Preventative Maintenance Job Trends in the North of England

Preventative Maintenance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Preventative Maintenance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 269 272
Rank change year-on-year +40 +3 +149
Permanent jobs citing Preventative Maintenance 30 18 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.28% 0.20% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 8
10th Percentile £31,151 £23,500 £28,231
25th Percentile £31,250 £25,500 £29,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,125 £26,924 £50,950
Median % change year-on-year +23.03% -47.16% +19.88%
75th Percentile £36,719 £40,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £47,850 £50,438 £62,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £40,156 £39,227
% change year-on-year +4.59% +2.37% +0.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,582 8,228 7,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.13% 90.69% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,592 3,663 5,959
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,102
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,650 £82,500
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 North of England

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

Preventative Maintenance job vacancy trend in the North of England

Preventative Maintenance
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Preventative Maintenance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Preventative Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Preventative Maintenance in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Preventative Maintenance in the North of England

Preventative Maintenance
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Preventative Maintenance within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Yorkshire +6 22 £32,500 +25.00% 7
North West +27 8 £33,750 +0.97% 6
Preventative Maintenance
England

Preventative Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (3.33%) IIS
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (20.00%) AutoCAD
2 6 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 6 (20.00%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (6.67%) Acrobat
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.33%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.33%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Metadata
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Games
4 2 (6.67%) Law
4 2 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Support Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 6 (20.00%) Desktop Support Technician
2 6 (20.00%) Desktop Technician
2 6 (20.00%) Support Technician
3 5 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 5 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Facilities Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Field Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Field Service Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Support
5 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Trainer
5 2 (6.67%) Legal IT Trainer
5 2 (6.67%) Trainer
6 1 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 6 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.67%) e-Learning
3 2 (6.67%) iPhone
3 2 (6.67%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) CMDB
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
2 8 (26.67%) Android
3 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (43.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (26.67%) ITIL
4 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
5 6 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 6 (20.00%) Project Management
5 6 (20.00%) Six Sigma
5 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 6 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (13.33%) Inventory Management
7 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (6.67%) Asset Management
8 2 (6.67%) DevOps
8 2 (6.67%) Document Management
8 2 (6.67%) Expense Management
8 2 (6.67%) IT Asset Management
8 2 (6.67%) Metadata Management
8 2 (6.67%) Workflow
8 2 (6.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Degree
2 6 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) City & Guilds
3 3 (10.00%) NVQ Level 3
3 3 (10.00%) Postgraduate
4 1 (3.33%) MCITP
4 1 (3.33%) MCSE
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) IEC 61131
2 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (10.00%) COSHH
4 1 (3.33%) GMP
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.67%) vSphere
2 2 (6.67%) XenDesktop
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) Adobe
3 2 (6.67%) Dell
3 2 (6.67%) iManage
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) IFS
4 1 (3.33%) Infor
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) SAP