Break/Fix Contracts in the South East

Break/Fix
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 198 235
Rank change year-on-year +39 +37 -40
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 41 28 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.74% 0.48% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.54% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 15
10th Percentile £140 £158 £100
25th Percentile £280 £161 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £173 £165
Median % change year-on-year +189.86% +4.55% +26.92%
75th Percentile £608 £225 £274
90th Percentile - £313 £434
England median daily rate £163 £173 £190
% change year-on-year -5.80% -9.21% +31.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £12.55
25th Percentile £13.25 - £14.61
Median hourly rate £14.50 £16.23 £19.03
Median % change year-on-year -10.66% -14.71% -
75th Percentile £15.75 - £22.01
90th Percentile - - £23.20
England median hourly rate £17.50 £17.70 £16.83
% change year-on-year -1.13% +5.20% +25.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Break/Fix in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Break/Fix in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +41 36 £506 - 8
Berkshire +26 34 £513 - 6
Hampshire -8 3 £109 -56.60% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £140 - 1
West Sussex - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £100 - 1
Kent - 1 £140 -
Break/Fix
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (46.34%) Azure
2 13 (31.71%) OCI
3 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.20%) Azure API Management
4 5 (12.20%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (12.20%) Azure Functions
4 5 (12.20%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (12.20%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (12.20%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (12.20%) Serverless
5 1 (2.44%) Figma
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.44%) npm
5 1 (2.44%) PaaS
5 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (46.34%) SAN
2 13 (31.71%) DHCP
2 13 (31.71%) DNS
2 13 (31.71%) Firewall
3 4 (9.76%) 2G
3 4 (9.76%) 3G
3 4 (9.76%) 4G
3 4 (9.76%) ATM
3 4 (9.76%) Ethernet
3 4 (9.76%) SDH
4 1 (2.44%) LAN
4 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Visual Studio
2 5 (12.20%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) rollup.js
3 1 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Storage Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Server Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Data Centre Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Break Fix Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Hardware Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) IT Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Support Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Integration Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Field Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Field Service Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Transmission Planner
7 3 (7.32%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) IT Support
8 2 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) ARM Templates
2 3 (7.32%) .NET
2 3 (7.32%) JSON
2 3 (7.32%) OAuth
2 3 (7.32%) OpenID
2 3 (7.32%) REST
2 3 (7.32%) SOAP
2 3 (7.32%) XML
3 1 (2.44%) CSS
3 1 (2.44%) Enzyme
3 1 (2.44%) Jest
3 1 (2.44%) Next.js
3 1 (2.44%) React
3 1 (2.44%) Redux
3 1 (2.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 24 (58.54%) Data Centre
2 6 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.44%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) CMDB
3 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.44%) iPhone
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Smartcard
3 1 (2.44%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 16 (39.02%) Windows
2 15 (36.59%) Windows 10
3 13 (31.71%) Linux
3 13 (31.71%) Windows Server
3 13 (31.71%) Windows Server 2012
3 13 (31.71%) Windows Server 2016
3 13 (31.71%) Windows Server 2019
3 13 (31.71%) Windows XP
4 6 (14.63%) Unix
5 2 (4.88%) Android
6 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.44%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.44%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.44%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) ITIL
2 17 (41.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (31.71%) Converged Infrastructure
4 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (31.71%) Performance Monitoring
4 13 (31.71%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (31.71%) Proactive Monitoring
4 13 (31.71%) Project Management
4 13 (31.71%) Server Management
4 13 (31.71%) Storage Management
5 9 (21.95%) Incident Management
6 6 (14.63%) Application Security
6 6 (14.63%) CI/CD
6 6 (14.63%) DevOps
6 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (14.63%) Security Testing
7 5 (12.20%) Data Centre Operations
7 5 (12.20%) Problem Management
7 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.32%) C#
2 3 (7.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Degree
1 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (31.71%) CCNA
2 13 (31.71%) CCNP
2 13 (31.71%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (31.71%) DV Cleared
2 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Active Directory
2 13 (31.71%) Hyper-V
2 13 (31.71%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (31.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) EMC NetWorker
1 13 (31.71%) NetBackup
1 13 (31.71%) SCCM
1 13 (31.71%) SCOM
1 13 (31.71%) vCenter Server
1 13 (31.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (53.66%) Dell
1 22 (53.66%) HP
2 17 (41.46%) Microsoft
3 13 (31.71%) 3PAR
3 13 (31.71%) Cisco
3 13 (31.71%) EMC
3 13 (31.71%) Extreme Networks
3 13 (31.71%) Juniper
3 13 (31.71%) Oracle
3 13 (31.71%) Palo Alto
3 13 (31.71%) Symantec
3 13 (31.71%) Veeam
3 13 (31.71%) VMware
4 7 (17.07%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.88%) Adobe
6 1 (2.44%) Apple
6 1 (2.44%) Ivanti