Fault Management Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Fault Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Fault Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 313 -
Rank change year-on-year -72 - -
Contract jobs citing Fault Management 11 27 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.061% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 0
10th Percentile - £360 -
25th Percentile - £367 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £523 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.58% - -
75th Percentile £369 £592 -
90th Percentile £448 £618 -
UK median daily rate £300 £538 £375
% change year-on-year -44.19% +43.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £13.84 £21.59 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.90% - -
UK median hourly rate £13.84 £21.59 -
% change year-on-year -35.90% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Fault Management 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,350 12,206 16,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.21% 87.88% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,394 7,131 10,850
10th Percentile £221 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,673 686 1,285
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.29 £20.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -30.74% +59.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £73.75 £76.81
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

Fault Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fault Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Fault Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Fault Management
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fault Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fault Management

Fault Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fault Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fault Management in the UK excluding London

Fault Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fault Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fault Management

Fault Management
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 Fault Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
North West - 4 - - 1
West Midlands - 4 £300 -
North of England - 4 - - 2
South East -30 2 £300 -42.31% 3
South West - 2 £300 -
Scotland +1 1 £500 -4.76%
East of England - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Fault Management
UK

Fault Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) SNMP
2 1 (9.09%) Broadband
2 1 (9.09%) Modbus
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) GIS
General
1 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Support Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Technical Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Technical Support
1 4 (36.36%) Technical Support Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Operations Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) OSS Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) OSS Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) OSS Systems Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Support
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
3 4 (36.36%) Capacity Management
3 4 (36.36%) Customer Experience
3 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
3 4 (36.36%) Information Security
3 4 (36.36%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (36.36%) Time Management
3 4 (36.36%) Trend Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Service Management
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
6 1 (9.09%) Network Management
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Preventative Maintenance
6 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Test Management
6 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft