Break Fix Engineer Contracts

Break/Fix Engineer
UK

The median Break/Fix Engineer daily rate in the UK is £215 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 687 835
Rank change year-on-year +122 +148 -143
Contract jobs requiring a Break Fix Engineer 20 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.010% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.011% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 11
10th Percentile £179 £136 £100
25th Percentile £205 - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £167 £210
Median % change year-on-year +28.74% -20.48% +40.00%
75th Percentile £274 - £215
90th Percentile £290 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £215 £167 £210
% change year-on-year +28.74% -20.48% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £24.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Break Fix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Break Fix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Break Fix Engineer in the UK

Break Fix Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Break Fix Engineer in the UK

Break Fix Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Break Fix Engineer in the UK

Break Fix Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Break Fix Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
UK excluding London +84 19 £215 +28.74% 4
England +113 13 £210 +25.75% 4
South East - 10 £248 - 2
Scotland +49 7 £220 +31.74% 2
North of England +25 2 £160 -4.19%
Yorkshire - 2 £160 -
London +88 1 - - 1
Work from Home - 1 - -

Break Fix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Break Fix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Break Fix Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (75.00%) Break/Fix
2 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
3 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (40.00%) HP
5 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
6 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (30.00%) Service Delivery
6 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (25.00%) ITIL
7 5 (25.00%) Unix
7 5 (25.00%) Windows
7 5 (25.00%) LAN
7 5 (25.00%) SLA
7 5 (25.00%) SAN
7 5 (25.00%) Firmware
7 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
7 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 5 (25.00%) Degree
7 5 (25.00%) SCCM
7 5 (25.00%) Windows 7
7 5 (25.00%) Software Deployment
7 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
7 5 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
7 5 (25.00%) Driving Licence
7 5 (25.00%) Windows 10
7 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
7 5 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (25.00%) Customer Requirements

Break Fix Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) LAN
1 5 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Unix
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
1 5 (25.00%) Windows 10
1 5 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Break/Fix
2 6 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 5 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 5 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (5.00%) Data Entry
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) Degree
3 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) HP
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Dell