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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 377 416
Rank change year-on-year +73 +39 +59
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 39 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.064% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.076% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 19
10th Percentile £225 £331 £162
25th Percentile £325 - £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £350 £200
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +75.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £541 £463 £335
90th Percentile £588 £519 £530
UK median daily rate £470 £293 £231
% change year-on-year +60.51% +26.49% +32.14%
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 11,649 17,108 20,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.43% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,262 10,200 14,248
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 2,053 1,261
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.31 £10.75
25th Percentile £17.26 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 16 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 16 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 +24 10 £331 +29.90% 33
North West +16 10 £331 +29.90% 17
South East +57 9 - - 40
East of England +30 9 £467 +33.29% 20
Scotland - 6 £575 - 9
Midlands +17 4 £325 -7.14% 30
West Midlands +14 4 £325 -7.14% 16
South West +41 1 - - 29
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 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (12.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Google Workspace
2 4 (10.26%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) Nutanix
3 3 (7.69%) OCI
4 2 (5.13%) AWS
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Run
5 1 (2.56%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.56%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.56%) IaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) PaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) LAN
2 5 (12.82%) VPN
3 4 (10.26%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (10.26%) Network Security
3 4 (10.26%) SAN
4 3 (7.69%) WLAN
5 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) Hudson
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Manufacturing
3 5 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) 1st Line Support
2 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Support Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 5 (12.82%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (12.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Desktop Support
4 5 (12.82%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Database Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) IT Support
5 3 (7.69%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) CSS
1 2 (5.13%) HTML
1 2 (5.13%) JSON
1 2 (5.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) iPad
1 10 (25.64%) iPhone
1 10 (25.64%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (17.95%) Clustering
2 7 (17.95%) Replication
3 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) CMDB
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (71.79%) Windows
2 12 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 10 (25.64%) Apple iOS
4 8 (20.51%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (17.95%) Linux
6 5 (12.82%) Windows 10
6 5 (12.82%) Windows 8
6 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (12.82%) Windows XP
7 3 (7.69%) AIX
7 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (7.69%) Solaris
7 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (38.46%) Customer Service
2 15 (38.46%) ITIL
3 12 (30.77%) ITSM
4 10 (25.64%) Asset Management
5 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (20.51%) Problem Management
6 6 (15.38%) Business Continuity
6 6 (15.38%) Knowledge Management
6 6 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 6 (15.38%) Service Delivery
7 5 (12.82%) Business Case
7 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
7 5 (12.82%) Proactive Management
7 5 (12.82%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (12.82%) Technical Analysis
7 5 (12.82%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
2 3 (7.69%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.69%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.56%) CCIE
3 1 (2.56%) CCNP
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (5.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.82%) Docker
3 4 (10.26%) Hyper-V
3 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (12.82%) SCCM
3 4 (10.26%) Podman
4 3 (7.69%) Backup Exec
4 3 (7.69%) Data Guard
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle Flashback
4 3 (7.69%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.13%) Ansible
6 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.77%) ServiceNow
3 11 (28.21%) Google
4 10 (25.64%) MobileIron
4 10 (25.64%) Nexthink
5 8 (20.51%) VMware
6 5 (12.82%) Canon
6 5 (12.82%) Cisco
7 4 (10.26%) Dynatrace
7 4 (10.26%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
8 3 (7.69%) Dell
8 3 (7.69%) Liquidlogic
8 3 (7.69%) Oracle
8 3 (7.69%) Symantec
8 3 (7.69%) Veeam
9 2 (5.13%) Meraki
10 1 (2.56%) Aruba
10 1 (2.56%) EMC
10 1 (2.56%) Splunk