Preventative Maintenance Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Preventative Maintenance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Preventative Maintenance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 91 99
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Preventative Maintenance 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.18% 0.31% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.35% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £328 - -
25th Percentile £340 - £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - £338
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.03%
75th Percentile £380 - £356
90th Percentile £392 - -
England median daily rate £363 £300 £218
% change year-on-year +20.83% +37.57% -43.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Preventative Maintenance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,733 1,134 1,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.24% 89.15% 82.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 501 495
10th Percentile £190 £200 £195
25th Percentile £385 £373 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £592 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £656 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 291 436
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.70
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.20 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -27.02% +115.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £80.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

Preventative Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Preventative Maintenance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Preventative Maintenance job vacancy trend in the East of England

Preventative Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Preventative Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Preventative Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Preventative Maintenance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Preventative Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire - 2 - - 5
Hertfordshire -18 1 £320 - 13
Cambridgeshire - 1 £400 - 16
Preventative Maintenance
England

Preventative Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) ERP
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Workload Management
4 1 (25.00%) BCP
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Case Management
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (25.00%) Operational Stability
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Management
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow