EPoS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Electronic Point Of Sale (EPoS)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 144 149
Rank change year-on-year +51 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing EPoS 9 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.037% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £150 - £428
25th Percentile £168 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -55.29% -5.56% -3.74%
75th Percentile £195 £438 £469
90th Percentile £307 - £473
South East median daily rate £190 £388 £450
% change year-on-year -50.97% -13.89% -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

EPoS 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

EPoS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing EPoS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for EPoS in the Thames Valley

EPoS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing EPoS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for EPoS in the Thames Valley

EPoS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EPoS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EPoS in the Thames Valley

EPoS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing EPoS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for EPoS in the Thames Valley

EPoS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EPoS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Buckinghamshire - 5 £190 - 5
Berkshire +33 3 £150 -64.71% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £475 - 1
EPoS
South East

EPoS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) ATM
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Team Leader
3 2 (22.22%) EPoS Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Team Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Inventory Management
2 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
2 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (44.44%) Workflow
3 1 (11.11%) Data Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Load Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
3 1 (11.11%) SDLC
3 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
3 1 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Test Management
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Validation