Electronic Point Of Sale (EPoS)
UK

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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 649 903 707
Rank change year-on-year +254 -196 -46
Permanent jobs citing EPoS 88 180 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 0.33% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 73 106 140
10th Percentile - £24,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,938 £24,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,125 £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,000 £34,250 £30,000
% change year-on-year -3.65% +14.17% -20.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

EPoS is in the General and Transferable 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,689 54,405 57,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.90% 43.41% 44.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,422 30,172 33,858
10th Percentile £33,426 £34,996 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,956 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +6.59% -
75th Percentile £84,056 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for EPoS in the UK

EPoS
Top 17 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 2 December 2023. 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
England +266 84 £33,000 -12.00% 78
UK excluding London +172 70 £33,000 -3.65% 77
North of England +147 30 £33,000 +12.82% 23
Yorkshire +95 20 £33,500 +28.85% 4
London +255 17 £31,500 -42.73% 13
Midlands +114 14 £85,000 +88.89% 13
West Midlands +122 12 £85,000 +54.55% 1
South East +127 10 £39,000 +4.00% 17
Work from Home +179 9 £40,000 -21.95% 20
East of England +130 8 £28,000 -5.88% 6
North East - 8 £28,000 - 7
South West +73 4 £27,500 -14.06% 5
North West +106 2 - - 12
East Midlands +29 2 £31,500 -16.00% 12
Scotland +21 2 £29,000 -3.33% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £46,000 -
Wales - 1 £27,500 - 3

EPoS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.14%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.27%) Magento
2 2 (2.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (6.82%) Azure
3 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.27%) BigCommerce
4 2 (2.27%) Boomi
4 2 (2.27%) GCP
4 2 (2.27%) Mimecast
4 2 (2.27%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.14%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (7.95%) LAN
2 7 (7.95%) WAN
3 4 (4.55%) Firewall
4 3 (3.41%) DHCP
4 3 (3.41%) DNS
5 2 (2.27%) ATM
5 2 (2.27%) Internet
5 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.27%) VoIP
6 1 (1.14%) Broadband
6 1 (1.14%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.14%) Mobile Broadband
6 1 (1.14%) NAS
6 1 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.14%) SAN
6 1 (1.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.55%) Power BI
3 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.27%) MySQL
General
1 58 (65.91%) Retail
2 50 (56.82%) Social Skills
3 20 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (17.05%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (13.64%) Back Office
6 4 (4.55%) Electronics
6 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.41%) Automotive
7 3 (3.41%) Marketing
8 2 (2.27%) Finance
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
9 1 (1.14%) Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (44.32%) Field Engineer
2 21 (23.86%) Field Service Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) IT Engineer
4 14 (15.91%) Field Hardware Engineer
4 14 (15.91%) Field Service Hardware Engineer
4 14 (15.91%) Hardware Engineer
4 14 (15.91%) Senior
4 14 (15.91%) Senior Field Engineer
4 14 (15.91%) Senior Field Service Engineer
4 14 (15.91%) Senior Hardware Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Chief Technology Officer
6 8 (9.09%) Analyst
6 8 (9.09%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) EPoS Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) IT Support
8 5 (5.68%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.55%) EPoS Manager
9 4 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Sales Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) HTML
1 3 (3.41%) React
2 2 (2.27%) CodeIgniter
2 2 (2.27%) CSS
2 2 (2.27%) Laravel
3 1 (1.14%) .NET
3 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.14%) Pandas
3 1 (1.14%) Vue
3 1 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Driving Licence
2 16 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (10.23%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.27%) FMCG
5 1 (1.14%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.14%) BYOD
5 1 (1.14%) CCTV
5 1 (1.14%) iPad
5 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 41 (46.59%) Windows
2 10 (11.36%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.68%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.41%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.14%) Android
6 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.14%) Linux
6 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.14%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.14%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (29.55%) Customer Service
3 18 (20.45%) Time Management
4 16 (18.18%) Break/Fix
4 16 (18.18%) ITIL
5 14 (15.91%) Innovative Thinking
6 10 (11.36%) DevOps
6 10 (11.36%) Roadmaps
7 9 (10.23%) ERP
7 9 (10.23%) Service Delivery
8 7 (7.95%) E-Commerce
9 5 (5.68%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (5.68%) Project Delivery
9 5 (5.68%) Refactoring
9 5 (5.68%) Software Testing
9 5 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (4.55%) Customer Engagement
10 4 (4.55%) Data Transformation
10 4 (4.55%) Inventory Management
11 3 (3.41%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.82%) SQL
2 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.27%) PHP
4 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.32%) SLA
2 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.14%) GDPR
2 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.23%) SCCM
1 9 (10.23%) SCOM
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.32%) Dell
3 15 (17.05%) HP
3 15 (17.05%) IBM
4 12 (13.64%) Cisco
5 3 (3.41%) SAP
6 2 (2.27%) Meraki
6 2 (2.27%) Oracle
6 2 (2.27%) VMware
7 1 (1.14%) ClickTale
7 1 (1.14%) Google
7 1 (1.14%) Remedy
7 1 (1.14%) Sage
7 1 (1.14%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (1.14%) Veeam