Smartcard Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Smart Card
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smartcard over the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - 87
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Smartcard 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.12% - 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% - 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile - - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.29%
75th Percentile - - £506
90th Percentile - - £510
Yorkshire median daily rate £140 - £488
% change year-on-year - - +39.29%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

Smartcard falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 308 198 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 36.32% 25.26% 27.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 132 228
10th Percentile £350 £182 £325
25th Percentile £427 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £589
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 10
10th Percentile - £17.19 £15.11
25th Percentile - £21.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.30 £27.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% +44.74% -4.28%
75th Percentile - £40.63 £21.31
90th Percentile - £48.00 £22.70
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.03 £38.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year -56.05% +81.84% +12.16%

Smartcard
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Smartcard relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Smartcard job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Smartcard
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Smartcard.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Smartcard

Smartcard
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Smartcard.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Smartcard

Smartcard
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smartcard within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Leeds - 1 - -
Smartcard
Yorkshire

Smartcard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft