Smartcard Contracts with Work from Home Options

Smart Card
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smartcard over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 456 627
Rank change year-on-year +116 +171 -143
Contract jobs citing Smartcard 3 10 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.041% 0.005%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.071% 0.13% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £340 -
25th Percentile £463 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - £415 -
UK median daily rate £475 £363 £263
% change year-on-year +31.03% +38.10% -41.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Smartcard is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,242 7,767 13,904
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.68% 31.56% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 5,492 9,944
10th Percentile £325 £364 £361
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% +9.05%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £795 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 149 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £13.66
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +30.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

Smartcard
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Smartcard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Smartcard trend for jobs with a WFH option

Smartcard
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Smartcard.

Smartcard daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) RFID
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
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%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) EJB
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP