Handset Contracts in the West Midlands

Handsets
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Handset in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Handset over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 109 128
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 -
Contract jobs citing Handset 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.065% 0.24% 0.088%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.77% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £168 £154
25th Percentile - £226 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £323 £170
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% +89.71% -
75th Percentile - £387 £180
90th Percentile - £425 £186
England median daily rate £200 £345 £210
% change year-on-year -42.03% +64.29% -53.07%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

Handset 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 531 646 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.39% 31.34% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 398 490
10th Percentile £214 £271 £275
25th Percentile £389 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £630
90th Percentile £650 £750 £714
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 44 23
10th Percentile £18.87 £10.42 £18.60
25th Percentile £28.39 £14.51 £21.83
Median hourly rate £33.91 £22.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.71% -18.18% +58.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £40.81 £36.88
90th Percentile - £58.75 £56.75
England median hourly rate £32.72 £37.50 £25.58
% change year-on-year -12.74% +46.60% -3.47%

Handset
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Handset as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Handset in the West Midlands

Handset
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Handset in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Handset in the West Midlands

Handset
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Handset in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Handset in the West Midlands

Handset
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Handset within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Staffordshire - 1 £350 - 1
Handset
England

Handset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco