Contactless
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contactless in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Contactless over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 894 982 1158
Rank change year-on-year +88 +176 -251
Permanent jobs citing Contactless 2 6 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.006% 0.031%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.006% 0.014% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £39,000 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £43,125 £50,313 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +92.31% -18.75%
75th Percentile £63,125 £72,813 £33,750
90th Percentile £68,000 £75,000 £41,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £62,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -40.00% +92.31% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,973 44,403 73,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.51% 42.72% 47.26%
Number of salaries quoted 23,052 23,953 34,149
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Contactless
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Contactless in the UK

Contactless
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Contactless.

Salary trend for Contactless in the UK

Contactless
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Contactless over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Contactless in the UK

Contactless
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Contactless within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +124 2 £52,500 -16.00% 3
Work from Home +80 2 £52,500 -6.67% 2
North of England +38 1 £37,500 -25.00%
UK excluding London -27 1 £37,500 -40.00% 2
London - 1 £67,500 - 3
North West - 1 £37,500 -

Contactless
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EMV
1 1 (50.00%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft