Hybrid/Remote Chip and PIN Contract Job Trends

Chip and PIN
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Chip and PIN in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Chip and PIN over the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Chip and PIN 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.009% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.026% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
UK median daily rate £350 - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Chip and PIN 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,825 3,437 4,737
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.38% 32.10% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,379 2,254 3,177
10th Percentile £332 £330 £325
25th Percentile £422 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 59 189
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.90 £15.42
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.34 £23.45
Median hourly rate £45.46 £39.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -8.14% -32.54%
75th Percentile £67.00 £64.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £32.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.55% +1.25% +44.54%

Chip and PIN
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chip and PIN and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Chip and PIN job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Chip and PIN
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Chip and PIN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Chip and PIN

Chip and PIN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Delivery Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk