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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 594 824
Rank change year-on-year +29 +230 -245
Permanent jobs citing Break/Fix 20 58 45
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.058% 0.15% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.15% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 9 47 41
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,625 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +40.85% +30.28%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £29,605 £42,500 £30,650
% change year-on-year -30.34% +38.66% +0.49%

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 31,100 38,207 71,189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.53% 96.06% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,476 26,508 41,843
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,621 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.37% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (65.00%) Azure
3 10 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DHCP
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) Skype
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) Hazelcast
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Law
3 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) IT Support
2 10 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 9 (45.00%) IT Engineer
3 9 (45.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Administrator
5 3 (15.00%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (10.00%) Field Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Field Service Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Support
7 1 (5.00%) Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Help Desk Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Help Desk Support
7 1 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.00%) Flash
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) Node.js
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (5.00%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (5.00%) EPoS
4 1 (5.00%) iPad
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) ITIL
2 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (15.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.00%) Service Management
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.00%) Content Management
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.00%) ITSM
5 2 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (10.00%) Server Management
5 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.00%) Batch Processing
6 1 (5.00%) Case Management
6 1 (5.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (5.00%) Escalation Management
6 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (5.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) A+ Certification
2 2 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (20.00%) SLA
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Avamar
2 1 (5.00%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.00%) OfficeScan
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) SCOM
2 1 (5.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Dell
3 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (5.00%) Altiris
5 1 (5.00%) Apple
5 1 (5.00%) EMC
5 1 (5.00%) Huawei
5 1 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Isilon
5 1 (5.00%) McAfee
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Sybase
5 1 (5.00%) Veritas