix
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 9 (90.00%) Analytics
2 9 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (90.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (90.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (90.00%) Incident Management
2 9 (90.00%) Log Analytics
2 9 (90.00%) Observability
2 9 (90.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 9 (90.00%) Service Management
2 9 (90.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 9 (90.00%) Test Strategy
2 9 (90.00%) Visualisation
3 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CEH
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) AppDynamics
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
1 9 (90.00%) Dynatrace
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle
1 9 (90.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Proofpoint