Proactive Maintenance Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Proactive Maintenance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Proactive Maintenance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.040% - 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% - 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £500
South East median daily rate £525 - £250
% change year-on-year - - -51.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,122 1,522 2,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.05% 92.64% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 892 1,462
10th Percentile £268 £263 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £649 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 48 158
10th Percentile £15.91 £18.64 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £28.53 £20.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £56.75 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -42.73% +25.51% +0.47%
75th Percentile £83.00 £64.73 £62.54
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.03 £80.78
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £46.87
% change year-on-year -44.11% -3.99% +4.16%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Proactive Maintenance job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Proactive Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Proactive Maintenance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire - 1 £600 - 4
Proactive Maintenance
South East

Proactive Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVMS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat