Break/Fix Contracts in the North of England

Break/Fix
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 161 142 195
Rank change year-on-year -19 +53 +30
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 5 43 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.90% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 1.05% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 21
10th Percentile £169 - £105
25th Percentile £256 - £107
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £126 £130
Median % change year-on-year +221.43% -3.08% -52.73%
75th Percentile £498 £160 £219
90th Percentile £552 £180 £238
England median daily rate £200 £160 £173
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.25% -9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 0
Median hourly rate £21.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
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
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Break/Fix
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Break/Fix in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Break/Fix in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North 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
Yorkshire -10 3 £405 +153.13% 3
North East -1 1 £120 - 1
North West -2 1 £575 +356.35% 3
Break/Fix
England

Break/Fix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Break Fix Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (20.00%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (20.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) Observability
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ticket Management
1 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dell
1 2 (40.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Veritas
2 1 (20.00%) VMware