Break/Fix Contracts in the Thames Valley

Break/Fix
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 143 162
Rank change year-on-year +38 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 32 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.19% 0.14% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.15% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 1 6
10th Percentile £280 - £144
25th Percentile £300 - £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £130 £195
Median % change year-on-year +329.81% -33.33% +54.46%
75th Percentile £608 - £341
90th Percentile - - £513
South East median daily rate £513 £173 £225
% change year-on-year +197.10% -23.33% +78.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Break/Fix in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Break/Fix in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Berkshire +18 31 £605 +365.38% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £140 - 1
Break/Fix
South East

Break/Fix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 16 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) OCI
3 2 (6.25%) Azure API Management
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (62.50%) SAN
2 14 (43.75%) DHCP
2 14 (43.75%) DNS
2 14 (43.75%) Firewall
3 4 (12.50%) 2G
3 4 (12.50%) 3G
3 4 (12.50%) 4G
3 4 (12.50%) ATM
3 4 (12.50%) Ethernet
3 4 (12.50%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Server Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Data Centre Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Break Fix Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Hardware Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Transmission Planner
6 3 (9.38%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Integration Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Support
8 1 (3.13%) Data Technician
8 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Support
8 1 (3.13%) Operations Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 25 (78.13%) Data Centre
2 6 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 15 (46.88%) Windows
1 15 (46.88%) Windows 10
2 14 (43.75%) Linux
2 14 (43.75%) Windows Server
2 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2012
2 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2019
2 14 (43.75%) Windows XP
3 6 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) ITIL
2 16 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (43.75%) Converged Infrastructure
3 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (43.75%) Performance Monitoring
3 14 (43.75%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (43.75%) Proactive Monitoring
3 14 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (43.75%) Project Management
3 14 (43.75%) Server Management
3 14 (43.75%) Storage Management
4 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
5 5 (15.63%) Data Centre Operations
5 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
6 4 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
6 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 2 (6.25%) Application Security
7 2 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.25%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 14 (43.75%) CCNA
2 14 (43.75%) CCNP
2 14 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (43.75%) Degree
2 14 (43.75%) DV Cleared
2 14 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) Active Directory
1 14 (43.75%) Hyper-V
1 14 (43.75%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (43.75%) EMC NetWorker
1 14 (43.75%) NetBackup
1 14 (43.75%) SCCM
1 14 (43.75%) SCOM
1 14 (43.75%) vCenter Server
1 14 (43.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (71.88%) Dell
1 23 (71.88%) HP
2 14 (43.75%) 3PAR
2 14 (43.75%) Cisco
2 14 (43.75%) EMC
2 14 (43.75%) Extreme Networks
2 14 (43.75%) Juniper
2 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (43.75%) Oracle
2 14 (43.75%) Palo Alto
2 14 (43.75%) Symantec
2 14 (43.75%) Veeam
2 14 (43.75%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow