VisionPLUS Contracts

First Data VisionPLUS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VisionPLUS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VisionPLUS over the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 571 -
Rank change year-on-year +40 - -
Contract jobs citing VisionPLUS 16 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.003% -
As % of the Business Applications category 0.56% 0.035% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £302 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile £500 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £386 - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

VisionPLUS falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,849 2,895 3,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 7.45% 7.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,638 1,676 2,071
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 81 64
10th Percentile £17.70 £25.00 £23.90
25th Percentile £27.06 £37.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £45.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -14.69% +17.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £65.94
90th Percentile £78.50 £66.00 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.00 £45.00 £55.85
% change year-on-year +24.44% -19.43% +59.57%

VisionPLUS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VisionPLUS in the UK

VisionPLUS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VisionPLUS in the UK

VisionPLUS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VisionPLUS over the 6 months to 9 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VisionPLUS in the UK

VisionPLUS
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VisionPLUS within the UK over the 6 months to 9 August 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
England +27 16 £358 - 6
UK excluding London +7 10 £386 - 5
North of England - 9 £386 - 4
Yorkshire - 9 £386 - 4
London - 5 £325 - 1
Work from Home - 5 £500 - 4
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 1

VisionPLUS
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 13 (81.25%) CICS
1 13 (81.25%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) ChangeMan
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Banking
3 5 (31.25%) Legal
4 3 (18.75%) Finance
5 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (6.25%) CMS Developer
2 1 (6.25%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Credit Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (81.25%) Mainframe
2 7 (43.75%) VSAM
3 5 (31.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) SDLC
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
4 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (18.75%) Batch Scheduling
6 3 (18.75%) Change Management
7 1 (6.25%) High Availability
7 1 (6.25%) Project Governance
7 1 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) COBOL
2 7 (43.75%) JCL
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft