Break/Fix Contracts in the City of London

Break/Fix
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 158 181
Rank change year-on-year +40 +23 -
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 7 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.32% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.48% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 8
10th Percentile - - £131
25th Percentile - - £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £140 £140 £150
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -
75th Percentile - £160 -
90th Percentile - £177 -
Central London median daily rate £140 £143 £150
% change year-on-year -1.75% -5.00% -
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £26.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,975 3,332 3,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.54% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 2,240 2,946
10th Percentile £361 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.44% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Break/Fix
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in the City of London

Break/Fix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (71.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) French Language
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Desktop Support
1 5 (71.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) EDI
1 1 (14.29%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Blackberry
2 1 (14.29%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Android
1 5 (71.43%) Mac OS X
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows 10
1 5 (71.43%) Windows 7
1 5 (71.43%) Windows 8
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Customer Service
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) B2B
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GxP
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Adobe
1 5 (71.43%) Apple
1 5 (71.43%) Ivanti
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Supermicro