Break Fix Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Break/Fix Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Break/Fix Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £132, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Break Fix Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.65% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £126 - -
25th Percentile £127 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £132 - -
75th Percentile £135 - -
90th Percentile £135 - -
England median daily rate £132 £210 -
% change year-on-year -37.14% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - -
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.08 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East Midlands with a recognized job title 688 712 819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.58% 94.56% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 467 608
10th Percentile £200 £220 £213
25th Percentile £323 £355 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% -5.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £555 £602
90th Percentile £621 £621 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 59 41
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.64 £11.83
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.14 £13.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% +14.29% +6.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £46.33 £53.75
90th Percentile £30.30 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -43.94% +7.14% +63.55%

Break Fix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Break Fix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Break Fix Engineer in the East Midlands

Break Fix Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break Fix Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Break Fix Engineer in the East Midlands

Break Fix Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break Fix Engineer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Break Fix Engineer in the East Midlands

Break Fix Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Break Fix Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
Derbyshire - 5 £132 - 5
Break Fix Engineer
England

Break Fix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, Break Fix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Break Fix Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SLA
1 5 (100.00%) Break/Fix
2 4 (80.00%) Dell
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 3 (60.00%) SCCM
3 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (40.00%) Draytek
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) SSH
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 8
4 2 (40.00%) PuTTY
4 2 (40.00%) Line Management
4 2 (40.00%) BitLocker
4 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (40.00%) IBM
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (40.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) Firmware
4 2 (40.00%) McAfee
4 2 (40.00%) Telnet

Break Fix Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) PuTTY
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
1 2 (40.00%) Telnet
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Break/Fix
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) BitLocker
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Dell
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) Draytek
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 2 (40.00%) McAfee
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Fortinet