Break/Fix Jobs with Work from Home Options

Break/Fix
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Break/Fix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Break/Fix over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 584 848
Rank change year-on-year +2 +264 -251
Permanent jobs citing Break/Fix 20 49 53
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.056% 0.13% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.14% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 9 43 48
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +36.99% +73.81%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £29,850 £44,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year -32.16% +41.94% +1.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Break/Fix falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Break/Fix
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 13 June 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