Proactive Maintenance Job Trends in the West Midlands

Proactive Maintenance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands 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 169 202 169
Rank change year-on-year +33 -33 +102
Permanent jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 5 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% 0.093% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27,900 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,600 - £37,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.55%
75th Percentile £29,300 - £52,500
90th Percentile £43,220 - £66,000
England median annual salary £30,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -41.75% +3.00% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,345 3,896 3,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.42% 90.69% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,244 1,745 2,557
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,920 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,000 £77,500
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 West Midlands

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

Proactive Maintenance job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Proactive Maintenance
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Proactive Maintenance
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Proactive Maintenance in the West Midlands

Proactive Maintenance
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Proactive Maintenance within the West Midlands 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
West Bromwich - 4 £28,600 -
Birmingham +22 1 £50,000 -
Proactive Maintenance
England

Proactive Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) iSCSI
1 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (80.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Project Support Officer
1 4 (80.00%) Support Officer
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Support
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Support Officer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (20.00%) Bill of Materials
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Aruba
2 4 (80.00%) HP
2 4 (80.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (20.00%) VMware