Hybrid/Remote Proactive Management Contract Job Trends

Proactive Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Proactive Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 290 360
Rank change year-on-year -3 +70 +144
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 25 22 18
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.25% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 12
10th Percentile £445 £514 £400
25th Percentile £500 £572 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £613 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +28.95% -13.64%
75th Percentile £581 £669 £638
90th Percentile £650 £704 -
UK median daily rate £537 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -6.61% +15.00% -4.76%

All Process & 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 9,051 9,656 14,369
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 89.49% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,937 6,059 9,750
10th Percentile £330 £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 £613 £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 324 181 380
10th Percentile £15.57 £18.50 £16.08
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £24.25
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 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

Proactive Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Proactive Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Proactive Management over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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

Proactive Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Proactive Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Apache
1 3 (12.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (8.00%) OCI
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) LAN
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) 4G
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Publishing
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Monitoring Engineer
1 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Commercial Contracts Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Cutover Manager
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 13 (52.00%) Incident Management
2 11 (44.00%) Observability
2 11 (44.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
3 9 (36.00%) Incident Response
3 9 (36.00%) Service Management
4 8 (32.00%) Analytics
4 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (28.00%) DevOps
5 7 (28.00%) Log Analytics
5 7 (28.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (28.00%) Test Strategy
6 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (24.00%) Visualisation
7 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
2 2 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) CCNA
3 2 (8.00%) CCNP
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (8.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Dynatrace
2 7 (28.00%) AppDynamics
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) Splunk
3 5 (20.00%) Oracle
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) NEC
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud