Preventative Maintenance Contracts

Preventative Maintenance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Preventative Maintenance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Preventative Maintenance over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 585 765
Rank change year-on-year +38 +180 -113
Contract jobs citing Preventative Maintenance 51 127 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.21% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.24% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 81 46
10th Percentile - £169 £123
25th Percentile £126 £250 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £455 £230
Median % change year-on-year -63.70% +97.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £425 £650 £465
90th Percentile £488 £750 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £126 £575 £200
% change year-on-year -78.09% +187.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile - - £12.38
25th Percentile £18.50 - £13.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £16.25
75th Percentile £19.50 - £17.00
90th Percentile £21.84 - £17.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 - £13.25
% change year-on-year - - -11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Preventative 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 37,562 53,490 80,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.88% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,188 37,115 56,434
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
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% +8.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,451 1,742 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.00%

Preventative Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK

Preventative Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK

Preventative Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Preventative Maintenance over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Preventative Maintenance in the UK

Preventative Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK

Preventative Maintenance
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Preventative Maintenance within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +78 44 £165 -61.18% 514
UK excluding London +9 39 £126 -78.09% 479
South East +26 14 £375 -30.23% 106
London +63 10 £300 -14.41% 81
North of England +20 10 £126 -80.62% 114
North West +20 10 £126 -80.62% 57
Midlands +32 6 £475 +130.30% 119
West Midlands +32 6 £475 +130.30% 78
Work from Home +94 5 £450 -2.70% 109
Scotland +17 5 £693 +21.37% 22
South West +7 4 - - 56

Preventative 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 (9.80%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) SAP PM
1 2 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.96%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.84%) AWS
1 4 (7.84%) Azure
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (7.84%) OpenShift
1 4 (7.84%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (31.37%) LAN
2 9 (17.65%) ATM
3 5 (9.80%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (9.80%) iSCSI
4 4 (7.84%) ADSL
4 4 (7.84%) Firewall
4 4 (7.84%) PSTN
4 4 (7.84%) SAN
4 4 (7.84%) Wireless
4 4 (7.84%) WLAN
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) DB2
General
1 22 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 16 (31.37%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Retail
4 4 (7.84%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Architect
1 11 (21.57%) Network Architect
2 9 (17.65%) IT Technician
3 7 (13.73%) Support Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Network Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Programmer
5 4 (7.84%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Desktop Support
5 4 (7.84%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Python Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) SAP PM Consultant
8 1 (1.96%) Analyst
8 1 (1.96%) Applications Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) Flash
1 5 (9.80%) POSIX
2 1 (1.96%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Driving Licence
1 9 (17.65%) EPoS
1 9 (17.65%) Smartphone
2 5 (9.80%) CMDB
2 5 (9.80%) NVMe
3 4 (7.84%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.84%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) FMCG
4 1 (1.96%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Windows
2 5 (9.80%) Linux
3 4 (7.84%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.84%) Unix
3 4 (7.84%) Windows 10
3 4 (7.84%) Windows 7
3 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) Customer Requirements
2 13 (25.49%) Agile
3 12 (23.53%) Break/Fix
4 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (9.80%) Capacity Management
5 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
5 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (9.80%) High Availability
5 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (9.80%) Observability
5 5 (9.80%) Problem Management
5 5 (9.80%) Project Delivery
5 5 (9.80%) SDLC
5 5 (9.80%) Storage Management
6 4 (7.84%) Information Security
6 4 (7.84%) Line Management
6 4 (7.84%) OO
6 4 (7.84%) Patch Management
6 4 (7.84%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (7.84%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.80%) Java
1 5 (9.80%) Perl
1 5 (9.80%) Python
2 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.84%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) CCNA
3 1 (1.96%) CCNP
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (31.37%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Firmware
1 5 (9.80%) NFS
2 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.84%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
1 4 (7.84%) SCCM
1 4 (7.84%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Aruba
2 4 (7.84%) Blue Coat
2 4 (7.84%) Brocade
2 4 (7.84%) CheckPoint
2 4 (7.84%) EMC
2 4 (7.84%) Fortinet
2 4 (7.84%) Google
2 4 (7.84%) IBM
2 4 (7.84%) Infoblox
2 4 (7.84%) NetApp
2 4 (7.84%) Palo Alto
2 4 (7.84%) SAP
2 4 (7.84%) Sybase
2 4 (7.84%) Veritas
3 2 (3.92%) Logitech