EMV Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term EMV in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EMV over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing EMV 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.056% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £475 - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

EMV falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 698 647 819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.76% 31.20% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 408 538
10th Percentile £350 £363 £300
25th Percentile £441 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £597 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% -0.58% -
75th Percentile £688 £702 £725
90th Percentile £788 £833 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £18.97 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £24.63 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £56.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.64% +124.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £41.80 £76.13 £36.50
90th Percentile £49.03 £85.95 £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £27.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -44.19%

EMV
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EMV relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

EMV job vacancy trend in the City of London

EMV
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing EMV.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing EMV

EMV
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) BASE24
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (100.00%) OLTP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft