Proactive Maintenance Contracts with Work from Home Options

Proactive Maintenance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 458 608
Rank change year-on-year +124 +150 -141
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 10 17 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.065% 0.066% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.073% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 10
10th Percentile £275 £194 £190
25th Percentile - £250 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £488 £380
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +28.29% +16.92%
75th Percentile £519 £581 £494
90th Percentile £530 £588 £510
UK median daily rate £350 £231 £189
% change year-on-year +51.35% +22.52% -52.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £29.80
25th Percentile - - £30.25
Median hourly rate £46.39 - £34.00
75th Percentile - - £37.25
90th Percentile - - £37.40
UK median hourly rate £13.87 £54.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -74.31% +58.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,302 40,603
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.87% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,958 16,466 29,448
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 535 543
10th Percentile £15.05 £19.00 £13.55
25th Percentile £24.19 £30.88 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Proactive Maintenance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Proactive Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Proactive Maintenance trend for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Proactive Maintenance.

Proactive Maintenance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Proactive Maintenance daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) IIS
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Figma
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) npm
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) H.323
1 3 (30.00%) HTTP
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (10.00%) rollup.js
2 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Legal
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Avaya Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Avaya Telecoms Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Support
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) Enzyme
2 1 (10.00%) Jest
2 1 (10.00%) Next.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Redux
2 1 (10.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) IVR
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Application Security
1 3 (30.00%) Break/Fix
1 3 (30.00%) Capacity Management
1 3 (30.00%) Change Management
1 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
1 3 (30.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (30.00%) WFM
1 3 (30.00%) Workforce Optimisation
2 2 (20.00%) B2C
2 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (20.00%) Change Control
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) MCSA
3 1 (10.00%) MCSE
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) XenApp
2 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) WSUS
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Avaya
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Verint
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Citrix
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) Adobe
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) IronPort