Hardware Maintenance Contracts in England

Hardware Maintenance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Hardware Maintenance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hardware Maintenance over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 622 759
Rank change year-on-year +94 +137 -109
Contract jobs citing Hardware Maintenance 22 14 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.059% 0.030% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.033% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 17
10th Percentile £168 £157 £109
25th Percentile £213 £173 £110
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £190 £150
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +26.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £232 - £238
90th Percentile £443 £199 £413
UK median daily rate £215 £190 £150
% change year-on-year +13.16% +26.67% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Hardware 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Hardware Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Hardware Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Hardware Maintenance in England

Hardware Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Hardware Maintenance in England

Hardware Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hardware Maintenance in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hardware Maintenance in England

Hardware Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Hardware Maintenance in England

Hardware Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 19 June 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 +26 12 £215 - 2
London +77 4 £219 +19.86% 2
South West - 3 £475 - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £160 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Hardware Maintenance
UK

Hardware Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (68.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Wireless
2 2 (9.09%) Internet
2 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.55%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
General
1 16 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (54.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Support Engineer
2 14 (63.64%) Desktop Engineer
2 14 (63.64%) Desktop Support
2 14 (63.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 12 (54.55%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
4 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) IT Support
4 2 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Asset Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Software Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Technician
5 1 (4.55%) SAP Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) Windows 10
3 12 (54.55%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.55%) Android
4 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.55%) Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) ITIL
2 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (63.64%) Customer Service
4 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
4 3 (13.64%) Inventory Management
4 3 (13.64%) Software Asset Management
4 3 (13.64%) Supplier Management
5 2 (9.09%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.55%) Business Continuity
6 1 (4.55%) Computer Science
6 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.55%) ERP
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (4.55%) Operational Stability
6 1 (4.55%) Release Management
6 1 (4.55%) Roadmaps
6 1 (4.55%) Use Case
6 1 (4.55%) Validation
6 1 (4.55%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (13.64%) MCP
4 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
5 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) SCCM
2 2 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 13 (59.09%) HP
3 1 (4.55%) Meraki
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Veeam