Contactless Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Contactless
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contactless in contract job vacancies in Northampton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contactless over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Contactless 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.56% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 - -

All Generic Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 65 91 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 36.31% 37.76% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 76 45
10th Percentile £340 £314 £337
25th Percentile £389 £356 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £400 £445
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -10.11% +11.25%
75th Percentile £500 £463 £475
90th Percentile £576 £525 £573
Northamptonshire median daily rate £438 £402 £445
% change year-on-year +8.83% -9.66% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
Median hourly rate £17.20 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.59% +52.79% -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £25.50 £21.39 £14.00
% change year-on-year +19.21% +52.79% -45.44%

Contactless
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Contactless job vacancy trend in Northampton

Contactless
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Contactless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Contactless

Contactless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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