Preventative Maintenance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Preventative Maintenance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Preventative Maintenance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Preventative Maintenance over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 355 377
Rank change year-on-year +33 +22 +68
Contract jobs citing Preventative Maintenance 26 40 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.20% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.23% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 44
10th Percentile £153 - £200
25th Percentile £313 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £126 £575
Median % change year-on-year +274.60% -78.09% +150.00%
75th Percentile £613 £388 £670
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £401 £183 £450
% change year-on-year +119.45% -59.44% +73.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £40.84 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +114.95% - -
UK median hourly rate £15.84 £19.00 -
% change year-on-year -16.63% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,752 17,125 20,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.40% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,324 10,208 14,216
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,061 1,259
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

Preventative Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Preventative Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Preventative Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Preventative Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Preventative Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Preventative 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 Preventative Maintenance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
South East +45 15 £575 +53.33% 99
Scotland +7 4 £401 -42.21% 22
Midlands +15 3 £325 -31.58% 56
West Midlands +4 3 £325 -31.58% 27
South West +40 1 - - 27
North of England +10 1 £300 +138.10% 66
East of England - 1 - - 18
Northern Ireland - 1 £134 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £300 - 28
Preventative Maintenance
UK

Preventative 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 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) CATIA
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) SAP IBP
1 2 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) AWS
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) LAN
2 6 (23.08%) Cisco Firepower
2 6 (23.08%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
2 6 (23.08%) Junos
3 2 (7.69%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.85%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) DB2
2 1 (3.85%) Tableau
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.85%) Aviation
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Network Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Collaboration Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Product Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Field Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Field Service Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Flash
1 1 (3.85%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Client/Server
1 1 (3.85%) CMDB
1 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.85%) NVMe
1 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (3.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.85%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (42.31%) Customer Requirements
2 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (23.08%) Load Balancing
5 3 (11.54%) OO
5 3 (11.54%) Problem Management
6 2 (7.69%) Bill of Materials
6 2 (7.69%) Business Case
6 2 (7.69%) Business Transformation
6 2 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (7.69%) Containerisation
6 2 (7.69%) Demand Management
6 2 (7.69%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (7.69%) Quality Management
6 2 (7.69%) Security Patching
6 2 (7.69%) Software Engineering
6 2 (7.69%) Time Management
7 1 (3.85%) Customer Service
7 1 (3.85%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) VB
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) HNC
3 1 (3.85%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) SLA
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (7.69%) PMO
2 2 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) COSHH
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) GPFS
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Ansible
1 6 (23.08%) FortiGate
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Cisco
2 6 (23.08%) Citrix
2 6 (23.08%) F5
2 6 (23.08%) Juniper
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.54%) SAP
5 2 (7.69%) Brocade
5 2 (7.69%) EMC
5 2 (7.69%) IBM
5 2 (7.69%) NetApp
5 2 (7.69%) Sybase
5 2 (7.69%) Veritas
6 1 (3.85%) Google
6 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.85%) Siemens