Handset Contracts in the Channel Islands

Handsets
UK > Channel Islands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Handset in contract job vacancies in the Channel Islands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Handset over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Handset 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Channel Islands 4.55% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £200 £500 £325
% change year-on-year -60.00% +53.85% +28.71%

All Generic Skills
Channel Islands

Handset falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Channel Islands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Channel Islands 40.91% 50.00% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £600 - £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £311 £200
Median % change year-on-year +119.59% +55.40% -31.59%
75th Percentile £743 - £225
90th Percentile £772 - -
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -

Handset
Job Vacancy Trend in the Channel Islands

Job postings citing Handset as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Channel Islands.

Job vacancy trend for Handset in the Channel Islands

Handset
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Channel Islands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Handset within the Channel Islands region over the 6 months to 22 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guernsey - 1 - -
Handset
UK

Handset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Channel Islands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 2G
1 1 (100.00%) 3G
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) PBX
1 1 (100.00%) VoLTE
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Testing Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Samsung