Contactless Contracts

Contactless
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contactless in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Contactless over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 709 848
Rank change year-on-year +126 +139 -166
Contract jobs citing Contactless 15 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.017% 0.001%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.050% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £408 £424 -
25th Percentile £463 £441 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -
75th Percentile £570 £477 -
90th Percentile £675 £524 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 -
% change year-on-year +11.76% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Contactless 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Contactless
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Contactless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Contactless in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Contactless.

Daily rate trend for Contactless in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contactless over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Contactless in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Contactless.

Hourly rate trend for Contactless in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contactless within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +134 13 £500 +17.65% 2
London +110 12 £535 - 2
Work from Home +133 11 £550 +22.22% 2
UK excluding London +62 1 £475 +11.76% 2
South West +20 1 £475 - 2

Contactless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Azure
2 13 (86.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Stripe
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Selenium
1 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
1 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (20.00%) Back Office
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Billing
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Local Government
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
1 7 (46.67%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Software Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (13.33%) Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Payments Architect
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
6 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) XML
2 7 (46.67%) ARM Templates
3 5 (33.33%) .NET
4 3 (20.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (13.33%) FIDO
5 2 (13.33%) RESTful
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Wallet
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) DevOps
2 13 (86.67%) Agile
3 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (53.33%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (20.00%) OOD
4 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) API Design
5 2 (13.33%) B2B
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
5 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (13.33%) Kanban
5 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Bicep
2 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (26.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
1 2 (13.33%) PSD2
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) PayPal