Preventative Maintenance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Preventative 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 Preventative Maintenance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Preventative Maintenance over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 372 446
Rank change year-on-year +16 +74 -37
Contract jobs citing Preventative Maintenance 40 75 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.36% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 45 33
10th Percentile - £200 £121
25th Percentile - £425 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £126 £575 £200
Median % change year-on-year -78.09% +187.50% -
75th Percentile £388 £669 £465
90th Percentile £675 £700 £498
UK median daily rate £200 £452 £230
% change year-on-year -55.78% +96.63% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £11.63
25th Percentile £18.50 - £12.19
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £13.25
75th Percentile £19.50 - £15.19
90th Percentile - - £16.88
UK median hourly rate £19.00 - £16.25
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Preventative 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 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £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 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Preventative Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Preventative Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Preventative Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Preventative Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Preventative 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 Preventative Maintenance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 15 £375 -50.00% 98
North of England +19 10 £126 -80.62% 108
North West +8 10 £126 -80.62% 54
Midlands +39 6 £475 +130.30% 110
West Midlands +26 6 £475 +130.30% 75
Scotland +20 5 £693 +21.37% 22
South West +5 4 - - 46
Preventative Maintenance
UK

Preventative 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 5 (12.50%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.50%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) AWS
1 4 (10.00%) Azure
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (32.50%) LAN
2 9 (22.50%) ATM
3 5 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (12.50%) iSCSI
4 4 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) DB2
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Finance
3 9 (22.50%) Retail
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Architect
1 11 (27.50%) Network Architect
2 9 (22.50%) IT Technician
3 5 (12.50%) Programmer
4 4 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Desktop Support
4 4 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Consultant
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (2.50%) SAP PM Consultant
6 1 (2.50%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Flash
1 5 (12.50%) POSIX
2 1 (2.50%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Driving Licence
1 9 (22.50%) EPoS
1 9 (22.50%) Smartphone
2 5 (12.50%) NVMe
3 4 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 4 (10.00%) CMDB
3 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) FMCG
4 1 (2.50%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Linux
3 4 (10.00%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (10.00%) Unix
3 4 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (10.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Customer Requirements
2 14 (35.00%) Agile
3 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (22.50%) Break/Fix
5 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (12.50%) Capacity Management
6 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 5 (12.50%) High Availability
6 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (12.50%) Observability
6 5 (12.50%) Problem Management
6 5 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 5 (12.50%) SDLC
6 5 (12.50%) Storage Management
7 4 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
7 4 (10.00%) Information Security
7 4 (10.00%) Line Management
7 4 (10.00%) OO
7 4 (10.00%) Patch Management
7 4 (10.00%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) Java
1 5 (12.50%) Perl
1 5 (12.50%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (32.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) NFS
2 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.00%) SCCM
1 4 (10.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Brocade
1 4 (10.00%) EMC
1 4 (10.00%) Google
1 4 (10.00%) IBM
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (10.00%) NetApp
1 4 (10.00%) Sybase
1 4 (10.00%) Veritas
2 2 (5.00%) SAP