Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 11 April 2021

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term EPoS in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited EPoS over the 6 months to 11 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Electronic Point Of Sale (EPoS)
UK
6 months to
11 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 557 803 769
Rank change year-on-year +246 -34 -25
Permanent jobs citing EPoS 309 188 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 0.43% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56 164 304
10th Percentile £27,500 £21,250 £22,500
25th Percentile £32,188 £29,000 £28,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £40,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -7.98% +8.67%
75th Percentile £55,875 £50,313 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £37,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +28.38% -7.50% +6.67%

EPoS is in the Generic IT Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

All Generic IT Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 32,717 43,836 58,679
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 39.50% 38.59% 39.42%
Number of salaries quoted 23,312 34,125 44,860
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -

EPoS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing EPoS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for EPoS in the UK

EPoS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing EPoS.

Salary trend for EPoS in the UK

EPoS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing EPoS over the 6 months to 11 April 2021.

Salary histogram for EPoS in the UK

EPoS
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing EPoS within the UK over the 6 months to 11 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
UK excluding London +195 224 £47,500 +28.38% 25
Scotland +134 161 - - 8
England +65 97 £45,000 +20.00% 26
London +114 34 £45,000 -18.18% 9
North of England +45 22 £35,000 +7.69% 7
South East +53 18 £50,000 +33.33% 3
North West +43 17 £41,250 +26.92% 3
Midlands +29 13 £38,750 +29.17% 5
West Midlands +43 10 £37,500 -21.05% 4
Work from Home -134 10 £82,500 +65.00% 5
East of England +53 8 £37,500 -
East Midlands +5 3 £40,000 +33.33% 1
North East - 3 £24,500 - 1
Yorkshire +18 2 £40,000 -27.27% 3
South West -22 2 £32,500 +8.33% 2
Wales - 1 - -

For the 6 months to 11 April 2021, IT jobs citing EPoS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for EPoS.

1 243 (78.64%) Marketing
2 238 (77.02%) Mobile App
3 145 (46.93%) Agile Software Development
4 135 (43.69%) C#
5 129 (41.75%) Problem-Solving
6 91 (29.45%) SDLC
7 90 (29.13%) SQL Server
8 81 (26.21%) TDD
9 80 (25.89%) Git (software)
10 79 (25.57%) DevOps
11 78 (25.24%) BDD
11 78 (25.24%) Microsoft
12 75 (24.27%) SQL
13 73 (23.62%) Docker
14 69 (22.33%) Test Automation
15 67 (21.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (20.06%) Microservices
17 61 (19.74%) Selenium
18 58 (18.77%) Team Foundation Server
19 57 (18.45%) RabbitMQ
20 56 (18.12%) Software Testing
21 52 (16.83%) QA
21 52 (16.83%) Azure
22 51 (16.50%) Kubernetes
23 50 (16.18%) Management Information System
24 49 (15.86%) Regression Testing
24 49 (15.86%) ISEB
24 49 (15.86%) MSTest
24 49 (15.86%) ISTQB
24 49 (15.86%) NUnit

