Smartphone Contracts in the Midlands

Smartphone
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartphone in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smartphone over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 126 163
Rank change year-on-year +20 +37 +33
Contract jobs citing Smartphone 5 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 0.82% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £205 - £169
25th Percentile - - £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £160 £331
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -51.70% +86.62%
75th Percentile - - £439
90th Percentile - - £498
England median daily rate £205 £206 £200
% change year-on-year -0.29% +2.80% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £14.18 -
England median hourly rate £19.16 £15.00 £21.22
% change year-on-year +27.70% -29.31% +24.82%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Smartphone 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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Smartphone
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Smartphone as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Smartphone in the Midlands

Smartphone
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smartphone in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Smartphone in the Midlands

Smartphone
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Smartphone in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Smartphone in the Midlands

Smartphone
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smartphone within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +9 5 £250 +56.25% 2
Smartphone
England

Smartphone
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
1 1 (20.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Support
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Operations Management
2 4 (80.00%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix