Preventative Maintenance Job Trends in the Midlands

Preventative Maintenance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Preventative Maintenance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 227 208
Rank change year-on-year +158 -19 +108
Permanent jobs citing Preventative Maintenance 220 15 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.82% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 0.26% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 16
10th Percentile £27,300 £27,646 -
25th Percentile £29,625 £28,038 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £30,745 £28,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.21% +7.88% +18.75%
75th Percentile £39,625 £33,196 £30,000
90th Percentile £42,100 £33,435 £36,716
England median annual salary £42,250 £40,312 £40,455
% change year-on-year +4.81% -0.35% +0.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Preventative Maintenance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,357 5,881 4,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.55% 89.81% 88.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 2,578 3,796
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Preventative Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Preventative Maintenance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Preventative Maintenance job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Preventative Maintenance
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Preventative Maintenance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Preventative Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Preventative Maintenance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Preventative Maintenance in the Midlands

Preventative Maintenance
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Preventative Maintenance within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +145 205 - - 6
East Midlands +10 15 £34,500 +13.15% 12
Preventative Maintenance
England

Preventative Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.91%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.45%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 6 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.45%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.73%) DHCP
1 6 (2.73%) DNS
1 6 (2.73%) Internet
1 6 (2.73%) Network Security
2 1 (0.45%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.45%) Metadata
General
1 210 (95.45%) Finance
2 186 (84.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 24 (10.91%) Digital Health
4 24 (10.91%) Retail
5 2 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.45%) Games
6 1 (0.45%) Law
6 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 186 (84.55%) Facilities Engineer
1 186 (84.55%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (2.73%) Field Engineer
2 6 (2.73%) Field Service Engineer
2 6 (2.73%) IT Engineer
3 2 (0.91%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (0.45%) IT Trainer
4 1 (0.45%) Legal IT Trainer
4 1 (0.45%) Senior
4 1 (0.45%) Senior Technician
4 1 (0.45%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.91%) CSS
2 1 (0.45%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (0.45%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.91%) FMCG
2 6 (2.73%) iPad
2 6 (2.73%) PMI
3 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.45%) Acoustics
4 1 (0.45%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.45%) iPhone
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.64%) Windows
2 6 (2.73%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.45%) Android
3 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (84.55%) Inventory Management
1 186 (84.55%) Mentoring
2 26 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (10.91%) Logistics
3 24 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (2.73%) Customer Service
4 6 (2.73%) Server Management
5 2 (0.91%) Computer Science
5 2 (0.91%) Process Improvement
5 2 (0.91%) Project Management
5 2 (0.91%) Six Sigma
5 2 (0.91%) Visualisation
6 1 (0.45%) Budgeting
6 1 (0.45%) Document Management
6 1 (0.45%) Expense Management
6 1 (0.45%) Metadata Management
6 1 (0.45%) Videography
6 1 (0.45%) Workflow
6 1 (0.45%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 186 (84.55%) City & Guilds
1 186 (84.55%) NVQ Level 3
1 186 (84.55%) Postgraduate
2 8 (3.64%) Degree
3 6 (2.73%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (84.55%) COSHH
2 2 (0.91%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 6 (2.73%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.73%) Hyper-V
1 6 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.73%) WSUS
2 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6 (2.73%) Apple
1 6 (2.73%) VMware
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe
3 1 (0.45%) Cisco
3 1 (0.45%) Google
3 1 (0.45%) iManage