Pacemaker Contract Job Trends

Pacemaker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Pacemaker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 - 598
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pacemaker 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% - 0.005%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.077% - 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £449 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £475
75th Percentile £450 - £488
90th Percentile £502 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £475

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Pacemaker falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,489 4,602 5,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.75% 15.75% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,467 3,153 3,676
10th Percentile £325 £313 £257
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.92% -8.43%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.29% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 51 127
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.13 £20.13 £17.77
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.61% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £77.23 £70.00 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.34 £38.50
% change year-on-year +117.05% -34.18% -12.00%

Pacemaker
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pacemaker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Pacemaker job vacancy trend in the UK

Pacemaker
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Pacemaker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Pacemaker

Pacemaker
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pacemaker within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2026. 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 West - 5 £450 - 2
England - 5 £450 - 2
UK excluding London - 5 £450 - 2
Work from Home - 1 £525 - 1

Pacemaker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SAP HANA
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (100.00%) SAP