Break/Fix
Cheshire > Chester
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 7 Aug 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | - | 20 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract jobs citing Break/Fix | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester | - | - | 3.00% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | - | - | 3.53% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | - |
| Cheshire median daily rate | £150 | £160 | £169 |
| % change year-on-year | -6.25% | -5.04% | -66.30% |
All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester
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 Chester.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills | 61 | 44 | 85 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester | 81.33% | 77.19% | 85.00% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 25 | 16 | 44 |
| 10th Percentile | £325 | £450 | £350 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £542 | £396 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £600 | £618 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -2.83% | +23.50% | +17.65% |
| 75th Percentile | £716 | £738 | £588 |
| 90th Percentile | £793 | - | £680 |
| Cheshire median daily rate | £445 | £475 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | -6.32% | -5.00% | +11.11% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 9 | 9 | 15 |
| 10th Percentile | £22.67 | £31.20 | £21.95 |
| 25th Percentile | £33.40 | - | £30.54 |
| Median hourly rate | £50.00 | £35.00 | £33.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +42.86% | +6.06% | +51.52% |
| 75th Percentile | - | £47.50 | £35.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £73.20 | - | £38.01 |
| Cheshire median hourly rate | £32.00 | £35.00 | £30.54 |
| % change year-on-year | -8.57% | +14.60% | +45.43% |
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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester
Job postings citing Break/Fix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Chester.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in Chester.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chester
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in Chester.