EMV Contracts in the UK excluding London

Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term EMV in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EMV over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 398 -
Rank change year-on-year +66 - -
Contract jobs citing EMV 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.005% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.016% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £441 - -
25th Percentile £465 £521 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £543 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% - -
75th Percentile £514 £564 -
90th Percentile £539 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £543 £413
% change year-on-year -7.83% +31.52% -17.50%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

EMV 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,246 6,122 7,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.19% 29.50% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,666 5,259
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £376 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 724 436
10th Percentile £16.81 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.28 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.42 £28.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% +27.84% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.64 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

EMV
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing EMV as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for EMV in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing EMV in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for EMV in the UK excluding London

EMV
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing EMV in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for EMV in the UK excluding London

EMV
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMV within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West - 4 £500 - 9
North of England +25 3 £478 -11.89% 1
North West +16 3 £478 -11.89%
EMV
UK

EMV
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) BASE24
2 2 (28.57%) Payment Gateway
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) VersaTest
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) BASE24 Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Payments Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (28.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Change
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Fintech
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) COBOL
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO 8583
1 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
2 2 (28.57%) ISO 20022
2 2 (28.57%) PSD2
2 2 (28.57%) SEPA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft