Proactive Management Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Proactive Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Proactive Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 117 136
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +30
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 5 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.29% 0.33% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.38% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £211 - -
25th Percentile £284 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% - -
75th Percentile £533 £469 -
90th Percentile £602 - -
South East median daily rate £412 £463 £619
% change year-on-year -11.03% -25.25% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £61.71 -
South East median hourly rate - £61.71 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,566 1,865 2,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.26% 86.70% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 975 1,063 1,603
10th Percentile £268 £300 £248
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 71 97
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.91 £27.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +12.62% +161.82%
75th Percentile £42.67 £62.85 £67.25
90th Percentile £74.70 £74.87 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +48.05%

Proactive Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Proactive Management job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Management in the Thames Valley

Proactive Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Proactive Management
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 Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Berkshire +11 5 £412 - 7
Proactive Management
South East

Proactive Management
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Cutover Manager
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Technician
1 1 (20.00%) IT Technician
1 1 (20.00%) Operations Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Support
1 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Technician
1 1 (20.00%) Site Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Support Technician
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Operations Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
3 1 (20.00%) Ticket Management
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) BT
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle