Proactive Maintenance Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Proactive Maintenance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Proactive Maintenance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 162 181
Rank change year-on-year -56 +19 +57
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 6 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £254 - £208
25th Percentile £400 £156 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £163 £338
Median % change year-on-year +158.46% -51.85% +97.08%
75th Percentile £436 £252 £350
90th Percentile £494 £401 -
England median daily rate £450 £325 £325
% change year-on-year +38.46% - +44.44%

All Process & 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 4,472 2,949 4,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 87.55% 88.48% 87.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 1,736 2,789
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £366 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £659 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 141 302
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £20.96 £17.25 £13.99
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.51% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.56 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Proactive Maintenance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Proactive Maintenance job vacancy trend in the North of England

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Proactive Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Proactive Maintenance

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 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Maintenance in the North of England

Proactive Maintenance
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Proactive Maintenance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Proactive Maintenance

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 4 February 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 5 £425 - 2
North East - 1 £125 - 1
Proactive Maintenance
England

Proactive Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) Grafana
3 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware