The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EMV in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EMV over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV)
Rank 491 533 557
Rank change year-on-year
+42 +24
Contract jobs citing EMV 19 25 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.046% 0.047% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.170% 0.185% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 9
Average daily rate £425 £368 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.64% -22.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £285 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £422 £395 £425
% change year-on-year
+6.89% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11144 13491 16543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.81% 25.29% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6882 8110 9959
Average daily rate £443 £430 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.90% -18.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £601 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 619 691
Average hourly rate £24.00 £23.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
EMV
UK

EMV
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing EMV across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

England EMV Jobs Demand Trend

EMV
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing EMV across the England region.

England EMV Daily Rate Trend

EMV
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EMV across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England EMV Daily Rate Histogram

EMV
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing EMV across the England region.

England EMV Hourly Rate Trend

EMV
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMV within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +24 10 £475 +29.25%
North West +17 7 £420 -
South East +16 1 - -
Yorkshire -3 1 £600 +21.21%
EMV
UK

EMV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing EMV also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited EMV.

1 28 (56.00%) EPoS
1 28 (56.00%) Finance
2 19 (38.00%) APACS
3 16 (32.00%) Smartcard
3 16 (32.00%) C++
3 16 (32.00%) VeriFone
4 15 (30.00%) Chip and PIN
5 13 (26.00%) C
6 10 (20.00%) NFC
7 9 (18.00%) ISO 8583
7 9 (18.00%) EFTPOS
7 9 (18.00%) E-Commerce
8 8 (16.00%) ATM
8 8 (16.00%) Mobile Commerce
8 8 (16.00%) EFT
9 7 (14.00%) Test Scripting
9 7 (14.00%) Project Management
9 7 (14.00%) Linux
10 6 (12.00%) Java
10 6 (12.00%) ISEB
10 6 (12.00%) BASE24
10 6 (12.00%) Validation
10 6 (12.00%) Retail
11 5 (10.00%) Cryptography
11 5 (10.00%) Wincor Nixdorf
11 5 (10.00%) PRINCE2
12 4 (8.000%) J2EE
12 4 (8.000%) Blackberry
12 4 (8.000%) Android
12 4 (8.000%) Mobile App

EMV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing EMV also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited EMV. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (8.000%) J2EE
2 3 (6.000%) HTML
3 1 (2.000%) EJB
3 1 (2.000%) JDBC
3 1 (2.000%) JSP
3 1 (2.000%) Servlets
3 1 (2.000%) Web Services
3 1 (2.000%) XML
3 1 (2.000%) JMS
3 1 (2.000%) SAML
3 1 (2.000%) OAuth
3 1 (2.000%) OpenID
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.000%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 6 (12.00%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.00%) NFC
2 8 (16.00%) ATM
3 2 (4.000%) Wireless
4 1 (2.000%) GSM
4 1 (2.000%) 3GPP
4 1 (2.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.000%) MySQL
1 1 (2.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.000%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (2.000%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.000%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.000%) Ant
1 2 (4.000%) JUnit
2 1 (2.000%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.000%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.000%) Subversion
2 1 (2.000%) Maven
2 1 (2.000%) Git (software)
2 1 (2.000%) Mercurial
General
1 28 (56.00%) Finance
2 6 (12.00%) Retail
3 3 (6.000%) Banking
4 2 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Developer
2 11 (22.00%) Software Developer
3 10 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 8 (16.00%) Tester
4 8 (16.00%) EMV Project Manager
5 7 (14.00%) Analyst
6 6 (12.00%) Systems Tester
7 5 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (8.000%) Software Engineer
8 4 (8.000%) Programmer
8 4 (8.000%) C++ Developer
8 4 (8.000%) C++ Programmer
8 4 (8.000%) Software Programmer
9 3 (6.000%) C Developer
9 3 (6.000%) C Programmer
9 3 (6.000%) Consultant
9 3 (6.000%) Business Analyst
10 2 (4.000%) Test Analyst
10 2 (4.000%) Senior Developer
10 2 (4.000%) Systems Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 28 (56.00%) EPoS
2 19 (38.00%) APACS
3 16 (32.00%) Smartcard
4 15 (30.00%) Chip and PIN
5 9 (18.00%) EFTPOS
6 8 (16.00%) EFT
7 5 (10.00%) Cryptography
8 4 (8.000%) Blackberry
8 4 (8.000%) Mobile App
9 3 (6.000%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (6.000%) PMI
10 1 (2.000%) Java Card
10 1 (2.000%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (2.000%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.000%) Android
3 3 (6.000%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.000%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.000%) UNIX
4 1 (2.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (16.00%) Mobile Commerce
3 7 (14.00%) Project Management
3 7 (14.00%) Test Scripting
4 6 (12.00%) Validation
5 5 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 4 (8.000%) Scrum
6 4 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (6.000%) Network Design
7 3 (6.000%) Waterfall
7 3 (6.000%) OO
8 2 (4.000%) Multithreading
8 2 (4.000%) Risk Analysis
8 2 (4.000%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (4.000%) OOD
9 1 (2.000%) UML
9 1 (2.000%) OOP
9 1 (2.000%) Change Management
9 1 (2.000%) Identity Management
9 1 (2.000%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) C++
2 13 (26.00%) C
3 6 (12.00%) Java
4 2 (4.000%) SQL
5 1 (2.000%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.000%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.000%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.000%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) ISEB
2 3 (6.000%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) ISO 8583
2 2 (4.000%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.000%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 1 (2.000%) ISO/IEC 7816
3 1 (2.000%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) VeriFone
2 5 (10.00%) Wincor Nixdorf
3 3 (6.000%) Hyperion
4 2 (4.000%) VocaLink
4 2 (4.000%) Twitter
5 1 (2.000%) TSYS
5 1 (2.000%) Sage
5 1 (2.000%) Oracle
5 1 (2.000%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.000%) HP
5 1 (2.000%) BEA