Fault Management Contracts

Fault Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Fault Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fault Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 569 684
Rank change year-on-year +87 +115 +161
Contract jobs citing Fault Management 38 13 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.030% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.035% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 9 18
10th Percentile £413 £469 £435
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -3.38% +15.00%
75th Percentile £639 £525 £547
90th Percentile £680 £555 £553
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Fault Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fault Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fault Management in the UK

Fault Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fault Management.

Daily rate trend for Fault Management in the UK

Fault Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fault Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fault Management in the UK

Fault Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fault Management.

Hourly rate trend for Fault Management in the UK

Fault Management
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +83 38 £575 +15.00% 8
UK excluding London +79 23 £450 -8.72% 6
South East - 19 £450 - 2
London +48 15 £640 +28.00% 3
Work from Home +44 6 £425 -13.27% 2
South West - 4 £425 -

Fault Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 28 (73.68%) LTE
2 19 (50.00%) MPLS
2 19 (50.00%) VPN
3 18 (47.37%) 5G
3 18 (47.37%) Ethernet
3 18 (47.37%) SDH
4 16 (42.11%) ATM
4 16 (42.11%) Frame Relay
4 16 (42.11%) GPRS
4 16 (42.11%) GSM
4 16 (42.11%) LAN
4 16 (42.11%) SAN
4 16 (42.11%) UMTS
4 16 (42.11%) WAN
4 16 (42.11%) Wireshark
5 14 (36.84%) 4G
5 14 (36.84%) Radio Access Network
6 12 (31.58%) 5G NR
7 3 (7.89%) VoIP
8 2 (5.26%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) MySQL
General
1 36 (94.74%) Telecoms
2 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Billing
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) IP Engineer
2 14 (36.84%) Test Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Consultant
3 5 (13.16%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Network Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) OSS Project Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Telecoms Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Telecoms Project Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Network Consultant
5 3 (7.89%) Subject Matter Expert
6 2 (5.26%) IP Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) IP Network Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) OSS Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) EMC Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Fault Management Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Operations Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) OSS Expert
7 1 (2.63%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 18 (47.37%) Cloud Native
2 16 (42.11%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (31.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (7.89%) Clustering
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (47.37%) Linux
2 16 (42.11%) Unix
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (89.47%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (52.63%) Project Management
3 16 (42.11%) Agile
3 16 (42.11%) Regression Testing
3 16 (42.11%) Test Strategy
4 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 14 (36.84%) DevOps
5 12 (31.58%) Collaborative Working
5 12 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (31.58%) High Availability
5 12 (31.58%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 6 (15.79%) Service Management
7 4 (10.53%) CRM
7 4 (10.53%) PRINCE2
7 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
7 4 (10.53%) Scrum
7 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) Java
2 14 (36.84%) Python
3 2 (5.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (44.74%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (42.11%) CCNP
2 16 (42.11%) ISEB
2 16 (42.11%) ISTQB
2 16 (42.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 6 (15.79%) Degree
4 4 (10.53%) PMI Certification
4 4 (10.53%) PMP
5 1 (2.63%) CCNA
5 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 14 (36.84%) Ansible
2 7 (18.42%) NSN NetAct
3 4 (10.53%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 19 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (44.74%) Cisco
3 16 (42.11%) Juniper
4 13 (34.21%) Ericsson
5 11 (28.95%) Nokia
6 4 (10.53%) Amdocs
6 4 (10.53%) Ciena
6 4 (10.53%) NetCracker
7 3 (7.89%) EMC
8 2 (5.26%) Oracle
8 2 (5.26%) Splunk
9 1 (2.63%) VMware