Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 18 October 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 18 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Electronic Point Of Sale (EPoS)
UK
6 months to
18 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 623 642 794
Rank change year-on-year +19 +152 -45
Permanent jobs citing EPoS 454 51 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 0.30% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 126 48 263
10th Percentile £23,000 £25,875 £23,000
25th Percentile £24,750 £30,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £56,125 £61,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +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 50,713 16,949 48,329
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.48% 35.37% 35.20%
Number of salaries quoted 30,489 13,992 37,057
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,163
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.16% +3.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +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 18 October 2021.

Salary histogram for EPoS in the UK

EPoS
Top 15 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 18 October 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
England +21 406 £37,500 - 54
UK excluding London +58 374 £35,000 -6.67% 48
North of England -43 95 £25,250 -51.90% 24
South East -81 90 £38,750 +19.23% 8
Midlands -44 74 £24,500 -21.60% 11
London -215 61 £46,000 +31.43% 7
West Midlands -64 55 £57,500 +109.09% 8
South West - 51 £45,000 - 3
Work from Home -247 48 £47,500 +11.76% 4
Yorkshire - 44 £25,000 - 8
North West -65 40 £46,000 -12.38% 14
Scotland - 39 £62,500 -
East of England - 29 £41,500 - 1
East Midlands -60 19 £20,000 -42.86% 3
North East - 11 £25,000 - 2

For the 6 months to 18 October 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.

1 285 (62.78%) Retail
2 265 (58.37%) Social Skills
3 194 (42.73%) Strategic Management
4 147 (32.38%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (25.99%) Microsoft
6 94 (20.70%) Microsoft Office
7 88 (19.38%) Marketing
7 88 (19.38%) Organisational Skills
8 79 (17.40%) Mobile App
9 62 (13.66%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (13.22%) Agile Software Development
11 57 (12.56%) Service Delivery
12 54 (11.89%) Google
12 54 (11.89%) Creative Problem-Solving
13 53 (11.67%) Windows
14 49 (10.79%) Decision-Making
15 48 (10.57%) Wi-Fi
16 47 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
17 44 (9.69%) Microsoft 365
18 39 (8.59%) SQL Server
19 36 (7.93%) Finance
20 32 (7.05%) E-Commerce
21 29 (6.39%) C#
21 29 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
22 28 (6.17%) ERP
22 28 (6.17%) Project Management
23 26 (5.73%) Advertising
23 26 (5.73%) Management Information System
24 24 (5.29%) SaaS
25 22 (4.85%) Degree

