Hardware Maintenance Contracts

Hardware Maintenance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Hardware Maintenance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hardware Maintenance over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 691 822
Rank change year-on-year +126 +131 -142
Contract jobs citing Hardware Maintenance 26 14 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.024% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.027% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 16
10th Percentile £186 £152 £109
25th Percentile £213 £173 £110
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £190 £148
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +28.81% -34.44%
75th Percentile £218 - £281
90th Percentile £438 £200 £413
UK excluding London median daily rate £215 £190 £150
% change year-on-year +13.16% +26.67% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.08% +88.24%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year - -27.08% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Hardware Maintenance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Hardware Maintenance in the UK

Hardware Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hardware Maintenance over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hardware Maintenance in the UK

Hardware Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Hardware Maintenance in the UK

Hardware Maintenance
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Maintenance within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +126 25 £215 +13.16% 19
UK excluding London +64 20 £215 +13.16% 9
South East +40 16 £215 - 4
London +85 4 £219 +19.86% 10
South West +16 3 £475 - 1
Work from Home +128 2 £306 - 4
East of England - 1 £160 - 1

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 3 (11.54%) IIS
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (73.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
2 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Internet
1 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (7.69%) Wireless
2 1 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
General
1 19 (73.08%) Social Skills
2 16 (61.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) Support Engineer
2 18 (69.23%) Desktop Engineer
2 18 (69.23%) Desktop Support
2 18 (69.23%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 16 (61.54%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Asset Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Software Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Manager
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 16 (61.54%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
2 17 (65.38%) Windows 10
3 16 (61.54%) Windows 7
4 2 (7.69%) Linux
5 1 (3.85%) Android
5 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) ITIL
2 19 (73.08%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (69.23%) Customer Service
4 3 (11.54%) Asset Management
4 3 (11.54%) Software Asset Management
4 3 (11.54%) Supplier Management
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (7.69%) Inventory Management
5 2 (7.69%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.85%) Business Continuity
6 1 (3.85%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.85%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.85%) ERP
6 1 (3.85%) Operational Stability
6 1 (3.85%) Roadmaps
6 1 (3.85%) Software Licensing
6 1 (3.85%) Validation
6 1 (3.85%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (73.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (61.54%) DV Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (11.54%) MCP
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (76.92%) SCCM
2 2 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 16 (61.54%) HP
3 1 (3.85%) Meraki
3 1 (3.85%) SAP