Break Fix Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Break/Fix Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Break/Fix Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £215 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 428 495
Rank change year-on-year +69 +67 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Break Fix Engineer 19 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.031% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.032% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 11
10th Percentile £179 £130 £100
25th Percentile £205 - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £167 £210
Median % change year-on-year +28.74% -20.48% +48.81%
75th Percentile £274 - £215
90th Percentile £290 - -
UK median daily rate £215 £167 £210
% change year-on-year +28.74% -20.48% +48.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Break Fix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Break Fix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Break Fix Engineer in the UK excluding London

Break Fix Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break Fix Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Break Fix Engineer in the UK excluding London

Break Fix Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break Fix Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Break Fix Engineer in the UK excluding London

Break Fix Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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 - 10 £248 - 4
Scotland +47 7 £220 +31.74% 1
North of England +27 2 £160 -4.19%
Yorkshire +19 2 £160 -
Break Fix Engineer
UK

Break Fix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Break Fix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Break Fix Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (73.68%) Break/Fix
2 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
3 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
4 8 (42.11%) HP
5 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
6 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
6 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
6 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (26.32%) ITIL
7 5 (26.32%) Unix
7 5 (26.32%) Windows
7 5 (26.32%) LAN
7 5 (26.32%) SLA
7 5 (26.32%) SAN
7 5 (26.32%) Firmware
7 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
7 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
7 5 (26.32%) Incident Management
7 5 (26.32%) Degree
7 5 (26.32%) SCCM
7 5 (26.32%) Windows 7
7 5 (26.32%) Software Deployment
7 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
7 5 (26.32%) Data Centre Operations
7 5 (26.32%) Driving Licence
7 5 (26.32%) Windows 10
7 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
7 5 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving

Break Fix Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) LAN
1 5 (26.32%) SAN
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
1 5 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Unix
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
1 5 (26.32%) Windows 10
1 5 (26.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Break/Fix
2 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
3 5 (26.32%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
3 5 (26.32%) Data Centre Operations
3 5 (26.32%) Incident Management
3 5 (26.32%) ITIL
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) Software Deployment
3 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (5.26%) Data Entry
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) Degree
3 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) HP
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Dell