Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 January 2022

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartphone in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Smartphone over the 6 months to 22 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Smartphone
UK
6 months to
22 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 631 653 633
Rank change year-on-year +22 -20 +210
Permanent jobs citing Smartphone 498 124 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.20% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.95% 0.55% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 172 93 266
10th Percentile £23,727 £22,650 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,750 £74,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,500 £33,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -11.94% +19.64% -30.00%

Smartphone is in the Generic IT Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

All Generic IT Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 52,614 22,465 44,165
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.83% 35.40% 35.01%
Number of salaries quoted 30,428 17,697 34,433
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £101,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +5.38% +3.33%

Smartphone
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smartphone in the UK

Smartphone
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Smartphone.

Salary trend for Smartphone in the UK

Smartphone
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smartphone over the 6 months to 22 January 2022.

Salary histogram for Smartphone in the UK

Smartphone
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smartphone within the UK over the 6 months to 22 January 2022. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +35 464 £32,500 -13.33% 117
UK excluding London +21 339 £29,500 -11.94% 118
London -84 167 £35,000 -34.88% 21
East of England -20 87 £21,500 +4.88% 16
Work from Home -134 84 £35,000 +32.08% 15
North of England -68 81 £26,500 -19.08% 23
South East -62 70 £35,000 -41.67% 19
Midlands -50 52 £24,000 -6.80% 20
Yorkshire -35 49 £26,500 +26.19% 7
East Midlands -33 27 £23,500 -2.08% 9
South West -43 27 £30,000 -7.69% 18
West Midlands -49 25 £28,500 +0.88% 10
North West -64 24 £26,500 -19.70% 12
Scotland - 13 £55,000 - 16
Wales -39 10 £50,173 +43.35% 5
North East -23 8 £23,000 -31.34% 4
Northern Ireland -24 6 - - 1

For the 6 months to 22 January 2022, IT jobs citing Smartphone also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Smartphone.

1 196 (39.36%) Windows
2 194 (38.96%) Social Skills
3 169 (33.94%) Apple
4 127 (25.50%) Internet
5 103 (20.68%) Microsoft
5 103 (20.68%) Software Engineering
6 102 (20.48%) Artificial Intelligence
7 101 (20.28%) Android
8 98 (19.68%) Social Media
9 95 (19.08%) Degree
10 90 (18.07%) iPhone
11 89 (17.87%) Active Directory
12 88 (17.67%) Electronics
13 87 (17.47%) Spreadsheet
14 86 (17.27%) Games
14 86 (17.27%) Agile Software Development
15 85 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
16 84 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
17 83 (16.67%) Photography
17 83 (16.67%) IBM Domino
18 74 (14.86%) Machine Learning
18 74 (14.86%) Computer Science
19 73 (14.66%) AWS
20 72 (14.46%) Mathematics
20 72 (14.46%) Docker
20 72 (14.46%) JavaScript
21 69 (13.86%) Python
22 66 (13.25%) DevOps
23 64 (12.85%) CI/CD
24 59 (11.85%) Git (software)

