Hardware Maintenance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Hardware Maintenance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 425 486
Rank change year-on-year +41 +61 -42
Contract jobs citing Hardware Maintenance 17 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.080% 0.022% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.025% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 14
10th Percentile - - £109
25th Percentile £213 - £110
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £190 £169
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +12.59% -3.57%
75th Percentile £218 - £228
90th Percentile £444 - £413
UK median daily rate £215 £190 £150
% change year-on-year +13.16% +26.67% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
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 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 16 June 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 16 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 - 1
South West - 3 £475 -
Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £160 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
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 (5.88%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) VoIP
1 1 (5.88%) Wireless
General
1 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
2 12 (70.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Desktop Engineer
1 13 (76.47%) Desktop Support
1 13 (76.47%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 13 (76.47%) Support Engineer
2 12 (70.59%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
3 2 (11.76%) Software Asset Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Software Manager
4 1 (5.88%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 12 (70.59%) Windows 10
2 12 (70.59%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) ITIL
2 14 (82.35%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (76.47%) Customer Service
4 3 (17.65%) Asset Management
4 3 (17.65%) Software Asset Management
4 3 (17.65%) Supplier Management
5 2 (11.76%) Inventory Management
5 2 (11.76%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity
6 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (5.88%) Software Licensing
6 1 (5.88%) Validation
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (70.59%) DV Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (17.65%) MCP
4 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (76.47%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Veeam