Break/Fix Contracts in Cardiff

Break/Fix
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Break/Fix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Break/Fix over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 34 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 2 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.04% 0.81% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.08% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £258 - £102
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £107 £104
Median % change year-on-year +147.66% +3.38% -13.75%
75th Percentile £273 - £105
90th Percentile - - £155
South Wales median daily rate £265 £107 £130
% change year-on-year +147.66% -17.69% -55.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £11.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% - -
75th Percentile £17.00 £15.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year +18.52% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Break/Fix falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 185 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.64% 74.90% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 134 156
10th Percentile £226 £143 £190
25th Percentile £303 £209 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.70% -3.09%
75th Percentile £498 £550 £575
90th Percentile £663 £596 £625
South Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.55
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -25.72% +31.58%
75th Percentile £17.00 £25.60 £26.25
90th Percentile £24.64 - £32.90
South Wales median hourly rate £15.50 £25.09 £21.00
% change year-on-year -38.22% +19.50% +5.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle