Proactive Management Contracts

Proactive Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 535 631
Rank change year-on-year +59 +96 +118
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 46 41 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.096% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 32
10th Percentile £293 £410 £352
25th Percentile £453 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £600 £474
Median % change year-on-year -17.71% +26.58% +1.39%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £654 - £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £625 £473
% change year-on-year -25.36% +32.14% +2.83%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £15.00
% change year-on-year - - -72.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,772 36,679 51,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.19% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,185 23,608 35,479
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
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% - +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 2,436 1,692
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £16.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

Proactive Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Management over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 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
England +69 44 £488 -22.00% 75
UK excluding London +51 29 £467 -25.36% 41
London +38 17 £575 +3.60% 37
Work from Home +30 15 £575 -6.12% 38
Midlands +16 8 £574 -8.24% 11
North of England +24 7 £425 - 11
East of England +32 6 £467 +33.29%
Yorkshire +18 6 £400 - 6
South East +42 5 £575 - 12
East Midlands - 5 - - 6
West Midlands 0 3 £574 -8.24% 5
South West +44 2 £100 - 5
Scotland +6 1 - - 2
North West - 1 £450 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 -

Proactive Management
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 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (13.04%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.52%) Nutanix
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.35%) Boomi
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.17%) Datadog
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) Firewall
2 4 (8.70%) 4G
2 4 (8.70%) DHCP
2 4 (8.70%) DNS
2 4 (8.70%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (8.70%) LAN
2 4 (8.70%) Network Security
2 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.70%) VPN
2 4 (8.70%) WAN
2 4 (8.70%) Wireless
3 2 (4.35%) SAN
4 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Games
4 4 (8.70%) Retail
5 3 (6.52%) Advertising
5 3 (6.52%) Law
5 3 (6.52%) Legal
5 3 (6.52%) Marketing
6 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Aviation
7 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Lead
2 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Senior
4 4 (8.70%) Compliance Executive
4 4 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Programme Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Digital Project Manager
7 1 (2.17%) Migration Project Manager
7 1 (2.17%) Risk Manager
7 1 (2.17%) Security Manager
7 1 (2.17%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Kafka
1 4 (8.70%) REST
1 4 (8.70%) SOAP
2 1 (2.17%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Clustering
1 4 (8.70%) Replication
1 4 (8.70%) Security Operations Centre
1 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.35%) Insider Threat
3 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) Shadow IT
4 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Windows
2 6 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.52%) Linux
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (26.09%) ITIL
2 12 (26.09%) Project Management
3 11 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (21.74%) Business Strategy
4 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (19.57%) Conflict Resolution
5 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (19.57%) Risk Management
5 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
6 8 (17.39%) Change Management
6 8 (17.39%) Decision-Making
6 8 (17.39%) Incident Management
6 8 (17.39%) Service Delivery
7 6 (13.04%) Customer Service
7 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (13.04%) Problem Management
7 6 (13.04%) Security Operations
8 5 (10.87%) Capacity Management
8 5 (10.87%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (4.35%) SQL
4 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) DBS Check
2 3 (6.52%) CCNA
2 3 (6.52%) CCNP
2 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.52%) CISSP
3 2 (4.35%) CISM
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) APMG
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.17%) CEH
4 1 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) GRC
3 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.17%) MiFID
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.04%) Hyper-V
2 6 (13.04%) VMware NSX
3 4 (8.70%) Docker
4 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (8.70%) FortiGate
1 4 (8.70%) Podman
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.17%) SCCM
3 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) VMware
3 4 (8.70%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (8.70%) MuleSoft
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
4 3 (6.52%) Adobe
4 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.35%) Jitterbit
5 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.35%) SnapLogic
5 2 (4.35%) Veeam
6 1 (2.17%) BT
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco
6 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.17%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.17%) Remedy
6 1 (2.17%) Splunk