The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EFTPOS in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EFTPOS 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 South East 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
Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale (EFTPOS)
Rank 222 242 250
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +8
Contract jobs citing EFTPOS 1 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.013% 0.049% 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.065% 0.261% 0.101%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1540 1915 1982
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.71% 18.85% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 817 810
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 180 182
Average hourly rate £23.75 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.63% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.92 £12.80 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
EFTPOS
England

EFTPOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East EFTPOS Jobs Demand Trend

EFTPOS
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East EFTPOS Daily Rate Trend

EFTPOS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East EFTPOS Hourly Rate Trend

EFTPOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing EFTPOS 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 EFTPOS.

1 7 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 7 (100.00%) EPoS
1 7 (100.00%) EFT
1 7 (100.00%) Smartcard
1 7 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 7 (100.00%) ISO 8583
1 7 (100.00%) Wincor Nixdorf
2 6 (85.71%) VeriFone
3 5 (71.43%) Retail
3 5 (71.43%) BASE24
4 4 (57.14%) VocaLink
4 4 (57.14%) EMV
4 4 (57.14%) ATM
5 2 (28.57%) OOD
5 2 (28.57%) OO
5 2 (28.57%) SQL
5 2 (28.57%) Finance
6 1 (14.29%) TSYS
6 1 (14.29%) APACS
6 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
6 1 (14.29%) J2EE
6 1 (14.29%) Oracle
6 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 1 (14.29%) Ant
6 1 (14.29%) JUnit
6 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
6 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
6 1 (14.29%) EJB
6 1 (14.29%) JDBC
6 1 (14.29%) JSP

EFTPOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) J2EE
1 1 (14.29%) EJB
1 1 (14.29%) JDBC
1 1 (14.29%) JSP
1 1 (14.29%) Servlets
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) ATM
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
1 1 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 5 (71.43%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior J2EE Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) EPoS
1 7 (100.00%) EFT
1 7 (100.00%) Smartcard
2 4 (57.14%) EMV
3 1 (14.29%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (14.29%) APACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 7 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
2 2 (28.57%) OOD
2 2 (28.57%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Wincor Nixdorf
2 6 (85.71%) VeriFone
3 4 (57.14%) VocaLink
4 1 (14.29%) TSYS
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) BEA
4 1 (14.29%) NCR
4 1 (14.29%) Sage