Proactive Maintenance Job Trends in Scotland

Proactive Maintenance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Proactive Maintenance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 139 188
Rank change year-on-year +3 +49 -
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 3 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.11% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £46,850 - -
25th Percentile £63,500 £47,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £55,000 £44,625
Median % change year-on-year +77.27% +23.25% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £62,500 £61,835
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £30,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -42.31% +4.00% +21.21%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Proactive Maintenance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,195 2,463 2,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 80.55% 92.35% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 1,043 1,775
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,779 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Proactive Maintenance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Proactive Maintenance job vacancy trend in Scotland

Proactive Maintenance
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Proactive Maintenance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proactive Maintenance in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Proactive Maintenance in Scotland

Proactive Maintenance
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Proactive Maintenance within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +17 3 £97,500 +77.27% 1
Proactive Maintenance
UK

Proactive Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Application Support Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Support Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory