The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Smartcard 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
Smart Card
Rank 484 510 514
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +4
Contract jobs citing Smartcard 26 48 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.063% 0.090% 0.103%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.233% 0.356% 0.351%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 27
Average daily rate £356 £385 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.46% -14.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £291 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £525 £532
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £475
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 4
Average hourly rate £10.00 £13.50 £17.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.92% -21.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.40 £11.34 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £18.00 £20.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.00 £13.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -21.21%
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%
Smartcard
UK

Smartcard
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Smartcard Jobs Demand Trend

Smartcard
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Smartcard Daily Rate Trend

Smartcard
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Smartcard Daily Rate Histogram

Smartcard
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Smartcard Hourly Rate Trend

Smartcard
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smartcard 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 +16 11 £369 -6.34%
North West +20 10 £350 -
South West - 2 £275 -
South East +8 1 - -
Yorkshire -3 1 - -
Smartcard
UK

Smartcard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Smartcard 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 Smartcard.

1 27 (27.84%) Windows
2 24 (24.74%) Microsoft
3 22 (22.68%) Windows 7
4 21 (21.65%) .NET
5 20 (20.62%) MS Office
5 20 (20.62%) Windows XP
6 19 (19.59%) NHS
7 18 (18.56%) VB
7 18 (18.56%) VB.NET
7 18 (18.56%) ITIL
8 17 (17.53%) C#
8 17 (17.53%) EFTPOS
9 16 (16.49%) EFT
9 16 (16.49%) EMV
9 16 (16.49%) Mobile Commerce
10 15 (15.46%) VB6
10 15 (15.46%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (15.46%) Acrobat
10 15 (15.46%) E-Commerce
11 11 (11.34%) EPoS
11 11 (11.34%) Telecoms
11 11 (11.34%) Migration
11 11 (11.34%) Retail
12 9 (9.278%) ISO 8583
12 9 (9.278%) NFC
12 9 (9.278%) MS Excel
13 8 (8.247%) Finance
13 8 (8.247%) Wincor Nixdorf
13 8 (8.247%) VeriFone
14 7 (7.216%) Security Cleared

