Preventative Maintenance Contracts

Preventative Maintenance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Preventative Maintenance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Preventative Maintenance over the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 566 726
Rank change year-on-year +51 +160 +52
Contract jobs citing Preventative Maintenance 42 57 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 42 47
10th Percentile £210 £143 £155
25th Percentile £309 £161 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £281 £313
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% -10.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £573 £484 £463
90th Percentile £598 £584 £546
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £271 £325
% change year-on-year +56.68% -16.54% +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £21.08
25th Percentile - - £21.19
Median hourly rate £12.65 - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £37.81
90th Percentile - - £40.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Preventative Maintenance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,097 41,372 72,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 88.53% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,685 27,858 50,241
10th Percentile £310 £308 £346
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +6.28%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,094 1,593 1,721
10th Percentile £15.10 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.12 £19.00 £17.24
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +25.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.93 £44.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year -23.75% +53.45% +60.09%

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 17 November 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 13 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 17 November 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 +49 31 £331 +17.78% 178
UK excluding London +38 28 £425 +56.68% 135
London +36 11 £600 +108.70% 60
South East +42 9 £218 -24.80% 43
Scotland +29 9 £484 +38.29% 3
Midlands +19 7 £325 -24.42% 29
Work from Home +72 6 £540 +35.00% 9
West Midlands +13 6 £325 -50.00% 16
East of England +29 1 £338 +120.95% 18
North of England +17 1 £300 -25.00% 27
Yorkshire +14 1 £300 +42.86% 8
Wales +5 1 £134 -50.43% 1
East Midlands +5 1 - - 13

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 4 (9.52%) WebLogic
2 3 (7.14%) SAS
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) EPLAN
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 5 (11.90%) AWS
3 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (11.90%) iSCSI
1 5 (11.90%) LAN
2 2 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (4.76%) Junos
2 2 (4.76%) SAN
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.38%) Skype
3 1 (2.38%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) DB2
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Oracle APEX
General
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Retail
5 3 (7.14%) Back Office
5 3 (7.14%) Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Legal
6 2 (4.76%) Electronics
6 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.76%) Marketing
6 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.38%) Law
7 1 (2.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Mobile Specialist
3 4 (9.52%) Developer
3 4 (9.52%) IT Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) IT Support
3 4 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Administrator
5 2 (4.76%) Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Collaboration Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Project Administrator
5 2 (4.76%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior
5 2 (4.76%) Site Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Field Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Field Service Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Support Assistant
6 1 (2.38%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Middleware
2 4 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (7.14%) Flash
3 3 (7.14%) POSIX
4 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Robotics
2 3 (7.14%) Client/Server
2 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.14%) NVMe
3 2 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) EPoS
4 1 (2.38%) IoT
4 1 (2.38%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
2 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Unix
2 5 (11.90%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Customer Requirements
2 9 (21.43%) Project Management
3 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
4 6 (14.29%) Break/Fix
4 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.90%) Capacity Management
5 5 (11.90%) Ergonomics
5 5 (11.90%) OO
5 5 (11.90%) Problem Management
5 5 (11.90%) Project Planning
5 5 (11.90%) SDLC
5 5 (11.90%) Storage Virtualisation
5 5 (11.90%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (9.52%) Agile
6 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (9.52%) High Availability
6 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (9.52%) Inventory Management
6 4 (9.52%) Observability
6 4 (9.52%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) SQL
2 6 (14.29%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) Java
3 5 (11.90%) Perl
4 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) Degree
3 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.90%) Master's Degree
5 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
1 5 (11.90%) NFS
2 2 (4.76%) GPFS
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (2.38%) Ansible
3 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) IBM
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle
2 4 (9.52%) EMC
2 4 (9.52%) Google
2 4 (9.52%) NetApp
3 3 (7.14%) Juniper
3 3 (7.14%) SAP
3 3 (7.14%) Veritas
4 2 (4.76%) Brocade
4 2 (4.76%) Cisco
4 2 (4.76%) Sybase
5 1 (2.38%) Citrix
5 1 (2.38%) F5
5 1 (2.38%) Infor
5 1 (2.38%) Kronos
5 1 (2.38%) Polycom
5 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.38%) Workday