Chip and PIN Job Trends, Salaries & Related Skills in the South East

Chip and PIN
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Chip and PIN in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Chip and PIN over the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 4 Feb 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	-	-	334
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	+75
Permanent jobs citing Chip and PIN	0	0	1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East	-	-	0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	-	-	0.026%
Number of salaries quoted	0	0	0
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	-	-	-
England median annual salary	-	-	-

All Generic Skills
South East

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	3,150	2,881	3,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East	28.74%	33.59%	32.63%
Number of salaries quoted	1,650	1,232	2,742
10^th Percentile	£27,000	£33,500	£27,500
25^th Percentile	£32,500	£42,500	£35,944
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£47,500	£57,250	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	-17.03%	+14.50%	-9.09%
75^th Percentile	£65,000	£70,000	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£77,500	£85,000	£78,750
England median annual salary	£55,000	£62,500	£57,500
% change year-on-year	-12.00%	+8.70%	-11.54%

Chip and PIN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Chip and PIN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.