Hardware Maintenance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Hardware Maintenance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Hardware Maintenance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hardware Maintenance over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 449 488
Rank change year-on-year +84 +39 -73
Contract jobs citing Hardware Maintenance 21 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.030% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.033% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 12
10th Percentile - - £108
25th Percentile £213 - £110
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £190 £150
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +26.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £218 - £281
90th Percentile £400 - £413
UK median daily rate £215 £190 £148
% change year-on-year +13.16% +28.81% -34.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £13.40
25th Percentile - £16.25 £15.14
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £19.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.04% -
75th Percentile - £19.13 £22.01
90th Percentile - £19.35 £23.20
UK median hourly rate - £17.50 £19.03
% change year-on-year - -8.04% +49.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Hardware 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,229 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.55% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,247 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,039 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Hardware Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Hardware Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Hardware Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Hardware Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hardware Maintenance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Hardware Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Hardware Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hardware Maintenance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hardware Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Hardware Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hardware Maintenance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Hardware Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Hardware Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Maintenance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South East +36 17 £215 - 5
South West +17 3 £475 - 1
East of England - 1 £160 -
Hardware Maintenance
UK

Hardware Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (4.76%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Internet
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
1 1 (4.76%) VoIP
General
1 18 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (76.19%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Desktop Engineer
1 17 (80.95%) Desktop Support
1 17 (80.95%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 17 (80.95%) Support Engineer
2 16 (76.19%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
3 2 (9.52%) Software Asset Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (76.19%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) CCTV
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Windows
2 16 (76.19%) Windows 10
2 16 (76.19%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.76%) Android
3 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) ITIL
2 17 (80.95%) Customer Service
2 17 (80.95%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 3 (14.29%) Software Asset Management
3 3 (14.29%) Supplier Management
4 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
4 2 (9.52%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
4 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.76%) Budget Management
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
5 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.76%) Inventory Management
5 1 (4.76%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (4.76%) People Management
5 1 (4.76%) Software Licensing
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (4.76%) Validation
Qualifications
1 19 (90.48%) Security Cleared
2 16 (76.19%) DV Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (14.29%) MCP
4 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Microsoft
2 16 (76.19%) HP
3 1 (4.76%) VMware