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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 256 335
Rank change year-on-year +4 +79 +59
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 108 143 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.68% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.82% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 77 82
10th Percentile £125 £118 £105
25th Percentile £153 £140 £107
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £200 £160
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -3.03%
75th Percentile £200 £300 £200
90th Percentile £345 £608 £589
UK median daily rate £171 £200 £160
% change year-on-year -14.75% +25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 32 3
10th Percentile £17.30 - £17.70
25th Percentile £18.51 £11.75 £17.71
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +27.93% -16.76% +14.62%
75th Percentile £24.58 £18.75 £18.86
90th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £19.54
UK median hourly rate £18.87 £16.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +14.36% -6.88% +12.58%

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 12,421 17,499 20,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.35% 82.79% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,594 10,272 13,865
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,033 2,167 1,259
10th Percentile £13.82 £12.50 £12.63
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.56 £15.57
Median hourly rate £25.00 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.42% +8.91% +66.67%
75th Percentile £54.01 £61.80 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 28 June 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

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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 28 June 2025.

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

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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 28 June 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 West +59 29 £135 +4.85% 7
Midlands +29 25 £200 +67.71% 11
Scotland -19 20 £169 -20.47% 2
East Midlands +21 19 £200 +93.24% 3
South East +30 14 £160 -73.55% 11
North of England -12 10 £150 +19.05% 8
West Midlands +8 6 £310 +129.63% 8
Yorkshire -7 6 £405 +153.13% 2
East of England +32 4 £550 +340.00% 1
Wales +5 4 £186 - 8
North West +2 3 £150 +19.05% 4
Northern Ireland -12 3 £135 -5.45%
North East - 1 £120 - 2
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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 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.30%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.93%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 9 (8.33%) ATM
3 4 (3.70%) DHCP
3 4 (3.70%) DNS
3 4 (3.70%) Firewall
4 3 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.85%) SAN
5 2 (1.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.93%) NAS
6 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 23 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.19%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.70%) Banking
4 4 (3.70%) Finance
5 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (29.63%) IT Engineer
2 12 (11.11%) Break Fix Engineer
3 11 (10.19%) Field Engineer
3 11 (10.19%) IT Support
4 10 (9.26%) Data Centre Engineer
4 10 (9.26%) Hardware Engineer
5 9 (8.33%) EPoS Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Desktop Support
6 8 (7.41%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Server Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Desktop Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (3.70%) Field Service Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Server Support
9 4 (3.70%) Server Support Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Windows Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) EPoS Field Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) IT Support Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Network Engineer
11 2 (1.85%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.74%) Data Centre
1 17 (15.74%) Driving Licence
2 9 (8.33%) EPoS
3 5 (4.63%) CMDB
4 1 (0.93%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.48%) Windows
2 26 (24.07%) Windows 7
3 14 (12.96%) Windows 10
4 7 (6.48%) Android
5 4 (3.70%) Windows Vista
6 2 (1.85%) Linux
6 2 (1.85%) Unix
7 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.22%) Customer Service
2 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (9.26%) Time Management
4 7 (6.48%) Ticket Management
5 4 (3.70%) Asset Management
5 4 (3.70%) ITIL
6 3 (2.78%) ITSM
6 3 (2.78%) Service Management
7 2 (1.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (0.93%) Batch Processing
8 1 (0.93%) CI/CD
8 1 (0.93%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (0.93%) Event-Driven
8 1 (0.93%) Hardware Maintenance
8 1 (0.93%) Immutable Infrastructure
8 1 (0.93%) Knowledge Transfer
8 1 (0.93%) Observability
8 1 (0.93%) Proactive Maintenance
8 1 (0.93%) Regulatory Compliance
8 1 (0.93%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.93%) JCL
1 1 (0.93%) Korn
1 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
1 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 34 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.78%) A+ Certification
3 3 (2.78%) CCNA
3 3 (2.78%) CCNP
3 3 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Dell Certification
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.19%) SLA
2 10 (9.26%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.93%) Firmware
1 1 (0.93%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.93%) Ansible
2 1 (0.93%) Control-M
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.93%) Puppet
2 1 (0.93%) SCCM
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 25 (23.15%) Dell
3 22 (20.37%) HP
4 16 (14.81%) ServiceNow
5 9 (8.33%) IBM
6 6 (5.56%) Cisco
6 6 (5.56%) Citrix
7 4 (3.70%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.70%) VMware
8 2 (1.85%) EMC
8 2 (1.85%) Oracle
9 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.93%) Apple
9 1 (0.93%) Aruba
9 1 (0.93%) BMC
9 1 (0.93%) Meraki
9 1 (0.93%) Micro Focus
9 1 (0.93%) NetApp
9 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.93%) Veritas