Smartcard Contracts in the UK excluding London

Smart Card
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smartcard over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 449 486
Rank change year-on-year +61 +37 -67
Contract jobs citing Smartcard 5 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.042% 0.074%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.082% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £464 - £204
25th Percentile £466 £205 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 £263
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% +33.33% -50.12%
75th Percentile £516 £738 £281
90th Percentile £521 £768 £345
UK median daily rate £488 £375 £263
% change year-on-year +30.00% +42.86% -41.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £12.00
UK median hourly rate - - £12.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Smartcard is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,117 7,807 9,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.42% 32.43% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,655 5,281 6,769
10th Percentile £210 £213 £202
25th Percentile £375 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £618 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 717 439 468
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.70
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%

Smartcard
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Smartcard in the UK excluding London

Smartcard
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Smartcard in the UK excluding London

Smartcard
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Smartcard in the UK excluding London

Smartcard
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 Smartcard within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 East +18 3 £488 +39.29%
Wales - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
Smartcard
UK

Smartcard
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) NFC
1 1 (20.00%) PPP
1 1 (20.00%) RFID
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GoogleTest
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (20.00%) TestRail
1 1 (20.00%) Valgrind
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) WebSockets
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) iPhone
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) Kanban
2 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow