Contactless Contract Job Trends in the South West

Contactless
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contactless in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contactless over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Contactless 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.051% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - £645 £450
% change year-on-year - +43.33% -33.33%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 642 709 888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.59% 27.97% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 387 648
10th Percentile £225 £213 £287
25th Percentile £363 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £639 £656 £672
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 97 49
10th Percentile £6.00 £21.43 £17.92
25th Percentile £15.51 £66.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £19.62 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.98% -10.26% +37.18%
75th Percentile £39.00 £72.50 £83.40
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £83.65
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £46.03
% change year-on-year -47.69% +24.59% +77.04%

Contactless
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Contactless job vacancy trend in the South West

Contactless
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Contactless

Contactless
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Contactless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Contactless

Contactless
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contactless within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 October 2025. 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
Dorset - 1 - - 1
Contactless
England

Contactless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Compact Framework
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xamarin