Proactive Maintenance Contracts in Scotland

Proactive Maintenance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 110 - 161
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% - 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £486 - -
25th Percentile £496 - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.50%
75th Percentile £589 - £275
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £467 £338 £231
% change year-on-year +38.22% +45.95% +23.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Maintenance in Scotland

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in Scotland

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in Scotland

Proactive Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 4 £496 - 2
Glasgow - 2 £582 - 2
Proactive Maintenance
UK

Proactive Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) OCI
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Database Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Database Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (33.33%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) AIX
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Solaris
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Database Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (16.67%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 3 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Dynatrace
2 3 (50.00%) Dell
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (16.67%) Splunk