The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EPoS in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EPoS over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Point Of Sale (EPoS)
Rank 440 490 430
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -60
Contract jobs citing EPoS 89 94 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.192% 0.161% 0.252%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.723% 0.657% 0.896%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 49 64
Average daily rate £325 £338 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +1.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £90 £250 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £490 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £300 £289
% change year-on-year
+5.41% +3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 23
Average hourly rate £15.25 £25.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.00% +100.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £16.20 £10.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.75 £25.00 £18.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £19.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +56.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12308 14298 17184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.53% 24.52% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7390 8376 10196
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £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 536 662 725
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 £44.15 £45.00 £42.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%

EPoS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

EPoS Jobs Demand Trend

EPoS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing EPoS within the UK.

EPoS Daily Rate Trend

EPoS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EPoS within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

EPoS Daily Rate Histogram

EPoS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing EPoS within the UK.

EPoS Hourly Rate Trend

EPoS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EPoS within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

EPoS Hourly Rate Histogram

EPoS
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EPoS within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 85 £323 -4.44%
London +38 37 £413 +3.12%
South East +12 21 £350 +16.66%
Buckinghamshire - 13 £350 -
Milton Keynes - 12 £350 -
City of London +20 9 £413 +34.14%
South West +27 7 £130 -60.75%
West Midlands +14 7 £275 -
North West +17 5 £80 -15.78%
Cheshire - 5 £80 -
Scotland -7 4 £601 +381.00%
Hampshire -8 4 £323 -16.77%
East of England +7 3 £375 +7.14%
Aberdeen +4 3 £601 -
Weymouth - 3 - -
Dorset - 3 - -
Wiltshire +1 2 £130 -
Hertfordshire 0 2 £375 -3.22%
Southampton -3 2 £323 -16.77%
Leicestershire - 2 £525 -
Macclesfield - 2 £80 -
East Midlands - 2 £525 -
Tyne and Wear +14 1 - -
North East +13 1 - -
Newcastle upon Tyne +8 1 - -
Berkshire +5 1 - -
Watford +4 1 £650 +85.71%
West Yorkshire +1 1 £300 +252.94%
Yorkshire 0 1 £300 +252.94%
Bedfordshire -3 1 - -

EPoS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing EPoS 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 EPoS.

1 126 (59.72%) Retail
2 53 (25.12%) Finance
3 32 (15.17%) E-Commerce
4 31 (14.69%) EMV
5 30 (14.22%) ITIL
6 28 (13.27%) PRINCE2
6 28 (13.27%) Windows
7 24 (11.37%) Project Management
8 21 (9.953%) Microsoft
8 21 (9.953%) VeriFone
9 19 (9.005%) ATM
10 18 (8.531%) Chip and PIN
11 17 (8.057%) MS Office
11 17 (8.057%) Test Scripting
12 16 (7.583%) SQL
12 16 (7.583%) Oracle
12 16 (7.583%) Smartcard
13 15 (7.109%) Mobile Commerce
13 15 (7.109%) C
13 15 (7.109%) C++
13 15 (7.109%) APACS
14 14 (6.635%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (6.635%) Business Analysis
14 14 (6.635%) EFT
14 14 (6.635%) Time Management
15 13 (6.161%) Banking
16 12 (5.687%) EFTPOS
16 12 (5.687%) Active Directory
16 12 (5.687%) Windows XP
17 11 (5.213%) C#

EPoS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing EPoS 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 EPoS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (4.265%) .NET
2 8 (3.791%) Web Services
3 6 (2.844%) WCF
3 6 (2.844%) NHibernate
3 6 (2.844%) KnockoutJS
4 3 (1.422%) XML
5 2 (0.948%) WinForms
6 1 (0.474%) JMS
6 1 (0.474%) J2EE
6 1 (0.474%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.474%) EJB
6 1 (0.474%) JDBC
6 1 (0.474%) JSP
6 1 (0.474%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 8 (3.791%) ESB
2 5 (2.370%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.370%) MS Exchange
2 5 (2.370%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (1.896%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.474%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.474%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.474%) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications
1 17 (8.057%) MS Office
2 6 (2.844%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.474%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.318%) BASE24
2 4 (1.896%) Lawson
3 1 (0.474%) Retail-J
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.005%) ATM
2 2 (0.948%) NFC
2 2 (0.948%) 3G
2 2 (0.948%) LAN
2 2 (0.948%) FTP
2 2 (0.948%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.474%) NAS
3 1 (0.474%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.474%) HSRP
3 1 (0.474%) VPN
3 1 (0.474%) DNS
3 1 (0.474%) VoIP
3 1 (0.474%) WLAN
3 1 (0.474%) ADSL
3 1 (0.474%) SAN
3 1 (0.474%) MPLS
3 1 (0.474%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.474%) BGP
3 1 (0.474%) Internet
3 1 (0.474%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.791%) DB2
2 6 (2.844%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.370%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (1.422%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (1.422%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.948%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.948%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.474%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.474%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.474%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (0.474%) MySQL
6 1 (0.474%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.896%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (1.422%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.422%) JIRA
3 1 (0.474%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.474%) Ant
3 1 (0.474%) JUnit
3 1 (0.474%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (0.474%) JMeter
3 1 (0.474%) Selenium
General
1 126 (59.72%) Retail
2 53 (25.12%) Finance
3 13 (6.161%) Banking
4 8 (3.791%) Back Office
5 5 (2.370%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.370%) Retail Banking
6 4 (1.896%) Marketing
7 2 (0.948%) Automotive
8 1 (0.474%) Games
Job Titles
1 60 (28.44%) Analyst
2 40 (18.96%) Project Manager
3 33 (15.64%) Developer
4 25 (11.85%) Business Analyst
5 19 (9.005%) Support Analyst
6 14 (6.635%) Applications Support
7 12 (5.687%) Systems Analyst
7 12 (5.687%) Software Developer
8 11 (5.213%) Help Desk Analyst
8 11 (5.213%) Programmer
8 11 (5.213%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.739%) Test Analyst
10 9 (4.265%) ATM Engineer
11 8 (3.791%) C# Developer
12 7 (3.318%) Tester
12 7 (3.318%) Architect
12 7 (3.318%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.318%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.844%) Technical Leader
13 6 (2.844%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.69%) EMV
2 18 (8.531%) Chip and PIN
3 16 (7.583%) Smartcard
4 15 (7.109%) APACS
5 14 (6.635%) EFT
6 12 (5.687%) EFTPOS
7 10 (4.739%) SaaS
8 8 (3.791%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.896%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.896%) PMI
9 4 (1.896%) IBM Mainframe
10 2 (0.948%) Mobile Payment
11 1 (0.474%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.474%) Data Conversion
11 1 (0.474%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.474%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.474%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.474%) AS400
11 1 (0.474%) PDA
11 1 (0.474%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.27%) Windows
2 12 (5.687%) Windows XP
3 11 (5.213%) Windows 7
4 10 (4.739%) Linux
5 4 (1.896%) Windows Vista
6 3 (1.422%) UNIX
7 2 (0.948%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.948%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.948%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.474%) Android
8 1 (0.474%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.474%) Windows 2000
8 1 (0.474%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (15.17%) E-Commerce
2 30 (14.22%) ITIL
3 28 (13.27%) PRINCE2
4 24 (11.37%) Project Management
5 17 (8.057%) Test Scripting
6 15 (7.109%) Mobile Commerce
7 14 (6.635%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (6.635%) Business Analysis
7 14 (6.635%) Time Management
8 9 (4.265%) Software Testing
9 8 (3.791%) ETL
9 8 (3.791%) Waterfall
10 7 (3.318%) Analytics
11 6 (2.844%) Incident Management
11 6 (2.844%) Agile Software Development
11 6 (2.844%) Migration
11 6 (2.844%) Scrum
11 6 (2.844%) MVC
12 5 (2.370%) Risk Analysis
12 5 (2.370%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.583%) SQL
2 15 (7.109%) C
2 15 (7.109%) C++
3 11 (5.213%) C#
4 7 (3.318%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.422%) Java
5 3 (1.422%) Embedded C
6 2 (0.948%) PHP
6 2 (0.948%) VBScript
7 1 (0.474%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (4.265%) ISEB
2 7 (3.318%) Degree
3 5 (2.370%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.896%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.948%) PMP
5 2 (0.948%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (0.948%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.474%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.474%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.213%) ISO 8583
2 10 (4.739%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.370%) SLA
4 4 (1.896%) QA
5 2 (0.948%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.948%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (5.687%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.896%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.422%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.474%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.474%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (1.896%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (1.422%) WSUS
3 2 (0.948%) DameWare
4 1 (0.474%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.474%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (9.953%) Microsoft
1 21 (9.953%) VeriFone
2 16 (7.583%) Oracle
3 9 (4.265%) SAP
3 9 (4.265%) Citrix
3 9 (4.265%) Wincor Nixdorf
4 8 (3.791%) webMethods
5 7 (3.318%) ATG
6 5 (2.370%) VocaLink
7 4 (1.896%) Kronos
7 4 (1.896%) VMware
7 4 (1.896%) HP
7 4 (1.896%) Dell
7 4 (1.896%) NCR
7 4 (1.896%) IBM
7 4 (1.896%) Fiserv
8 3 (1.422%) Hyperion
8 3 (1.422%) Epicor
9 2 (0.948%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.948%) CA
City, London
1st Line", "Service Desk", Helpdesk, Windows, Remedy, "Active Directory", stores, retail, EPOS... *Windows 7, Active Directory, Office, Exchange... *Retail systems experience - EPOS, warehouse management, stock management, EFT, Tills.
Reed Technology
Rate: £15.00 - £16.00 per hour + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
You will be part of a busy team offering technical support in a 24 hour environment. The technical support analyst will work on a evening shift basis working...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
West London
The ideal candidate must have hands on knowledge with the following technologies: Active Directory, Windows 7, XP, Vista, MS Office, Exchange 2003/2007, EPOS, HP Dell Printers... EPOS...
Marcus Donald People
Rate: £14 to £16 per hour
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
You will have experience of delivering technology to new stores or working on in-store technology upgrades including Tills, EPOS, hardware or operating systems. You will be able...
Harvey Nash plc
Posted: 24 May 2013
Wiltshire
The successful applicant will have experience working on EPOS projects, implementing EPOS systems and infrastructure. Responsibilities: - Developing non-functional requirements for tills programme and replacement finance system programmes -...
Sanderson
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
West Midlands
Spargonet Consulting, an IT Services Company with a strong pedigree in Retail, urgently seek a Build Technician with expertise around POS/EPOS Solutions. Principal accountabilities and skills required;- -...
Spargonet Consulting Plc
Rate: £250 to £300 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013