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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smartphone over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 362 400
Rank change year-on-year +14 +38 +4
Contract jobs citing Smartphone 46 89 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.77% 1.17% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 62 71
10th Percentile - £160 £123
25th Percentile £126 £163 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £200 £180
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -26.53%
75th Percentile £370 £250 £300
90th Percentile £412 £282 £419
UK median daily rate £210 £200 £210
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 8
10th Percentile £11.45 £19.22 £12.57
25th Percentile £12.25 £21.00 £14.47
Median hourly rate £13.27 £22.51 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +32.38% -30.61%
75th Percentile £16.00 £25.08 £26.13
90th Percentile £17.31 - £33.74
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £21.22 £21.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.05% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Smartphone is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,963 7,604 9,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.12% 32.50% 31.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,578 5,125 6,674
10th Percentile £208 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £389 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £670
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 723 429 457
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.14
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.72
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.76
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £22.45 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.21% -18.37% +4.47%

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 10 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Smartphone in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 10 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 +25 16 £126 -37.00% 27
North West +23 13 £126 -49.60% 12
South East 0 11 £238 +18.75% 22
Midlands +27 7 £160 -25.58% 12
East Midlands +24 6 £160 -25.58% 6
Scotland +31 5 £370 +48.00% 2
Northern Ireland +8 4 - -
Yorkshire +11 3 £150 -25.00% 14
East of England +14 2 £160 -4.48% 19
West Midlands +17 1 - - 6
South West +13 1 £90 -48.72% 17
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 (2.17%) IIS
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Aareon QL
2 1 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (13.04%) Azure
3 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) ATM
2 7 (15.22%) Wireless
3 3 (6.52%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (4.35%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.17%) DHCP
5 1 (2.17%) DNS
5 1 (2.17%) LAN
5 1 (2.17%) PBX
5 1 (2.17%) PSTN
5 1 (2.17%) Skype
5 1 (2.17%) Telepresence
5 1 (2.17%) VoIP
5 1 (2.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 26 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
3 9 (19.57%) Retail
4 5 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.17%) Electronics
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) IT Technician
2 6 (13.04%) IT Support
2 6 (13.04%) Support Technician
3 5 (10.87%) IT Support Technician
4 3 (6.52%) Deployment Assistant
4 3 (6.52%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Administrator
5 2 (4.35%) Coordinator
5 2 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Desktop Support
5 2 (4.35%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) IT Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (2.17%) Analogue Design Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Analogue IC Design Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Analogue IC Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Analyst
6 1 (2.17%) Deployment Specialist
6 1 (2.17%) IC Design Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) ICT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Driving Licence
2 9 (19.57%) EPoS
3 6 (13.04%) Mobile App
3 6 (13.04%) NHS
3 6 (13.04%) PDA
4 5 (10.87%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.52%) iPad
5 3 (6.52%) iPhone
5 3 (6.52%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (4.35%) BYOD
6 2 (4.35%) Learning Management System
7 1 (2.17%) ASIC
7 1 (2.17%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.17%) Verilog
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Windows
2 13 (28.26%) Windows 10
3 11 (23.91%) Apple iOS
4 6 (13.04%) Android
5 3 (6.52%) Windows 7
6 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (4.35%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.17%) Linux
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (19.57%) Break/Fix
2 9 (19.57%) Preventative Maintenance
3 8 (17.39%) Customer Service
4 4 (8.70%) Agile
5 3 (6.52%) Change Control
5 3 (6.52%) Housing Management
5 3 (6.52%) Inventory Management
5 3 (6.52%) ITIL
5 3 (6.52%) Project Management
6 2 (4.35%) Migration
6 2 (4.35%) Validation
7 1 (2.17%) Change Management
7 1 (2.17%) ITSM
7 1 (2.17%) Mentoring
7 1 (2.17%) Risk Management
7 1 (2.17%) Server Building
7 1 (2.17%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.17%) Test Automation
7 1 (2.17%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) SQL
2 1 (2.17%) Bash
2 1 (2.17%) Python
2 1 (2.17%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (2.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.17%) Firmware
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.74%) Apple
3 3 (6.52%) Aareon
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco
4 2 (4.35%) Intel
5 1 (2.17%) Cadence
5 1 (2.17%) Dell
5 1 (2.17%) HP
5 1 (2.17%) Mentor Graphics
5 1 (2.17%) Peregrine
5 1 (2.17%) Polycom
5 1 (2.17%) Remedy
5 1 (2.17%) Veeam
5 1 (2.17%) VMware
5 1 (2.17%) WatchGuard