Proactive Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Proactive Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Proactive Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 107 113
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +70
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 22 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.10% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 2
10th Percentile £513 - £427
25th Percentile £534 £220 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £240 £571
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -57.99% +133.16%
75th Percentile - £260 £655
90th Percentile £550 - £700
England median daily rate £540 £552 £450
% change year-on-year -2.17% +22.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £61.71 £38.00
% change year-on-year -74.07% +62.38% -29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,817 1,574 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.53% 83.15% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 991 1,094
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £621 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 41 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £16.35
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £20.21
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.66% -12.07% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £46.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +27.14%

Proactive Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Proactive Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Proactive Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Proactive Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Proactive Management

Proactive Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Proactive Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Proactive Management

Proactive Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Shropshire - 18 £540 - 1
Warwickshire - 3 - - 1
Birmingham -4 1 £525 +118.75%
Proactive Management
England

Proactive Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (63.64%) Apache
1 14 (63.64%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
1 14 (63.64%) Azure Monitor
General
1 18 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Monitoring Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Accountant
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Management Accountant
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Linux
1 14 (63.64%) Unix
1 14 (63.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Incident Management
1 20 (90.91%) Performance Monitoring
2 19 (86.36%) Analytics
2 19 (86.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (86.36%) Observability
2 19 (86.36%) Service Management
3 18 (81.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (81.82%) Incident Response
3 18 (81.82%) Log Analytics
3 18 (81.82%) Synthetic Monitoring
3 18 (81.82%) Test Strategy
4 17 (77.27%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (77.27%) Visualisation
5 10 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.64%) ITIL
7 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (9.09%) DevOps
8 2 (9.09%) Migration
8 2 (9.09%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) Perl
2 1 (4.55%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) ACCA
2 1 (4.55%) CIMA
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Splunk
2 18 (81.82%) AppDynamics
2 18 (81.82%) Dynatrace
3 17 (77.27%) Cisco
4 15 (68.18%) Oracle
5 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
6 2 (9.09%) BMC
6 2 (9.09%) Remedy
7 1 (4.55%) SAP