Break/Fix Contracts in the UK excluding London

Break/Fix
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 234 242 333
Rank change year-on-year +8 +91 +58
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 102 160 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.77% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.91% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 87 105
10th Percentile £116 £105 £105
25th Percentile £135 £126 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £180 £170
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £224 £300 £226
90th Percentile £376 £608 £594
UK median daily rate £188 £160 £167
% change year-on-year +17.19% -4.19% -12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 44 5
10th Percentile £17.30 £11.75 £14.74
25th Percentile £18.13 £13.25 £16.23
Median hourly rate £21.01 £16.60 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +26.57% -6.21% +12.45%
75th Percentile £24.18 £18.75 £21.25
90th Percentile £24.81 £19.50 £21.26
UK median hourly rate £21.01 £17.50 £17.70
% change year-on-year +20.06% -1.13% +8.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Break/Fix
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Break/Fix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in the UK excluding London

Break/Fix
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Break/Fix in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Break/Fix in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in the UK excluding London

Break/Fix
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Break/Fix in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Break/Fix in the UK excluding London

Break/Fix
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +28 24 £163 -67.50% 15
South West +56 23 £130 +18.18% 5
Midlands +38 20 £200 +87.35% 6
Scotland -14 18 £170 -12.82% 3
East Midlands +23 16 £200 +93.24% 2
East of England +29 5 £550 +311.21% 4
North of England -19 5 £405 +221.43% 7
West Midlands +17 4 £275 +150.00% 4
Wales 0 4 £119 - 1
Northern Ireland -6 4 £135 -5.53% 1
Yorkshire -10 3 £405 +153.13% 3
North East -1 1 £120 - 1
North West -2 1 £575 +356.35% 3
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Break/Fix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (0.98%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (0.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.98%) AWS
2 1 (0.98%) Azure
2 1 (0.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (7.84%) ATM
3 6 (5.88%) Firewall
4 5 (4.90%) DNS
5 4 (3.92%) DHCP
5 4 (3.92%) VPN
6 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.94%) Wireless
7 2 (1.96%) SAN
8 1 (0.98%) Internet
8 1 (0.98%) NAS
8 1 (0.98%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Git
1 1 (0.98%) JIRA
General
1 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.90%) Finance
4 5 (4.90%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.92%) Banking
6 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.98%) Electronics
7 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (31.37%) IT Engineer
2 17 (16.67%) Field Engineer
3 13 (12.75%) Break Fix Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) Server Engineer
5 10 (9.80%) Data Centre Engineer
5 10 (9.80%) Desktop Support
5 10 (9.80%) IT Support
6 9 (8.82%) Hardware Engineer
6 9 (8.82%) Support Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) EPoS Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Field Service Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (3.92%) EPoS Field Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Server Support
10 4 (3.92%) Server Support Engineer
11 3 (2.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 3 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.94%) Network Engineer
12 2 (1.96%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.98%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.59%) Data Centre
2 15 (14.71%) Driving Licence
3 8 (7.84%) CMDB
3 8 (7.84%) EPoS
4 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.98%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.55%) Windows
2 16 (15.69%) Windows 7
3 13 (12.75%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.90%) Android
5 4 (3.92%) Windows Vista
6 2 (1.96%) Linux
6 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.47%) Customer Service
2 20 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (6.86%) Time Management
4 6 (5.88%) Ticket Management
5 4 (3.92%) Asset Management
6 2 (1.96%) Configuration Management
6 2 (1.96%) Hardware Maintenance
6 2 (1.96%) ITIL
6 2 (1.96%) Problem Management
6 2 (1.96%) Server Management
6 2 (1.96%) Service Delivery
7 1 (0.98%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (0.98%) Immutable Infrastructure
7 1 (0.98%) Observability
7 1 (0.98%) Proactive Maintenance
7 1 (0.98%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (0.98%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (0.98%) Storage Management
7 1 (0.98%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.98%) Bash
2 1 (0.98%) C-shell
2 1 (0.98%) Python
Qualifications
1 43 (42.16%) Security Cleared
2 32 (31.37%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.94%) CCNA
3 3 (2.94%) CCNP
3 3 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.94%) Dell Certification
4 2 (1.96%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.98%) Degree
5 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.76%) SLA
2 7 (6.86%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.96%) Firmware
3 1 (0.98%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (2.94%) SCCM
2 2 (1.96%) Ansible
2 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.96%) Puppet
3 1 (0.98%) HAProxy
3 1 (0.98%) Nagios
3 1 (0.98%) Terraform
3 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (31.37%) Dell
2 26 (25.49%) HP
3 20 (19.61%) Microsoft
4 15 (14.71%) ServiceNow
5 14 (13.73%) IBM
6 7 (6.86%) Cisco
7 6 (5.88%) Citrix
8 4 (3.92%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.92%) VMware
9 2 (1.96%) EMC
9 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.98%) Apple
10 1 (0.98%) Aruba
10 1 (0.98%) Juniper
10 1 (0.98%) NetApp
10 1 (0.98%) Oracle
10 1 (0.98%) SAP
10 1 (0.98%) Sun
10 1 (0.98%) Veeam
10 1 (0.98%) Veritas