Smartphone Contracts in the UK excluding London

Smartphone
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 343 360
Rank change year-on-year +63 +17 +42
Contract jobs citing Smartphone 56 45 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.22% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 0.75% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 63
10th Percentile £170 - £160
25th Percentile £175 £126 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £203 £177 £200
Median % change year-on-year +14.69% -11.72% +11.11%
75th Percentile £235 £370 £250
90th Percentile £250 £423 £288
UK median daily rate £205 £225 £200
% change year-on-year -8.89% +12.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 6
10th Percentile - £11.45 £19.22
25th Percentile £18.90 £12.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.16 £13.27 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +44.38% -41.05% +32.38%
75th Percentile £19.41 £16.00 £25.08
90th Percentile - £17.31 -
UK median hourly rate £19.16 £14.00 £21.22
% change year-on-year +36.82% -34.02% +1.05%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,243 6,026 7,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.17% 29.31% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 3,620 5,238
10th Percentile £208 £208 £220
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £615
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 311 721 436
10th Percentile £16.75 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.97 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.76% +34.13% -18.24%

Smartphone
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Smartphone as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Smartphone in the UK excluding London

Smartphone
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Smartphone in the UK excluding London

Smartphone
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smartphone in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Smartphone in the UK excluding London

Smartphone
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Smartphone in the UK excluding London

Smartphone
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 Smartphone within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North of England +31 29 £205 +62.70% 28
South East +43 18 £205 -21.90% 39
Yorkshire +32 15 £300 +100.00% 10
North West +7 9 £205 +62.70% 16
South West +41 6 £160 +77.78% 12
Midlands +18 5 £250 +56.25% 10
East Midlands +11 5 £250 +56.25% 3
North East - 5 £200 - 2
Scotland +8 4 £200 -45.95% 2
East of England +26 1 - - 29
Smartphone
UK

Smartphone
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 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (23.21%) Entra ID
3 4 (7.14%) Google Workspace
4 2 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (1.79%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) 2G
1 7 (12.50%) 3G
1 7 (12.50%) 4G
1 7 (12.50%) 5G
2 5 (8.93%) ATM
3 2 (3.57%) VoIP
4 1 (1.79%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.79%) LAN
4 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (1.79%) WAN
4 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.79%) Wireless
General
1 29 (51.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (23.21%) Retail
3 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.14%) Military
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Automotive
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Police
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Support Manager
2 11 (19.64%) Analyst
2 11 (19.64%) IT Support
3 10 (17.86%) IT Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Support Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
4 8 (14.29%) 1st Line Support Manager
4 8 (14.29%) IT Manager
4 8 (14.29%) IT Support Manager
5 7 (12.50%) Desktop Support
5 7 (12.50%) EPoS Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Desktop Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Support Assistant
8 4 (7.14%) Service Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
9 3 (5.36%) Installations Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) IT Support Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support
10 2 (3.57%) EPoS Installation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) iPhone
2 10 (17.86%) Driving Licence
3 7 (12.50%) EPoS
3 7 (12.50%) IoT
4 2 (3.57%) CMDB
4 2 (3.57%) Fat Client
4 2 (3.57%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.79%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Mac OS
2 15 (26.79%) Android
2 15 (26.79%) Windows
3 12 (21.43%) Windows 10
4 10 (17.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 23 (41.07%) ITIL
3 17 (30.36%) Mobile Device Management
4 15 (26.79%) ITSM
5 14 (25.00%) Service Management
6 13 (23.21%) Incident Management
7 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.71%) Customer Experience
8 6 (10.71%) Service Delivery
9 5 (8.93%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.93%) Time Management
10 4 (7.14%) Agile
10 4 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (7.14%) Data Security
10 4 (7.14%) Migration
10 4 (7.14%) Operations Management
10 4 (7.14%) Process Improvement
10 4 (7.14%) Validation
11 3 (5.36%) Asset Management
11 3 (5.36%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
1 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.93%) Degree
3 4 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.79%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.93%) Firmware
3 4 (7.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (44.64%) ServiceNow
2 21 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 17 (30.36%) Apple
4 5 (8.93%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) Citrix
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce