Break/Fix Contracts in Central London

Break/Fix
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 160 193
Rank change year-on-year +31 +33 -
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 8 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.33% 0.50% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.55% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 7
10th Percentile - - £131
25th Percentile - £140 £141
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £140 £150 £150
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile - £209 -
90th Percentile £185 £220 -
London median daily rate £150 £160 £150
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.25
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £27.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £22.00 - £24.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,196 3,454 4,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.59% 91.33% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,563 2,340 3,166
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% +9.05%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 10 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
City of London +27 7 £140 - 1
Break/Fix
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (62.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) French Language
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Desktop Support
2 5 (62.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) EDI
1 1 (12.50%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Blackberry
2 1 (12.50%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Android
1 5 (62.50%) Mac OS X
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows 10
1 5 (62.50%) Windows 7
1 5 (62.50%) Windows 8
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Customer Service
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) B2B
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
2 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GxP
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Apple
2 5 (62.50%) Adobe
2 5 (62.50%) Ivanti
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) EMC
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (12.50%) Supermicro
4 1 (12.50%) Unisys