Break/Fix Contracts in Berkshire

Break/Fix
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Break/Fix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Break/Fix over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 112 129
Rank change year-on-year +26 +17 -27
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 34 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.72% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 0 3
10th Percentile £280 - £141
25th Percentile £300 - £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £190
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.50%
75th Percentile £608 - £360
90th Percentile - - £459
South East median daily rate £500 £173 £165
% change year-on-year +189.86% +4.55% +26.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Break/Fix 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 advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,758 1,647 2,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.83% 90.69% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 1,060 1,375
10th Percentile £213 £345 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £707 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 44
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.38
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £39.38
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £76.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Break/Fix
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Break/Fix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Break/Fix in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Break/Fix in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Break/Fix within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Reading - 23 £605 - 5
Slough - 11 £300 -
Break/Fix
South East

Break/Fix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (55.88%) Azure
2 13 (38.24%) OCI
3 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (14.71%) Azure API Management
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Functions
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (14.71%) Serverless
5 1 (2.94%) Figma
5 1 (2.94%) npm
5 1 (2.94%) PaaS
5 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (55.88%) SAN
2 13 (38.24%) DHCP
2 13 (38.24%) DNS
2 13 (38.24%) Firewall
3 4 (11.76%) 2G
3 4 (11.76%) 3G
3 4 (11.76%) 4G
3 4 (11.76%) ATM
3 4 (11.76%) Ethernet
3 4 (11.76%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Visual Studio
2 5 (14.71%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) rollup.js
3 1 (2.94%) webpack
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Storage Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Server Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Data Centre Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Break Fix Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Hardware Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Integration Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Azure Developer
7 3 (8.82%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Transmission Planner
7 3 (8.82%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Data Centre Technician
8 1 (2.94%) Data Technician
8 1 (2.94%) Operations Technician
8 1 (2.94%) Transmission Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Transmission Planning Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) ARM Templates
2 3 (8.82%) .NET
2 3 (8.82%) JSON
2 3 (8.82%) OAuth
2 3 (8.82%) OpenID
2 3 (8.82%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) SOAP
2 3 (8.82%) XML
3 1 (2.94%) CSS
3 1 (2.94%) Enzyme
3 1 (2.94%) Jest
3 1 (2.94%) Next.js
3 1 (2.94%) React
3 1 (2.94%) Redux
3 1 (2.94%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 24 (70.59%) Data Centre
2 6 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 13 (38.24%) Linux
1 13 (38.24%) Windows
1 13 (38.24%) Windows 10
1 13 (38.24%) Windows Server
1 13 (38.24%) Windows Server 2012
1 13 (38.24%) Windows Server 2016
1 13 (38.24%) Windows Server 2019
1 13 (38.24%) Windows XP
2 6 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) ITIL
2 15 (44.12%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (38.24%) Converged Infrastructure
3 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (38.24%) Performance Monitoring
3 13 (38.24%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (38.24%) Proactive Monitoring
3 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (38.24%) Project Management
3 13 (38.24%) Server Management
3 13 (38.24%) Storage Management
4 9 (26.47%) Incident Management
5 6 (17.65%) Application Security
5 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 6 (17.65%) DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (17.65%) Security Testing
6 5 (14.71%) B2C
6 5 (14.71%) Data Centre Operations
6 5 (14.71%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.82%) C#
2 3 (8.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 13 (38.24%) CCNA
2 13 (38.24%) CCNP
2 13 (38.24%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (38.24%) Degree
2 13 (38.24%) DV Cleared
2 13 (38.24%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Active Directory
1 13 (38.24%) Hyper-V
1 13 (38.24%) VMware ESXi
1 13 (38.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) EMC NetWorker
1 13 (38.24%) NetBackup
1 13 (38.24%) SCCM
1 13 (38.24%) SCOM
1 13 (38.24%) vCenter Server
1 13 (38.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (64.71%) Dell
1 22 (64.71%) HP
2 16 (47.06%) Microsoft
3 13 (38.24%) 3PAR
3 13 (38.24%) Cisco
3 13 (38.24%) EMC
3 13 (38.24%) Extreme Networks
3 13 (38.24%) Juniper
3 13 (38.24%) Oracle
3 13 (38.24%) Palo Alto
3 13 (38.24%) Symantec
3 13 (38.24%) Veeam
3 13 (38.24%) VMware
4 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Adobe