Smartphone
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 83 (16.67%) IBM Domino
2 16 (3.21%) MS Exchange
3 13 (2.61%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.41%) Jupyter
4 12 (2.41%) WordPress
5 9 (1.81%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.61%) Apache
7 6 (1.20%) nginx
7 6 (1.20%) Traefik
8 4 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.80%) IIS
9 2 (0.40%) CMS
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 87 (17.47%) Spreadsheet
2 59 (11.85%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.01%) Photoshop
4 6 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.60%) InDesign
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Relativity
1 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 85 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
2 73 (14.66%) AWS
3 37 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 35 (7.03%) GitHub
5 34 (6.83%) Azure
6 26 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (5.22%) Amazon S3
7 22 (4.42%) Serverless
8 20 (4.02%) SaaS
9 15 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (3.01%) Figma
10 12 (2.41%) GCP
11 11 (2.21%) Amazon ELB
12 10 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.01%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.81%) IaaS
14 8 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.61%) Azure Active Directory
15 7 (1.41%) Google Workspace
15 7 (1.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 127 (25.50%) Internet
2 24 (4.82%) DNS
3 22 (4.42%) TCP/IP
4 20 (4.02%) DHCP
5 18 (3.61%) Firewall
5 18 (3.61%) HTTP
6 17 (3.41%) VPN
7 16 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (2.61%) LAN
9 12 (2.41%) VoIP
10 9 (1.81%) Wireless
11 8 (1.61%) WAN
12 7 (1.41%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (1.41%) Unified Communications
13 6 (1.20%) 4G
13 6 (1.20%) ADSL
13 6 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (1.00%) IPsec
14 5 (1.00%) SSL
14 5 (1.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.24%) Redis
2 36 (7.23%) Amazon DynamoDB
3 30 (6.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 27 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (5.22%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (5.22%) Relational Database
6 20 (4.02%) MySQL
7 18 (3.61%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.21%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.81%) InfluxDB
10 6 (1.20%) Big Data
10 6 (1.20%) Event Store
11 5 (1.00%) Flink
11 5 (1.00%) Power BI
11 5 (1.00%) Tableau
12 2 (0.40%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.40%) SQL Server 2016
13 1 (0.20%) Apache Hive
13 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 59 (11.85%) Git (software)
2 27 (5.42%) CircleCI
3 26 (5.22%) PHPUnit
4 12 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.61%) Maven
6 7 (1.41%) git-flow
6 7 (1.41%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (1.00%) Appium
8 5 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.00%) GitLab
8 5 (1.00%) JUnit
8 5 (1.00%) Mockito
8 5 (1.00%) RSpec
8 5 (1.00%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.80%) Bundler
9 4 (0.80%) Crashlytics
9 4 (0.80%) Gerrit
9 4 (0.80%) JIRA
9 4 (0.80%) Sourcetree
General
1 194 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 88 (17.67%) Electronics
3 86 (17.27%) Games
4 41 (8.23%) Finance
5 28 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.62%) Marketing
7 20 (4.02%) Law
8 19 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.41%) Retail
9 17 (3.41%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.61%) Banking
11 11 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.61%) Online Betting
13 7 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.20%) Legal
15 5 (1.00%) Public Sector
15 5 (1.00%) Wearables
16 3 (0.60%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.60%) Publishing
17 2 (0.40%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 96 (19.28%) Developer
2 72 (14.46%) Software Engineer
3 57 (11.45%) Video Editor
4 55 (11.04%) Data Entry Clerk
5 46 (9.24%) IT Support
6 45 (9.04%) Support Engineer
7 39 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
8 38 (7.63%) IT Engineer
9 34 (6.83%) Backend Developer
10 33 (6.63%) Analyst
11 26 (5.22%) PHP Developer
11 26 (5.22%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 23 (4.62%) IT Support Engineer
12 23 (4.62%) Software Developer
13 22 (4.42%) Senior Developer
14 21 (4.22%) Java Developer
15 18 (3.61%) Support Analyst
16 17 (3.41%) Service Analyst
16 17 (3.41%) Service Desk Analyst
16 17 (3.41%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.23%) CSS
1 36 (7.23%) HTML
2 35 (7.03%) Vue.js
3 29 (5.82%) GraphQL
3 29 (5.82%) Spring
4 28 (5.62%) REST
5 26 (5.22%) Laravel
5 26 (5.22%) React
6 20 (4.02%) HTML5
7 17 (3.41%) React Native
8 16 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (2.81%) Flutter
9 14 (2.81%) RESTful
10 13 (2.61%) CSS3
10 13 (2.61%) Kafka
10 13 (2.61%) Web Services
11 12 (2.41%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.21%) Node.js
13 9 (1.81%) .NET
14 8 (1.61%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 98 (19.68%) Social Media
2 90 (18.07%) iPhone
3 83 (16.67%) Photography
4 43 (8.63%) Self-Motivation
5 35 (7.03%) Algorithms
6 32 (6.43%) User Experience
7 26 (5.22%) Mobile App
8 24 (4.82%) Driving Licence
9 21 (4.22%) SystemC
10 19 (3.82%) Cyber Defence
10 19 (3.82%) Cyberattack
11 17 (3.41%) Digital TV
11 17 (3.41%) Smart Meter
11 17 (3.41%) Video Conferencing
12 14 (2.81%) Replication
13 12 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (2.01%) Internet of Things
15 9 (1.81%) Cybercrime
15 9 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (1.61%) Digital Currency
Operating Systems
1 196 (39.36%) Windows
2 101 (20.28%) Android
3 53 (10.64%) Windows 10
4 50 (10.04%) Linux
5 41 (8.23%) Apple iOS
5 41 (8.23%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.81%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.41%) Mac OS X
8 5 (1.00%) Windows Phone
9 3 (0.60%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (20.68%) Software Engineering
2 102 (20.48%) Artificial Intelligence
3 86 (17.27%) Agile Software Development
4 84 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (14.86%) Computer Science
5 74 (14.86%) Machine Learning
6 72 (14.46%) Mathematics
7 66 (13.25%) DevOps
8 64 (12.85%) CI/CD
9 58 (11.65%) Workflow
10 57 (11.45%) Post-Production
11 55 (11.04%) Data Entry
12 54 (10.84%) TDD
13 47 (9.44%) ITIL
14 41 (8.23%) Test Automation
15 39 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (7.03%) Collaborative Working
17 34 (6.83%) Performance Analysis
18 30 (6.02%) Visualisation
19 29 (5.82%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 72 (14.46%) JavaScript
2 69 (13.86%) Python
3 49 (9.84%) C++
4 47 (9.44%) SQL
5 43 (8.63%) Java
6 39 (7.83%) TypeScript
7 31 (6.22%) PHP
8 27 (5.42%) C
9 26 (5.22%) Perl
10 18 (3.61%) PowerShell
11 15 (3.01%) Bash
12 14 (2.81%) Apple Swift
12 14 (2.81%) Ruby
13 8 (1.61%) C#
13 8 (1.61%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.20%) Objective-C
15 5 (1.00%) Dart
16 4 (0.80%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.80%) PHP 7
16 4 (0.80%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 95 (19.08%) Degree
2 14 (2.81%) SC Cleared
2 14 (2.81%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.00%) PhD
5 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.40%) CCA
6 2 (0.40%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (0.40%) MCP
7 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.20%) CCSP
7 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.20%) CISSP
7 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.20%) OSCP
7 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.20%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.61%) SLA
2 11 (2.21%) IEC 62304
2 11 (2.21%) ISO 13485
2 11 (2.21%) QA
3 8 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.80%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.20%) GDPR
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 89 (17.87%) Active Directory
2 72 (14.46%) Docker
3 26 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.81%) KVM
6 9 (1.81%) Xen
7 8 (1.61%) vSphere
8 7 (1.41%) Terminal Services
9 5 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.80%) Firmware
11 2 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.02%) Ansible
2 25 (5.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (4.42%) SCCM
4 15 (3.01%) Grafana
5 12 (2.41%) Terraform
6 11 (2.21%) Puppet
7 10 (2.01%) Opscode Chef
8 9 (1.81%) logstash
9 7 (1.41%) Prometheus
10 6 (1.20%) CASB
10 6 (1.20%) Consul
10 6 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.20%) Rancher
11 4 (0.80%) cPanel
11 4 (0.80%) Packer
11 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.60%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 169 (33.94%) Apple
2 103 (20.68%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.22%) VMware
4 23 (4.62%) Cisco
5 15 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.61%) Adobe
7 11 (2.21%) Citrix
8 10 (2.01%) iManage
8 10 (2.01%) Perforce
9 8 (1.61%) Google
10 7 (1.41%) Mitel
11 6 (1.20%) HP
12 5 (1.00%) Meraki
12 5 (1.00%) Sophos
12 5 (1.00%) Veeam
13 4 (0.80%) Dell
13 4 (0.80%) New Relic
13 4 (0.80%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.80%) Xerox
14 3 (0.60%) SAP
149 Smartphone job vacancies Nationwide