Proactive Maintenance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Proactive Maintenance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Proactive Maintenance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 379 417
Rank change year-on-year +78 +38 +59
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 38 20 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.096% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 27
10th Percentile £156 £278 £162
25th Percentile £263 £313 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £350 £225
Median % change year-on-year +33.29% +55.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £500 - £335
90th Percentile £587 £508 £503
UK median daily rate £467 £338 £231
% change year-on-year +38.22% +45.95% +23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.95 - -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £13.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.69% - -
75th Percentile £20.69 £30.13 -
90th Percentile - £39.89 -
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £13.87 £54.00
% change year-on-year +35.69% -74.31% +58.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Proactive Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Maintenance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Maintenance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Maintenance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Proactive Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North of England +26 12 £163 -53.57% 23
North West +19 12 £163 -53.57% 10
East of England +33 9 £467 +33.29% 14
South East +49 7 - - 31
Scotland - 6 £575 - 3
Midlands +22 4 £325 -7.14% 23
West Midlands +18 4 £325 -7.14% 11
Proactive Maintenance
UK

Proactive Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (13.16%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Google Workspace
2 4 (10.53%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.89%) Nutanix
3 3 (7.89%) OCI
4 2 (5.26%) AWS
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Run
5 1 (2.63%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.63%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.63%) IaaS
5 1 (2.63%) PaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) LAN
2 5 (13.16%) VPN
3 4 (10.53%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (10.53%) Network Security
3 4 (10.53%) SAN
4 3 (7.89%) WLAN
5 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Hudson
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Manufacturing
3 5 (13.16%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) 1st Line Support
2 9 (23.68%) Support Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 5 (13.16%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (13.16%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Desktop Support
5 5 (13.16%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) 1st Line Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Database Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Industrial Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Audio Visual Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Collaboration Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) CSS
1 2 (5.26%) HTML
1 2 (5.26%) JSON
1 2 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) iPad
1 10 (26.32%) iPhone
1 10 (26.32%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (18.42%) Clustering
2 7 (18.42%) Replication
3 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.26%) CMDB
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (78.95%) Windows
2 12 (31.58%) Windows Server
3 10 (26.32%) Apple iOS
4 8 (21.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (18.42%) Linux
6 5 (13.16%) Windows 10
6 5 (13.16%) Windows 8
6 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (13.16%) Windows XP
7 3 (7.89%) AIX
7 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (7.89%) Solaris
7 3 (7.89%) Windows 7
7 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (39.47%) Customer Service
2 15 (39.47%) ITIL
3 12 (31.58%) ITSM
4 9 (23.68%) Asset Management
5 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (21.05%) Problem Management
6 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
6 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.16%) Business Case
7 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.16%) Proactive Management
7 5 (13.16%) Technical Analysis
7 5 (13.16%) Time Management
8 4 (10.53%) Capacity Management
8 4 (10.53%) High Availability
8 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Shell Script
2 3 (7.89%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.89%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.63%) CCIE
3 1 (2.63%) CCNP
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) GRC
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (39.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.16%) Docker
3 4 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.53%) VMware NSX
4 3 (7.89%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (13.16%) SCCM
3 4 (10.53%) Podman
4 3 (7.89%) Backup Exec
4 3 (7.89%) Data Guard
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (7.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Oracle Flashback
4 3 (7.89%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.26%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (31.58%) ServiceNow
3 11 (28.95%) Google
4 10 (26.32%) MobileIron
4 10 (26.32%) Nexthink
5 8 (21.05%) VMware
6 5 (13.16%) Canon
6 5 (13.16%) Cisco
7 4 (10.53%) Dynatrace
7 4 (10.53%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
8 3 (7.89%) Dell
8 3 (7.89%) Oracle
8 3 (7.89%) Symantec
8 3 (7.89%) Veeam
9 2 (5.26%) Meraki
10 1 (2.63%) Aruba
10 1 (2.63%) EMC
10 1 (2.63%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (2.63%) Splunk