Proactive Maintenance Contracts

Proactive Maintenance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Proactive Maintenance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 647 784
Rank change year-on-year +90 +137 -80
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 22 37 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.066% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.073% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 43
10th Percentile £133 £163 £138
25th Percentile £201 £180 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £293 £225 £175
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +28.57% -50.00%
75th Percentile £350 £341 £225
90th Percentile £528 £588 £400
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £200 £168
% change year-on-year +75.00% +19.40% -50.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £13.87 - -
75th Percentile £30.13 - -
90th Percentile £39.89 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.87 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Proactive Maintenance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Top 10 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 2 June 2024. 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 +87 22 £293 +46.25% 57
London +101 12 £263 +20.00% 14
UK excluding London +38 10 £350 +75.00% 44
Work from Home +102 6 £513 +2.50% 10
East of England +7 4 £350 +86.67% 8
North of England +26 3 £160 -30.81% 7
Yorkshire +17 2 - - 4
South East +9 2 £513 +55.30% 7
South West +9 1 - - 4
North West - 1 £160 - 3

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 6 (27.27%) IIS
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (18.18%) Apache
3 4 (18.18%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) WhatsApp
5 2 (9.09%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) H.323
1 4 (18.18%) HTTP
1 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 3 (13.64%) DHCP
2 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) VPN
2 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.55%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Hudson
2 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Legal
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Multimedia
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Support Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) 1st Line Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) 1st Line Support
2 4 (18.18%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Technical Support
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Integration Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Audio Visual Technician
4 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Systems Support
4 1 (4.55%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 2 (9.09%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) IVR
1 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) BYOD
2 2 (9.09%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Windows 7
3 5 (22.73%) Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
7 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (18.18%) Capacity Management
1 4 (18.18%) Change Management
1 4 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (18.18%) WFM
1 4 (18.18%) Workforce Optimisation
2 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
2 3 (13.64%) ITIL
2 3 (13.64%) User Experience
3 2 (9.09%) Application Security
3 2 (9.09%) B2C
3 2 (9.09%) Break/Fix
3 2 (9.09%) Change Control
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) High Availability
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 2 (9.09%) Release Management
3 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (9.09%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) MCSA
3 1 (4.55%) MCSE
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (4.55%) Firmware
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) XenApp
2 1 (4.55%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) WSUS
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Citrix
3 4 (18.18%) Avaya
3 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 4 (18.18%) Verint
4 3 (13.64%) VMware
5 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco
6 1 (4.55%) IronPort
6 1 (4.55%) Logitech
6 1 (4.55%) Remedy