Contactless Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Contactless
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contactless in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Contactless 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.43% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £402 - -

All Generic Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 83 99 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 35.78% 38.22% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 83 54
10th Percentile £347 £313 £334
25th Percentile £393 £356 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +8.83% -9.66% +11.25%
75th Percentile £500 £481 £497
90th Percentile £583 £537 £574
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £440 £447
% change year-on-year +2.39% -1.68% -0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £20.52 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% +52.79% -45.44%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £48.45 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £20.06 £14.00
% change year-on-year -10.92% +43.29% -37.11%

Contactless
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contactless job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Contactless
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Contactless

Contactless
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contactless within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Northampton - 1 £402 -
Contactless
East Midlands

Contactless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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