Break/Fix Contracts in the UK excluding London

Break/Fix
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 321 386
Rank change year-on-year +87 +65 -18
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 154 126 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.76% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.61% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 103 76
10th Percentile £105 £105 £130
25th Percentile £126 £125 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £165 £200
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% +42.86%
75th Percentile £300 £209 £298
90th Percentile £608 £594 £360
UK median daily rate £198 £163 £200
% change year-on-year +21.54% -18.75% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 3 11
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.25 £10.68
25th Percentile £12.00 £14.99 £12.52
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +11.18% +33.62%
75th Percentile £18.75 £19.49 £17.56
90th Percentile £18.98 £20.54 £17.61
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Break/Fix
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Break/Fix in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Break/Fix in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

Break/Fix
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Scotland +79 50 £200 +25.00% 15
South East +33 42 £500 +189.86% 15
North of England +38 39 £126 -3.08% 8
Yorkshire +23 21 £160 +45.12%
North West +22 17 £126 -42.73% 8
South West +1 11 £110 -45.00% 11
Wales +16 4 - -
Midlands +7 3 £104 -74.13% 5
East of England +3 3 £125 -13.79% 13
East Midlands -4 3 £104 -82.38% 4
Northern Ireland +5 2 £143 -
North East +11 1 - -
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 4 (2.60%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (13.64%) Azure
2 14 (9.09%) OCI
3 6 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.25%) Azure API Management
4 5 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (3.25%) Azure Functions
4 5 (3.25%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.25%) Serverless
5 1 (0.65%) Figma
5 1 (0.65%) npm
5 1 (0.65%) PaaS
5 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (18.18%) SAN
2 26 (16.88%) DHCP
2 26 (16.88%) DNS
3 15 (9.74%) ATM
4 14 (9.09%) Firewall
5 13 (8.44%) VPN
6 12 (7.79%) LAN
7 11 (7.14%) WAN
7 11 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (2.60%) 2G
8 4 (2.60%) 3G
8 4 (2.60%) 4G
8 4 (2.60%) Ethernet
8 4 (2.60%) SDH
9 3 (1.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (3.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.95%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.90%) Visual Studio
2 5 (3.25%) JIRA
3 1 (0.65%) rollup.js
3 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 45 (29.22%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (23.38%) Public Sector
2 36 (23.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.84%) Finance
3 9 (5.84%) Retail
4 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.65%) Legal
6 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (35.06%) IT Engineer
2 40 (25.97%) Field Engineer
3 39 (25.32%) Field Service Engineer
4 17 (11.04%) Support Engineer
5 16 (10.39%) Desktop Engineer
6 15 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (9.09%) Break Fix Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) Desktop Support
9 11 (7.14%) IT Technician
10 10 (6.49%) Network Engineer
10 10 (6.49%) Storage Engineer
11 9 (5.84%) Server Engineer
12 7 (4.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 7 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
12 7 (4.55%) IT Support
12 7 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
13 6 (3.90%) Data Centre Engineer
13 6 (3.90%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
14 5 (3.25%) Developer
14 5 (3.25%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.25%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.95%) .NET
2 3 (1.95%) JSON
2 3 (1.95%) OAuth
2 3 (1.95%) OpenID
2 3 (1.95%) REST
2 3 (1.95%) SOAP
2 3 (1.95%) XML
3 1 (0.65%) CSS
3 1 (0.65%) Enzyme
3 1 (0.65%) Jest
3 1 (0.65%) Next.js
3 1 (0.65%) React
3 1 (0.65%) Redux
3 1 (0.65%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.38%) Data Centre
2 33 (21.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (9.74%) Driving Licence
4 11 (7.14%) EPoS
5 9 (5.84%) Smartphone
6 6 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.65%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.65%) CMDB
8 1 (0.65%) iPhone
8 1 (0.65%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.65%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.68%) Windows
2 31 (20.13%) Windows 10
3 14 (9.09%) Linux
3 14 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 14 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
3 14 (9.09%) Windows XP
4 12 (7.79%) Windows 7
5 6 (3.90%) Unix
6 2 (1.30%) Android
7 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.65%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 32 (20.78%) ITIL
4 20 (12.99%) Proactive Monitoring
5 18 (11.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (11.04%) Server Management
7 15 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (9.09%) Converged Infrastructure
8 14 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
8 14 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (9.09%) Project Management
8 14 (9.09%) Service Delivery
8 14 (9.09%) Storage Management
9 9 (5.84%) Incident Management
9 9 (5.84%) Inventory Management
9 9 (5.84%) Preventative Maintenance
10 6 (3.90%) Application Security
10 6 (3.90%) CI/CD
10 6 (3.90%) DevOps
10 6 (3.90%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.34%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.95%) C#
2 3 (1.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (27.92%) Security Cleared
2 42 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 22 (14.29%) CCNA
3 22 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (12.99%) A+ Certification
5 15 (9.74%) Degree
6 14 (9.09%) CCNP
6 14 (9.09%) DV Cleared
7 8 (5.19%) MCSE
7 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.19%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.30%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.65%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.19%) SLA
2 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (20.78%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 14 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 14 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (17.53%) SCCM
2 14 (9.09%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (9.09%) NetBackup
2 14 (9.09%) SCOM
2 14 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 14 (9.09%) WSUS
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (25.32%) Cisco
2 33 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 31 (20.13%) Dell
4 25 (16.23%) Juniper
5 23 (14.94%) HP
6 19 (12.34%) ServiceNow
7 14 (9.09%) 3PAR
7 14 (9.09%) EMC
7 14 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (9.09%) Oracle
7 14 (9.09%) Palo Alto
7 14 (9.09%) Symantec
7 14 (9.09%) Veeam
7 14 (9.09%) VMware
8 13 (8.44%) Meraki
9 11 (7.14%) 3Com
9 11 (7.14%) Aruba
9 11 (7.14%) Brocade
9 11 (7.14%) Citrix
10 2 (1.30%) Adobe