Smartphone Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Smartphone
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartphone in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smartphone over the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 151 188
Rank change year-on-year -6 +37 +43
Contract jobs citing Smartphone 24 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.60% 0.39% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 1.36% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile £242 £147 £169
25th Percentile £350 £149 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £200 £190
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% +5.26% -47.22%
75th Percentile £545 £317 £194
90th Percentile £589 £650 £473
England median daily rate £250 £263 £228
% change year-on-year -4.76% +15.38% -17.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.13
25th Percentile - - £16.06
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
75th Percentile - - £20.31
90th Percentile - - £21.48
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £20.75
% change year-on-year -56.26% +177.11% -9.78%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,401 1,177 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 35.11% 28.87% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 646 967
10th Percentile £297 £234 £256
25th Percentile £380 £395 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £587 £596
90th Percentile £638 £698 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 49 57
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.15 £15.73
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.22 £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.32 £22.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.73% -29.69% +52.38%
75th Percentile £54.38 £46.18 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.29 £63.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -47.60% +25.00% +76.46%

Smartphone
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Smartphone in the North of England

Smartphone
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Smartphone.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Smartphone

Smartphone
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smartphone in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Smartphone in the North of England

Smartphone
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Smartphone.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Smartphone

Smartphone
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smartphone within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Yorkshire +1 21 £515 +226.98% 5
North West -15 2 £170 -71.67% 4
North East -4 1 - - 3
Smartphone
England

Smartphone
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 21 (87.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (87.50%) Entra ID
1 21 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.33%) GCP
2 2 (8.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (8.33%) VoIP
3 1 (4.17%) ATM
General
1 22 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (79.17%) Retail
3 18 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Military
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (79.17%) Support Manager
2 12 (50.00%) 1st Line Support
2 12 (50.00%) 1st Line Support Manager
2 12 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 12 (50.00%) IT Support
2 12 (50.00%) IT Support Manager
3 6 (25.00%) Support Assistant
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Mac Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) ATM Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Break Fix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (87.50%) iPhone
2 3 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 23 (95.83%) Mac OS
2 3 (12.50%) Android
3 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 23 (95.83%) ITIL
3 21 (87.50%) Incident Management
3 21 (87.50%) ITSM
3 21 (87.50%) Mobile Device Management
3 21 (87.50%) Service Management
4 3 (12.50%) Security Patching
5 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.17%) Break/Fix
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) ACSP
1 3 (12.50%) ACTC
2 2 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 21 (87.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (87.50%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 21 (87.50%) Apple
1 21 (87.50%) Microsoft
1 21 (87.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) NCR