Smartcard Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Smart Card
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smartcard over the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Smartcard 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.028% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.077% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median annual salary - - £30,000
% change year-on-year - - -53.85%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,291 1,349 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.38% 31.41% 34.60%
Number of salaries quoted 673 545 795
10th Percentile £27,000 £33,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,732 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.45% +0.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £44,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.09% - -

Smartcard
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Smartcard job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Smartcard
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Smartcard.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Smartcard

Smartcard
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smartcard within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 November 2025. 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
Berkshire - 1 - - 1
Smartcard
South East

Smartcard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) S/MIME
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Thales