Smartphone Contracts in the North West

Smartphone
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartphone in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smartphone over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 126 153
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 +12
Contract jobs citing Smartphone 9 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 1.77% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 5
10th Percentile £188 - £214
25th Percentile £193 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £126 £250
Median % change year-on-year +62.70% -49.60% -41.86%
75th Percentile £219 £206 -
90th Percentile £220 £615 £550
England median daily rate £205 £206 £200
% change year-on-year -0.29% +2.80% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 561 735 1,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.51% 26.79% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 488 722
10th Percentile £203 £294 £300
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £582 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £680
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 77 45
10th Percentile £22.67 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.80 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £38.57 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.91 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +12.43% +34.13% -16.72%

Smartphone
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Smartphone in the North West

Smartphone
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Smartphone in the North West

Smartphone
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Smartphone in the North West

Smartphone
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +11 7 £205 +62.70% 8
Cheshire - 1 £188 -
Merseyside - 1 - - 3
Smartphone
England

Smartphone
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) 2G
1 7 (77.78%) 3G
1 7 (77.78%) 4G
1 7 (77.78%) 5G
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VoIP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
General
1 1 (11.11%) Military
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) IT Support
1 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) IoT
2 3 (33.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (11.11%) CMDB
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Android
1 8 (88.89%) Apple iOS
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Customer Service
2 4 (44.44%) Data Security
2 4 (44.44%) Mobile Device Management
2 4 (44.44%) Time Management
2 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Google