Smartcard Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Smart Card
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smartcard over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 557 567
Rank change year-on-year +36 +10 +181
Permanent jobs citing Smartcard 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.002% 0.003% 0.003%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.007% 0.008% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £32,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £35,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -52.00%
75th Percentile - £37,500 £32,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary - £35,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -48.15% -12.90%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,683 12,325 11,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.11% 34.26% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6,346 5,311 8,421
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Smartcard
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Smartcard job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Smartcard
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Smartcard.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Smartcard

Smartcard
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smartcard within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
South East - 1 - - 3
Smartcard
UK

Smartcard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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