Smartcard Contracts

Smart Card
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smartcard over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 697 830
Rank change year-on-year +123 +133 -143
Contract jobs citing Smartcard 8 21 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.035% 0.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.060% 0.11% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 11
10th Percentile £398 £183 £163
25th Percentile £439 £205 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £375 £263
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +42.86% -41.67%
75th Percentile £506 £425 £309
90th Percentile £518 £731 £375
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £350 £263
% change year-on-year +39.29% +33.33% -50.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £12.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,237 19,870 29,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,495 13,665 20,453
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 £660 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 909 640 726
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.84% +10.00% -16.67%

Smartcard
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smartcard in the UK

Smartcard
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Smartcard in the UK

Smartcard
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smartcard over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Smartcard in the UK

Smartcard
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Smartcard in the UK

Smartcard
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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 +95 5 £488 +30.00% 3
UK excluding London +55 5 £488 +39.29% 4
Work from Home +126 4 £488 +21.88% 1
South East +15 3 £488 +39.29%
London +94 2 £435 +12.26%
Wales - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

Smartcard
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SystmOne
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) NFC
2 1 (12.50%) PPP
2 1 (12.50%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GoogleTest
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (12.50%) TestRail
1 1 (12.50%) Valgrind
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Back Office
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) EJB
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
1 2 (25.00%) PACS
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (25.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) iPhone
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Asset Management
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
2 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Business Case
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Information Management
3 2 (25.00%) PRINCE
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cerner
2 2 (25.00%) Veeam
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow