Smart Card
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Smartcard over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 867 963 1188
Rank change year-on-year +96 +225 -293
Permanent jobs citing Smartcard 27 22 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.021% 0.010%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.078% 0.049% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 25 19 9
10th Percentile - £35,000 -
25th Percentile £25,000 £68,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £77,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -65.16% +72.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £28,500 £81,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £63,000 £83,500 £55,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,000 £80,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -68.75% +77.78% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Smartcard 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 34,745 45,266 72,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 42.90% 47.09%
Number of salaries quoted 22,974 24,244 34,119
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Smartcard
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smartcard in the UK

Smartcard
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Smartcard in the UK

Smartcard
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smartcard over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Smartcard in the UK

Smartcard
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smartcard within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 +144 27 £27,000 -66.25% 1
UK excluding London +40 25 £25,000 -68.75% 2
Midlands - 12 £25,000 -
West Midlands - 12 £25,000 -
East of England - 9 £27,000 -
Work from Home +90 4 £60,000 -22.58%
South East +20 2 £60,000 -29.41%
South West -13 2 £55,000 - 1
London +160 1 £67,500 +4.65%

Smartcard
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 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
1 2 (7.41%) Skype for Business
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (25.93%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 7 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) DHCP
1 7 (25.93%) DNS
1 7 (25.93%) VoIP
2 2 (7.41%) NAS
2 2 (7.41%) Skype
2 2 (7.41%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 19 (70.37%) Social Skills
2 13 (48.15%) Finance
3 12 (44.44%) Back Office
3 12 (44.44%) Local Government
4 3 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Analyst
1 12 (44.44%) Commercial Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) IT Assistant
3 2 (7.41%) Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Lead
3 2 (7.41%) Team Leader
3 2 (7.41%) Technical Leader
3 2 (7.41%) Technical Team Leader
3 2 (7.41%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Administrator
4 1 (3.70%) C# Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Network Administrator
4 1 (3.70%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Software Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.70%) CSS
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) CMDB
2 2 (7.41%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Contactless
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) Windows
1 12 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 7 (25.93%) Android
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (44.44%) Data Analysis
2 12 (44.44%) Economics
2 12 (44.44%) Mathematics
3 7 (25.93%) CRM
3 7 (25.93%) ERP
4 2 (7.41%) Agile
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science
4 2 (7.41%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
4 2 (7.41%) Migration
4 2 (7.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
4 2 (7.41%) Project Management
4 2 (7.41%) Security Hardening
4 2 (7.41%) Security Patching
4 2 (7.41%) Service Delivery
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
2 3 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (62.96%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) NCSC
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) vSphere
3 3 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) BMC
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) NetApp
4 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Thales