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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 109 131
Rank change year-on-year +24 +22 -34
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 33 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.65% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 0 4
10th Percentile £280 - £147
25th Percentile £300 - £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £208
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.36%
75th Percentile £608 - £309
90th Percentile - - £439
South East median daily rate £500 £173 £178
% change year-on-year +189.86% -2.82% +36.54%

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 1,781 1,661 2,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.18% 91.31% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 1,063 1,389
10th Percentile £213 £350 £274
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £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 49 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.30 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.13 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.30 £58.75 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% +179.10% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £74.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £80.25 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

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 24 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 24 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 - 22 £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 18 (54.55%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) OCI
3 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) Azure API Management
4 5 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (15.15%) Azure Functions
4 5 (15.15%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (15.15%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (15.15%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (15.15%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Figma
5 1 (3.03%) npm
5 1 (3.03%) PaaS
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (54.55%) SAN
2 12 (36.36%) DHCP
2 12 (36.36%) DNS
2 12 (36.36%) Firewall
3 4 (12.12%) 2G
3 4 (12.12%) 3G
3 4 (12.12%) 4G
3 4 (12.12%) ATM
3 4 (12.12%) Ethernet
3 4 (12.12%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Visual Studio
2 5 (15.15%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) rollup.js
3 1 (3.03%) webpack
General
1 18 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Server Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Data Centre Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Break Fix Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Developer
5 5 (15.15%) Hardware Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Integration Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Azure Developer
7 3 (9.09%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Transmission Planner
7 3 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Data Centre Technician
8 1 (3.03%) Data Technician
8 1 (3.03%) Operations Technician
8 1 (3.03%) Transmission Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Transmission Planning Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) ARM Templates
2 3 (9.09%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) JSON
2 3 (9.09%) OAuth
2 3 (9.09%) OpenID
2 3 (9.09%) REST
2 3 (9.09%) SOAP
2 3 (9.09%) XML
3 1 (3.03%) CSS
3 1 (3.03%) Enzyme
3 1 (3.03%) Jest
3 1 (3.03%) Next.js
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) Redux
3 1 (3.03%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (69.70%) Data Centre
2 6 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) Linux
1 12 (36.36%) Windows
1 12 (36.36%) Windows 10
1 12 (36.36%) Windows Server
1 12 (36.36%) Windows Server 2012
1 12 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
1 12 (36.36%) Windows Server 2019
1 12 (36.36%) Windows XP
2 6 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) ITIL
2 14 (42.42%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (36.36%) Converged Infrastructure
3 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (36.36%) Performance Monitoring
3 12 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (36.36%) Proactive Monitoring
3 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (36.36%) Project Management
3 12 (36.36%) Server Management
3 12 (36.36%) Storage Management
4 9 (27.27%) Incident Management
5 6 (18.18%) Application Security
5 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.18%) DevOps
5 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.18%) Security Testing
6 5 (15.15%) B2C
6 5 (15.15%) Data Centre Operations
6 5 (15.15%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.09%) C#
2 3 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 12 (36.36%) CCNA
2 12 (36.36%) CCNP
2 12 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (36.36%) Degree
2 12 (36.36%) DV Cleared
2 12 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (36.36%) Active Directory
1 12 (36.36%) Hyper-V
1 12 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
1 12 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) EMC NetWorker
1 12 (36.36%) NetBackup
1 12 (36.36%) SCCM
1 12 (36.36%) SCOM
1 12 (36.36%) vCenter Server
1 12 (36.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (63.64%) Dell
1 21 (63.64%) HP
2 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 12 (36.36%) 3PAR
3 12 (36.36%) Cisco
3 12 (36.36%) EMC
3 12 (36.36%) Extreme Networks
3 12 (36.36%) Juniper
3 12 (36.36%) Oracle
3 12 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 12 (36.36%) Symantec
3 12 (36.36%) Veeam
3 12 (36.36%) VMware
4 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) Adobe