Proactive Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Proactive Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Proactive Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Proactive Management 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 291 316 454
Rank change year-on-year +25 +138 +135
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 13 29 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.19% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.22% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 17
10th Percentile £460 £410 £292
25th Percentile £500 £536 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £473
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +32.14% -5.40%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £500
90th Percentile £695 - £663
UK median daily rate £488 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -9.30% +13.16% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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 Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Proactive Management
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 Management.

Proactive Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Proactive Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Proactive Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Proactive Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Proactive Management
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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) 4G
2 3 (23.08%) DHCP
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) LAN
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
2 3 (23.08%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) Wireless
3 2 (15.38%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Legal
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Law
4 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Finance Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Quality Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Risk Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Business Strategy
1 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
2 4 (30.77%) Change Management
2 4 (30.77%) High Availability
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
3 3 (23.08%) Business Continuity
3 3 (23.08%) Data Privacy
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Inventory Management
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 3 (23.08%) Software Licensing
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
4 2 (15.38%) Service Management
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CCNA
1 3 (23.08%) CCNP
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.69%) MiFID
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) FortiGate
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow