Handset Contract Job Trends in Rochdale

Handsets
Manchester > Rochdale

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Handset in contract job vacancies in Rochdale. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Handset over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Handset 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Rochdale 28.57% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Manchester median daily rate £511 - -

All Generic Skills
Rochdale

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 Rochdale.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Rochdale 42.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Manchester median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.69 - -
Manchester median hourly rate £45.50 £54.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -16.51% +21.11% +73.08%

Handset
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Rochdale by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) PABX
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Assistant
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support Assistant
1 2 (100.00%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft