Break/Fix Jobs with Work from Home Options

Break/Fix
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Break/Fix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Break/Fix over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 593 801
Rank change year-on-year +35 +208 -234
Permanent jobs citing Break/Fix 25 69 43
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.074% 0.16% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.17% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 14 53 39
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £29,563 £34,000 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £50,000 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +40.85% +24.56%
75th Percentile £49,063 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £29,850 £42,500 £31,000
% change year-on-year -29.76% +37.10% +2.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Break/Fix is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,014 40,730 66,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.60% 96.10% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23,557 28,305 41,490
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Break/Fix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Break/Fix trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Break/Fix.

Break/Fix salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Break/Fix over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Break/Fix salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (52.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) DHCP
1 5 (20.00%) DNS
1 5 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.00%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.00%) Hazelcast
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.00%) MySQL
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (76.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Law
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Legal
5 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (8.00%) Finance
7 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) IT Support
2 11 (44.00%) Support Engineer
3 10 (40.00%) IT Engineer
3 10 (40.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Administrator
5 3 (12.00%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (12.00%) Deskside Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Field Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Field Service Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (12.00%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.00%) Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Support
7 1 (4.00%) Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Help Desk Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Help Desk Technician
7 1 (4.00%) Service Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Support Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.00%) Flash
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) Node.js
1 1 (4.00%) REST
1 1 (4.00%) SOAP
1 1 (4.00%) Spring
1 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (24.00%) Driving Licence
3 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (8.00%) EPoS
4 2 (8.00%) iPad
4 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.00%) Blackberry
5 1 (4.00%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (4.00%) PKI
5 1 (4.00%) Replication
5 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (92.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Android
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) ITIL
2 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (40.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (16.00%) Workflow
5 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.00%) Server Management
5 3 (12.00%) Service Management
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (8.00%) Content Management
6 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.00%) ITSM
6 2 (8.00%) Security Operations
6 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
6 2 (8.00%) Time Management
7 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (4.00%) Migration
7 1 (4.00%) MVC
7 1 (4.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) C#
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) A+ Certification
3 2 (8.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CCNA
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (32.00%) SLA
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 19 (76.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Avamar
2 1 (4.00%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (4.00%) Kibana
2 1 (4.00%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (4.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (4.00%) OfficeScan
2 1 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) SCOM
2 1 (4.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Dell
2 4 (16.00%) HP
2 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) Altiris
5 1 (4.00%) Apple
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) EMC
5 1 (4.00%) Huawei
5 1 (4.00%) Isilon
5 1 (4.00%) McAfee
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Sybase
5 1 (4.00%) Veritas