Proactive Maintenance Contracts

Proactive Maintenance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 545 671
Rank change year-on-year +67 +126 +131
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 42 37 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.085% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.098% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 34 40
10th Percentile £156 £160 £162
25th Percentile £231 £226 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £338 £231
Median % change year-on-year +38.22% +45.95% +23.33%
75th Percentile £541 £350 £450
90th Percentile £589 £513 £576
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £350 £225
% change year-on-year +33.29% +55.56% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.95 - -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £13.87 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.69% -74.31% +58.82%
75th Percentile £20.69 £30.13 -
90th Percentile - £39.89 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.82 £13.87 -
% change year-on-year +35.69% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Proactive Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Maintenance.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Maintenance.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +81 38 £467 +33.29% 43
England +58 36 £325 - 59
North of England +22 12 £163 -53.57% 9
North West +22 12 £163 -53.57% 5
East of England +34 9 £467 +33.29% 2
South East +49 7 - - 11
Scotland - 6 £575 -
Work from Home +36 5 £500 +42.86% 21
London +27 4 £388 +64.89% 17
Midlands +25 4 £325 -7.14% 10
West Midlands +17 4 £325 -7.14% 5

Proactive Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (11.90%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Google Workspace
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (9.52%) Azure
4 3 (7.14%) Nutanix
4 3 (7.14%) OCI
5 2 (4.76%) AWS
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Run
6 1 (2.38%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.38%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.38%) IaaS
6 1 (2.38%) PaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) LAN
2 5 (11.90%) VPN
3 4 (9.52%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (9.52%) Network Security
3 4 (9.52%) SAN
4 3 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (7.14%) WLAN
5 2 (4.76%) DHCP
5 2 (4.76%) DNS
6 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Hudson
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
3 5 (11.90%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.76%) Local Government
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) 1st Line Support
2 12 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 5 (11.90%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Desktop Support
5 5 (11.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) 1st Line Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Database Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Industrial Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) IT Support
6 3 (7.14%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) CSS
1 2 (4.76%) HTML
1 2 (4.76%) JSON
1 2 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) iPad
1 10 (23.81%) iPhone
1 10 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (16.67%) Clustering
2 7 (16.67%) Replication
3 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.76%) CMDB
5 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (78.57%) Windows
2 12 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 11 (26.19%) Apple iOS
4 8 (19.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (16.67%) Linux
5 7 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (14.29%) Windows 10
7 5 (11.90%) Windows 7
7 5 (11.90%) Windows 8
7 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (11.90%) Windows XP
8 3 (7.14%) AIX
8 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (7.14%) Solaris
8 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (35.71%) Customer Service
2 15 (35.71%) ITIL
3 12 (28.57%) ITSM
4 9 (21.43%) Asset Management
5 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (19.05%) Problem Management
6 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 5 (11.90%) Agile
7 5 (11.90%) Business Case
7 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 5 (11.90%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.90%) Proactive Management
7 5 (11.90%) Technical Analysis
7 5 (11.90%) Time Management
8 4 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
2 3 (7.14%) SQL
3 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.14%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.38%) CCIE
3 1 (2.38%) CCNP
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) GRC
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.90%) Docker
3 4 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 4 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.52%) VMware NSX
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (11.90%) SCCM
3 4 (9.52%) Podman
4 3 (7.14%) Backup Exec
4 3 (7.14%) Data Guard
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle Flashback
4 3 (7.14%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.76%) Ansible
6 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (45.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 11 (26.19%) Google
4 10 (23.81%) MobileIron
4 10 (23.81%) Nexthink
5 8 (19.05%) VMware
6 5 (11.90%) Canon
6 5 (11.90%) Cisco
7 4 (9.52%) Dynatrace
7 4 (9.52%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
8 3 (7.14%) Dell
8 3 (7.14%) Oracle
8 3 (7.14%) Symantec
8 3 (7.14%) Veeam
9 2 (4.76%) Meraki
10 1 (2.38%) Aruba
10 1 (2.38%) EMC
10 1 (2.38%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (2.38%) Splunk