Break/Fix Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Break/Fix
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Break/Fix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 42 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +20
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 4 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.15% 0.81% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.00% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile - - £129
25th Percentile £258 - £136
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £107 £139
Median % change year-on-year +147.66% -22.88% -37.64%
75th Percentile £273 £126 £145
90th Percentile - £137 £152
Wales median daily rate £265 £134 £139
% change year-on-year +97.08% -3.09% +6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £15.02 - -
25th Percentile £15.05 - -
Median hourly rate £16.22 - -
75th Percentile £17.49 - -
90th Percentile £17.59 - -
Wales median hourly rate £16.22 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 291 301 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 83.86% 80.91% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 159 274
10th Percentile £190 £160 £176
25th Percentile £266 £210 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £584
90th Percentile £600 £678 £649
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 44 25
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £17.40
25th Percentile £14.23 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £17.99 £23.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% -9.62% +30.29%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £29.82 £48.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £19.60 £23.66 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.18% -9.00% +30.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Break/Fix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Break/Fix job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Break/Fix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Break/Fix

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Break/Fix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Break/Fix

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 17 November 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
Cardiff +3 4 £265 +147.66% 2
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Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operator
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (50.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
1 2 (50.00%) Korn
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) BMC
1 2 (50.00%) Micro Focus
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) HP