Smartcard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Smartcard 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 Smartcard. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (21.65%) .NET
2 3 (3.093%) J2EE
2 3 (3.093%) Web Services
3 2 (2.062%) J2SE
3 2 (2.062%) LAMP
4 1 (1.031%) JMS
4 1 (1.031%) WSDL
4 1 (1.031%) XML
4 1 (1.031%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.031%) EJB
4 1 (1.031%) CSS
4 1 (1.031%) JDBC
4 1 (1.031%) JSP
4 1 (1.031%) Servlets
4 1 (1.031%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 7 (7.216%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.124%) CMS
3 2 (2.062%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (2.062%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.062%) IIS
3 2 (2.062%) Apache
4 1 (1.031%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.031%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.031%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (20.62%) MS Office
2 15 (15.46%) Acrobat
3 9 (9.278%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (6.186%) BASE24
2 2 (2.062%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.062%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.278%) NFC
2 5 (5.155%) VPN
3 4 (4.124%) 3GPP
3 4 (4.124%) ATM
4 2 (2.062%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.031%) GSM
5 1 (1.031%) LTE
5 1 (1.031%) WLAN
5 1 (1.031%) DHCP
5 1 (1.031%) FTP
5 1 (1.031%) DNS
5 1 (1.031%) Internet
5 1 (1.031%) 3G
5 1 (1.031%) X.509
5 1 (1.031%) Firewall
5 1 (1.031%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.062%) SQL Server
1 2 (2.062%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.031%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.031%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.031%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.031%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (1.031%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.031%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (3.093%) JIRA
1 3 (3.093%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.031%) Ant
2 1 (1.031%) JUnit
2 1 (1.031%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.031%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.031%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 11 (11.34%) Telecoms
1 11 (11.34%) Retail
2 8 (8.247%) Finance
3 2 (2.062%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (18.56%) Security Engineer
2 16 (16.49%) Desktop Support
2 16 (16.49%) Support Engineer
2 16 (16.49%) Desktop Engineer
3 15 (15.46%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 15 (15.46%) Windows Support Engineer
3 15 (15.46%) Security Support Engineer
4 9 (9.278%) Project Manager
4 9 (9.278%) Analyst
5 6 (6.186%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.186%) Architect
6 5 (5.155%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (4.124%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.124%) Developer
7 4 (4.124%) Consultant
8 3 (3.093%) Tester
8 3 (3.093%) EMV Project Manager
9 2 (2.062%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (2.062%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 2 (2.062%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.59%) NHS
2 17 (17.53%) EFTPOS
3 16 (16.49%) EMV
3 16 (16.49%) EFT
4 11 (11.34%) EPoS
5 4 (4.124%) Chip and PIN
5 4 (4.124%) PKI
5 4 (4.124%) CCTV
6 3 (3.093%) Fat Client
6 3 (3.093%) APACS
6 3 (3.093%) Thin Client
7 2 (2.062%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.062%) Replication
7 2 (2.062%) Open Source
7 2 (2.062%) IaaS
7 2 (2.062%) Mobile Payment
8 1 (1.031%) SaaS
8 1 (1.031%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.031%) Cryptography
8 1 (1.031%) Java Card
Operating Systems
1 27 (27.84%) Windows
2 22 (22.68%) Windows 7
3 20 (20.62%) Windows XP
4 4 (4.124%) Linux
5 2 (2.062%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.062%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.062%) UNIX
5 2 (2.062%) CentOS
5 2 (2.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.031%) Windows Vista
6 1 (1.031%) Android
6 1 (1.031%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (1.031%) VMS
6 1 (1.031%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.56%) ITIL
2 16 (16.49%) Mobile Commerce
3 15 (15.46%) E-Commerce
3 15 (15.46%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (11.34%) Migration
5 6 (6.186%) PRINCE2
5 6 (6.186%) Project Management
6 4 (4.124%) Identity Management
6 4 (4.124%) Asset Management
6 4 (4.124%) TOGAF
6 4 (4.124%) Information Governance
6 4 (4.124%) Data Migration
7 3 (3.093%) Matrix Management
7 3 (3.093%) Problem Management
7 3 (3.093%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (3.093%) Configuration Management
8 2 (2.062%) OOD
8 2 (2.062%) Risk Management
8 2 (2.062%) Service Delivery
8 2 (2.062%) HOOD
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.56%) VB
1 18 (18.56%) VB.NET
2 17 (17.53%) C#
3 15 (15.46%) VB6
4 7 (7.216%) SQL
5 5 (5.155%) Java
6 2 (2.062%) PHP
6 2 (2.062%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.062%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.031%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.031%) Embedded C++
7 1 (1.031%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.031%) C
7 1 (1.031%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.031%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (7.216%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.124%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.093%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.031%) ISEB
4 1 (1.031%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.278%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.062%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.031%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.031%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.031%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.216%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.062%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 5 (5.155%) SCCM
2 4 (4.124%) DameWare
3 3 (3.093%) WSUS
4 2 (2.062%) Puppet
5 1 (1.031%) Sysprep
5 1 (1.031%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.031%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 24 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.247%) VeriFone
2 8 (8.247%) Wincor Nixdorf
3 5 (5.155%) VocaLink
4 4 (4.124%) SAP
4 4 (4.124%) CA
5 3 (3.093%) CheckPoint
5 3 (3.093%) iSOFT
5 3 (3.093%) Oracle
6 2 (2.062%) Twitter
6 2 (2.062%) Veritas
6 2 (2.062%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.062%) Cisco
6 2 (2.062%) HP
7 1 (1.031%) Dell
7 1 (1.031%) BEA
7 1 (1.031%) NCR
7 1 (1.031%) Apple
7 1 (1.031%) Sage
7 1 (1.031%) Symantec
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