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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 576 639
Rank change year-on-year +84 +63 +126
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 52 17 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.040% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.046% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 44
10th Percentile £319 £169 £163
25th Percentile £463 £228 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £350 £250
Median % change year-on-year +53.50% +40.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £588
90th Percentile - £655 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £350 £330
% change year-on-year +64.14% +6.06% +100.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.95 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £13.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.69% -38.36% -47.33%
75th Percentile £20.69 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.82 £13.87 £22.50
% change year-on-year +35.69% -38.36% -47.33%

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 29,591 36,621 50,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.45% 85.36% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,632 23,386 34,849
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,510 2,453 1,703
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £38.12 £39.26
% change year-on-year -35.51% -2.91% +83.08%

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 12 July 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 13 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 12 July 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
England +72 47 £486 +38.93% 92
UK excluding London +61 46 £575 +64.14% 84
South East +61 20 £600 +17.07% 27
Work from Home +34 11 £545 +6.24% 16
North of England +10 10 £500 +217.46% 17
East of England +25 9 £467 +33.29% 9
North West - 9 £500 - 10
London +24 6 £400 -2.14% 22
Scotland - 5 £582 - 3
Yorkshire 0 1 - - 6
Midlands - 1 £275 - 16
South West - 1 - - 12
West Midlands - 1 £275 - 6

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 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (9.62%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.77%) Google Workspace
2 6 (11.54%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.69%) OCI
4 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.85%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Run
5 1 (1.92%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.92%) GCP
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.92%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.92%) IaaS
5 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.92%) PaaS
5 1 (1.92%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.08%) LAN
2 5 (9.62%) VPN
3 4 (7.69%) Network Security
3 4 (7.69%) SAN
4 3 (5.77%) DHCP
4 3 (5.77%) DNS
4 3 (5.77%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (5.77%) WLAN
5 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) GitLab
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (51.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.62%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.85%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Finance
7 1 (1.92%) Police
7 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) 1st Line Support
2 8 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) IT Support
4 6 (11.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Analyst
4 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 5 (9.62%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Business IT Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Business Systems Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Desktop Support
5 5 (9.62%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) IT Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Support Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) .NET
1 1 (1.92%) CSS
1 1 (1.92%) HTML
1 1 (1.92%) JSON
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.77%) iPad
1 16 (30.77%) iPhone
2 15 (28.85%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (11.54%) Clustering
3 6 (11.54%) Replication
4 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.92%) AS400
6 1 (1.92%) CMDB
6 1 (1.92%) iSeries
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (65.38%) Windows
2 16 (30.77%) Apple iOS
3 12 (23.08%) Windows Server
4 9 (17.31%) Linux
5 8 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (9.62%) Windows 10
6 5 (9.62%) Windows 8
6 5 (9.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (9.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (9.62%) Windows XP
7 3 (5.77%) AIX
7 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (5.77%) Solaris
7 3 (5.77%) Windows 7
7 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (73.08%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (38.46%) Customer Service
3 17 (32.69%) ITSM
4 14 (26.92%) ITIL
5 11 (21.15%) Asset Management
6 10 (19.23%) Proactive Monitoring
7 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (15.38%) Business Continuity
9 7 (13.46%) Agile
9 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (13.46%) Knowledge Management
9 7 (13.46%) Problem Management
10 6 (11.54%) Performance Monitoring
10 6 (11.54%) Process Improvement
10 6 (11.54%) Project Delivery
10 6 (11.54%) Service Delivery
11 5 (9.62%) Analytics
11 5 (9.62%) Change Control
11 5 (9.62%) Release Management
11 5 (9.62%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
2 3 (5.77%) SQL
3 1 (1.92%) Bash
3 1 (1.92%) COBOL
3 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.92%) Python
3 1 (1.92%) RPG
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.92%) CCIE
4 1 (1.92%) CCNP
4 1 (1.92%) CFA
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.69%) SLA
3 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.69%) Docker
3 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (9.62%) SCCM
3 3 (5.77%) Backup Exec
3 3 (5.77%) Data Guard
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Flashback
3 3 (5.77%) Podman
3 3 (5.77%) vCenter Server
4 2 (3.85%) Terraform
5 1 (1.92%) Ansible
5 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) Google
1 17 (32.69%) ServiceNow
2 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 16 (30.77%) MobileIron
2 16 (30.77%) Nexthink
3 9 (17.31%) Cisco
4 7 (13.46%) VMware
5 5 (9.62%) Canon
5 5 (9.62%) Liquidlogic
6 4 (7.69%) Dynatrace
6 4 (7.69%) Juniper
6 4 (7.69%) Oracle
6 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 4 (7.69%) Veeam
7 3 (5.77%) Dell
7 3 (5.77%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (5.77%) Symantec
8 2 (3.85%) Citrix
8 2 (3.85%) Meraki
9 1 (1.92%) Qualys