Break/Fix Jobs with Work from Home Options

Break/Fix
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Break/Fix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Break/Fix over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 595 799
Rank change year-on-year +29 +204 -247
Permanent jobs citing Break/Fix 23 66 43
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.16% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.17% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 12 52 39
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £28,625 £33,313 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £50,000 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +40.85% +24.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile - £62,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £29,850 £42,500 £31,500
% change year-on-year -29.76% +34.92% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Break/Fix is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Break/Fix
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Break/Fix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Break/Fix trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Break/Fix.

Break/Fix salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Break/Fix over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Break/Fix salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (56.52%) Azure
3 10 (43.48%) Entra ID
4 3 (13.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DHCP
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
1 4 (17.39%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.35%) Skype
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.35%) Hazelcast
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) MySQL
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (39.13%) Law
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (13.04%) Legal
5 2 (8.70%) Finance
6 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) IT Support
2 10 (43.48%) Support Engineer
3 9 (39.13%) IT Engineer
3 9 (39.13%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Administrator
5 3 (13.04%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (13.04%) Field Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Field Service Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (13.04%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Deskside Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Support
7 1 (4.35%) Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Help Desk Support
7 1 (4.35%) Service Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Support Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
1 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Camel
1 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.35%) Flash
1 1 (4.35%) HTML
1 1 (4.35%) Node.js
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) SOAP
1 1 (4.35%) Spring
1 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (21.74%) Driving Licence
3 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (8.70%) EPoS
4 2 (8.70%) iPad
4 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.35%) Blackberry
5 1 (4.35%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (4.35%) PKI
5 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) ITIL
2 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (39.13%) Customer Service
4 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
4 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.04%) Server Management
4 3 (13.04%) Service Management
4 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.04%) Workflow
5 2 (8.70%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.70%) Content Management
5 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
5 2 (8.70%) ITSM
5 2 (8.70%) Security Operations
5 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.70%) Time Management
6 1 (4.35%) Case Management
6 1 (4.35%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (4.35%) Escalation Management
6 1 (4.35%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) C#
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) A+ Certification
3 2 (8.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (30.43%) SLA
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Avamar
2 1 (4.35%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (4.35%) Kibana
2 1 (4.35%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
2 1 (4.35%) OfficeScan
2 1 (4.35%) SCCM
2 1 (4.35%) SCOM
2 1 (4.35%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Dell
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) HP
3 3 (13.04%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.70%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Altiris
5 1 (4.35%) Apple
5 1 (4.35%) EMC
5 1 (4.35%) Huawei
5 1 (4.35%) Isilon
5 1 (4.35%) McAfee
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Sybase
5 1 (4.35%) Veritas