Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term EMV in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited EMV 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 586 711 838
Rank change year-on-year +125 +127 -160
Contract jobs citing EMV 12 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.013% 0.012%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.091% 0.040% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £381 £480
25th Percentile £521 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.52% -17.50% +11.42%
75th Percentile £564 £463 £541
90th Percentile - £588 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

EMV 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%

EMV
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for EMV in the UK

EMV
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for EMV in the UK

EMV
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for EMV in the UK

EMV
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 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
Work from Home +135 11 - -
England +130 10 £543 +31.52% 2
London +102 9 - -
North West - 1 £543 -
UK excluding London - 1 £543 - 2
North of England - 1 £543 -

EMV
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) BASE24
2 1 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) ATM
2 1 (8.33%) NFC
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (8.33%) VersaTest
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Consultant
1 8 (66.67%) Payments Consultant
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Consultant
3 4 (33.33%) Support Consultant
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Support
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Support Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Account Executive
5 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Operations Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Perl Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) E-Commerce
1 7 (58.33%) Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Perl
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) FIS
1 2 (16.67%) Fiserv
1 2 (16.67%) VocaLink
1 2 (16.67%) Wincor Nixdorf
1 2 (16.67%) WorldPay