Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RFID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RFID over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 693 840
Rank change year-on-year +117 +147 -172
Contract jobs citing RFID 3 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.012% 0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.053% 0.095% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 14
10th Percentile £196 £184 £453
25th Percentile £264 £249 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £358 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -30.24% -2.38%
75th Percentile £502 £466 £738
90th Percentile £572 £532 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate - £575 £513
% change year-on-year - +12.20% -2.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RFID is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,652 7,386 9,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.98% 12.32% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,383 4,806 6,382
10th Percentile £205 £231 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% +3.95% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.70% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 486 366
10th Percentile £13.57 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.35 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +1.85%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £50.58
90th Percentile £67.40 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

RFID
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RFID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RFID in the UK

RFID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RFID.

Daily rate trend for RFID in the UK

RFID
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RFID over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RFID in the UK

RFID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RFID.

Hourly rate trend for RFID in the UK

RFID
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RFID within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +109 2 £381 +6.64% 9
London +108 2 £381 +172.32%
UK excluding London +68 1 - - 10
Work from Home - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 - - 2

RFID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) French Language
2 1 (33.33%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) EPoS
1 1 (33.33%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
1 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adyen
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Ingenico
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow