Smartcard Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Smart Card
South East > Hampshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in contract job vacancies in Hampshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smartcard over the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Smartcard 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.079% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +42.86%

All Generic Skills
Hampshire

Smartcard 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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 295 283 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 23.38% 28.85% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 178 192
10th Percentile £267 £332 £251
25th Percentile £408 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +5.92% -1.09%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £490 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -4.03% +2.12% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 31
10th Percentile £20.44 £12.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £27.00 £21.15
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -36.80% -14.30%
75th Percentile £42.41 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £52.05 £70.00 £68.75
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £38.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -34.21% -28.30% +49.30%

Smartcard
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Smartcard relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Smartcard job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Smartcard
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Smartcard.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Smartcard

Smartcard
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Smartcard.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Smartcard

Smartcard
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smartcard within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. 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
Basingstoke - 1 £700 - 1
Smartcard
South East

Smartcard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) S/MIME
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Thales