The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EFTPOS in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EFTPOS over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale (EFTPOS)
Rank 535 555 577
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +22
Contract jobs citing EFTPOS 6 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.017% 0.015%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.049% 0.070% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12277 14313 17463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.50% 24.52% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7372 8397 10373
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 663 738
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £45.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%

EFTPOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK.

EFTPOS Hourly Rate Trend

EFTPOS
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EFTPOS within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +41 6 - -
London +35 4 - -
South East +15 1 - -
North West +10 1 - -

EFTPOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 21 (84.00%) EFT
2 18 (72.00%) Smartcard
3 16 (64.00%) Mobile Commerce
3 16 (64.00%) E-Commerce
4 13 (52.00%) Retail
5 12 (48.00%) EPoS
6 11 (44.00%) ISO 8583
7 10 (40.00%) VeriFone
7 10 (40.00%) EMV
8 9 (36.00%) Wincor Nixdorf
9 7 (28.00%) Finance
10 6 (24.00%) BASE24
11 5 (20.00%) Chip and PIN
11 5 (20.00%) ATM
11 5 (20.00%) VocaLink
12 4 (16.00%) Mobile Payment
12 4 (16.00%) SQL
12 4 (16.00%) C++
12 4 (16.00%) C
12 4 (16.00%) Embedded C
12 4 (16.00%) Embedded C++
12 4 (16.00%) APACS
13 3 (12.00%) Migration
13 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
13 3 (12.00%) Java
13 3 (12.00%) J2EE
13 3 (12.00%) Oracle
13 3 (12.00%) Linux
13 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
14 2 (8.000%) CentOS

EFTPOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 3 (12.00%) J2EE
2 2 (8.000%) Web Services
2 2 (8.000%) LAMP
2 2 (8.000%) J2SE
3 1 (4.000%) XML
3 1 (4.000%) EJB
3 1 (4.000%) JDBC
3 1 (4.000%) JSP
3 1 (4.000%) Servlets
3 1 (4.000%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) OpenStack
1 2 (8.000%) Amazon AWS
1 2 (8.000%) Apache
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (4.000%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) BASE24
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) ATM
2 2 (8.000%) NFC
3 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (4.000%) Ant
1 1 (4.000%) JUnit
1 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.000%) Eclipse
General
1 13 (52.00%) Retail
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (16.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Tester
3 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.000%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (8.000%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.000%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) DBA
4 2 (8.000%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) Architect
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (84.00%) EFT
2 18 (72.00%) Smartcard
3 12 (48.00%) EPoS
4 10 (40.00%) EMV
5 5 (20.00%) Chip and PIN
6 4 (16.00%) Mobile Payment
6 4 (16.00%) APACS
7 2 (8.000%) Open Source
7 2 (8.000%) IaaS
8 1 (4.000%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.000%) CentOS
2 2 (8.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.000%) Ubuntu
2 2 (8.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 16 (64.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (12.00%) Migration
2 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (8.000%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (8.000%) PRINCE2
3 2 (8.000%) OO
3 2 (8.000%) OOD
4 1 (4.000%) Workflow
4 1 (4.000%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.000%) Project Management
4 1 (4.000%) UML
4 1 (4.000%) Software Testing
4 1 (4.000%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (4.000%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
1 4 (16.00%) C++
1 4 (16.00%) C
1 4 (16.00%) Embedded C
1 4 (16.00%) Embedded C++
2 3 (12.00%) Java
3 2 (8.000%) PHP
3 2 (8.000%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.000%) C#
4 1 (4.000%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (44.00%) ISO 8583
2 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.000%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) VeriFone
2 9 (36.00%) Wincor Nixdorf
3 5 (20.00%) VocaLink
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle
5 2 (8.000%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.000%) Sage
6 1 (4.000%) BEA
6 1 (4.000%) NCR
6 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.000%) TSYS
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