EPoS
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (11.97%) ColdFusion
2 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.32%) MS Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (11.97%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.65%) Retail-J
Cloud Services
1 52 (16.83%) Azure
2 32 (10.36%) SaaS
3 14 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (1.94%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (0.97%) Google Sheets
6 2 (0.65%) AWS
7 1 (0.32%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.03%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (2.91%) DNS
3 8 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.27%) WAN
5 3 (0.97%) Firewall
5 3 (0.97%) RFID
5 3 (0.97%) VPN
6 2 (0.65%) ADSL
6 2 (0.65%) DHCP
6 2 (0.65%) NFC
6 2 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.65%) VoIP
6 2 (0.65%) Wireless
7 1 (0.32%) Broadband
7 1 (0.32%) Internet
7 1 (0.32%) LAN
7 1 (0.32%) MPLS
7 1 (0.32%) SAN
7 1 (0.32%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (29.13%) SQL Server
2 43 (13.92%) MySQL
3 25 (8.09%) Relational Database
4 20 (6.47%) Redis
5 6 (1.94%) Big Data
6 4 (1.29%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.29%) Power BI
7 3 (0.97%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.65%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.32%) OLAP
9 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 80 (25.89%) Git (software)
2 61 (19.74%) Selenium
3 58 (18.77%) Team Foundation Server
4 49 (15.86%) MSTest
4 49 (15.86%) NUnit
5 41 (13.27%) SpecFlow
6 20 (6.47%) Postman
6 20 (6.47%) WebDriver
7 18 (5.83%) JIRA
8 12 (3.88%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.97%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.32%) GCC
10 1 (0.32%) InstallShield
10 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 243 (78.64%) Marketing
2 29 (9.39%) Retail
3 19 (6.15%) Finance
4 3 (0.97%) Manufacturing
5 2 (0.65%) Games
5 2 (0.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 90 (29.13%) Development Engineer
1 90 (29.13%) Software Development Engineer
1 90 (29.13%) Software Engineer
2 51 (16.50%) Developer
3 48 (15.53%) Software Test Engineer
3 48 (15.53%) Test Engineer
4 44 (14.24%) Test Development Engineer
5 42 (13.59%) Senior Development Engineer
5 42 (13.59%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 42 (13.59%) Senior Software Engineer
6 30 (9.71%) Field Engineer
6 30 (9.71%) Field Service Engineer
7 27 (8.74%) Analyst
8 21 (6.80%) Senior Software Test Engineer
8 21 (6.80%) Senior Test Engineer
9 20 (6.47%) Senior Developer
10 18 (5.83%) iOS Developer
11 14 (4.53%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 14 (4.53%) Delivery Manager
11 14 (4.53%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (18.45%) RabbitMQ
2 24 (7.77%) .NET
3 21 (6.80%) RESTful
4 20 (6.47%) Memcached
4 20 (6.47%) Swagger
5 18 (5.83%) Core Data
6 17 (5.50%) HTML
7 14 (4.53%) CSS
8 12 (3.88%) .NET Core
8 12 (3.88%) Jest
8 12 (3.88%) Redux
8 12 (3.88%) Sass
9 4 (1.29%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.29%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.29%) Django
9 4 (1.29%) Flask
9 4 (1.29%) HTML5
10 2 (0.65%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 1 (0.32%) Vue.js
Miscellaneous
1 238 (77.02%) Mobile App
2 50 (16.18%) Management Information System
3 47 (15.21%) User Experience
4 45 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.71%) Driving Licence
6 25 (8.09%) Data Centre
7 24 (7.77%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.59%) Chip and PIN
8 8 (2.59%) Client/Server
8 8 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.29%) FMCG
10 3 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.65%) CCTV
11 2 (0.65%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.65%) iPhone
11 2 (0.65%) PKI
12 1 (0.32%) iPad
12 1 (0.32%) Mobile Payment
12 1 (0.32%) mPOS
12 1 (0.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.92%) Windows
2 25 (8.09%) Linux
3 21 (6.80%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.65%) Android
6 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.65%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.65%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.32%) Windows 2000
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (46.93%) Agile Software Development
2 129 (41.75%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (29.45%) SDLC
4 81 (26.21%) TDD
5 79 (25.57%) DevOps
6 78 (25.24%) BDD
7 69 (22.33%) Test Automation
8 67 (21.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (20.06%) Microservices
10 56 (18.12%) Software Testing
11 49 (15.86%) Regression Testing
12 44 (14.24%) SDET
13 41 (13.27%) Load Testing
14 40 (12.94%) OO
15 38 (12.30%) Mentoring
16 37 (11.97%) API Development
16 37 (11.97%) Decision-Making
17 32 (10.36%) Analytics
18 27 (8.74%) Product Management
18 27 (8.74%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (43.69%) C#
2 75 (24.27%) SQL
3 38 (12.30%) PHP
4 36 (11.65%) JavaScript
5 20 (6.47%) PowerShell
6 18 (5.83%) Apple Swift
6 18 (5.83%) Objective-C
7 13 (4.21%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.24%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.59%) Python
10 6 (1.94%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.32%) Bash Shell
12 1 (0.32%) C
12 1 (0.32%) XAML
Qualifications
1 49 (15.86%) ISEB
1 49 (15.86%) ISTQB
1 49 (15.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 10 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (2.59%) MCITP
3 8 (2.59%) MCSA
4 2 (0.65%) Degree
4 2 (0.65%) MCP
4 2 (0.65%) MCSE
4 2 (0.65%) OCP
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.32%) CCNA
5 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.32%) MCDST
5 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (16.83%) QA
2 13 (4.21%) SLA
3 8 (2.59%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 73 (23.62%) Docker
2 12 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.24%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 51 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.44%) ZABBIX
3 10 (3.24%) Graylog
4 9 (2.91%) SCCM
5 6 (1.94%) SCOM
5 6 (1.94%) WMI
6 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.32%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.32%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 78 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.15%) Apple
3 7 (2.27%) VMware
4 3 (0.97%) Citrix
4 3 (0.97%) Google
5 2 (0.65%) Cisco
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle
5 2 (0.65%) SAP
5 2 (0.65%) SOTI
6 1 (0.32%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.32%) BT
6 1 (0.32%) Dell
6 1 (0.32%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (0.32%) Facebook
6 1 (0.32%) HP
6 1 (0.32%) Meraki
6 1 (0.32%) Motorola
6 1 (0.32%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (0.32%) WatchGuard
37 EPoS job vacancies Nationwide