Smartcard Contracts with Work from Home Options

Smart Card
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smartcard over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 461 621
Rank change year-on-year +121 +160 -146
Contract jobs citing Smartcard 4 10 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.039% 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.092% 0.12% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £464 £340 -
25th Percentile £466 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% - -
75th Percentile £516 - -
90th Percentile £521 £415 -
UK median daily rate £488 £375 £263
% change year-on-year +30.00% +42.86% -41.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,361 8,067 13,944
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.59% 31.43% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,956 5,673 9,944
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% +8.79%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £644
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 153 228
10th Percentile £15.45 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.56
Median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +29.21% +27.98%
75th Percentile £65.14 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +3.19%

Smartcard
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Smartcard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Smartcard trend for jobs with a WFH option

Smartcard
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Smartcard.

Smartcard daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Smartcard
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) NFC
1 1 (25.00%) PPP
1 1 (25.00%) RFID
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GoogleTest
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (25.00%) TestRail
1 1 (25.00%) Valgrind
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Service Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) EJB
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (25.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreaded Programming
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOD
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) Storyboarding
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) SAP