Proactive Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Proactive Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Proactive Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 115 146
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 +19
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 2 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.087% 0.57% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.66% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £405 - £410
25th Percentile £413 £100 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £240 £450
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -46.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £513 £394 -
90th Percentile £535 £604 -
England median daily rate £540 £575 £499
% change year-on-year -6.09% +15.23% -4.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Proactive Management 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 1,932 1,830 2,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.93% 86.73% 87.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,127 1,745
10th Percentile £263 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £731 £725
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 129 267
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.99 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.50 £45.50
Median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Proactive Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Proactive Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Proactive Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Proactive Management
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 Management within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Gloucestershire -7 1 £400 +3.23%
Wiltshire -19 1 £500 +400.00%
Proactive Management
England

Proactive Management
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace