Break/Fix Contracts in the West Midlands

Break/Fix
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Break/Fix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Break/Fix over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 122 167
Rank change year-on-year +7 +45 -39
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 1 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.049% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.31% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £112 £160
25th Percentile £133 £118 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £135 £162 £290
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -44.14% +123.08%
75th Percentile £138 £205 £389
90th Percentile - £214 £441
England median daily rate £175 £173 £190
% change year-on-year +1.45% -9.21% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £10.68
25th Percentile - - £11.48
Median hourly rate - - £16.28
75th Percentile - - £17.42
90th Percentile - - £17.56
England median hourly rate £17.50 £17.70 £15.74
% change year-on-year -1.13% +12.45% +33.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Break/Fix falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,664 1,941 3,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.89% 87.67% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 1,315 2,341
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £496
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.94% +16.59%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £588
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Warwickshire -4 1 £135 - 3
Break/Fix
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Ivanti