Proactive Maintenance Job Trends in the South West

Proactive Maintenance
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Proactive Maintenance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 174 210
Rank change year-on-year +4 +36 +65
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 7 15 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.36% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.42% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile £25,000 - £28,750
25th Percentile £26,000 £32,500 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £33,000 £34,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.65% +39.80%
75th Percentile £32,250 £40,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £44,850 - £55,300
England median annual salary £30,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% -10.00% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Proactive Maintenance job vacancy trend in the South West

Proactive Maintenance
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Proactive Maintenance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proactive Maintenance in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Proactive Maintenance in the South West

Proactive Maintenance
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Proactive Maintenance within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol +6 5 £31,500 -
Gloucestershire +22 2 £45,750 +38.64% 1
Proactive Maintenance
England

Proactive Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Matillion
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) RS-232
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Audio Visual Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Video Conferencing Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) EPoS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) EPoS Field Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Field Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Digital Signage
1 3 (42.86%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) DataOps
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) IT Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Logitech
1 3 (42.86%) Polycom
1 3 (42.86%) Yealink
2 1 (14.29%) Ubiquiti