Predictive Maintenance Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Predictive Maintenance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Predictive Maintenance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 - 418
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Predictive Maintenance 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.018% - 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% - 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £501
25th Percentile - - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £505
75th Percentile - - £508
90th Percentile - - £509
UK median daily rate £625 - £505
% change year-on-year - - -23.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Predictive 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 14,634 14,053 18,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.07% 83.77% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,837 8,001 12,182
10th Percentile £225 £245 £250
25th Percentile £370 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £685 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,624 910 1,309
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.17 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £36.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.15% -15.29% +56.68%
75th Percentile £39.45 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -32.04% -15.60% +25.65%

Predictive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Predictive Maintenance job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Predictive Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Predictive Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Predictive Maintenance

Predictive 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 Predictive Maintenance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 October 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 1 £600 - 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £600 - 5
Predictive Maintenance
UK

Predictive Maintenance
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Modbus
1 1 (33.33%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Application Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Twin
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Siemens
1 1 (33.33%) VMware