Proactive Maintenance Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Proactive Maintenance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Proactive Maintenance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.061% - 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% - 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 - £533
Median % change year-on-year - - +83.62%
75th Percentile - - £549
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £293 £313
% change year-on-year +105.13% -6.40% +78.57%

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 1,497 1,599 2,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.28% 86.43% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 984 1,541
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £368 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 44 58
10th Percentile £16.75 £12.30 £11.90
25th Percentile £17.87 £13.60 £12.56
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.69 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +7.02% +5.46% -10.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £34.00 £56.75 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £41.65
% change year-on-year -40.16% +0.91% +51.45%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Proactive Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Proactive Maintenance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Proactive Maintenance

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 30 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
Glasgow - 1 £589 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat