Hardware Maintenance Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Hardware Maintenance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Hardware Maintenance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 539 588
Rank change year-on-year +37 +49 +164
Permanent jobs citing Hardware Maintenance 22 22 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.050% 0.062% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.069% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 17 10 21
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £25,688 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £52,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +61.54% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £59,625 £38,750
90th Percentile - £78,750 -
UK median annual salary £32,500 £55,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -40.91% +52.78% -15.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34,259 31,841 36,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 77.78% 89.53% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 19,837 14,228 27,331
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

Hardware Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hardware Maintenance job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Hardware Maintenance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hardware Maintenance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hardware Maintenance

Hardware Maintenance
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hardware Maintenance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Hardware Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Hardware Maintenance
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Maintenance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Midlands +25 8 £45,000 -19.64% 2
East Midlands -2 8 £45,000 -19.64%
Wales - 7 £30,500 -
North West +19 4 £30,500 -39.00% 2
North of England +14 4 £30,500 -39.00% 2
East of England +18 3 £32,500 +25.00%
Hardware Maintenance
UK

Hardware Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) VoIP
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Break Fix Engineer
1 7 (31.82%) Field Engineer
1 7 (31.82%) Field Service Engineer
1 7 (31.82%) IT Support
2 6 (27.27%) Help Desk Manager
3 5 (22.73%) Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) IT Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Support Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 3 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (9.09%) ERP Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) ERP Support
5 2 (9.09%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Driving Licence
2 7 (31.82%) Data Centre
2 7 (31.82%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.09%) FMCG
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Service Delivery
2 8 (36.36%) Customer Service
3 7 (31.82%) Break/Fix
3 7 (31.82%) ITSM
4 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
5 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
6 2 (9.09%) ERP
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (4.55%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (31.82%) DBS Check
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Dell
1 7 (31.82%) HP
1 7 (31.82%) IBM
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) QAD