Chip and PIN Contract Job Trends in the South East

Chip and PIN
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Chip and PIN in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Chip and PIN over the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Chip and PIN 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.022% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.073% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
England median daily rate £350 - -

All Generic Skills
South East

Chip and PIN 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,370 1,052 1,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.63% 33.27% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 604 1,004
10th Percentile £206 £245 £205
25th Percentile £363 £384 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.26% -6.24%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -7.27% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 39 123
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.68 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.69 £24.42 £22.92
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -26.32% +24.22%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.87 £61.69
90th Percentile £86.00 £71.97 £76.53
England median hourly rate £31.65 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -15.60% +15.38% +44.49%

Chip and PIN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chip and PIN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Chip and PIN job vacancy trend in the South East

Chip and PIN
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Chip and PIN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Chip and PIN

Chip and PIN
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Chip and PIN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Chip and PIN

Chip and PIN
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chip and PIN within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Hampshire - 1 £350 -
Chip and PIN
England

Chip and PIN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Delivery Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk