Smartphone Contracts with Work from Home Options

Smartphone
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartphone in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smartphone over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 429 591
Rank change year-on-year +92 +162 -99
Contract jobs citing Smartphone 12 30 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.082% 0.12% 0.079%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.39% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 25
10th Percentile £201 £160 £135
25th Percentile £288 £200 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £250 £350
Median % change year-on-year +48.00% -28.57% +72.84%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile £417 - £495
UK median daily rate £218 £200 £210
% change year-on-year +8.75% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £12.70 - £12.05
25th Percentile £13.36 - £12.37
Median hourly rate £14.58 - £14.02
75th Percentile £15.67 - £15.07
90th Percentile £16.25 - £15.11
UK median hourly rate £14.50 £21.36 £21.78
% change year-on-year -32.12% -1.93% +70.02%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,234 7,672 13,998
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.91% 31.65% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 5,442 10,085
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £440 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 148 223
10th Percentile £15.73 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.53 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +28.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.83
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Smartphone
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Smartphone as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Smartphone trend for jobs with a WFH option

Smartphone
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Smartphone.

Smartphone daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Smartphone
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Smartphone over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Smartphone daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Smartphone
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Smartphone.

Smartphone hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Smartphone
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (8.33%) Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Deployment Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Designer
2 1 (8.33%) ICT Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) ICT Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) ICT Support
2 1 (8.33%) iOS Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Support Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 2 (16.67%) iPad
1 2 (16.67%) iPhone
1 2 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Apple iOS
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) User Experience
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
4 1 (8.33%) Change Management
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (8.33%) Inventory Management
4 1 (8.33%) Memory Management
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Multithreading
4 1 (8.33%) OO
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Usability Testing
4 1 (8.33%) UX Design
4 1 (8.33%) Validation
4 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C
1 1 (8.33%) C++
1 1 (8.33%) Objective-C
1 1 (8.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Apple
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft