Proactive Management Contracts

Proactive Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Proactive Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proactive Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 634 743
Rank change year-on-year +104 +109 -80
Contract jobs citing Proactive Management 41 53 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.093% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 32 76
10th Percentile £410 £352 £223
25th Percentile £481 £425 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £474 £468
Median % change year-on-year +26.58% +1.39% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £550
90th Percentile - £662 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £473 £460
% change year-on-year +32.14% +2.83% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.50 £52.00
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -72.22% +200.00%
75th Percentile - £15.50 £58.06
90th Percentile - - £59.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £15.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -72.22% +200.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Proactive Management 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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Proactive Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proactive Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Proactive Management in the UK

Proactive Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +102 37 £625 +25.00% 51
Work from Home +118 29 £613 +29.49% 21
UK excluding London +52 25 £625 +32.14% 41
London +94 15 £555 +1.80% 15
West Midlands +31 10 £625 +92.31% 8
Midlands +29 10 £625 +78.57% 9
South East +37 8 - - 12
Scotland +37 3 £420 -11.21% 5
North of England +29 2 - - 6
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
South West +6 1 - - 6
East of England -3 1 £350 -30.00% 2

Proactive Management
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 15 (36.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 18 (43.90%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.76%) PaaS
5 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) GitHub
6 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Firewall
1 3 (7.32%) NAS
1 3 (7.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (41.46%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.20%) Power BI
General
1 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Finance
3 8 (19.51%) Influencing Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Telecoms
4 6 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.44%) Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Front Office
7 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Legal
7 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Administrator
1 13 (31.71%) SharePoint Administrator
2 6 (14.63%) Azure Administrator
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
3 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Problem Manager
3 5 (12.20%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.32%) Operations Manager
4 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) Site Manager
4 3 (7.32%) Telecoms Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Data Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Development Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Management Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) SharePoint Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Junior
6 1 (2.44%) Service Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Windows
2 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (4.88%) Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Web SSO
2 11 (26.83%) Identity Management
2 11 (26.83%) ITIL
3 10 (24.39%) Problem Management
4 8 (19.51%) Change Management
5 7 (17.07%) Incident Management
6 6 (14.63%) Agile
6 6 (14.63%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (12.20%) Customer Service
7 5 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
7 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (9.76%) Customer Experience
8 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making
8 4 (9.76%) Due Diligence
8 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.76%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.83%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.07%) SQL
3 2 (4.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (4.88%) APMP
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) ISEB
3 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) BT
2 4 (9.76%) Citrix
3 3 (7.32%) Cisco
3 3 (7.32%) HP
4 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint