Contactless Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Contactless
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contactless in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contactless over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Contactless 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.022% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.076% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
England median daily rate £510 - £535
% change year-on-year - - +29.70%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Contactless 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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,313 746 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.04% 33.77% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 476 566
10th Percentile £287 £230 £220
25th Percentile £406 £367 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £575 £624
90th Percentile £700 £649 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 57 61
10th Percentile £13.39 £15.70 £10.42
25th Percentile £17.20 £18.87 £13.91
Median hourly rate £25.75 £29.33 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +54.37% -30.91%
75th Percentile £47.50 £50.00 £33.93
90th Percentile £74.00 - £58.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year +33.21% -10.81% +54.84%

Contactless
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Contactless job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Contactless
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Contactless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Contactless

Contactless
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contactless within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 June 2026. 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
East Midlands - 1 £402 -
Contactless
England

Contactless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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%) Payment Gateway
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (100.00%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 8583
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) QA