Hardware Maintenance Contracts

Hardware Maintenance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 578 674
Rank change year-on-year +28 +96 +175
Contract jobs citing Hardware Maintenance 3 18 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.043% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.050% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 12
10th Percentile £218 £181 £155
25th Percentile £225 £213 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £215 £190
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +13.16% +12.59%
75th Percentile £275 £419 -
90th Percentile £283 £468 £199
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £215 £190
% change year-on-year +16.28% +13.16% +1.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,453 35,958 49,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.33% 85.38% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,495 23,012 34,286
10th Percentile £300 £301 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,557 2,302 1,674
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.71 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.81%
75th Percentile £51.25 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.48 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £38.20 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.16% -4.51% +86.05%

Hardware Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hardware Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hardware Maintenance in the UK

Hardware Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hardware Maintenance.

Daily rate trend for Hardware Maintenance in the UK

Hardware Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hardware Maintenance.

Hourly rate trend for Hardware Maintenance in the UK

Hardware Maintenance
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 July 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 +39 3 £250 +16.28% 15
UK excluding London +18 3 £250 +16.28% 13
South West +38 1 £225 -52.63%
West Midlands +5 1 £275 -
Midlands -1 1 £275 - 3
North of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

Hardware Maintenance
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DWDM
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) LPAR
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Reinsurance
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Break/Fix
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) CLIST
1 1 (33.33%) JCL
1 1 (33.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (33.33%) Microcode
1 1 (33.33%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) VMware