Break/Fix Contracts in Reading

Break/Fix
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 23 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.93% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 1
10th Percentile £500 - -
25th Percentile £516 - £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £190
75th Percentile £608 - £195
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £513 - £190
% change year-on-year - - +50.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,073 917 1,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.94% 89.46% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 616 834
10th Percentile £213 £363 £252
25th Percentile £413 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £670 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% -32.93%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +5.50% +174.67% -1.06%

Break/Fix
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (82.61%) Azure
2 13 (56.52%) OCI
3 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Azure API Management
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Functions
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (21.74%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Figma
5 1 (4.35%) npm
5 1 (4.35%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) DHCP
1 13 (56.52%) DNS
1 13 (56.52%) Firewall
1 13 (56.52%) SAN
2 4 (17.39%) 2G
2 4 (17.39%) 3G
2 4 (17.39%) 4G
2 4 (17.39%) ATM
2 4 (17.39%) Ethernet
2 4 (17.39%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.35%) rollup.js
2 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Integration Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Developer
5 3 (13.04%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Server Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Transmission Planner
5 3 (13.04%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Planner
6 1 (4.35%) Transmission Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Transmission Planning Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) ARM Templates
2 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) JSON
2 3 (13.04%) OAuth
2 3 (13.04%) OpenID
2 3 (13.04%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) SOAP
2 3 (13.04%) XML
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) Enzyme
3 1 (4.35%) Jest
3 1 (4.35%) Next.js
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) Redux
3 1 (4.35%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
1 13 (56.52%) Windows 10
1 13 (56.52%) Windows Server
1 13 (56.52%) Windows Server 2012
1 13 (56.52%) Windows Server 2016
1 13 (56.52%) Windows Server 2019
1 13 (56.52%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (56.52%) Converged Infrastructure
2 13 (56.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (56.52%) ITIL
2 13 (56.52%) Performance Monitoring
2 13 (56.52%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (56.52%) Proactive Monitoring
2 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (56.52%) Project Management
2 13 (56.52%) Server Management
2 13 (56.52%) Storage Management
3 6 (26.09%) Application Security
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (26.09%) Security Testing
4 5 (21.74%) B2C
5 4 (17.39%) OO
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) C#
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) CCNA
1 13 (56.52%) CCNP
1 13 (56.52%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (56.52%) Degree
1 13 (56.52%) DV Cleared
1 13 (56.52%) SC Cleared
1 13 (56.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
1 13 (56.52%) Hyper-V
1 13 (56.52%) VMware ESXi
1 13 (56.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) EMC NetWorker
1 13 (56.52%) NetBackup
1 13 (56.52%) SCCM
1 13 (56.52%) SCOM
1 13 (56.52%) vCenter Server
1 13 (56.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (56.52%) 3PAR
2 13 (56.52%) Cisco
2 13 (56.52%) Dell
2 13 (56.52%) EMC
2 13 (56.52%) Extreme Networks
2 13 (56.52%) HP
2 13 (56.52%) Juniper
2 13 (56.52%) Oracle
2 13 (56.52%) Palo Alto
2 13 (56.52%) Symantec
2 13 (56.52%) Veeam
2 13 (56.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe