Break/Fix Contracts in the East of England

Break/Fix
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 106 110
Rank change year-on-year +29 +4 +30
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 5 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% 0.31% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.36% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 12
10th Percentile - £126 -
25th Percentile £525 £128 £105
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £134 £145
Median % change year-on-year +311.21% -7.76% -69.47%
75th Percentile £588 £141 £148
90th Percentile £610 £144 £159
England median daily rate £200 £160 £173
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.25% -9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.00% - -
England median hourly rate £24.18 £17.50 £17.70
% change year-on-year +38.17% -1.13% +5.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Break/Fix
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +31 4 £550 +285.96%
Cambridgeshire - 1 £600 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) SNMP
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (20.00%) Server Management
1 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) C-shell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNA
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Sun