Smartcard Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Smart Card
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smartcard over the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing Smartcard 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.15% - 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% - 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile - - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.29%
75th Percentile - - £506
90th Percentile - - £510
West Yorkshire median daily rate - - £488
% change year-on-year - - +39.29%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 258 150 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 38.00% 22.32% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 102 184
10th Percentile £375 £188 £350
25th Percentile £445 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £634
West Yorkshire median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.60% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £16.53 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +17.32% +0.28%
75th Percentile - £28.75 -
90th Percentile - £45.25 £21.87
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% +44.74% -4.28%

Smartcard
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Smartcard job vacancy trend in Leeds

Smartcard
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Smartcard

Smartcard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft