Mobile Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mobile Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Mobile Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £195 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 426 475
Rank change year-on-year +38 +49 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Engineer 15 31 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.073% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 35
10th Percentile £158 - £164
25th Percentile £167 £195 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £438 £195
Median % change year-on-year -55.43% +124.36% -25.00%
75th Percentile £431 £588 £488
90th Percentile £464 £599 £554
UK median daily rate £313 £550 £344
% change year-on-year -43.18% +59.77% -19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £24.28 - -
25th Percentile £24.31 - £14.61
Median hourly rate £24.75 - £14.81
75th Percentile £25.31 - £15.19
90th Percentile £25.43 - £15.53
UK median hourly rate £24.75 £85.00 £14.81
% change year-on-year -70.88% +474.13% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,132 22,540 29,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.26% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,680 15,813 20,744
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,158 1,481
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Mobile Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Mobile Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK excluding London

Mobile Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK excluding London

Mobile Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Engineer in the UK excluding London

Mobile Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK excluding London

Mobile Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
North of England +26 8 £195 -61.00% 12
Yorkshire +20 6 £160 -54.29% 3
South East +10 3 £372 - 19
Scotland +37 2 £359 -56.52% 12
Midlands +29 2 £450 +130.77% 8
West Midlands +25 2 £450 +130.77% 6
North East - 2 £195 - 1
Mobile Engineer
UK

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Mobile Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Mobile Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) Break/Fix
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Juniper
3 4 (26.67%) WAN
4 3 (20.00%) Service Management
4 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Windows
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (20.00%) LAN
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (20.00%) Citrix
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (20.00%) Aruba
4 3 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (20.00%) Brocade
4 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (20.00%) QA
4 3 (20.00%) 3Com
4 3 (20.00%) Meraki
4 3 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (20.00%) DBS Check
5 2 (13.33%) Kotlin
5 2 (13.33%) Defect Tracking
5 2 (13.33%) User Experience

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) WAN
2 3 (20.00%) LAN
2 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (13.33%) 3G
3 2 (13.33%) 4G
3 2 (13.33%) 5G
3 2 (13.33%) GSM
4 1 (6.67%) ATM
4 1 (6.67%) BGP
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) DSL
4 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
4 1 (6.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (6.67%) GPRS
4 1 (6.67%) ICMP
4 1 (6.67%) MPLS
4 1 (6.67%) OSPF
4 1 (6.67%) PPP
4 1 (6.67%) RIP
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Appium
1 2 (13.33%) UI Automator
1 2 (13.33%) XCUITest
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Xcode
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Break/Fix
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 3 (20.00%) Service Management
4 2 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (13.33%) Defect Tracking
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (13.33%) User Experience
5 1 (6.67%) Change Control
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Process Management
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Kotlin
1 2 (13.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) DBS Check
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) BC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Cisco
2 4 (26.67%) Juniper
3 3 (20.00%) 3Com
3 3 (20.00%) Aruba
3 3 (20.00%) Brocade
3 3 (20.00%) Citrix
3 3 (20.00%) Meraki
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Nokia
5 1 (6.67%) ADVA
5 1 (6.67%) Nokia Networks
5 1 (6.67%) Tellabs