Proactive Maintenance Contracts in the North of England

Proactive Maintenance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 154 176 213
Rank change year-on-year +22 +37 +9
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 12 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.22% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile - £250 £166
25th Percentile £156 £313 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £163 £350 £225
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +55.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £252 - £263
90th Percentile £401 - £291
England median daily rate £325 £325 £225
% change year-on-year - +44.44% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.87 -
England median hourly rate £18.82 £13.87 £54.00
% change year-on-year +35.69% -74.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Maintenance in the North of England

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in the North of England

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Maintenance in the North of England

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in the North of England

Proactive Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Proactive Maintenance
England

Proactive Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (41.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) LAN
2 5 (41.67%) VPN
3 4 (33.33%) Network Security
4 3 (25.00%) SAN
4 3 (25.00%) WLAN
5 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Hudson
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
1 5 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Desktop Support
2 5 (41.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 1st Line Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (25.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Industrial Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (41.67%) Windows 8
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (41.67%) Windows XP
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Business Case
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Technical Analysis
3 5 (41.67%) Time Management
4 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (25.00%) Data Management
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CCIE
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
2 3 (25.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Canon
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco
4 3 (25.00%) Symantec
4 3 (25.00%) Veeam
4 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 1 (8.33%) Meraki