Proactive Maintenance Contracts with Work from Home 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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 443 610
Rank change year-on-year +107 +167 -111
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 5 14 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.034% 0.059% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.065% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 11
10th Percentile £251 £181 -
25th Percentile £286 £250 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £300
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +66.67% -29.41%
75th Percentile £519 £588 £475
90th Percentile £553 - £500
UK median daily rate £325 £225 £163
% change year-on-year +44.44% +38.46% -56.67%

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 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 17 June 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 2 (40.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Application Security
1 2 (40.00%) B2C
1 2 (40.00%) Break/Fix
1 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (40.00%) Change Control
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Release Management
1 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) MCSA
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) IronPort