Hybrid/Remote Proactive Maintenance Contract Job Trends

Proactive Maintenance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Proactive Maintenance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 304 359
Rank change year-on-year -8 +55 +147
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.040% 0.009% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.010% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £460 - £196
25th Percentile £502 £286 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £293 £350
Median % change year-on-year +97.78% -16.43% -28.21%
75th Percentile £661 £299 £463
90th Percentile £707 - £525
UK median daily rate £425 £325 £325
% change year-on-year +30.77% - +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £46.39
UK median hourly rate - £14.60 £46.39
% change year-on-year - -68.54% -2.37%

All Process & 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 8,958 9,701 14,424
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 89.47% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,878 6,084 9,779
10th Percentile £331 £325 £349
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 183 379
10th Percentile £15.55 £18.60 £16.53
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £24.13
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -30.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Proactive Maintenance and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Proactive Maintenance job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Proactive Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Proactive Maintenance daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Proactive Maintenance
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Proactive Maintenance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) IT Governance
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (50.00%) PMP
1 2 (50.00%) Project+ Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus