Handsets
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Handset in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Handset over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 673 820
Rank change year-on-year +119 +147 -138
Contract jobs citing Handset 19 27 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.047% 0.042%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 16
10th Percentile £150 £156 £135
25th Percentile £170 £188 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £210 £360
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -41.67% +87.35%
75th Percentile £350 £476 £521
90th Percentile £485 £575 £674
UK excluding London median daily rate £261 £210 £200
% change year-on-year +24.40% +5.00% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.17
Median hourly rate £27.00 £25.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% +46.91% +31.88%
75th Percentile - - £20.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - +31.88%

All Generic Skills
UK

Handset 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,885 18,988 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.25% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 13,052 20,257
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 627 724
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.56% -12.33%

Handset
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Handset in the UK

Handset
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Handset in the UK

Handset
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Handset over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Handset in the UK

Handset
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Handset in the UK

Handset
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Handset within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +88 15 £345 +64.29% 13
London +96 8 £340 -24.44% 5
UK excluding London +43 6 £261 +24.40% 10
Midlands +34 4 £378 +89.00%
West Midlands +22 4 £378 +98.95%
Work from Home +123 3 £434 -13.30% 4
Scotland +44 1 £200 -55.56% 2
South West +18 1 £160 -23.81% 1

Handset
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) SaaS
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) ISDN
2 1 (5.26%) Intranet
2 1 (5.26%) Unified Communications
2 1 (5.26%) VLAN
2 1 (5.26%) WebEx
General
1 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Front Office
2 4 (21.05%) Publishing
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Military
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Copywriter
1 3 (15.79%) Field Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Content Designer
3 1 (5.26%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Designer
3 1 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support
3 1 (5.26%) Digital Copywriter
3 1 (5.26%) IT Support
3 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Unified Communications Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Content Management
1 4 (21.05%) Copywriting
1 4 (21.05%) Problem Management
1 4 (21.05%) SEO
2 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
3 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL
3 2 (10.53%) Project Management
3 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.26%) Agile
4 1 (5.26%) Budgeting
4 1 (5.26%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (5.26%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (5.26%) ITSM
4 1 (5.26%) Migration
4 1 (5.26%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) CCIE
2 1 (5.26%) CCIE Collaboration
2 1 (5.26%) CCNP
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Citrix
2 3 (15.79%) Avaya
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Siemens