Break/Fix Jobs in the North West

Break/Fix
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Break/Fix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Break/Fix over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 276 296
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +17
Permanent jobs citing Break/Fix 2 16 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.025% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,924 £27,500 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,043 £28,001 £24,500
Median % change year-on-year +96.58% +14.29% +2.08%
75th Percentile £56,161 £29,250 £25,250
90th Percentile - £30,000 -
England median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -29.41% +37.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Break/Fix falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,573 8,141 7,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.73% 82.81% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,126 6,183 3,906
10th Percentile £26,943 £27,500 £30,791
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in the North West.

Salary trend for Break/Fix in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Break/Fix within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +49 2 £55,043 +96.58% 1
Break/Fix
England

Break/Fix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DMZ
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) IT Architect
2 1 (50.00%) IT Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft