Hardware Maintenance Job Trends in the North West

Hardware Maintenance
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Hardware Maintenance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 210 -
Rank change year-on-year +34 - -
Permanent jobs citing Hardware Maintenance 4 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.064% 0.019% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.021% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% - -
75th Percentile £31,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £32,500 £55,000 £31,250
% change year-on-year -40.91% +76.00% -26.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Hardware 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,186 4,740 3,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.31% 90.13% 90.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,516 2,361 2,647
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +0.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,775 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Hardware Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Hardware Maintenance job vacancy trend in the North West

Hardware Maintenance
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Hardware Maintenance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Hardware Maintenance

Hardware Maintenance
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Maintenance within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire - 2 £30,500 -
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
Merseyside - 1 - - 1
Hardware Maintenance
England

Hardware Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Break Fix Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Field Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Field Service Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Break/Fix
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) IBM