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 9 (1.98%) CMS
2 8 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.66%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.44%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 94 (20.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.54%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (9.69%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (5.29%) SaaS
3 13 (2.86%) Azure
4 5 (1.10%) AWS
4 5 (1.10%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.66%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (0.44%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.44%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (0.44%) CloudFront
6 2 (0.44%) Datadog
6 2 (0.44%) GitHub
6 2 (0.44%) IaaS
6 2 (0.44%) Mimecast
6 2 (0.44%) PaaS
6 2 (0.44%) Serverless
6 2 (0.44%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.44%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 48 (10.57%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (3.30%) Structured Cabling
3 12 (2.64%) Network Security
4 11 (2.42%) Firewall
5 10 (2.20%) DNS
5 10 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.20%) VoIP
6 9 (1.98%) LAN
7 5 (1.10%) VPN
8 4 (0.88%) Internet
8 4 (0.88%) VLAN
8 4 (0.88%) Wireless
9 3 (0.66%) DHCP
9 3 (0.66%) SNMP
9 3 (0.66%) WAN
10 2 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.44%) HTTP
10 2 (0.44%) MPLS
10 2 (0.44%) PBX
10 2 (0.44%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.64%) MySQL
3 8 (1.76%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.10%) Power BI
5 4 (0.88%) Redis
6 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon DynamoDB
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.44%) MS Access
7 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (3.30%) MSTest
1 15 (3.30%) NUnit
1 15 (3.30%) Selenium
1 15 (3.30%) SpecFlow
2 14 (3.08%) Git (software)
3 13 (2.86%) JIRA
4 4 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.22%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.22%) PhpStorm
6 1 (0.22%) Postman
6 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.22%) Subversion
6 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 285 (62.78%) Retail
2 265 (58.37%) Social Skills
3 88 (19.38%) Marketing
3 88 (19.38%) Organisational Skills
4 47 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.93%) Finance
6 26 (5.73%) Advertising
7 20 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.64%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.88%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.66%) Brand Awareness
11 3 (0.66%) Legal
11 3 (0.66%) Publishing
12 1 (0.22%) Back Office
12 1 (0.22%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 197 (43.39%) Consultant
2 42 (9.25%) Analyst
3 31 (6.83%) IT Engineer
3 31 (6.83%) Support Engineer
4 30 (6.61%) Developer
4 30 (6.61%) IT Support
5 26 (5.73%) Field Engineer
5 26 (5.73%) IT Support Engineer
6 22 (4.85%) Field Service Engineer
7 16 (3.52%) 2nd Line Support
7 16 (3.52%) Test Engineer
8 15 (3.30%) Business Analyst
8 15 (3.30%) Software Test Engineer
9 14 (3.08%) Business IT Analyst
9 14 (3.08%) IT Analyst
9 14 (3.08%) IT Manager
10 13 (2.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 13 (2.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 13 (2.86%) Project Manager
11 12 (2.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.08%) .NET
1 14 (3.08%) HTML
2 10 (2.20%) React
3 9 (1.98%) CSS
4 8 (1.76%) JSON
4 8 (1.76%) Laravel
4 8 (1.76%) WPF
5 7 (1.54%) .NET Framework
5 7 (1.54%) Vue.js
6 5 (1.10%) Core Data
7 4 (0.88%) LINQ
7 4 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (0.88%) Web Services
7 4 (0.88%) XML
8 3 (0.66%) REST
8 3 (0.66%) RESTful
9 2 (0.44%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.44%) HTML5
9 2 (0.44%) Memcached
9 2 (0.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (17.40%) Mobile App
2 62 (13.66%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (5.73%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.63%) Driving Licence
5 12 (2.64%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.20%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.98%) mPOS
8 5 (1.10%) Social Media
9 4 (0.88%) FMCG
9 4 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.66%) Digital Signage
10 3 (0.66%) User Experience
11 2 (0.44%) Device Driver
11 2 (0.44%) iPad
11 2 (0.44%) iPhone
12 1 (0.22%) Analogue Electronics
12 1 (0.22%) CCTV
12 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 53 (11.67%) Windows
2 18 (3.96%) Windows 10
3 14 (3.08%) Linux
4 12 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.98%) Windows 7
6 8 (1.76%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.66%) CentOS
9 3 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.44%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (42.73%) Strategic Management
2 147 (32.38%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (13.22%) Agile Software Development
4 57 (12.56%) Service Delivery
5 54 (11.89%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 49 (10.79%) Decision-Making
7 32 (7.05%) E-Commerce
8 29 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (6.17%) ERP
9 28 (6.17%) Project Management
10 21 (4.63%) Waterfall
11 20 (4.41%) Regression Testing
11 20 (4.41%) Software Testing
11 20 (4.41%) TDD
12 19 (4.19%) SDLC
12 19 (4.19%) Test Automation
13 18 (3.96%) Microservices
14 15 (3.30%) BDD
14 15 (3.30%) DevOps
14 15 (3.30%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.39%) C#
2 20 (4.41%) SQL
3 18 (3.96%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 8 (1.76%) PHP
5 8 (1.76%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.10%) Apple Swift
6 5 (1.10%) Objective-C
6 5 (1.10%) Python
7 4 (0.88%) Bash Shell
7 4 (0.88%) XAML
8 3 (0.66%) C
9 1 (0.22%) Delphi
9 1 (0.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (4.85%) Degree
2 17 (3.74%) ISEB
2 17 (3.74%) ISTQB
2 17 (3.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 6 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 4 (0.88%) A+ Certification
4 4 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (0.88%) MCSA
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.44%) CCNA
5 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (0.44%) JNCIA
5 2 (0.44%) MCDST
5 2 (0.44%) MCITP
5 2 (0.44%) MCP
5 2 (0.44%) MCSE
5 2 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.41%) SLA
2 18 (3.96%) QA
3 7 (1.54%) GDPR
4 5 (1.10%) PMO
5 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (4.41%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.08%) Docker
3 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (1.76%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.32%) ZABBIX
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.66%) Graylog
4 3 (0.66%) Terraform
5 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.44%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.44%) SCCM
5 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 118 (25.99%) Microsoft
2 54 (11.89%) Google
3 9 (1.98%) VMware
4 6 (1.32%) Cisco
5 4 (0.88%) Oracle
6 3 (0.66%) Apple
6 3 (0.66%) Aruba
6 3 (0.66%) ATG
6 3 (0.66%) hybris
6 3 (0.66%) Meraki
7 2 (0.44%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.44%) Intel
7 2 (0.44%) Juniper
7 2 (0.44%) Mitel
7 2 (0.44%) Ruckus Wireless
7 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.44%) Xero
8 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.22%) ConnectWise
8 1 (0.22%) SAP
56 EPoS job vacancies Nationwide