Proactive Maintenance Contracts

Proactive Maintenance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Proactive Maintenance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 657 806
Rank change year-on-year +99 +149 -132
Contract jobs citing Proactive Maintenance 32 46 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.078% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.086% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 39 39
10th Percentile £152 £162 £138
25th Percentile £213 £180 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £225 £188
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +20.00% -53.13%
75th Percentile £350 £463 £349
90th Percentile £519 £578 £415
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £225 £175
% change year-on-year +55.56% +28.57% -44.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £29.80
25th Percentile - - £30.25
Median hourly rate £13.87 £54.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.31% +58.82% -
75th Percentile £30.13 - £37.25
90th Percentile £39.89 - £37.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.87 - £33.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Proactive Maintenance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Proactive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Proactive Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proactive Maintenance.

Daily rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proactive Maintenance.

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Proactive Maintenance over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Proactive Maintenance in the UK

Proactive Maintenance
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Proactive Maintenance within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +114 30 £325 +44.44% 50
UK excluding London +41 16 £350 +55.56% 48
London +96 14 £230 +22.67% 5
Work from Home +118 9 £425 -15.00% 3
North of England +28 6 £338 +50.00% 15
South East +15 4 £506 +6.58% 12
East of England +14 4 £350 +80.65% 9
North West - 4 £338 - 7
Yorkshire +16 2 - - 7
Midlands +22 1 £350 +75.00% 7
South West +18 1 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 £350 - 4

Proactive Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (34.38%) IIS
2 9 (28.13%) Apache
2 9 (28.13%) Tomcat
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) WhatsApp
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.38%) Serverless
6 2 (6.25%) AWS
6 2 (6.25%) Azure API Management
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.13%) Figma
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub
7 1 (3.13%) IaaS
7 1 (3.13%) npm
7 1 (3.13%) PaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) H.323
1 9 (28.13%) HTTP
1 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
2 4 (12.50%) DHCP
2 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 4 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (9.38%) Firewall
3 3 (9.38%) VPN
4 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Hudson
2 3 (9.38%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.13%) rollup.js
3 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 9 (28.13%) Legal
1 9 (28.13%) Telecoms
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Support Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) 1st Line Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
2 4 (12.50%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 4 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 3 (9.38%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Avaya Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Integration Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Support
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Support Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
1 2 (6.25%) XMPP
2 1 (3.13%) CSS
2 1 (3.13%) Enzyme
2 1 (3.13%) Jest
2 1 (3.13%) Next.js
2 1 (3.13%) React
2 1 (3.13%) Redux
2 1 (3.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) IVR
1 9 (28.13%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) BYOD
2 2 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.13%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 25 (78.13%) Windows
2 10 (31.25%) Linux
3 9 (28.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (21.88%) Windows 7
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Capacity Management
1 9 (28.13%) WFM
1 9 (28.13%) Workforce Optimisation
2 8 (25.00%) Change Management
3 7 (21.88%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (18.75%) User Experience
5 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.50%) ITIL
7 3 (9.38%) Application Security
7 3 (9.38%) Break/Fix
7 3 (9.38%) Security Testing
8 2 (6.25%) Change Control
8 2 (6.25%) Customer Service
8 2 (6.25%) High Availability
8 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (6.25%) Project Delivery
8 2 (6.25%) Release Management
8 2 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) MCSA
3 1 (3.13%) MCSE
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (3.13%) Firmware
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) XenApp
2 1 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
1 2 (6.25%) WSUS
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (28.13%) Avaya
2 9 (28.13%) Red Hat
2 9 (28.13%) Verint
3 8 (25.00%) Citrix
4 3 (9.38%) VMware
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.13%) Adobe
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco
6 1 (3.13%) Dell
6 1 (3.13%) IronPort
6 1 (3.13%) Logitech
6 1 (3.13%) Remedy
6 1 (3.13%) Wyse