Proactive Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Proactive Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Proactive Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Proactive Management over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 364 418
Rank change year-on-year +54 +54 +65
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 27 24 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 20
10th Percentile £100 £410 £205
25th Percentile £413 £613 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £625 £473
Median % change year-on-year -25.36% +32.14% +2.83%
75th Percentile £543 £638 £500
90th Percentile £650 - £603
UK median daily rate £488 £600 £474
% change year-on-year -18.75% +26.58% -0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.50
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
75th Percentile - - £15.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year - +300.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,463 17,414 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.37% 84.70% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,190 10,403 14,840
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +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% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 832 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Proactive Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Management in the UK excluding London

Proactive Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Management in the UK excluding London

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Management in the UK excluding London

Proactive Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Management in the UK excluding London

Proactive Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Midlands +18 9 £574 -8.24% 6
North of England +28 7 £425 - 18
Yorkshire +20 6 £400 - 7
East Midlands - 6 - - 3
East of England - 5 £467 -
South East +39 4 £575 - 13
West Midlands +11 3 £574 -8.24% 3
South West +36 2 £100 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 2
North West - 1 £450 - 11
Proactive Management
UK

Proactive Management
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 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (11.11%) Nutanix
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (7.41%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Influencing Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
3 4 (14.81%) Games
3 4 (14.81%) Retail
3 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Aviation
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Lead
2 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Compliance Executive
4 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Category Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Programme Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Quality Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Clustering
1 4 (14.81%) Replication
2 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.11%) Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) ITIL
2 9 (33.33%) Project Management
3 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (29.63%) Service Delivery
4 7 (25.93%) Risk Management
5 6 (22.22%) Conflict Resolution
5 6 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (22.22%) Problem Management
6 5 (18.52%) Capacity Management
6 5 (18.52%) Contract Negotiation
6 5 (18.52%) Proactive Maintenance
6 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
6 5 (18.52%) Regulatory Change
6 5 (18.52%) Supplier Management
6 5 (18.52%) Supplier Relationship Management
7 4 (14.81%) Agile
7 4 (14.81%) Change Management
7 4 (14.81%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
1 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.70%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) DBS Check
2 2 (7.41%) CISSP
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) CEH
3 1 (3.70%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.70%) MiFID
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (22.22%) VMware NSX
3 4 (14.81%) Docker
3 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (14.81%) Podman
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) VMware
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.41%) Veeam
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco
6 1 (3.70%) Proofpoint