Hardware Maintenance Jobs

Hardware Maintenance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Hardware Maintenance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hardware Maintenance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 832 939
Rank change year-on-year +157 +107 +198
Permanent jobs citing Hardware Maintenance 17 64 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.065% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.076% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 16 61 44
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £21,596
25th Percentile £29,250 £26,500 £28,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £34,000 £40,699
Median % change year-on-year +65.44% -16.46% +25.23%
75th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £47,000
90th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £78,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,500 £34,000 £29,375
% change year-on-year -13.24% +15.74% -9.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Hardware Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hardware Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hardware Maintenance in the UK

Hardware Maintenance
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hardware Maintenance.

Salary trend for Hardware Maintenance in the UK

Hardware Maintenance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hardware Maintenance over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Hardware Maintenance in the UK

Hardware Maintenance
Top 8 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +128 11 £42,250 +14.97% 15
UK excluding London +166 8 £29,500 -13.24% 10
Work from Home +160 8 £60,000 +60.00% 1
East of England +55 4 £26,000 -3.70% 2
London +100 3 £58,750 +38.24% 6
South East +97 3 £72,500 +13.28% 5
Midlands +65 1 £32,000 +20.75%
East Midlands +49 1 £32,000 -36.00%

Hardware Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Apache
1 5 (29.41%) nginx
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) VLAN
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 3 (17.65%) HTTP
4 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) 1st Line Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Field Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Presales Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Procurement Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
2 4 (23.53%) Driving Licence
3 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Windows
3 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (29.41%) High Availability
1 5 (29.41%) ITIL
1 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
2 3 (17.65%) CAD
2 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
2 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
2 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (17.65%) Resource Allocation
2 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Agile Project Management
3 2 (11.76%) Business Development
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (11.76%) Operations Management
3 2 (11.76%) Project Management
3 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery Management
3 2 (11.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Bash
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.88%) CCNA
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) MCP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
1 5 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (17.65%) HAProxy
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Puppet
3 2 (11.76%) ZABBIX
4 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) VMware
3 4 (23.53%) HP
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco
4 3 (17.65%) Veeam
5 1 (5.88%) Apple
5 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
5 1 (5.88%) Citrix
5 1 (5.88%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) FactSet
5 1 (5.88%) Mitel
5 1 (5.88%) SonicWALL