Smartcard Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Smart Card
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in permanent job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smartcard over the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	117	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Smartcard	1	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire	0.040%	-	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.13%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	1	0	0
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	-	-
East of England median annual salary	£48,750	£50,000	-
% change year-on-year	-2.50%	-	-

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	796	308	537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire	31.79%	34.88%	38.69%
Number of salaries quoted	526	183	232
10^th Percentile	£29,000	£28,150	£28,000
25^th Percentile	£36,250	£32,500	£43,625
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£45,000	£57,662
Median % change year-on-year	+11.11%	-21.96%	+6.78%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£57,500	£71,250
90^th Percentile	£96,250	£75,000	£89,500
East of England median annual salary	£50,000	£47,000	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+6.38%	-14.55%	+4.76%

Smartcard Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Smartcard relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Smartcard Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Smartcard.

Smartcard Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smartcard within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 2026. 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Stevenage	-	1	£50,000	-	1
Smartcard East of England

Smartcard Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 20 October 2026, job vacancies citing Smartcard also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Hertfordshire region with a requirement for Smartcard.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Active Directory	100.0%	1
1	Cohesity	100.0%	1
1	Degree	100.0%	1
1	DNS	100.0%	1
1	DV Cleared	100.0%	1
1	Hyper-V	100.0%	1
1	Infrastructure Engineering	100.0%	1
1	Microsoft Exchange	100.0%	1
1	Multi-Factor Authentication	100.0%	1
1	Nessus	100.0%	1
1	SC Cleared	100.0%	1
1	SCCM	100.0%	1
1	Security Cleared	100.0%	1
1	Skype	100.0%	1
1	Tenable	100.0%	1
1	Windows	100.0%	1
1	Windows Server	100.0%	1
1	WSUS	100.0%	1

Smartcard Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	YubiKey	100.0%	1