The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EMV in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EMV over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV)
Rank 513 548 591
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +43
Contract jobs citing EMV 28 22 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.058% 0.038% 0.016%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.216% 0.154% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 5
Average daily rate £420 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.12% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £366 £285 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £484 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £378 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.12% +0.66%
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
12964 14261 17263
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.94% 24.57% 27.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7811 8294 10400
Average daily rate £425 £425 £501
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £601 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 691 684
Average hourly rate £22.25 £22.50 £22.81
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.11% -1.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.43 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.65 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%

EMV
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

EMV Daily Rate Trend

EMV
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EMV within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 within the UK.

EMV Hourly Rate Trend

EMV
Top 20 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +21 28 £420 +11.12% 1
London +41 17 £400 +8.84%
North West +24 8 £420 -
City of London - 4 £375 -
South East +19 2 - - 1
Cheshire - 2 £425 -
Yorkshire 0 1 £600 +46.34%
Manchester - 1 - -
Wokingham - - - - 1
Berkshire - - - - 1
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Middlesex - - - -
North Yorkshire - - - -
Surrey - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
Harrogate - - - -
High Wycombe - - - -
East of England - - - -

EMV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 26 (45.61%) EPoS
2 25 (43.86%) Finance
3 20 (35.09%) Smartcard
4 19 (33.33%) APACS
5 17 (29.82%) Chip and PIN
6 16 (28.07%) C++
7 14 (24.56%) VeriFone
8 13 (22.81%) NFC
9 12 (21.05%) C
10 10 (17.54%) Project Management
10 10 (17.54%) E-Commerce
11 9 (15.79%) ATM
11 9 (15.79%) EFTPOS
11 9 (15.79%) ISO 8583
12 8 (14.04%) Mobile Commerce
13 7 (12.28%) EFT
13 7 (12.28%) Java
13 7 (12.28%) Mobile Payment
14 6 (10.53%) Test Scripting
14 6 (10.53%) Android
14 6 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
14 6 (10.53%) Banking
14 6 (10.53%) Retail
14 6 (10.53%) Cryptography
14 6 (10.53%) ISEB
14 6 (10.53%) Blackberry
15 5 (8.772%) Validation
15 5 (8.772%) Scrum
15 5 (8.772%) PRINCE2
15 5 (8.772%) Linux

EMV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (7.018%) J2EE
2 3 (5.263%) HTML
3 1 (1.754%) Web Services
3 1 (1.754%) SAML
3 1 (1.754%) OAuth
3 1 (1.754%) OpenID
Applications
1 3 (5.263%) MS Office
1 3 (5.263%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (7.018%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.81%) NFC
2 9 (15.79%) ATM
3 2 (3.509%) GSM
3 2 (3.509%) 3GPP
3 2 (3.509%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.754%) MySQL
1 1 (1.754%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.509%) Git (software)
1 2 (3.509%) Mercurial
1 2 (3.509%) Maven
1 2 (3.509%) Subversion
1 2 (3.509%) Ant
1 2 (3.509%) JUnit
General
1 25 (43.86%) Finance
2 6 (10.53%) Banking
2 6 (10.53%) Retail
3 3 (5.263%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.509%) Retail Banking
4 2 (3.509%) Marketing
4 2 (3.509%) Billing
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Project Manager
1 15 (26.32%) Developer
2 9 (15.79%) Software Developer
2 9 (15.79%) EMV Project Manager
3 7 (12.28%) Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Tester
4 5 (8.772%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (8.772%) Systems Tester
5 4 (7.018%) C++ Developer
5 4 (7.018%) Consultant
5 4 (7.018%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.263%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.263%) Programmer
6 3 (5.263%) C Developer
6 3 (5.263%) C Programmer
6 3 (5.263%) C++ Programmer
6 3 (5.263%) Software Programmer
6 3 (5.263%) Mobile Developer
7 2 (3.509%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.509%) Business Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 26 (45.61%) EPoS
2 20 (35.09%) Smartcard
3 19 (33.33%) APACS
4 17 (29.82%) Chip and PIN
5 9 (15.79%) EFTPOS
6 7 (12.28%) EFT
6 7 (12.28%) Mobile Payment
7 6 (10.53%) Cryptography
7 6 (10.53%) Blackberry
8 5 (8.772%) Mobile App
9 3 (5.263%) PMI
10 2 (3.509%) Java Card
11 1 (1.754%) Device Driver
11 1 (1.754%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Android
2 5 (8.772%) Linux
3 4 (7.018%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.509%) Windows 8
4 2 (3.509%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.54%) Project Management
1 10 (17.54%) E-Commerce
2 8 (14.04%) Mobile Commerce
3 6 (10.53%) Test Scripting
3 6 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (8.772%) Validation
4 5 (8.772%) Scrum
4 5 (8.772%) PRINCE2
5 4 (7.018%) Network Design
5 4 (7.018%) Business Analysis
6 3 (5.263%) Change Management
6 3 (5.263%) Waterfall
7 2 (3.509%) Multithreading
7 2 (3.509%) Mobile Application Development
7 2 (3.509%) Customer Insight
7 2 (3.509%) Risk Analysis
7 2 (3.509%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (3.509%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (3.509%) OOP
7 2 (3.509%) OO
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) C++
2 12 (21.05%) C
3 7 (12.28%) Java
4 1 (1.754%) Objective-C
4 1 (1.754%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.754%) Embedded C
4 1 (1.754%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) ISEB
2 3 (5.263%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.754%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) ISO 8583
2 4 (7.018%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.509%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 2 (3.509%) ISO/IEC 7816
4 1 (1.754%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (24.56%) VeriFone
2 4 (7.018%) Wincor Nixdorf
3 3 (5.263%) Hyperion
3 3 (5.263%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.263%) VocaLink
4 2 (3.509%) TSYS
4 2 (3.509%) Twitter
4 2 (3.509%) Sage
5 1 (1.754%) HP
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