Proactive Maintenance Contract Job Trends in the South West

Proactive Maintenance
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 135 121 147
Rank change year-on-year -14 +26 +30
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.15% 0.11% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.12% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - -
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £528 - -
England median daily rate £450 £325 £325
% change year-on-year +38.46% - +44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year - -71.98% +13.06%
England median hourly rate - £13.00 £46.39
% change year-on-year - -71.98% -2.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,182 1,652 2,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.54% 88.53% 83.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 1,017 1,707
10th Percentile £275 £225 £275
25th Percentile £411 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £639
90th Percentile £738 £706 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 100 331
10th Percentile £16.50 £19.70 £14.54
25th Percentile £22.69 £47.19 £31.60
Median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% +23.81% -14.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £70.00 £80.00
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 South West

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

Proactive Maintenance job vacancy trend in the South West

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Proactive Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Proactive Maintenance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Dorset - 2 £500 -
Wiltshire - 2 £518 - 3
Proactive Maintenance
England

Proactive Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) Data Management
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (50.00%) VxRail
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) BeyondTrust
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (50.00%) Thales
1 2 (50.00%) VMware