Break/Fix Contracts in England

Break/Fix
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Break/Fix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Break/Fix over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 501 663
Rank change year-on-year +105 +162 -115
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 135 145 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.33% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 113 65
10th Percentile £123 £107 £131
25th Percentile £140 £140 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £173 £200
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -13.75% +42.86%
75th Percentile £500 £220 £218
90th Percentile £608 £593 £298
UK median daily rate £198 £163 £200
% change year-on-year +21.54% -18.75% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 2 12
10th Percentile £11.75 £16.38 £10.73
25th Percentile £13.25 £16.60 £13.20
Median hourly rate £17.50 £16.98 £16.28
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +4.25% +38.22%
75th Percentile £22.00 £17.35 £17.97
90th Percentile £25.04 £17.57 £22.61
UK median hourly rate £16.71 £17.50 £15.74
% change year-on-year -4.54% +11.18% +33.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Break/Fix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in England.

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Break/Fix in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Break/Fix in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in England.

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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 +38 42 £500 +189.86% 17
North of England +42 39 £126 -3.08% 9
London +94 37 £158 -1.56% 16
Yorkshire +29 21 £160 +45.12%
North West +22 17 £126 -42.73% 9
South West +8 11 £110 -45.00% 10
East of England +4 3 £125 -13.79% 14
East Midlands 0 3 £104 -82.38% 3
Midlands -5 3 £104 -74.13% 6
North East +9 1 - -
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Break/Fix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (5.93%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.56%) Azure
2 14 (10.37%) OCI
3 10 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.70%) Azure API Management
5 5 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 5 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (3.70%) Serverless
6 1 (0.74%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.74%) Figma
6 1 (0.74%) npm
6 1 (0.74%) PaaS
6 1 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.56%) SAN
2 15 (11.11%) ATM
3 14 (10.37%) DHCP
3 14 (10.37%) DNS
3 14 (10.37%) Firewall
4 12 (8.89%) LAN
5 11 (8.15%) WAN
5 11 (8.15%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (3.70%) 3G
7 4 (2.96%) 2G
7 4 (2.96%) 4G
7 4 (2.96%) Ethernet
7 4 (2.96%) SDH
8 3 (2.22%) Internet
8 3 (2.22%) VPN
9 1 (0.74%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.74%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Visual Studio
2 5 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) rollup.js
3 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 44 (32.59%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (30.37%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.04%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.15%) Finance
5 9 (6.67%) Retail
6 4 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) French Language
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (28.15%) IT Engineer
2 34 (25.19%) Field Engineer
3 32 (23.70%) Field Service Engineer
4 18 (13.33%) Support Engineer
5 15 (11.11%) Desktop Support
5 15 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (10.37%) Desktop Engineer
7 12 (8.89%) IT Technician
8 10 (7.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 10 (7.41%) Storage Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Server Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) Break Fix Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Deskside Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Hardware Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) IT Support
12 6 (4.44%) Data Centre Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) Network Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Developer
13 5 (3.70%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.70%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.22%) .NET
2 3 (2.22%) JSON
2 3 (2.22%) OAuth
2 3 (2.22%) OpenID
2 3 (2.22%) REST
2 3 (2.22%) SOAP
2 3 (2.22%) XML
3 1 (0.74%) CSS
3 1 (0.74%) EDI
3 1 (0.74%) Enzyme
3 1 (0.74%) Jest
3 1 (0.74%) Next.js
3 1 (0.74%) React
3 1 (0.74%) Redux
3 1 (0.74%) SAP ALE
3 1 (0.74%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 31 (22.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 30 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 14 (10.37%) Driving Licence
4 11 (8.15%) EPoS
5 9 (6.67%) Smartphone
6 6 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.70%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.48%) CMDB
8 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.48%) iPhone
8 2 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.74%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.74%) Smartcard
9 1 (0.74%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 37 (27.41%) Windows
2 23 (17.04%) Windows 10
3 19 (14.07%) Linux
4 14 (10.37%) Windows Server
4 14 (10.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (10.37%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (10.37%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (10.37%) Windows XP
5 7 (5.19%) Unix
6 6 (4.44%) Android
7 5 (3.70%) Mac OS X
7 5 (3.70%) Windows 7
7 5 (3.70%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.63%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (31.11%) Customer Service
3 24 (17.78%) ITIL
4 19 (14.07%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (12.59%) Proactive Monitoring
5 17 (12.59%) Server Management
6 15 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (11.11%) Project Management
7 14 (10.37%) Converged Infrastructure
7 14 (10.37%) Performance Monitoring
7 14 (10.37%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (10.37%) Storage Management
8 12 (8.89%) Preventative Maintenance
9 11 (8.15%) Incident Management
10 6 (4.44%) Application Security
10 6 (4.44%) DevOps
10 6 (4.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (4.44%) Problem Management
10 6 (4.44%) Project Delivery
10 6 (4.44%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.07%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.22%) C#
2 3 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.85%) Degree
4 15 (11.11%) CCNA
4 15 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (10.37%) CCNP
5 14 (10.37%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.48%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.48%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) MCSE
7 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.74%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.74%) GxP
2 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 24 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (10.37%) Hyper-V
3 14 (10.37%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.74%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) SCCM
2 14 (10.37%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (10.37%) NetBackup
2 14 (10.37%) SCOM
2 14 (10.37%) vCenter Server
2 14 (10.37%) WSUS
3 3 (2.22%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (21.48%) Cisco
2 26 (19.26%) Dell
3 25 (18.52%) HP
3 25 (18.52%) Juniper
4 23 (17.04%) Microsoft
5 15 (11.11%) EMC
5 15 (11.11%) VMware
6 14 (10.37%) 3PAR
6 14 (10.37%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (10.37%) Oracle
6 14 (10.37%) Palo Alto
6 14 (10.37%) Symantec
6 14 (10.37%) Veeam
7 13 (9.63%) Meraki
8 11 (8.15%) 3Com
8 11 (8.15%) Aruba
8 11 (8.15%) Brocade
8 11 (8.15%) Citrix
9 10 (7.41%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.44%) Apple