Break/Fix Contracts in Reading

Break/Fix
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 24 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.06% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 0 2
10th Percentile £500 - £228
25th Percentile £520 - £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £408
75th Percentile £608 - £527
90th Percentile - - £593
Berkshire median daily rate £513 - £345
% change year-on-year - - +173.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,045 916 1,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.78% 90.34% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 616 808
10th Percentile £213 £363 £246
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £654
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.24% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
% change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) Azure
2 14 (58.33%) OCI
3 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Azure API Management
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Functions
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (20.83%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Figma
5 1 (4.17%) npm
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (58.33%) DHCP
1 14 (58.33%) DNS
1 14 (58.33%) Firewall
1 14 (58.33%) SAN
2 4 (16.67%) 2G
2 4 (16.67%) 3G
2 4 (16.67%) 4G
2 4 (16.67%) ATM
2 4 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 4 (16.67%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.17%) rollup.js
2 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Integration Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Server Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Developer
5 3 (12.50%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Transmission Planner
5 3 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) .NET Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.17%) Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms Planner
6 1 (4.17%) Transmission Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Transmission Planning Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) ARM Templates
2 3 (12.50%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) JSON
2 3 (12.50%) OAuth
2 3 (12.50%) OpenID
2 3 (12.50%) REST
2 3 (12.50%) SOAP
2 3 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) Enzyme
3 1 (4.17%) Jest
3 1 (4.17%) Next.js
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) Redux
3 1 (4.17%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
1 14 (58.33%) Windows
1 14 (58.33%) Windows 10
1 14 (58.33%) Windows Server
1 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2012
1 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2019
1 14 (58.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (58.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 14 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (58.33%) ITIL
2 14 (58.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 14 (58.33%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (58.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (58.33%) Project Management
2 14 (58.33%) Server Management
2 14 (58.33%) Storage Management
3 6 (25.00%) Application Security
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 5 (20.83%) B2C
5 4 (16.67%) OO
5 4 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) C#
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) CCNA
1 14 (58.33%) CCNP
1 14 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (58.33%) Degree
1 14 (58.33%) DV Cleared
1 14 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
1 14 (58.33%) Hyper-V
1 14 (58.33%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) EMC NetWorker
1 14 (58.33%) NetBackup
1 14 (58.33%) SCCM
1 14 (58.33%) SCOM
1 14 (58.33%) vCenter Server
1 14 (58.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 14 (58.33%) 3PAR
2 14 (58.33%) Cisco
2 14 (58.33%) Dell
2 14 (58.33%) EMC
2 14 (58.33%) Extreme Networks
2 14 (58.33%) HP
2 14 (58.33%) Juniper
2 14 (58.33%) Oracle
2 14 (58.33%) Palo Alto
2 14 (58.33%) Symantec
2 14 (58.33%) Veeam
2 14 (58.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Adobe