Smarty Contracts

Smarty
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Smarty skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smarty over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 581 716
Rank change year-on-year +62 +135 -
Contract jobs citing Smarty 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.015% 0.011% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £300
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Smarty falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Smarty
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Smarty as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Smarty in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smarty.

Daily rate trend for Smarty in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Smarty.

Hourly rate trend for Smarty in the UK

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Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smarty within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +57 1 £375 -
Work from Home - 1 £375 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Symfony
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA