Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring RFID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RFID over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 715 894 925
Rank change year-on-year +179 +31 +354
Permanent jobs citing RFID 6 13 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.012% 0.004%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.053% 0.096% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 3
10th Percentile £44,500 - £49,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -9.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £59,375 £55,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £60,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% -9.17% +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RFID falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11,318 13,560 14,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.37% 12.56% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,295 9,207 7,597
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £35,916
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -6.86% -2.86%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -30.68% -2.22% -5.26%

RFID
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RFID in the UK

RFID
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for RFID in the UK

RFID
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RFID within the UK over the 6 months to 2 July 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
England +141 4 £52,500 -3.67% 18
UK excluding London +177 3 £52,500 -3.67% 19
Work from Home +119 2 £52,500 +5.00% 6
South West - 2 £52,500 -
South East +82 1 £47,500 -12.84% 2
London - 1 £57,500 - 6

RFID
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Electronics
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Design Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Field Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Field Service Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Design Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Laravel
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Vue
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Testing
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
2 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Logistics
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PHP
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) EMC
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle