Predictive Maintenance Contract Job Trends

Predictive Maintenance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 577 - 619
Rank change year-on-year - - +218
Contract jobs citing Predictive Maintenance 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% - 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £603 - £501
25th Percentile £606 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £505
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.77%
75th Percentile £656 - £508
90th Percentile £668 - £509
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £505

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,674 31,507 41,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.43% 86.09% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,109 18,939 28,400
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,962 1,136 1,601
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -32.04% -15.60% +25.65%
75th Percentile £42.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.95 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £36.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -38.15% -15.29% +56.68%

Predictive Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Predictive Maintenance job vacancy trend in the UK

Predictive Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Predictive Maintenance
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England - 5 £625 - 36
UK excluding London - 3 £600 - 26
Work from Home - 2 - - 18
London - 2 £650 - 22
Yorkshire - 1 £600 - 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £600 - 5

Predictive Maintenance
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Modbus
1 1 (16.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Flink
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Automotive
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Use Case
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Application Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Twin
3 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) LLM
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (16.67%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Siemens
2 1 (16.67%) VMware