Hardware Maintenance Job Trends in the South East

Hardware Maintenance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Hardware Maintenance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 299 265
Rank change year-on-year +28 -34 +158
Permanent jobs citing Hardware Maintenance 4 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.039% 0.032% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.037% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile - £61,250 £33,400
25th Percentile £29,750 £63,125 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £72,500 £65,850
Median % change year-on-year -57.93% +10.10% -5.93%
75th Percentile £31,250 £78,750 £95,700
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £32,500 £55,000 £32,750
% change year-on-year -40.91% +67.94% -22.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,378 8,110 6,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.85% 87.72% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,956 3,982 4,915
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,253 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
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 South East

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

Hardware Maintenance job vacancy trend in the South East

Hardware Maintenance
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Hardware Maintenance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Hardware Maintenance

Hardware Maintenance
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Maintenance within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Kent - 4 £30,500 -
Hardware Maintenance
England

Hardware Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Break Fix Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Field Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Field Service Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 4 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (100.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Dell
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) IBM