Proactive Maintenance Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Proactive Maintenance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 299 335 460
Rank change year-on-year +36 +125 +158
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 5 10 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.065% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.074% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 14
10th Percentile £497 £275 £194
25th Percentile £498 - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £488
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -28.21% +28.29%
75th Percentile £545 £519 £581
90th Percentile £571 £530 £588
UK median daily rate £467 £338 £231
% change year-on-year +38.22% +45.95% +23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £46.39 -
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £13.87 £54.00
% change year-on-year +35.69% -74.31% +58.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Proactive Maintenance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Proactive Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Proactive Maintenance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Proactive Maintenance.

Proactive Maintenance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business IT Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Systems Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Database Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Support
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCIE
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Flashback
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Liquidlogic
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk