Break/Fix Jobs in the UK excluding London

Break/Fix
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 605 660
Rank change year-on-year +40 +55 +41
Permanent jobs citing Break/Fix 20 158 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.051% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15 143 61
10th Percentile £23,750 £25,760 £23,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £27,500 £25,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £29,290 £29,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.96% -0.71% +1.72%
75th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £33,750
90th Percentile £51,197 £57,700 £47,500
UK median annual salary £36,250 £29,850 £42,500
% change year-on-year +21.44% -29.76% +36.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,325 59,458 57,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.91% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,834 41,124 29,354
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,128 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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

Break/Fix
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Break/Fix in the UK excluding London

Break/Fix
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Break/Fix in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Break/Fix in the UK excluding London

Break/Fix
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Break/Fix within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South East +61 8 £32,500 +3.17% 17
South West +109 7 £30,000 +1.33% 9
Scotland +115 2 £31,000 +24.00% 3
North of England +35 2 £55,043 +96.58% 13
North West -15 2 £55,043 +96.58% 6
Midlands +44 1 £26,000 -6.31% 9
East Midlands +38 1 £26,000 - 4
Break/Fix
UK

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 2 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) DMZ
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
2 2 (10.00%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (25.00%) Electronics
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Local Government
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Field Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 5 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Field Service Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Operations Technician
4 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Technician
4 2 (10.00%) Data Technician
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Technician
4 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Deskside Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Architect
5 1 (5.00%) IT Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (10.00%) EPoS
4 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (10.00%) Agile
2 2 (10.00%) Case Management
2 2 (10.00%) Change Management
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (10.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (10.00%) Information Security
2 2 (10.00%) ITIL
2 2 (10.00%) ITSM
2 2 (10.00%) Project Management
2 2 (10.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (10.00%) Service Management
2 2 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (10.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (10.00%) User Experience
3 1 (5.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CISM
3 2 (10.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) NCSC
2 2 (10.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) HP