Smartphone Contract Job Trends in the South East

Smartphone
England > South East

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 141 191
Rank change year-on-year -40 +50 +12
Contract jobs citing Smartphone 3 18 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.066% 0.57% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 1.70% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 9
10th Percentile £272 - £144
25th Percentile £304 £193 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £240 £250
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% -4.00% +44.93%
75th Percentile £439 £319 -
90th Percentile £477 £425 £278
England median daily rate £250 £200 £220
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £11.45
25th Percentile £12.75 - £11.65
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £13.77
75th Percentile £14.25 - £16.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.75 - £15.00
% change year-on-year - - -26.70%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,351 1,059 1,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.65% 33.28% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 604 1,015
10th Percentile £204 £238 £205
25th Percentile £363 £382 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +7.69% -5.34%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 39 122
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.68 £15.30
25th Percentile £15.62 £24.42 £23.34
Median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% -26.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £61.13 £59.87 £61.78
90th Percentile £82.50 £71.97 £76.53
England median hourly rate £31.83 £37.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year -15.13% +9.62% +52.04%

Smartphone
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Smartphone relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Smartphone job vacancy trend in the South East

Smartphone
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Smartphone.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Smartphone

Smartphone
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smartphone in the South East over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Smartphone in the South East

Smartphone
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Smartphone.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Smartphone

Smartphone
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smartphone within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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
Kent -5 1 - -
Surrey -9 1 £485 -
Thames Valley -17 1 £250 -37.50% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £250 - 1
Smartphone
England

Smartphone
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Repair Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Server Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Apple
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) Samsung
1 1 (33.33%) VMware