Nah, it's a DIY job, i have done both front and rear and this was one of the first jobs when I got mine.
To replace the handles, you need to remove the door cards (buy a few spare clips before hand), remove the inner mounting plate, disconnect the wiring and door lock lnkage (this is the trickiest part) and loosen the retaining frame to extract the handle from the exterior. there is a post of mine on vwaudiforum with a couple of PDFs from ETKA.
http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/s...471#post789471
The hardest part was getting replacement handles, which I ended up buying from German ebay for a total of €110 for a set of all 4 in the correct colour. The search term I used was before the loss of the wildcard search: A8 Türgriff* (don't forget the umlaut on the u), and then just trawled through the search results looking for the tell-tale button.
I guess it took me about 2 hours per handle, and i think i only used a couple of different tools, a 10mm deep socket, a pry tool for the door card and some torx drivers (t30 or 27 and t15 i think)