EMV Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term EMV in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EMV over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 334 470
Rank change year-on-year +34 +136 +156
Contract jobs citing EMV 4 11 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.072% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.25% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £433 - £378
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £400
75th Percentile £494 - £425
90th Percentile £498 - £455
UK median daily rate £500 £543 £413
% change year-on-year -7.83% +31.52% -17.50%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

EMV 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 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing EMV as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

EMV trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing EMV.

EMV daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (50.00%) BASE24
2 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Apple Pay
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) VersaTest
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) iOS Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior iOS Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile Payment
1 1 (25.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Apple